POSTGAME POD: LAFC v Houston Dynamo (Leg 1 of 2 But Make It MLS???)

false start Darren's muted I was gonna say I couldn't hear classic classic what a start to the I'm muted just like the team tonight guys wow I'm just illustrating how they played this was a performative thing I like yeah well now it is welcome to happy sfot your postgame show I'm Darren Miller I'm I okay this is going entirely like the game also this is great this is great add to it brought my microphone the wire doesn't connect to my computer um so that's also a nice metaphor for yeah this is great Vince what's yours yeah it's a prop uh I mean I'm just in a different room than what I normally record so that counts that'll do it I kind of like yeah I like it too I kind of liked the way that lafc set up tonight but that didn't seem to work out uh yeah I mean should we just get right into it uh bad night bad night to uh lose a game let's just say that uh in terms of uh Sporter Shield standing and standings and everything else going on um lafc obviously is coming off of playing a lot of games in a row um and having some injuries and they set up similar to how they've been playing these past few weeks uh against a Houston team that really likes to possess the ball and it worked for 10 minutes uh but they didn't get any goals out of it and then Houston figured it out and so that didn't go so well for LFC they go down a goal I think Steve made the right changes at halftime uh putting more players in the Midfield uh trying to possess the ball a little bit more understanding that like look it's good to play against the ball against Houston at times because they do commit so many numbers forward which can make you dangerous but if you can't get the ball off them at all as we saw through like three quarters of that half it doesn't matter so Steve makes changes and and goes in there and wants to uh get a little possession get a little I think they were better counter pressing they won the ball back a little bit better but end of the day just didn't they didn't have it like it just wasn't wasn't the only player that played well tonight Hugo lce fantastic game uh everyone else just really didn't have it tonight should we get this the happy foots out of the way that that's mine yeah uh monster twin taking away our only talking point for the night by saying take a shot every time they say lafc too tired to play I'm too TI I my dog woke me up an hour early and I didn't do anything for the rest of the day so I can't blame anyone for being too tired to do anything I don't know how parents do it um Happy Foot I'm exhausted too um Happy Foot was seeing Latif blessing that was my one Happy Foot that's the one other one I had too and and he found a way to go offside which is just classic we got the full we got the full Latif experience blessed and then immediately doing a foul that makes no sense just running directly the back of Timothy that's the Latif blessing hatrick baby like a yeah desperate as if it was like necessary as if he was like the last defender back when he was like a and then did did he stay on the field to like go see everybody for like three hours too he when he went to to warm up he did the clap as he walked along so he got that that's one goal we got off sides that's two and then we got him running into an opposing player for no reason that's three it's the it's the Latif blessing always win bingo card I I also just want to remind everyone that obviously will be upset tonight how upset people were at Hugo Larice earlier in the season it's a long season people get very angry um I do turns out he's pretty good turns out he's really good those saves those two saves tonight were saves as good as any saves any keeper has ever made for us and he had two in one game um that said it was like a dog [ __ ] game start to finish sometimes the games are bad um and it sucks that it was at home the vibe in the stadium was great to start the game people were excited there was a packed house um it's a bummer that the play was so bad and I mean you just have to assume it was because um there I can't say it Monster twins took it away they're tired three games in seven days right that's a lot I'll say it sometime ball don't go in that's crazy is that true yeah it's it's you know what turns out that this is a low-scoring sport and each goal is just it's that much more important and some days it's not gonna be your day ball ball don't go in a lot of the time when ball don't get shot I'll say that yeah well when ball when ball don't leave Denny's foot with five men around him ball can't ball can't ball has nowhere else to go Ball s how how much of that was like good defense versus just we couldn't find a moment to shoot the ball oh I mean I think Houston played well we should give them credit like I I meant what I said when this like the setup was it was ultimately the wrong setup right because LFC didn't get what they wanted out of it but they started out pretty well and I think Houston after the first 10 minutes understood okay we can't just like have possession to have it and just pass to pass because every time we pass we're giving them an opportunity to then counter us the other way and slowly but surely they understood okay let's be a little bit more uh controlling of this game and and they they grew into the game they were much better and that's why Steve had to make such a drastic change at halftime and the DraStic change is Edward atest is seeming to phone it in a good amount as well like yeah it's rough when everyone's kind of like tired and then it's like okay let's get a spark out here let's get someone in who's also G to be tired and play the same way we also got the quintessential davidi Martinez game as yeah he's really starting to piss me off let's just go there he's really like I hate when someone when you have low expectations for someone and then they consistently meet them you know what I mean where it's like oh David Martinez is Gonna Come on he's gonna act like he doesn't give a [ __ ] he's gonna only pass when it feels like he can get the ball back quickly or not pass at all because he has to shoot the ball his corner kick was great actually let's just have him take corners and otherwise that's all we need uh but yeah it was just like you're supposed to be doing more out there as all I can think every time he's got the ball or every time he's running around there's always $ five Super Chat from nut with the uh quote of the postgame so far goals are important professional association football expert Vince lorosa Vince you're the one who knows things proud member of PA yeah um you know what not paying paying for the the big important information which is goals win games goals change games go I mean I I hate goals win championships like I hate trying to explain these because people hate it in the comments when they're just like Vince don't try to make us feel better or whatever but I'm really not trying to make you feel better I'm actually trying to tell you that like there's like an existential dread when you when you watch soccer and it is this goals are very important but also like luck is too and sometimes it's not on your side and sometimes it's not all about tactics I know we want I know look I wish it was just about tactics but it's not it didn't feel like it was about tactics tonight actually like watching didn't at all it felt like we had we just weren't executing in any positive way like they just seemed sluggish and our Midfield people were just dribbling through the Midfield all holes we were all holes we were sa tonight actually uh I should interrupt you but I didn't now I'm interrupting myself fbody says uh with the Super Chat thank you so much he says my sister and her husband are bad luck this is the second game they come all the way from Fresno when they lose again oh that's dri W that's rough I mean it's bad luck for them I I feel terrible for them that's awful sorry guys that's great they made the trip all the way from Fresno I I I make that drive around Fresno area pretty frequently it's not an easy one yeah thank for the uh I I saw Kirk Kinsey tonight from shoulder-to-shoulder our good friendy uh the original Jeff talk um he like the Jeff talk if Jeff talk knew what he was talking about that's Kirk Kinsey um but he was there you mean the counter you mean the counter press not should counter press excuse me excuse me excuse me o I'm gonna get in trouble for that one yeah just making sure just making sure we get the plug right my God can you believe Travis at a different show I love counter press the uh but he tried well don't worry about it Travis because I got to interrupt you anyways uh Tim Morgan wants to uh me to comment on my room that it's it's not actually painted pink it's just a it's a lighting situation we have a nice fringy pink lamp that gives us a cool viby the living room energy going on yeah yeah Esports he says painted with the Pepto we need yeah I got a shadot I brought my old friend John love it from pod Safe America tonight I gave him my Happy Foot sad foot star to to wear he left early like five minutes early get Uber took my scarf I don't got a happy foot head foot scarf anymore wow you should you should have saw that coming doesn't he have enough that you no you should have saw you should have saw that coming he played you he played you like a yeah wow can you believe it a sad foot tonight H yeah I mean let's get into a couple because we already have callers I mean like I I have in my my first side foot is terrible first half which is a very funny thing to have down how was the second half Travis um the second thing I wrote is I had a bad time is this a soccer not fun I think the thing that I noticed watching the most you know my seats relatively close to to the center of the field at toester really brag just seems checked out and doesn't see like the Press isn't coming from him and the passes aren't crisp it just he seems noticeably worse from the beginning of the Season where he seemed excited to be here there's an energy missing from him like leis O'Brien seems very excited even when he makes his mistakes I get a little bit of um sour energy coming from at Wester maybe that's just his Vibe but um not loving the vibe from Edward atest it seems like the consensus if there is one amongst fans is is not people are not don't seem to be happy with that to Tim Morgan Sor sorry to interrupt do 99 Vince L Roa needlessly factchecking super chats people are not paying to be mad at you I yeah I just wanted to tell you it's not pain it's worth it it must be so satisfying I'm just saying I mean I don't it would be actually kind of impressive if we were able to like so seamlessly paint this shade of pink into our our living room but unfortunately it's not not the case Joey F says this is the most depressing haos safo Po in a long while it's depressing because I can't feel that angry about like I can't get the passion about this one that I think I need to to make it fun because it just feels like I don't know it wasn't a good game like I think we're as tired as they are like they've just expended so much energy in being in a final and in a semi-final and I don't know uh I wasn't there um but the bummer is that now they come home and like everyone's super excited to see them right like we haven't had a chance to really see them um and as you said the the building was electric and they just kind of put a stinker but honestly it probably was pretty predictable if I'm being if I'm being honest like if they we knew that they probably weren't gonna come out flying in this game we if they were gonna win this game they were gonna have to just kind of gut it out and they tried Seattle from possession right we we lucked out with a PK call that was you know I think was a PK but like we were it's been a rough stretch and we won off without scoring uh from open Play is what I'll say so maybe we should have been anticipating that after you know a rough stretch for us yeah yeah maybe it's not going to be so easy like maybe it's wishful thinking that we could bounce back so quickly so hard and then we're just like fine now it's going to take a little bit of time or maybe we're just confused because we got we got into Champions Cup twice essentially in the last couple weeks so maybe we're just like thinking that this is uh we're going to beat them on aggregate now twole match I think maybe we're just a little confused yeah they're like we we'll see them again soon so who cares maybe this is a whole the the old ropa dope right they're like oh they're gonna think we're tired when we get to Houston but guess what we famous they're not that drunk that F that con the con where you lose they'll never expect this supporter Shield race where all the other people ahead of you won that's a really I mean that's the big sad Foot Right we've got him right where we want him uh Vince already brought up the actual only real consequence for this game which is the supporter Shield Gets Out Of Reach we had a game in hand we lose one of those games in hand um and Miami seems much harder to get towards at this point I mean we were in a position to potentially catch them um after this weekend it becomes that much harder we need them to make mistakes now um whereas I think could have played out and and caught them or no they had to lose one game now we need them to lose two I believe Daniel JZ in the chat says Drew's thigh was wrapped I didn't see this is this true this is huge Duds he had he had a SLE he had a sleeve like yeah like a hand like he probably has some kind of lingering hammy or quad issue Daniel what do you do for a living that you would know that you were breaking up just then at least for me what what did you say I just said Daniel what do you do for a living that you would notice these sort of healthcare decisions I mean you saw it when he was on the bench you could see he was putting on his shinguards they had a good uh there was not it was such a game that they were like let's just leave the camera on Olivier while he puts his shinguards on that's that was the broadcast they were like let's we don't got much going on here I hate these games where we have possession for a lot of it but we're just [ __ ] puttering around like it's such a boring game to watch where it's like let's pass back and forth as we figure out uh well that's that's actually something I wanted to kind of bring up I think what you take from this is the hope that one obviously they can get back to to form in terms of their energy um and enthusiasm in the Press but I what I want to take from this is hopefully this means like we're gonna go back to that 4-33 because we did see a better team with the 4-33 I think what we saw in the first half besides the fact that like they were having trouble getting the ball off of Houston was when they couldn't attack quickly which is obviously what they wanted to do with Houston putting so many numbers forward they were able to hold ball for a little bit but with zero ideas like they just didn't have the right kind of spacing they couldn't counter press well and at least in the second half they had a couple more ideas but even when they at least when they lost the ball they were able to regain it much quicker and didn't have to rely so much on setting up and trying to press um I we've talked about this all from last season and look they changed during the tournament and it seemed like a change gearing towards Columbus it didn't work out but it was smart at the time like let's play with let's be very hard to beat let's just let's just run past teams on the counter but you're going to need a different like you're going to need you're going to need some possession you're going to need to do have have different game modes that's why Columbus is so hard to beat they do every part of the game very well lafc the one place they lack is in possession and they're GNA have to they were building towards that and then kind of got away from it during leagues cup so hopefully they're going to go back to that um and it'll be something that as they build toward it obviously that'll be right when the playoffs start and that that would be a good thing but I just hope that this is that's the big learning and takeaway uh for the team is like okay guys like we've now seen how far in two seasons that just straight counterattacking can take us it could take us far it could take us to finals but when it comes to closing out games and really just dominating and winning games we're GNA need another mode we're gonna need another uh plan and so that that would be my biggest takeaway from this I don't know if it's a happy or sad foot but I just watching them change and seeing how much how much better they were in just that small changes even with ATA being a little like bratty um which is a word of the summer um I finally got to use it uh you got there it's good it's good and I think it'll be better for jerud too because he can't just you can't simply just lob the ball up to him and hope that he holds up play the whole time I think that it's I'm starting to get annoyed with how little we are figuring out how to make Olivier matter to these games right it's we've seen him enough now to be like what's happening why can't we find his feet ever you know it just feels like we are we're actively either choosing not to or making the wrong decisions around him it just feels like there's a discon a real disconnect with him so far I I felt like I was searching for him when he was on the pitch just as much as I was searching for him when he was on off the pitch and could potentially go in it was like oh are we gonna get rude okay it's a little late now I hope he still has enough time to do something now he's on the pitch I I feel exactly the same way it's like he's not even in the game yeah you only really notice him on the corners where you're like oh he's taller than everyone right well like we can't even he can't can't even get him the ball you know who I notic leave us you I notic DAV Martinez more than Jud like there's there's got to be a way to bring him into our um game more sorry there's Lou there about there's about to be a second game out on the field um somebody brought this up before we bring Jeff on um Rio can't bring Jeff on he's on the train oh so he's just he's just hanging out yeah cool I guess you well no he's gonna eventually get off the train I think what is he on the [Music] train oh another person yeah Mario The Vibes I'm getting is that he might be out for a bit right like the holding up of his jersey is not indicative of someone who's coming back soon you know generally yeah it's like somebody who's I'm I wonder if they're asking Steve now about it or someone will soon but like the minute I saw them holding his jersey up in Seattle didn't feel hopeful that he was going to be back in the next couple someone should I mean I I would hope that they would have asked him with pregame um but yeah someone needs to to ask about that and look Steve can be pretty kg about injuries but that's one that where like I think the the fan base and everyone deserves to know like is it going to is it does at least say like we're it doesn't look good or or whatever ever because to Travis's Point generally you don't um you don't do things like that when you're like oh he'll be back he'll be fine they're doing scarves up for the second match oh cool all right well we do have we do have another caller here let's get some callers yeah let's get let's get going this show has been so depressing I don't have the energy at this one I'm sorry Daniel little worn out too yeah Daniel can you help us out like weas we feel a bit like LFC where we're we're a little tired I'm gonna be uh honest it's I woke up 4:30 here in goddamn Denmark but uh I don't know if I you w game oh should we just leave TR talk about Europe for a half an hour no no no no I'm not I the only happy but I'm going to say is that the train are good here but another happy foot is hug is actually good W uh this game just happened it's kind of it's been kind of a weird depressing couple games I mean we we're gonna go to the open Cup Final it's just we become lose another final Club um but you know um look Vince I need to tell you something uh [ __ ] the supporter shield look the only trophy that matters to me is still available there's still MOS Cup Final to go look it's not over yet look remember back in22 when we won the MLS Cup we had a late game late season slump as well so like this is not new it's not we're not I'm not panicking just yet and even though I don't really care about open cup we still have open cup we can we can we can turn this around guys it's just it's this this game was just [ __ ] it was a [ __ ] when sorry go ahead go ahead well I was gonna I was gonna have a hard subject change but I was gonna say if there's nothing else to talk about with the match the chat is demanding to talk about walkable cities and you seem to be in one potentially yeah tell us about the walkability of where you are in Denmark guys the trains are mind are [ __ ] mindblowing like I I become woke to to the trains here like like what takes I live in Long Beach and I it takes me like 90 minutes to get from my place to Downtown LA here it's the equivalent it's like half an hour I'm I'm back at my place man it's it's it's incredible it's incredible it's like the the training systems are so fast man okay that's great to know and that's very exciting genuinely I don't want to know about the trains I want to know about the walkability They Don't Really check the ticket on the trains right they just sort of let you get on well they let you get on but like you have to it's not cheap that's the downside uh you have to buy a city if you're a tourist I recommend the 120 hour well I'm here for five days so so I recommend the City Pass um it's remember they don't take the hero in Denmark know act ality they took they still have the Danish Crown um you can get on willy-nilly but like there are inspectors and I luckily they don't show up often uh I only had one inent one like incident and that was yesterday and you know I showed him in the City Pass was fine but no no the city of cop is extremely lockal uh you don't even need to bike um I haven't ridden a bike in 10 years so I was recommend it don't don't don't go on the bike because I haven't rid it so long so I don't know it feels a little bit like you're dodging here we're we're we're trying to find out how walkable it is we're hearing about trains we're hearing no I'm being serious it's walkable I walked everywhere last five days okay I just I look we need to ask the hard-hitting question you know this is the segment we goad go ahead Daniel um did you did you wake up to watch that dog [ __ ] game uh yeah I woke up at 3:40 um I'll I'll be the first to confast I kind of fell asleep miss the first 20 minutes then I like oh [ __ ] there's a game on so whatever and then like at the end should I get on it's like oh [ __ ] it let's get on so yeah that's actually that's that verbatim is the what the three of us say that's like our like we're like oh [ __ ] it let's get on and we just go Um I like technically nothing happened nothing really happened we just we were just dog [ __ ] yeah ands needs to make a choice on these tournaments because it's September and the open cup hasn't been resolved yet that's [ __ ] they they look there's got to be a decision I'm sorry to get back on that depressing subject but yes well thank you only way to one up with the game I'm just glad we had a fellow European call in so Travis this is great Travis I hope you're comforted I had I have some funny anecdotes about the Danish Crone that we can talk about later all right good great to see you Daniel let's talk soon take care man the I mean it's not that funny uh oh no we're not interested it's there's no way talk about it later yeah you save that for you and Daniel we don't we don't care Trav you guys have your own little we just do not care look they're doing the trumpet they're doing the whole thing yeah I I realized today we have too many things before the game there's five different things that happened before the game we have the Falcon we have the scarves up we have uh the trumpet we have the national anthem and then we also have the walk out where the players walk out to a different song that the walk out happens after the scarv is up we need to get rid of one of them national anthem we're getting I think it gives everyone a chance to trickle into seats with the LA traffic I don't know yeah right that's not a bad bad call actually and it gives you a reason to be there a little early I don't know all right who else wants to come on this hot Tak hot Tak should I throw it another s foot no well yes but also also let's keep getting callers on let's let's let's Isaiah you're on the show unmute yourself if you'd like what's going on guys hey hey first welcome isah pick us up wake us up wake us up from the day foot main Happy Foot other than L would be O'Brien and I just think like his energy tonight was unmatched like in the Midfield guys just walking around like not going to say atuesta because he's been thrown under the bus already but El is a little older it's just uh O'Brien's box tobox ability brings us more and mean youve seen it 59th minute that ball played I think it was bossy he played the ball through into the box if uh if O'Brien doesn't make that recovery run that's a tap in for Hector Herrera right and it's two Z way earlier in the match so I just think he was a player of the match for me on the LFC side other than uh theice and yeah the first five minutes was first five to 10 minutes pretty good and then you know Houston started like going into the style of play that they wanted to suck up like possession you know have us running around and honestly wasn't pleased with bonga again I think it's three straight performances where he hasn't really impacted the game in open play as far as like other than the penalty in the open Cup game I don't really think he did much in that Seattle game you could agre have flashes but yeah I think it's three straight performances wrong has been pretty much like not an impact yeah I I I wonder how much players have figured out some of his moves a little bit like he feels like he goes to his toolbox when he meets a Defender and it seems like his toolbox hasn't been working the last three games um hopefully no one's learning from wiford Nancy dorsy is all over him tonight yeah I mean he's getting well the the problem is is like look he's very good in open space and when teams are running back towards their goal and yes he's even decent let's say One V one at the corner of the box but like you can't keep going back to the well every time you got to you got to change it up and and you've got to play with your teammates and play off your teammates and his decision making is just not there there also was a moment too where he actually was on the break and he tried to it was when hulings head ended up having a pretty good shot but he tried to play in bogush and he had Acres I mean was you could drive a truck through the the spot that he could have pass it into and he just missed it like just a bad pass just did not like hit it right at the defender and that's um look that's something we've always kind of said about bonga I know he's picking up some assists here and there but it was like the joke was he's actually shooting right because like other than when he gets out in space and he's finishing off his own shot like his decision-making playmaking ability is is is what keeps him from being like a truly elite elite player not in MLS but I think in terms of like Elite as in he could go back to Europe and and dominate again that I think that's why he's kind of um I I don't want to say plateaued but I mean plateaued in the sense of like worldwide but obviously he's an elite player in MLS but it just if if there was something you could add to his game it would be that and also like he didn't really press that well either I mean Oliva was always pressing on that right side but I think like like once it was two zero then you could see everyone started like wake up like I didn't see like why it took a second goal for us to wake up we were kind of like keeping possession around like playing around the back three like if we were up in the game it just really didn't make any sense there's no sense of urgency and yeah I really thought like we didn't want it tonight and it showed Houston brought it yeah and then we got we gotta keep playing uh Texas teams I mean we got Houston in Houston Austin here go back to Houston or go back to Texas in Dallas and then we play the Mickey Mouse open cup so yeah we gota wake up at some point yeah and then Galaxy's Lamar Hunt weird you pronounced Lamar Hunt really strangely yeah that's on me he's his family is coming for me Isaiah thank you so much for calling in you always have very smart things to that thank you guys you have a good night see you later there's all right let's keep the colge rolling yeah keep going yeah all right uh on the show really is a game the show hello okay us first time car very cool okay yeah I I heard Travis said you needed the energy you needed the vibe so I'm here I'm bringing it awesome all the positive vibes I know that you know we lost the game everybody's sad but I won tonight because I won memorable moves of the match you were skeleton lady I'm skeleton lady wait this is something that only okay Darren Darren and I not being at the match this is you and have to explain because this is not on broadcast so what what is going on here you us about your big moment I have a full on skeleton costume on okay very cool and which I wear I'm a season ticket holder and I wear this costume to almost every game and I get on the big screen almost every time but today today was my day and I won um here's my jersey to prove it I want a jersey I want a a clear bag I'm like on top of the world right now yeah clear legit prizes gen cool other people win chances to hang out with Jacob and Ronnie I don't know if that's an actual prize that sounds like who you are he does now well I'm a winner I know we're losers but I'm a winner that's crazy I I this is like a Jumbotron like contest essentially how it so what do you come to the games yeah [ __ ] you Darren Fu you not all of them yeah you just dance like at the beginning of the game and like you know have a good time Bring The Vibes and then you have a chance yeah so I know that but I just never figured I didn't realize it was actually like that's amazing that there's like actual prizes for that they're like yes you won you actually won an actual thing yeah thanks I thought it was just like Yay this is the winner and then we actually great a celebrity on this is like star of the game celebrity honest honestly the only one who actually accomplished anything totally and you know Travis I totally disagree with you we do not have too many things we have just the right amount of things rid I'd be I would be horrified like that's the I mean it's not the best the best part is the game but like that is just that's nice it's the ritual like I I would rather have the trumpet than the game tonight I'll say that for sure you what I'd rather listen to the trumpet then watch that game again I'll say that that's true 90 minutes of that trumpet would have been better then well wait wait wait let's not go too far 90 minutes I don't know what that Nick is a good trumpet player but that the trumpet gets be hyped um if Ollie like I'm not I love Ollie but like that's maybe that's the one thing that I would get rid of H up until right now they're going to hate that oh my God I'm sorry but to get rid of Ollie we have to like really get rid of Ollie right no I'm not saying I'm not saying like get rid of Ollie like no you want to take care of Ollie is that what you said it sounds like you want to kill that bird Amanda you're welcome to kill the bird they could just cut it short maybe they could cut that part short but scarves up are you kidding get rid of scarves up never yeah how else how else would we see all of our happy foot scarves everywhere one got on tonight I was excited yeah that's a happy you can't cut that let's kill a bird instead I didn't say kill a bird say that it is being recorded I don't know don't worry you didn't have to say it we got we got we picked up what put down chat seems to be against the execution of ali um can you believe it thank you bringing energy we must we very much need it please congratulations on Big Win enjoy your jersey thanks guys thanks thank you for joining us uh wow and the energy the the game needed as well apparently for such a nice woman it's crazy she wanted to murder so many animals though I will say that yeah I don't know about that I think it's clear we need to keep the colarge rolling because this is yeah where we going next because we're not bringing it nope we're letting you guys do our jobs you're doing great I don't know who is next we got a bunch of people waiting actually uh who do you guys remember who came on next I'm sorry guys I I Jeff's ready Jeff's ready Jeff said Jeff's gonna bring the vibe so down though god well let's let's just get it out of the way okay Jeff okay Jeff do you want to execute the bird or not 100% yeah yeah she's right about that also m m bones I don't know if you guys were you were at the game Travis M bones uhh stole my heart I'll say that if I was not a happily married man M bones is uh far more attracted than the average I'll put it that way thank you for calling Jeff talk to you later nightmare stop talking about people's appearance on the show Jeff went on the [ __ ] train for that long God damn it we have one woman caller and this is what the first person says I'm going home Jeff CH is true to his name tonight the heel of the foot ruining everything as always oh boy [ __ ] what are you doing creepy Jeff is back on the Travis has reached his calling Jeff talk a piece of [ __ ] minimum of one all right LFC Luke please help us welcome hi guys Luke I think you're attractive I Luke has been routinely saving our show actually we're putting a lot on you wow wow all right all right I have a I have a happy foot which is that and unfortunately for you know was a lot of people who had not been to an LC game in a long time but like Dexter Quinn who is one of the co-founders of prid made it to this game from he's living he's living now up in Idaho he made it to this game his daughter Lilith was there uh Taylor and Max who got married at the pride game last year they were there they came out from Tucson jayen who is lives out in Boston she was there she brought a friend there were a couple guys that one of our pride Republic board members were supposed to be flying out to Tokyo this morning their playing got delayed 24 hours so our board member brought them to the game and for one of them it was his first game before the game even started there was this little girl who jumped down in front of us to get her picture taken at the end right right in front of the field and she had little button that said my first lafc match so like you're making this so much more tragic my happy foot is all of these people who were there who got to be there my sad foot is what the well God oh they deserve better all their first games and it'll be all of their last games as well because right right oh man yeah so you know wasn't a good wasn't a great game you know I was I was reminded that last year we played Houston it got pushed back because of the open cup and we played them like four days after or something after we had just crashed out of the cona CA final and because of the way everything got pushed around we then we went we went to Houston we lost 4- Z there and then four days later they came here and they beat us one Zer yeah we were in the midst of that Crush of games and they had had that Crush of games and once [ __ ] again we're in the midst of a [ __ ] Crush of games and I don't know when they crashed out out of leagues cup but clearly they had the fresher leges they just they just ran over us so that's my sad foot I forgot that we're just recreating history with the saddest part of last season it's true look if anyone in the chat second sadd part if anyone in the chat or in the audience in general I don't know what the hell's going on with TR how did you get balloons to go on balloons just went up with Travis's Sor interrupt Jeff gager dollar 99 thank you for the sticker can I make the balloons go again yeah how did you do that that cool you put sign did this work that's really cool Travis you should do that the whole time I know he's going to oh confetti this is terrible this is absolutely terrible uh I was gonna say for anyone in the chat who or anyone who's listening or watching uh who is questioning why we don't talk about Houston I think you're understanding maybe a little bit more now that yeah we've now spent 40 some odd minutes talking already spent too much time talking we broke a lot of rules today yeah for we felt like for a postgame show you kind of have to yeah but look they ran all over us and in not in any interesting way at all like they didn't play particularly well they didn't get they played well they played well was not it just they were fine they were fine it just wasn't a good game no it wasn't a good game like we didn't put up we didn't put up the fight in the first half where they like had 30 successive passes it was just pass pass pass pass yeah but it wasn't like wow they're so good I can't believe they're beating us it was like we let them do it we were just all holes it was like when you're driving on the freeway and it's just like bumpered over traffic and you look over the other side of the freeway and everything's just like there's no traffic at all everyone like it was just like we couldn't do anything and it's like when they had the ball it was just they just passed right through US was like oh well this is no problem for us we can go our Direction just fine must be must not be the pitch anyway oh oh yeah and by the way the pitch looks beautiful at the start of the game yeah but I don't know what what happened air underneath it it was like popping up in yeah the ref tried to fix it at that one point and he was like I pushing it down yeah he was pretty upset about that brought some of that Starfield back uh with us starf Fox 64 back with us um quickly I want to answer Greg's question because he did a Super Chat and didn't put the um question and my question was did we just lose the supporter shield in Miami tonight 12 points ahead lafc is two games a hand we talked about it a little it becomes really hard now Miami has to make mistakes and we have to play really well even with M Messi they seem to just win games yeah so and you gotta imagine he is coming back soon I asked this in the patreon chat but is it just me or do they have as easy of a schedule as it seems I feel like every time I glance over at Miami it's like oh they're playing Chicago okay yeah I mean the so the East is probably the very top teams of the East I think are better than the West like they have more quality up top but then they also are shittier everywhere else so yeah so if you are one of those teams that's one less of those teams you're facing and then like it's wide open yeah I I will say someone brought this up earlier when we were talking about when Daniel said that he didn't care about the Sporter Shield the high the better we are in the Sporter Shield rankings the more likely we are to host if we have MLS Cup finals so it's still worth chasing um because let's say Miami doesn't make it to a final we want to be ahead of Columbus we don't want to have to go to Columbus if we make it to the final um but we're talking about that after a two Zer why not Travis yeah yeah well we we'll cross what's wrong with that DEC uh I got did John love have a good time he did have a good time but it it was a very boring game so I brought him to games before that have been more fun but it was not um there wasn't a lot to cheer about well next next time you bring him to a game you gotta come to the tailgate and hang out with pride or public beforehand we we would love to hang out with John love it he's not a man of the people he doesn't want to see whatever he's not there for the sports they don't want to hang out with you just your guest and he's there for your scarf and for the alcohol so he stole my [ __ ] scarf still four years of my life stole my scarf just think that's on brand for him well uh thanks for calling in Luke we love you buddy take care guys later dude oh hot man uh keep keep the callers going keep the callers going I'm it's late and I want to walk to my so goodbye everybody okay goodbye we're replacing you we're replacing you Travis what's happening y'all great how we doing hey thank you man yeah that rough thanks for joining the show you you're you're gonna help us uh sort this out so uh first of all tiny Don is fantastic name um but yeah uh bring it now because Dar Darren and I we're as you can tell we're like we're just we're we're on fumes and we're not doing very well so what what what did you think man I'm telling you the only thing that made the having a seven-year-old sitting next to my son the whole time being like can we [ __ ] go can we go I mean it was bad it was bad so um but uh I mean it was a bummer as it was mentioned before that uh folks had come to leagues cup saw a good game against Colorado looked like Jude had like kind of found something and then now you're just like we had to play like two different games badly it's like first half was this one type of game then we got to figure out what uh how we GNA play with him and use him and then it felt like we're just picking up injuries or I don't know and then when shano came out shano's praying on the sideline at the end of the first half like what asking God to help him and that didn't come so uh I don't know it was rough it was rough would have been pretty cool if he did that would have been pretty cool if that work out I just always am like I always think back to like someone was mentioning the other day it was just like uh when we lost remember when we lost to Galaxy and then we had the 12 minutes of silence and then [ __ ] just turned around last year you know um going into Columbus are you positing that as a as a possible solution are you are you putting it out there I don't think we got to go there but I mean we just have to like it feels I'm never a doo out but it just feels like we have to just make a whole new choice about how to play the rest of the year because it feels like Mario's not coming back for at least a couple games and not an answer to me at all like it doesn't feel like there's any link up or anything so I don't know I don't know but love the team who cares in some regard I mean I'm I'm a positive person so sure and I think I think regardless and like this doesn't solve anything but like when you're a good team you earn the right to play in more games which is what is the problem now right now right like they've just kind of stacked up too many games and and like we can complain about it like you know obviously Steve has complained about it and gotten clowned on it saying like they need to expand the rues so rosters can be bigger um that would be the solution um but now LA but now LFC has to find a way to figure out like how do we rotate without lowering the standard yeah I think I think uh I think now that Tillman's back that could be a big difference maker in terms of the Midfield I feel like we've had to play with two and then we don't really Sanchez is I love him but he's not fast so it's like that's always hurts and then I feel like I don't know I feel like I feel like we're close like something could click easily and I feel like uh now more than ever I feel like it would help the team no matter what for the end of the year to win the US Open match just to have like this energy normally I'm like who gives a [ __ ] you know but it's like I think think now on like that Wednesday and at home like it kind of would erase this game and the Columbus game like for people's minds this year if we just have a big win at home you know that matters but that's it yeah so I'll let y'all uh have a good rest of your night keep itef no thanks for joining us thank you for coming on appreciate you love the show man you guys are the best have a good one thank you so much [ __ ] talk man I've never met him but all right we'll see you again soon come back uh I think he makes a good he does make a good point about open Cup in a way that we haven't really talked about gon say he makes a good point about [ __ ] talk oh yeah that too um a lot of points but the I think it it it is like one of those kind of mental blocks right like obviously you want to go on and then win um MLS Cup you don't just want open cup to be the only silverware but like it's another final in your way and it's coming before MLS Cup like you kind of got to get that block out of the way and like just win it and for your mentality and for just like your your sanity at this point because the fans are feeling it you know the players got to feel it a little bit too the same way we know all too well the same way we know all too well how the negative effect that the losses can have like even if you don't care about us open cup as a part of the trajectory to something bigger it can have as much of a positive effect as the negative effect these other these other games are having yeah so yeah I totally agree with that and I mean for me I I like I think it matters and I like it I want them to win it yeah hard like every piece of Hardware that they can win in front of them like I think it's a big deal that they have the opportunity to do it and I think it's a big deal if they win it yeah it's regardless of what it is it matters it's a thing always celebrate any TR I always say always celebrate any trophies you win you beat teams to be there um and as we've seen like it's actually funny to hear people say like I don't care about competitions being the team that loses in finals like then you should know how hard it is to win these things like so I I do care about it and but I I do think it has the added knock on effect of like we won in a final like you gotta you got to do it like you just got to get it out of the way um and so I think it it's it's bigger it's even bigger in that way I the other I think the only other way to do this is if we were taking the road of like we straight up do not care we only play the second team we never give a [ __ ] like otherwise we're putting effort into this thing don't we want that to be worth something yeah like no we do yeah and and again like I said the the the byproduct and I know that it sucks tonight but the byproduct of being a good team and being challenging is you get more games like you earn the right to playing more games like that's a good team you don't we want to see our team play more don't we want to see them with more opportunities to as you said Darren like trophies we just want trophies like more opportunities the merrier I I I don't quite I I get it you can rank them like you can say look to me MLS Cup is the most important but I just I I do love a team that's like we're gonna go for everything as opposed to a team that's like oh no ml there's a lot of MLS teams that believe MLS Cup is the only thing that matters and that's I mean I guess that's fine but I don't I yeah I wouldn't love it if um we played the kids in every other competition just because we were like well MLS Cup is the only thing that matters i' be like well that's gonna get boring yeah I I yeah I think we I don't know if we take it for granted but I definitely prefer the way that we look our Outlook to any other option as a fan uh I should say I think we I think we missed a Super Chat here uh oh Jus Gutierrez the team needs all three half safo just at the bank may we barely just got all three half safo host in one place at all last weekend for the first time and it was we don't know what kind of power we might have yeah uh we we can't do it it's impossible we're very busy we're uh I don't know we it it's hard enough to we make it here for the show like sure two to three times a week at this point yeah it's boy uh there's a lot more going on in the chat okay Joey Joey onear joining us from oh my God what is happening what is are you at a resort I'm uh yes I'm in a pool at Miracle Springs in Desert Hot Springs California maybe the only city comparably unwalkable as Houston sure so yeah that's my happy foot is that I'm you know in the the soothing Hot Springs my wife is also approved me coming on a pod because she thought it'd be hilarious to come from a pool so thank you so much here I am your wife I'm glad that that was that turned out to be a pool noodle and not what it seemed like a creature of some kind for a second yeah see cre I think she'll be very satisfied to hear that that that uh that that came off and my family's also really impressed because I've been holding up my my phone for the last half hour waiting for you guys to bring me on but now I've got to cut it short because you guys have been on for way too long and Vince has been really permissive with letting people come on the Pod the only reason that you guys would want to keep this SP going is if you can get more Super chats but alas I don't know no we're good we're good we're not here for the super chats we're here for the people we we enjoy you showing up from exotic locations as much as possible but please go enjoy your vacation don't spend time with us yeah I know the game sucked I was I was watching it a dinner and whatever so yeah love you guys and I'll see you later yeah go go swim some laps and have fun okay walk thanks for joining us as always it's nice to see someone's having a good time yeah that's good yeah well I think think we should wrap it up Darren I'm now I'm tired yeah and actually seeing Joey in the pool makes me wish I I I'm very much I've got fomo now that was nice a lot a lot a lot of fomo well we're playing them again soon yeah we'll see him again and maybe we'll do a preview about it you know what that sucks about We're not gonna do a preview [ __ ] that [ __ ] that definitely not doing a preview what what's really frustrating to me about this is that like I just want to prepare for El traffico like I don't want like this is just in the way for me but maybe getting reps in is helpful maybe like we should just be okay with the losses I'm assuming next time is a l too maybe we should just be like okay we're like getting back into the groove of MLS play and we're seeing you know O'Brien and Jude and the rest of the team haven't played together a ton well I hate to interrupt you Darren but the talk has forced his way onto the show oh my God and I think this is you know what Jeff free Jeff talk which sure sometimes 199 thank you very much for the super chat but uh you know just for that we're just going to wrap up the show so that you have nowhere to go yeah wow people calling to bring him back look at this bring him back bring back talk nope Jeff talk raising money for his own to bail himself out somehow uh wow he'll be back soon enough we'll be back soon enough thank you all for hanging out thank you for making this uh disgusting tragic loss more tolerable as always hopefully we've done done somewhat of the same for you I don't know what we're doing between now and the next match we'll be there for the live stream regardless um we'll figure it out uh we hope to see you all soon uh if you want to support the show subscribe oh my goodness Jeff talk no I'm just kidding I'll bring it up guys Jeff is sending us a $1.99 at a time he's not even in in he's not even in the waiting room so it he he can't come on even if he wanted to yeah but trying this is a move just go everyone like just don't think about this game anymore it's a three-day weekend please everyone enjoy that yeah and enjoy it wow okay well if you want to support the show like like this subscribe to this wherever you're experiencing it wherever you'd like to experience it we try to make it available everywhere uh and uh come have fun with us more no Jeff you can't all of a sudden just jump into the waiting we are really wrapping it up I'm literally leaving I'm gonna get I'm GNA I'm literally going to get up I'm GNA walk out wow I'm gonna walk out of my own home boy here he is Jeff talk thanks for joining us Jeff okay okay let's go wrap it up like subscribe oh my God UniFi LFC unified just lost four nothing to Houston okay well now we need to wrap it up just because yeah bad things are happening all right we'll see you guys then I love you bye