Angel City FC Season Restart - 8/24 San Diego Match Preview NWSL

Introduction and Casual FC Hosts hey guys we're on [Music] video what a for Angel City Riley comes in Angel City on the for a kick presented by Senor Shifty work into the box and AC cross it's in oh it's l the dream r [Music] hi everyone and welcome to Casual FC an Angel City preview pod I'm your host Angela Morales with my oh no I don't have adjectives in my brain right now my super great wonderful Mega cool awesome co-host Mario Salazar hello everyone when we're recording this right now the lighting in my room is so crappy that like when I smile all I see is teeth I'm like it doesn't normally look like that so I don't know what is happening yeah it's not usually that dark maybe I'm usually closer to the screen and then the like it gives me a soft light a nice soft glow yeah all right well we're back we're back we it's been a while this is our match preview for for the match against the Match Preview: San Diego Wave vs. Angel City San Diego wave on Saturday August 24th the angels are going to be driving down to Snappy at for a 100 p.m. 1 give us a night game nwsl please in general give us a night game but especially at Snapdragon please I don't understand why the games have been at 1:00 down there but it is what it is one does uh so bring your sunscreen this is year number three you should know just bring your sunscreen the match will be broadcast on CBS and Paramount plus as well as that's what I was trying to say iHeart radio so go listen to Isaac and Tracy the homies and uh give them all the love cuz they just make you feel like you're there but Watch Party Announcement better yet if you're not going to make it down to San Diego come to our watch party we're just going to kick it off with come to the watch party yeah come hang out with us in Long Beach we'll be at the new the greatest the best new place basically in Long Beach in LA county even I would go so far as saying we'll be at watch me sports bar starting at noon to kick off our very first casual FC watch party please come tell everybody you know please we want to make this a true Angel City watch bar there will be two other Angel City FC official sponsored watch parties but come hang out but like we're not going to talk we're not going to talk about those today the one time we you can take a yeah the one time I won't like straight up say where the watch party is because you know what it's a better one um it's and yeah watch me is now an official bar for acfc so come down let's make it known that it's an acfc bar um and don't don't make us be there by ourselves yeah we want to make sure than us are significant others are family and like close close friends so just just come have fun you know you don't want to drive all the way down to San Diego Long Beach has great food watch me has fantastic food they've got cocktails they've got mocktails they've got all kinds of stuff their menu is very good I'm very excited to have their wedg salad again honestly it's so good I this summer has me as a salad connoisseur between wedge salads cucumbers and watermelon it's all I want to eat so trust me it's a damn good [Laughter] salad all right and you can make it if I'm going to make it I'm traveling from the valley down to Long Beach so you know my mine is already a trek to get down there but I am getting down there so definitely you can make it too and if Public Transit Tips and Personal Stories you need help taking the metro hit me up let me know I will get you from anywhere that Metro LA will take you down to Long Beach I I am well versed for those who don't know I was in a very serious car accident 20 years ago this next week the day before Tuesday we're dropping this on Wednesday like normal then yesterday it'll be 20 years since my uh crazy car accident on the 91 and I am a public transit Mega user so yeah if anybody needs help with that hit us up I got you and then if you need to know anything more about watch me go listen to the episode we recorded with Jax one of the co-owners she is absolutely fantastic one of the best people I've ever met she's so much fun she's so genuine she loves what she does go listen to it if you haven't already it's a good time oh yeah yeah so we are coming back from a little bit of a break and by break a week and not even CU we're recording we're recording this episode because of schedules we're recording this on a Friday normally we record the week of the match on a Monday but we were trying to take a break Olympics Recap and Scandals because we went all out for Olympics coverage we did an episode to preview every single group and then we did an episode after every single round and tried to get it out like the next day and it was just it was insane for we needed a minute us yeah so yeah and that's why we didn't do an episode for the friendly we needed a minute yes we don't know what's going to happen in that friendly because we are recording right before it all we know is to Jump Ahead a little cp's back she'll be back at beo for the first time and hopefully we get to see her on the pitch but you guys will know before we do absolutely so in this little break we had a little bit of Olympic recovery because I don't know about you but that just about consumed my brain for two weeks in the best way I'm better for it all of us are better for it there was so much true showing of the Olympic Spirit like just thinking about it I'm like oo the one thing I want to talk about is going to make me cry so I'm not going to do it but there's just there's so much good that's come out of this these games so much Scandal and not just Canadian soccer Scandal like genuine Scandal gymnastics Scandal boxing Scandal wrestling SC like Scandal like the most scandalous Olympics but the cool thing is the so we play Angel City and San Diego plays on Saturday the 24th on the 28th the Paralympics kickoff on peacock you already have the subscription you already got the login guess what and if you only more Sports and if you only paid for a month hey you've got it for a couple days it's probably going to want you to be like pay for another month cuz watching the par Olympics is going to be you've got other email addresses if you are a millennial or younger you've got seven yeah get that VPN going yeah I think I have four I was trying to log into something recently and I was just like clicking on the like saved passwords and then it brought up a whole list and I was like holy crap I still have these emails right they haven't been deleted yet oh no they haven't been automatically shut down I think I can still log into a Hotmail like my very first email account wow Rockstar material 34 hotmail.com you're welcome I think my fir I think my first one was MSN my first email was an MSN email yeah I think it came with like my Netscape whatever yeah all right Millennial Nostalgia moment oh oh all right also the USL Super League and ProRel Discussion USL Super League the other women's league that for some unknown reason is also a tier one division one soccer league here in the US has started too they've kicked off their inaugural season I haven't looked into it just yet but more soccer what can you go wrong with and honestly the more eyes that are on just kind of sports in general the better it's going to be the WSL hope they do well USL takes off and does well yeah because eventually yeah what will happen is most likely what happened with the A and the WNBA is they just got absorbed and one went away and El League expanded a little bit and players got absorbed that kind of thing which is a shame in some ways but also cool in others because it means that one league is so strong it can just absorb orbit so we'll see what happens my my my secret hope is that the NW said that women's soccer will be the first one to implement prell oh that you think America is ready for that you don't know you don't know how many like how many football fans that I've talked to yeah and explained what PR means and the number one thing I always tell them I'm like okay okay you know how bad the Browns have sucked for so long right imagine they just were never there because they suck that bad they were gone what if they just just but the hard part is that there are other issues that come with relegation funding sponsorships all kinds of stuff so like a team just folded a couple months back we're keen on shutting women's teams down so that's the one thing where I'm nervous about that yeah although I do think that a pro situation if you want the drama in those final moments of the Season you're going to have fun and excitement at the beginning of the Season everybody's all excited you're going to have fun excitement during getting up to those playoffs and stuff like that but the fun excitement that you get from the English or from every other league that has PR is K you're looking at both the top and the bottom of that stack right the bottom ones are even more exting because you're like oh what's going to happen and then I think if they play it up right and essentially create a spectacle out of it right if they make it a spectacle and make it make it like the who's going to be the champion is a big thing and you can I think you can even in a pro you can still have your playoffs because what's going to happen is that you're going to have the going to have that that relegation match before the playoff kick so that's like your playoff kickoff match right you're going to have the excitement of who's about to go down right who's about to get kicked out of the top League that gets all resolved holy mother San Diego just got kicked out I like how I like you switch that up I think you sensed my [Laughter] Worry My worry is that angel is not consistent enough as it stands in this moment currently as we are recording to not give all of us a heart attack every season so maybe in like five years then I'll start AC give it like a 5e grace period yeah actively supporting uh Pro I I've thought about this before even with like the MLS cuz there's too many damn teams in the MLS there's 30 they're probably going to add 40 by the end of the Decades it's dumb um it's longer than it's longer than baseball exactly um I'm like yeah just do it be like okay it's going to be announced like 2030 we're going we're moving to prell so your record up until then the combined record is what you're going to what is going to determine who moves into the lower and who stays on the top and it gives you the incentive I hate it in like baseball in basketball in in just any other sport where you're just like you're the crappiest team and you're like yeah our players are still getting paid millions and they'll still get paid Millions next season it's just but then they have no invest like they like have no investment they don't want to be there they don't care yeah yeah the drive to win and that need to fight for it kind of changes if there's like guaranteed bazillions of dollars but at the top you have the drive to win at the bottom you have the drive to survive you know yeah so that's fair okay I'll give it but there's so much summer guys oh yeah the so the WSL in England is going Summer Cup Recap and Standings to be starting up in SE late September so just it's going to be all over the place again it's going to be great and the submer tournament that we were so invested in but now we don't care is going to finalize the summer tournament in October all kinds of fun footy stuff that's happening everywhere definitely so quick little recap of the chaos award the last one we gave out was to a stupid amount of Base thanks to Rave I might have to add a little snippet of the Rave and then to add to that we've got the Olympic break there's a whole bunch of Trades signings and then as more teams are calling it Mutual partings of the way and it has been a very interesting summer like today it's Friday the what day is it 16th it's the 16th so we are halfway it's the 16th we're halfway through or just passed halfway through the um summer transfer window so and we've only got one transfer yeah and Carson picket went back to Orlando as of this morning which is a big deal there's rumors as to why it gets into relationship stuff which I'm not going to talk about cuz is none of my business but it's holy crap so that was a big breaking news in me and Eva's text conversation this morning was oh my God Carson pickets back in Orlando which I think is better for her and I said it earlier this season I think Orlando's going to take it because they have better defense than Kansas City does at the moment but okay I hope they do especially now that Marta did not get a gold medal I'm still mad about it but I want her to win a championship just that's it let her have it okay okay hypothetical yeah if it came down to Marta getting her medal or us going on a crazy ass run not medal to get her championship and us going on a crazy ass run to win that Championship which one are you going for that's tough that's a coin flip for me Miracle we just went un tweeted again for 15 games and make it all the way every game made up the gold differential in two games exactly that's a very good question because I love my team I I love angel City we are homers here yeah big time but like man Orlando's hdden like they're on the come up right now and I think coming off of the Olympics braz alomia is gonna is going to put teams on notice and there's a lot of vindication I think that's going to come out of the players from those two national teams be for a variety of reasons and I have a feeling they're going to go on a tear but yeah we'll see we'll see what happens I just hope everybody stays healthy I know oh shoot what's her name who plays for she's the other zombiie and player that came [Music] in oh shoot I forgot her namee to but she's out with they came into Orlando mhm oh so yeah but she hadn't played too much yet so yeah yeah but she got the the Press treatment or the Sydney treatment Sydney came in and then went right back out she got here with Sid though it's because nobody knew the severity of her injury including her doctors and her it wasn't like it was hidden it was unknown this one happened over the break so we'll see what happens you alluded to it but we did get a transfer in we've got Katie zum coming in from Manchester United which is exciting we'll talk about her a little bit more later but there is rumors of another signing maybe two but it's really been confirmed on our end we haven't been able to to get any intel from anybody we know so it's a mystery yeah but we got two weeks to figure this out so fingers crossed cuz yeah I don't I will remind everybody no I just want to go you want to what I I don't want I don't want the season to end I want to at least have one more game that's it just at least get us into the playoffs I will mention and everybody that the even though the transfer window does close August 30th it only means the ability to transfer someone that already has a contract so usually someone from either does it count inter inter league it might count inter league but contracts and specifically International contracts if a player is on a contract so we're like there's a transfer fee and all that stuff that's what has to happen during this window if it's an international player who's out of contract so we don't have to deal with the club yeah if they're free if they're out of contract yeah they that can happen whenever yeah they can come in up until the roster freeze so you know don't get your hopes up completely if the nothing happens although I will my hope one player but there's been no rumors of where she's going she hasn't signed yet I needed this news like two weeks ago I think we all did like as as soon as the window opened they should have just said look here are the three signings we were done with we worked we don't even want to wait till the end of the month here you go stressed yeah and I think on Reddit I was reading and someone was like oh they probably if they do have anything to announce they were probably holding it back to give uh CP her moment to come back I'm like okay fair but also we've been waiting three years for yeah her her game back in bimo we all scratch the itch everybody's good to go but speaking of games how did Summer Cup end yeah tell tell me about that tell us about the sandings yeah what's going down we got to give people a refresher okay so quick refresher we ended up the season we ended up the regular season with a game against Gotham at home we lost two to one don't really want to talk about it again stupid amounts of Base going on that entire match uh and then this summer cup happened that we didn't care about but we totally cared about because we were going on a tear and we were learning things and we were like we were fluid we were doing great and then we get to this last match we got weird and it was awesome and then we get to this last match and then we reverted back to inseason ball and went to and yeah it didn't help that that our offense just got shuddered yeah I told you you can't sleep on Gotham yeah so Gotham put us in a bad mood at the end of the break and then put us in a bad mood at the end of this summer cup run for us but then also put mood with the Olympics for because there're so many D players on the team yeah Gotham Gotham 2.0 out there but with that being said we are starting a new we're looking at this with fresh eyes we're coming back to the NW cell second half of the Season really it's like the last third of the season but to recap where we're at we're currently in 11th place still tied on 15 points with the San Diego wave they're in 10th place because of gold differential we have a they have a negative five we have a -10 uh in the gold orential Department our wind loss draw record for the regular season so far has been a 493 so four wins nine draws nine losses and three draws so yeah not we've been talking about it not the undetweetable.com in a relatively safe spot as we were coming up those last couple of matches has been that everybody from like eighth place down it just kept losing or kept trying kept tying so it kept everybody pretty much no there was no real big changes on the bright side of all of that beyond that is the fact that there's only three points between us and the playoff line so it's it's feasible for us to get into the playoffs let's just keep the hope and with the fact that I just said that we're tied on 15 points with the San Upcoming Match and San Diego Wave Issues Diego wave that makes this next matchup that we're about to talk about an honest six-point match this is going to be a huge result for either side and and it's not like either side has been doing great so we need this we need this win yeah so with that there's a whole bunch of stuff to talk about not even playerwise just as I put in my notes there's some weird ass going down in San Diego yeah with that said I hope all of the players and front office employees that aren't involved in all the hot trash that's happening down there um I hope they're doing okay because regardless you're impacted by your workplace being in a big sense of upheaval right now and like massive Shenanigans and I can't imagine that things are great going to work right right now seems I'm assuming given that I've worked in very volatile situations before unfortunately yeah when light is shown on people Behaving Badly usually gets worse before it gets better so I'm having this I have this gut feeling that it's not so great right now in the foo everybody's watching walking on egg shells like it's you don't want to get the wrong person yeah the wrong person unfortunately getting irked the wrong way you're just like look this shouldn't be the environment we need to be in but apparently that's what it's going to be the regular folks like the normies that are just like I'm just here to do my job I hope they're doing okay hope the players are fine that kind of thing but yeah yeah news broke today like yes today right last night today something like that that for Landon Donovan's New Role angelinos the Landon Donovan is now the interim coach of San in my notes I literally wrote okay Jill and that's no offense to him but this is also how I feel about if you're a Laker fan JJ reck you're bringing in someone who has little to no experience in this realm at this level with this population of people yes they were professional players so there is that experience but like in woso okay I don't know how to make the sound of the the head motion I just did so this ends up being on video you saw it but it was like I I genuinely have nothing against Landon Donovan he's just I walked by him one time that's it I I I don't really watch men's soccer it's whatever but my issue Critique of Men's Involvement in Women's Sports and this is like my issue across women sports is bringing men who have no history with the women's side of the game because it is very different in basketball and soccer just about in every sport where there's like comparable leagues and being like they coached this like Youth League he had a podcast whatever and now you can coach this team because Ari Chambers says this very well women's sports is not a stepping stone it's not there to build your career off of to then go coach for the men nah and that's what this feels like this also feels very not like what's nepotism when it's like your buddies where it's not like you're not related but it's there's a word for it but I can't think of it right now it's like the good old boy network but in this case there's men and women involved so Paul Buckle who was the interim San Diego San Diego Team Dynamics coach after they removed Casey Stony which still nobody understands why nobody likes it it's the very odd decision but we're kind of I think finding out why he took over for Casey he was a former coach who coached with Landon at the San Diego loyal who got demolished by the MLS yeah folks because they needed to have a San Diego team which as you said there's way too many teams um yeah but then gutted a wonderful fan base for a team whose logo looks like a fordf150 logo but in in private discussions before this both with Eva and with Mario I literally have called them the San Diego Ford F-150s because that's what their logo looks like it's there's a lot of there's a lot of boring fat boy of oh here's my like blue shirt and blue pants cuz I'm a boy that's what it feels like so stereotypical there's a lot of chrome accents on the logo itself which is like that's it is it legit looks like a car logo like like so many people have been like what is this it someone went happy with the metallic swatches in Photoshop just to O give that a little shine so yeah I mean it is what it is I think I have don't know anything beyond the fact that Landon Donovan's Credentials Landon is probably fine of fine he's a well he's a very well-known very well-received very yeah he's a big name he's a yeah he's American soccer royalty yeah yeah National and ESS yeah I don't want it to come off so lame but I don't get why you would pick him to come in I don't no I agree with you I agree with you in that I he is coming into this without any as far as we know and we did a really top level cursory like Wikipedia check basically but yeah from that top level check it doesn't seem like there's anything on that kind of woo development like really being part of the community or the league or anything like that that he was a part of and it's just oh hey you've got a cool name and people know you let's put you into this spot yeah he might do well he might very well do completely fine he might be a very stacked team of players you have the world's best defender in Naomi GMA who covered all of France and most of Europe during this Olympic games you've got Alex Morgan and the leadership of Alex Morgan there's world class players on San Diego but I I did in a text message to a couple friends say Angel City should have Kobe Jones like sub head coach for this game and they have to fight on the sidelines just duke it out or they have to kick PKS to see who wins the game like please like why not at this point [Laughter] I was also really proud of myself that I could name two men's soccer [Laughter] players they are they are La Legends yeah la Legends and and we know Kobe yeah he's part of very good stewards part of the right side Kobe Kobe's one of ours and that's why I said like he should be like you know Becky sick like also this is probably I think it is but I think it's hysterical it's just silly scissors competition to see who I don't know something like just it's already freaking weird Okay I I very much feel like okay Jill that's a decision but it very much feels like somebody who's in trouble is trying to assert their dominance and said I'm picking this person whether or not they're the best person for the role who knows yeah it is interim hopefully they are looking elsewhere and not just making the this is interm for now and then we're just making it official so we'll we'll see what happens down there but with all of that being Christen Press's Return said Miss press is back she possibly again because again we're I'm saying possibly as in that we didn't see the recording this before the waters match so don't know if she's back on the field with she's not 90 minutes back but she's increasingly more minutes back yes and it's exciting it's I we got a flood on the Discord we got a flood of Chris and press highlight videos for a lot of us casuals to watch and we fully enjoying them I'm excited and I'm looking forward to getting to see more of what she's doing and learning more about her I'm I think we had this conversation when we were talking with with pandemonium too because of the age Gap that we had between between everybody that was like recording and we were talking about like we're getting draged yeah yeah feeling so old but we each have a different inpoint who are your national team players who are your nwsl players and so for me my endpoint with Christ and press is Angel City it it hasn't been yeah you didn't even get poorly used a as a sub by Joel Ellis Christen press was she a Super Sub absolutely was she a game changer 100% should she have probably started some games yes anyway I'm very excited I'm very excited to see her play in bimo again she's she's back yeah she's back and I don't care if it's for 4 minutes or 24 minutes or 44 minutes any is good and I'm very excited so San Diego I'm not I thought about this a lot today I was when I was putting notes together I don't really know who and what and where is going to happen because I feel like they're still going to be resting their International folks with the exception of maybe kayn Sheridan who that's somebody whose opinion on the Canadian situation I want to hear from as a keeper because her game plan isn't necessarily as impacted yeah like it is but not as much or in different ways I should say but I'd be very curious to have an off the record conversation just be like tell me everything like I said I like chees may I like gossip I just don't like my own drama I don't want I don't want it for me but when other people have it if they want to share please Angel City's New Signings do but I almost said Staffing but like player movement wise Sierra Ang left to go to France they just recently signed deline cascarino from France so they got one they got rid of one person to go to France got another one from France she will be uh midfielder forward depending on where they put her number 69 because that's her [Music] City's I was trying to say am I am I 12 yeah she said it's because it's the number of her city which I'm curious what that means I don't know if it's like a postal code or something like that I've heard that before with French cities yeah yeah yeah so I don't know what that means it like how to correlate it to American postal stuff or like City nomenclature but she's number 69 you'll see her most likely I don't know if she's in training yet CU they just announced it today yesterday so she is coming back off of an ACL te so I'll be very curious to see how much she's played if there's rest she needs to move off of something like that but Angel City I'm very excited to talk about our team right now I'm very I feel I'm hopeful I'm hopeful because we had rest we had relaxation we had recovery most importantly and I think we're due we're due for a big one so I hope this is it because we talked about her a little bit earlier Katie Ellum was signed came across the pond was warmly welcomed at Tom Bradley terminal by so many of our supporter group members was really cool and you could tell she was genuinely surprised oh my God kind of thing coming off the plane with her like 18 suitcases of I just moved to a new country very gracious very excited to play for the team which is always good she's played for Liverpool is it Juventus or how do you pronounce this I don't you Juve Juventus Juventus Spanish prin yeah but it's Italian it's just confusing the Jay is silent so it's it's more the U Juventus Juventus okay and then she also played for Man United so she's got experience she scored 40 goals across 10 seasons of playing with those teams she was in the English national team system she has a few caps for the senior team so she's definitely paid her dues done her time established herself as a professional soccer player she is very crafty from I had to look her up because I rarely watch overseas Sports because I don't like to get up early and that's a sacrifice I have to make but she is apparently you draw you draw the line at sports for early mornings unless it's the Olympics and then I don't care but hey good thing came from from the 2020 2021 Tokyo games and yeah as that's how Eva and I wound up getting together for those who don't know I don't remember if I've told that part of the story but yeah Shenanigans but no Katie ZM is is good off both feet she she's willing to take risks to win balls back to break up plays all kinds of stuff she's a player we need like in skill set like we need somebody in the Midfield who's an attacking mid who's willing to just say screw and go and if you have an opening you have an opening if you can make that pass you make that pass get weird but also get exciting get risky what else is there to lose like we don't have much to lose anymore as a team let's go for it the interesting thing yeah is that she'll be wearing number four which for those who are longtime Angel City fans we have not seen number four Grace the field since the first season because it has been unloan since then the Vanessa G War number four I don't know it doesn't Becky says it doesn't mean anything Vanessa said she wanted to come back to Angel City but girl win we'll use your number cuz we're starting to run out she she doesn't want to come back to Angel I know I'm like girl you are winning Champion Championship it's the log line she needs to say but she doesn't want to come back yes Katie take the number four make the number four yours that is cool you're going to be yeah it's going to be amazing yeah so that's Katie very excited to see her play I don't think we're going to see her during the W is match but I think we'll see her in the San Diego match just because she's just starting training like this week so we'll see what happens but to the nitty-gritty now the stuff I've been most excited about Kristen mother effn press number 23 the inaugural signing of Angel City the woman a flag was made of and flown at the reason a flag was flown at an lafc game like we wanted the nwsl to come to Los Angeles but we really wanted Christen press to come back home like it's a two-fold situation so she's back y'all she's back she's back she's back this is what I've been waiting for two years three years because like Mario said there's so many people who are newer to women's soccer through Angel City that don't know the beauty of Chris impr presses game I'm already getting emotional this is so irritating it's because I'm tired this has been a very long week personally professionally it's just been it's been a lot this week but our girl's back and honestly I would say better than ever because she is in a much better place coming back from this injury she's talked about it a lot how she healed herself while healing her physical injury JY so finding the Love of the Game back finding the love of herself like finding that part of it again huge very excited she's amazing She's Crafty I spoke about it before one of the summer Cup games I think when it was like she's coming back you have like when she has the ball and she's looking to score you have to you cannot take your eyes off her because she has no wind up she just shoots she does it in DED she does it without shifting her body in a way that makes it look like she's going to score it's just freaking cool there's Clips in the Discord so obviously go jump in the Discord and come hang out with us a bunch of weirdos I love this group of people honest to God this is like the 17 new friends I didn't know I needed because it's gotten me through a couple tough weeks so thanks thanks guys thanks friends so like I said Kristen number 23 a forward the inaugural signing of this team which leads me to our second signing which is a lovely fact that's brought up by one of the members in our Discord who's a very good friend but the second signing of Angel City was em vignola the cool crazy weird Cosmic interventions the way our first season went yeah so ma got hurt in preseason year 1 she did not come back until very late in the season and then was a freaking lightning bolt and I was like oh her that's I like her I want yes that more of that please em is lightning in a bottle just so energetic so exciting a Winger that just will play End to End she's just everywhere like she's here she's there she's every F and where she's ma like honestly that's how I see her um but she's back from injury as well the game the summer Cup game last game we played against Gotham was the first game that the two of them had been on the pitch at the same time in Angel City history that's insane it's insane to CP got hurt and three weeks later ma came back so I need an macp connection I will explode I will cry I will be so happy please please soccer Gods give it to me use use whatas as a as like a another let's get weird session because it is a friendly and it doesn't matter to the season so try out let's go yeah this is one let's go and let's positive versions of f around and find out just see what happens yeah just launch the ball down the pitch somebody will get it no but I'm so so excited for the two of them on the pitch together so excited there's still one mystery signing at least floating around yeah we don't know so we'll see it's I believe now with Katie we're at 25 right we're at 25 24 um players we're still at 24 yeah because it was we got rid of Clarice Paige and Mandy okay okay we're at 24 so we have two two more spots yep so let's hopefully we get the news that we want and we don't have to do another one of these I have to interrupt the recording to be like okay this happened and it's really important so I need to say it um yeah like that making news you know what I take that back I want it to happen so I can do that because we need the news we need something absolutely we need something but we'll see we'll see what happens in the next two weeks I have a feeling there's going to be news coming out real soon crossed anyway but against San Upcoming Matches and Watch Parties Diego how how are we looking and both teams aren't looking so hot this season but whatever we're talking about this one match yeah our matchup though has really evened out over the course of the last year from this point to last this point last season to now evened out so right now we're sitting at three wins four draws and three losses is so very even keeled across the board very even yeah yeah and just a reminder the game against s Diego where Ma scored is when the season turned around so I'm just saying this is a big deal it's a big an MA Christen connection kick off a new Under tweeted streak see let me wear my universe let me wear my shirts in public again we have plenty of people who have them we all want to wear them again with pride yes now oh I need to do laundry yeah but just a reminder we're having a watch party we are hosting a watch party at yes watch me sports bar in Long Beach off PCH and second sort of if anybody needs directions or help or anything hit us up I've been there it's great it's wonderful it's going to be packed regardless cuz it just is which is the best thing ever so So for anybody who's not making the trk all the way down to Snapdragon with a bucket of sunscreen in their car feel free to just come hang out in Long Beach it'll be probably 20° cooler way cooler with people that you like so yep I don't know we'll share our post if you've never shared a post of ours at any point in this podcast Life share share this one let's make sure we're all down there we're all watching the game with with virtual friends with real friends like let's get together let's have fun let's have some drinks have some food have some chance and it's going to be fun it's going to be amazing and I can't wait to see Angel City on every single screen in there for for two hours it's going to be amazing I'm excited to hang out with J I'm excited to hang out with you I'm EXC I'm just freaking excited we're it's just going to be fun guys just come hang out worst case worst case best case just best casee we hang out yeah bestest case we win we get we win yeah so that means Saturday August 24th San Diego wave versus Angel City FC will be at Snapdragon Stadium 1 p.m. bring all the sunscreen in the world and remember to apply remember to reapply half time is a great time to reapply you need to reapply some black people it's not just a one andone thing especially at a 1 p.m game where you're going to be sweating like crazy you're going to be guys it's humid it's gross you're going to have to reapply and it's going to be gross maybe bring some baby wipes uh to wipe it down and then reapply yeah and if you can't make it down to the stadium and you can't make it down to our watch party or one of the other watch for news that's happening uh the game will be streaming uh and broadcast on CBS and Paramount plus and you can always listen to the game on iHeart radio so listening to Isaac and Tracy which we absolutely love if there was a way we could pipe Isaac and Tracy's audio at watch that'd be amazing but yes we love them and yeah yeah so yeah that's what we're doing follow us if you've reached it this far and you Supporting the Podcast plan on coming you don't plan on coming you like what 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with that everyone thank you for listening and we'll see you later bye see you bye [Music] [Applause] [Music]