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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, come to sports our dumb, the podcast that's on a road trip.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Joey and I'm Sean and Sean if you Notice this nice rich tamper in our voices hammer.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're recording from the visit friscoe visit friscoe friscoe Texas just north of Dallas just north west of Mesquite.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're on from look we can see the Dallas Cowboys Practice facility.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're we're sitting from right now
[SPEAKER_01]: Jack Prescott is at arms throw, while I can't throw that far, but he's a Michael Vick throw.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe over the stadium, if I could do that, he'll put your whole right into the star to where he's in.
[SPEAKER_00]: Excellent work.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is an outdoor field right front of the start too.
[SPEAKER_00]: We could go talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he's there the toss the old pigs can around a little That would be very public and he might be the guys from your birthday celebration who we're just walking around carrying a football No, he got those guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so recently 39 and we went to the park and there is
[SPEAKER_01]: We were throwing a Frisbee, and I got caught in a particular situation where I was wearing my arm out, throwing a Frisbee between a dog, between a human, that being Joey, and throwing a ball for a dog whose owner, which is laying on the grass, on the phone while the dog kept bringing the ball to me, as I alternated, pretty sure my shoulder was screaming at me, like we're 39 now, we can't do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yes, I could throw a Frisbee, probably hit
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we'll take some roll, live it roll to the field of where the star is.
[SPEAKER_00]: get a good gust of wind.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, maybe as we know, it's been raining some of the clouds or else, so maybe I'll get a little breeze to help me out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll carry a little bit and show them the reason we're here at visit for a scout.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we always enjoy exploring new places, but it's not just a road trip to record this podcast.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're also here to help promote a fun little event that's going up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps you've heard of it, the World Cup.
[SPEAKER_00]: A fun little
[SPEAKER_01]: It's coming to North Texas, games will be in Arlington, Texas at 18T Stadium, however.
[SPEAKER_01]: Friscoe has been selected as one of the cities to host some of the teams that are coming in.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they're ready.
[SPEAKER_01]: They got branding everywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got soccer, chapstick, we got soccer, sodas, like we're ready to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Chapstick, real smooth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, yes, dire need.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to keep myself from biting it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You did almost, on your best side of it, immediately.
[SPEAKER_00]: But shall we got some stacked rosters?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come in here.
[SPEAKER_00]: We got Argentina playing, aren't you?
[SPEAKER_00]: They're defending teams.
[SPEAKER_00]: England.
[SPEAKER_00]: Playing twice.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Netherlands, where I just was.
[SPEAKER_00]: You just in another three weeks ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just at the Amsterdam airport, but bought a lot of Tony's chocolate only.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the candy of the, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh, uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
[SPEAKER_00]: How is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: 20 different flavors.
[SPEAKER_01]: Compared to...
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really chocolate, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we have...
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a chocolate.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's enjoyable.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've also got Japan and Croatia playing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've not been to either of those, but they're on my list.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Sweden.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a Swedish.
[SPEAKER_00]: The staying at the West End, which is just mere minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: From here in the Washington.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're FC Dallas, place.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's exciting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Swedish people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very beautiful.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, sweet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think so.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: My family took a trip to Norway and Sweden when I was.
[SPEAKER_00]: 15.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, something something in the high score range.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we we did some great Schmorgas boards as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember Sweden had a really good ice cream.
[SPEAKER_00]: And everyone is attracted.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone could be a model.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they had not eating the ice cream.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're just, they're walking around, they're doing great.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm sure we have some crossover listeners of sports or dumb fans and sign-feld fans.
[SPEAKER_00]: But
[SPEAKER_00]: Fun little side quest that kind of just gets brought up throughout the series is Kramer has a whole back story where he grew up in Sweden.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, like throughout maybe six or seven different episodes he has some sort of Swedish element at one point.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says he has the top body of a preaching Swedish boy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, she would know, because he grew up in Sweden.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because he, well, I didn't, this episode didn't come on or just set a episode didn't come on, but I was at the pet boys getting my break pads changed and I was stuck watching sign-filmed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that still your only exposure to sign-filmed?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I've seen some of it at home like I may have like, oh no, I was at someone's place or someone was at my place and we just needed something to watch as we kill time before we went to like a game or something and just do on sign-filmed and giggled.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a great comfort show.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Say that at the end.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, who's line is it anyway?
[SPEAKER_00]: Among my top comfort show.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's sign felt, it's like, there it goes.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one.
[SPEAKER_01]: The story lines carry over from episode to episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or can you watch a one-off and not have to have seen the previous episode?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a unique part of the show is that there are story lines that carry over.
[SPEAKER_00]: But generally, you do not need to have seen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, because I would say season four is the most
[SPEAKER_00]: narrative driven because the whole plot of the the season not to spoil it is that it's Jerry and George are writing a pilot for Jerry.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's like sort of like a meta.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so there's that's that's like throughout the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're, you know, working on that pilot.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's some episodes in that season where it's not referenced at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's that's the most like storyline driven, but there's definitely some references to past episodes that it's like Oh, that's a fun little bonus and like a nice Okay, you know nice tall back to like two seasons ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay, so yes, but you don't net you don't need it You don't need this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did not a lot of two be continued in time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I think there's maybe Three three three four, okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, sorry for the side film.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a sports.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a side felt sidebar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sidebar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that my tongue twisted and I.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's got out of there.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, we need some more sidebar to shaft stick.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you're great.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Sean, in the spirit of the World Cup, this episode will be going live.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just about two weeks before the World Cup.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're excited before the group stages kickoff.
[SPEAKER_00]: First game here is June 14th.
[SPEAKER_00]: First game of the entire tournament is June 11th.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's lots of excitement in there's lots of soccer mania.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think soccer delirium soccer swarrays going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what does she know, what does soccer, soccer, extravagance, soccer, soccer, soccer, soccer, salariums, football, big glass buildings, as we can watch soccer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, did they have to change the name, soccer is in America, did they, so football is in America, did they have to illegally call it the soccer, because it's in America.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like when they go back, when FIFA leaves, it's a C for now, like what, no, because the F,
[SPEAKER_01]: Pisa, is it Fisa right now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not speaking Fisa, Visa.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm gonna say him.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like how are the teams gonna feel when they come here to play what they call football and we're calling it soccer and they're gonna think they're here for the wrong reasons.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's called, you never know, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: And they'd probably still call it football.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because guess what, Sean?
[SPEAKER_00]: OTA's aren't for another three, but I don't know why I pointed like they were right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was gonna say OTA's aren't, while he threw this door.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rick Poutine over here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you always pointing to the Cowboys feel like OTA's organized team activities as if they're going to start?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure first take us out when you talk about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does dad have to do to prove himself?
[SPEAKER_00]: But we're not shown.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about international football, the better football.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Sean, you just kind of teased what?
[SPEAKER_00]: We're planning to dive into here the better football because there are quite a few elements from soccer that you think other professional sports should adopt.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so I didn't really start watching, like, I would watch the world cup at the first vividly was probably uh, 2006, um, because uh, it was on and I was in college, it was somewhere and I was like, oh, it's not your turn, watch them, and then I started watching it like, this is really exciting.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is watching the FIFA tournament 2010, we were in Miami,
[SPEAKER_01]: We wait two hundred nine or ten.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't yeah, 2010 2010 we were in my email I remember watching it and being super into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went and bought a U.S.A. shirt At 2014 I think that's a year like Brazil hosted it, but then got destroyed they gave up like seven goals and
[SPEAKER_00]: the first, like, what does it have?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: So like, and yeah, it keeps going and I've realized that FIFA and soccer internationally is probably one of my favorite things to watch.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have a team.
[SPEAKER_01]: The pandemic happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: Soccer was the first and it came out gone.
[SPEAKER_01]: The only team that was on was Tottenham.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I started rooting for them because they were on, but then I was heavily advised not to root for them by other arsenal and Manchester United and Liverpool fans.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, okay, I would not root for them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I don't have a team.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do enjoy watching the sport, especially at those elite levels.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then the kicker as far as me watching soccer was
[SPEAKER_01]: Austin, where we live, we got our own team.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all I've been to a few games.
[SPEAKER_01]: The roster turned over heavily, so this season, I don't know a lot of the players.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've lost some of the original guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty much all the original guys were on the inaugural team, except for our keeper, and probably one other person.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: Soccer is great to watch, and it also has many pros and just a few cons, but many pros over our current leagues of other sports here in the U.S.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess that is the fact that you can be relegated means that you can't take and if you're a sports or dumb listener and you've heard me rant of we recently had the NBA draft lottery, the NFL draft was in too long ago, you will find teams losing on purpose.
[SPEAKER_01]: They won't say that they're doing out in the field, but the teams organized actually by putting out worse players, by sitting guys, by desiccinating injuries that are impossible, like, how did it happen?
[SPEAKER_01]: And you'll see the players tweet, like, I'm not hurt.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: They just don't want me to play.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't do that in, like, the English Premier League because
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're one of the bottom four teams, you're out, you're out of the Premier League, you gotta go down to the championship league, and the top four leagues, four teams from night league are coming in to take your place.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I really enjoy that and make sure that your teams have to play throughout the whole season.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can't lose on purpose.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not there, look, be soccer leagues, they're definitely for profit, but they're not trying to maximize profit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what sport leagues are in America are doing,
[SPEAKER_01]: They're just here to maximize my thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you get put some true serum in our sports center owners, their number one priority is to make money is not to win the championship.
[SPEAKER_01]: But overseas, you can't have that mentality or else you're going to be put in a lower league because you weren't trying to win the championship.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a brilliant system.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, tanking suck, but like you're not going to get any of the sports owners here in Leigh to agree to that because why would they agree to play in a system where they could lose?
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's we're just kind of stuck because there's some soccer soccer so popular that the way soccer leagues work that each league has their own, each country has their own domestic league.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's the EPL for England, there's LaLiga for Spain,
[SPEAKER_01]: the cereal for Italy and so on and so forth and so there's it's soccer so there's so many teams while America the Pro League for each sport that's probably just one major league for that sport.
[SPEAKER_00]: such as Major League baseball.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, for Major League baseball.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so like you're not going to see at the Rangers come out here and just lose all their games on purpose so that they can get save a bunch of money.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're not going to be dropped down to AAA.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll still be in Major League baseball.
[SPEAKER_00]: And baseball's weird because you don't see tanking as much but you just see owners not fielding competitive.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not spinning your money.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so, and I really...
[SPEAKER_01]: As you all know, one of my top-hated franchises is the Houston Astros because they're the disastrous, the cheap nastros, the lame astros, that they're not good people in Shon's eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know the nastres, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: So what they did in like the late 2000s and early 20 teams is
[SPEAKER_01]: They did their version of tanking.
[SPEAKER_01]: They spent no money on no players and just gained, gather capital through the draft and through farm league players.
[SPEAKER_01]: To eventually, they had their own little mini dynasty, which would be well praised for how they did it, but then they had that little scandal.
[SPEAKER_01]: So nobody takes them seriously.
[SPEAKER_01]: Other than Houston, if you go to Houston and you head on the Astros, they'll be like, they'll be, well, other teams do it, and they do it, so, but yeah,
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, shots fired.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't like the Oh, my gosh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Joe, the 10 and 20 spurs, the Houston Astros, get out of my face.
[SPEAKER_00]: John's a little crass throat towards the astronauts.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just crash turn out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Friscoe, we appreciate you for hosting.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, tanking is one thing you don't see in international soccer because if you do not only losing money, but you're losing your spots in your leagues and losing the respect of everyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's next, Sean?
[SPEAKER_01]: What's number two?
[SPEAKER_01]: For some reason, in America, we're excess with playoffs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Playoffs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we love playing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you're going to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we keep growing the field decides to play.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the MBA used to just be 16 teams, 18 for each conference.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then they decided and and out of those 18 to each conference, the number eight seed.
[SPEAKER_01]: for especially in the eastern conference with either at or below 500 so like they're just barely making the playoffs in like should they be there if they do they get destroyed then we have cauliflower who's
[SPEAKER_01]: who had a great system that I like called the BCS, where you just put the tap two teams together, people were unhappy, so anyone had to tap four, not like we've gone to the top 12.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now they're entertaining 24 teams in a playoff, which is just discussing, like just say the regular season, doesn't matter anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah, the NFL, who used to be six or six teams in each conference, make the playoffs, top two Cs, get a wild card.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now they got us, they added a seventh team.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're here at the number two C, you have to play an extra game now.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but so, and they're not doing it for, none of these things are doing that for competition reasons.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, oh, that's 17 in a NFC or that 2014 in college football, they really deserve to make their, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're doing it because of money.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the most obvious thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, international soccer, there aren't any playoffs.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so the team that wins the regular season is the champion.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then what they do from that is they take the champions from all the leagues over in Europe and Asia and they put them mainly Europe and they put them in
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, South America do.
[SPEAKER_01]: They put them in the Champions League, which is your playoff tournament to see who's the best out of each league.
[SPEAKER_01]: But as far as the domestic league goes, Arsenal already won the championship after a man's city loss or they drew.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so they had one more game remaining.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just a great time that fans were able to celebrate their first championship and over.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, like 20, 30 years.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't been in an arsenal of fans.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how long they're driving it's been.
[SPEAKER_01]: But like, it makes you, if you're worth a team that has been the best throughout the whole season, you're not going to have a reward a team like the 2007 New York Giants who were terrible, barely over 500, gets to the playoff and they just got hot.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they were hot and they were healthy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so,
[SPEAKER_01]: Instead of rewarding the hot and healthy team at the end, what these soccer leagues do, they were worth the champion that have been playing the best throughout the length of the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you like that of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just how I prefer it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I know playoffs are exciting.
[SPEAKER_01]: We just, we had the NCAA basketball tournament great tournament.
[SPEAKER_01]: And thankfully, what was the, would you have said the best team
[SPEAKER_00]: This year?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, because I was thinking about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I probably said it even on the show when the past couple can answer the best team.
[SPEAKER_00]: This past year.
[SPEAKER_00]: far in a way.
[SPEAKER_00]: The three best teams were Michigan, Arizona, and Duke.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I only picked what of them to make the bottom of.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like it's clearly those were the three best teams all year.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but people love obsessed.
[SPEAKER_01]: They wouldn't see somebody who hasn't been playing well all year to come in and check things up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Man, if Duke would have lost that person, it would have been funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it wouldn't have been fair.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was like, why
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, and so they, and yeah, that tournament they're going to 76, 16, and so like what's the point?
[SPEAKER_01]: What's the point of regular season?
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you can be middle of the road, big tanner, SEC, and still have a chance to win a championship while any soccer league, so overseas, you have to be good from day one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Value everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: November counts the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now the games don't start counting until, you know, what they say, to the playoff, start, like, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: they need to start with the point of having the beginning of the season like I understand teams get better as they develop chemistry over time, but they still you've got to put some there's no no days off.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can't take any days off because all those games are crucial.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've got to give a hundred ten percent Sean.
[SPEAKER_00]: Day by day, better every day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Are we going to?
[SPEAKER_01]: Did fort minor?
[SPEAKER_01]: Did they count up to a hundred or what's it a hundred and ten?
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, here's the thing, Sean, we can break it down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, if I, oh, man, do I have a room for that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Did you forget it?
[SPEAKER_00]: I forgot it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's didn't play 10% luck, 20% fame, no, no, no, let's go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's consecrated power of well at some point, but it's 10% luck, 20% fame.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, that's the less.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is 10% luck, 20% skill, 15% concentrated, power of well, 5% pleasure, and 50% pain.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's 100.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then they also say, and 100% reason to remember the name.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we got the 200% to 100%.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's a, it's a good lesson in math and rhyming and counting.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm glad I eventually remembered how I went.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I do that on your lap as I needed to break from talking.
[SPEAKER_01]: You did.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was more of a, I don't even know if this was a single, but there was a song called Believe Me by Fort Minor.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that one, I liked a little bit better.
[SPEAKER_00]: You still get, I'm, I think both of the other two rappers talk is one of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I forget the other one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just remember like they were on NBA for on TNT and all the returns for a while from commercial break.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, let's just like they're very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very,
[SPEAKER_00]: basketball playoff promo and it's tailored like the NBA live lyrics were sometimes tailored to be basketball related.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's some reference to having 24 seconds like a shot clock, which Mark Cuban does on Shark Tank, as I've been rewatching these old episodes.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, I'll give you a 24 second shot clock to either say yes or no to my deal right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'm out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, cubes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just like,
[SPEAKER_00]: dogs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I wouldn't want to work with someone that decides to say something with their business.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I understand it's a TV show and all you got to make it exciting with like this is my life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Set up for the future and you'd give me 24 seconds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Get out of my face.
[SPEAKER_00]: You tell him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't afford it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I feel too concentrated.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm really well.
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me two possessions of the East, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I got an offensive rebound.
[SPEAKER_00]: She has five free sets to reset it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just throw a ball off of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, what's your third rule, Sean?
[SPEAKER_00]: My third improvement, I should say.
[SPEAKER_01]: Third improvement.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this could be controversial because it relates to what we got going on at this year's World Cup.
[SPEAKER_01]: but in general, and in the past, the whole soccer is played in two halves, and in those two halves there are 45 minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Plus, because there's stopper's time, 45 minutes plus each of uninterrupted soccer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, this is changing this year, uh, due to some American influences that we were not diving to, but you know, I want to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thankfully, they're hosting us.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they got shot as assuming a cannonball position.
[SPEAKER_01]: This year they're going to have cooling breaks and it's really upsetting, but in general international soccer there have are uninterrupted by commercials and our sports have built in commercial breaks and if we could just be like soccer and just play it the whole first
[SPEAKER_01]: the four minute build in timeouts after oh it's a turnover we're going to break a punt we're going to break a feel go we're going to break change the court we're going to break or like this it's like again the American way isn't just to make them make a profit it's to maximize profit but why do you got to do it in sports why can't you be like these soccer leagues yes there's going to be time for commercials they got all
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought Liverpool, I thought one of the teams.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought their team name was Emirates, growing up because I don't like that's what I want to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: So they have advertising over the day, they have the little things around the banners around the field.
[SPEAKER_01]: But like...
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't let it, well, as far as the least, there's the least stoppages in play to get in these commercials, and I just wish, it's such a better viewing experience, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just wish our American sports would have that in mind, but I think we're too sunk, we're too sunk in with all these ad breaks.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I can't even watch any of them read their own without ads in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was a devastating development.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you know it's only gonna get worse.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, oh, it's only 30 seconds out of the whole hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, that's just a test running about the blow to stuff with all these apps.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this extra commercial break brought to you by draft games.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that get out of your draft king go be, go be laugh kings or something, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go to a comedy show and do a commercial break there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But stay out of my sports.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you could call it like kings of comedy or something.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because that's original.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody's ever came up with that before.
[SPEAKER_00]: amazing work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Sean, do you have more good parts of soccer that other sports should adopt or do you have a con that other sports should?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I have a con.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not adopted.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have a con.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so, um, I think if you're someone who plays American sports,
[SPEAKER_01]: including soccer, but play the other sports, the rough sports, the football, where you running to each other 60 times a day, or the hockey, checking against the boards, or basketball, when you're back in somebody down.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you got to hold your ground, you got to stand tough, you got to get big.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and someone's pushing against you, you got to push back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, soccer internationally, especially, it's someone who pushes you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You go flying off the field.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like someone dropped a trampoline on the ground and you push into it and you just bounce and then you roll around and ground, holding your face when somebody pushed you in your chest, you're crying, you're suffering the worst.
[SPEAKER_01]: And somebody shot you in your ankle that you're holding your foot and then the replay shows and you'll see someone grazed the grass next to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're just dying and then there's just one breath on the field.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, look in, he's like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Do I give this guy a lecture or do it is he really hurt and didn't like somebody some dudes run off the sideline with the stretcher and some spray and then they spray him and they get off Get up and start sprinting again full speed at you know at 10 miles out of I don't I don't know how fast people are they're fast 20 miles forward for him out how fast are people running But soccer plays but like
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, and it's so common to sell injuries when you get bumped.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's such a problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so off-putting.
[SPEAKER_01]: Especially with men, because the women, they don't play that shit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, if they get hit in the face, like, they keep it moving.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the men, why, why are they that way?
[SPEAKER_01]: Where somebody bumps into you, you act like you died.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would change that like I don't know like the yellow cards and red cards like there's like you've got to do like suspension you've got to I don't feel like they're doing anything to discourage this behavior because
[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be so common in when y'all are watching a World Cup y'all are going to see it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Especially from some, I don't want to call some teams out because I don't know, you know, I might get jumped as I'm walking that the sports are dumb guy, let's go get them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, but no, this is definitely the dumbest thing about soccer.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's having to sell that you're injured to get a call.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shon says instead of a yellow card that send them away away to somewhere like ocean Avenue.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, you did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You went back to a good break, wherever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again?
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, that's my main con with soccer.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just that the NBA players, your Shay, your LeBron, your James Harden, they flopped.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you think that's bad, go watch like 2018's level name or just watch him play soccer.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very skilled, but also very, he probably won a couple Academy Awards.
[SPEAKER_00]: As far as I know, can you win again?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's for flopping.
[SPEAKER_01]: You should be able to because the performance you're giving is more like a Tony award maybe.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we'll go there.
[SPEAKER_00]: More live action.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, you did pick your poison.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying, like soccer has to, as far as...
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, it seems American interviewers don't have a problem with it, but as my American eyes watch soccer, I'm like, how is this possible?
[SPEAKER_01]: How are you watching this and not just like, if I'm an opponent and you and we're playing soccer and you go down crying like I just like stepped on your ankle, I don't know how they contain them stuff from like I would jump on them and like, oh, I read something to cry about and then they really be hurt.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how to contain him from the hate not hurting somebody that asking one time somebody was like kind of like posted up against somebody and so like he grabbed his opponent's hands and hit himself in the face and then went down and got a call.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like what what are we doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: Why is this allowed?
[SPEAKER_00]: That is insane.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll have to find a good montage to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just selling it, man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's so bad and I wish soccer took more action against it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I agree what I'd also like to see more of the Iceland National Soccer team has the best celebrations.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd just like to see more coordinated celebrations out there and we'll drop a link to that in the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: My personal favorite is the fishing one where they score a goal and then they reel in a guy and he's legitimately flopping on the ground.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what.
[SPEAKER_00]: our discussion of flopping made me think about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's flopping as if he's a fish and gets pulled in and then the other teammates lift him up like he's a trophy.
[SPEAKER_00]: They all take a picture together and it's just delightful.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they have a bicycle celebration where they're like a human bicycle.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've got I won.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's like a Rambo one where one of the guys is just shooting all them.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's running around the field.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very a little bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, actually being shot this time.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they had to turn over the entire roster.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, due to injury.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see, I think I got one more.
[SPEAKER_01]: One more con, but it's a con of all sports.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a plague and soccer.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is probably the most complaints that you see about soccer.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the, the, thevar, the virtual assistant referee.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's, it's been replayed pretty much.
[SPEAKER_01]: A video assistant referee.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not good.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is same as NBA replay or NCAA replay, but did the ball grace a guy's short since they was going out of bounds?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's spend 15 minutes talking about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Looking at the video.
[SPEAKER_01]: NFL was at a catch once in an out of catch.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like soccer, just as bad, they hate cause of size is rough.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a heart called to make a lot of times it's just same with handball, like cause sometimes when they hit your hand, but it was a hand inside your body or within your body frame or what's it hanging out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, and then you go to var and then var makes a decision and it's like, you still confuse and it feels right decision.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's all in to replay across all sports.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think time to better, I mean, but like there's some obvious things where you wish we had it, but as far as like slowing down the game, because it can really slow down a soccer game, too, if they're taking a long look on something, if something to be a pinning in a penalty or not.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so like, that's when I go log on to my social media, and there was a controversial call.
[SPEAKER_01]: The fans, they're not happy or sad at the refs, they're happy and sad at far.
[SPEAKER_01]: For a far, and what did var do to another one?
[SPEAKER_00]: They got put into, they didn't ask to be here, but like, they're here.
[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't ask to be here, but they're here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's true of a lot of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just us in life, really.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't have to be born, but I'm here.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're here.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're back in the most of it, I think.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're doing a fantastic thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, I can see the team that I've grown up rooting for my entire life.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can see what they practice across the whole, do the window.
[SPEAKER_00]: Life ain't so bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we hope you enjoy all of the World Cup action coming up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or if you don't want to watch it, I guess enjoy not watching it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think they'll be some exciting stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not as as a routine a soccer watcher as you or a football watcher, but I always like the World Cup too.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's just, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a fan of Cup.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why are dishes, the championships?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a good question.
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