The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: US Women's Team Goes Dutch

Episode Date: July 27, 2023

How does NY Knicks president Leon Rose get away with not talking to the media? Then Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros of The Cooligans podcast join the show to discuss the Women's World Cup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. Welcome to the big suite! Presented by Giraffe King. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Levitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables

to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys. I've done it. And now, here's the marching band to nowhere, that face and the habitual liar. So we were talking about awkward prom photos, and we gotta get that photo of Stugots. At some point in the show today,

we need to show what Stugots looked like for this. Hey, oh, hi. He's a guy. Hey. All right. Yeah. Standing ovation. Not a leak.

Really? Not a leak. Not a leak. Let me know. We got to roll the boat. Let's try this again. Oh, he wants to do it Okay, he's just like PJ just like PJ Flect the sky. Let's try it again So he walks in again. Go ahead of me. Here we go. All right guys come on. Let's do this right just yeah Yeah! Yeah!

Yeah! All right! Yeah! Woo! That is man, that's right. All right. All right, thank you, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Fleck.

That was tiring. 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, 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, very, very, very We're dealing with how people lead organizations. We've talked about PJ, what is that? Oh, well you're the only one with a sign. YouTube.com slash levitator and friends, oddball hosted by Charlotte Wilder and Amino has it. Yeah. Oh wow, Charlotte got the main headline now. Well, you know, they try to do,

these are called micro-aggressions Roy. You might want to move that glass of water. Yeah, yeah. Get that delay. There it is. We're talking about how people lead. We had a whole discussion about PJ Fleck, Fleck-Bucks, Fleck-Coin. Certainly standing ovation, something that you and him share in terms of demands that

you impose on the underlings that you have working at this organization. I wanted to talk about somebody else though, whose style of leadership is conspicuous, because the president of the New York Nix amine, our hometown organization, Leon Rose. I was reading this tweet from Fred Katz, who has updated the count. Leon Rose has not spoken on the record

to independent media in almost two years. He has not done a solo news conference and is joining the NICS in 2020. That's right, that's right. This is, that's indefensible. It is and also on some level Pablo, I gotta respect it. Because I didn't know you could do that. Hey, you gotta talk to the media.

No, I don't. I guess he doesn't. That's amazing to lead a basketball operations department and never once. He's burp. No, it was a little bit of a yawn. Perhaps a little acid reflux too. Good leadership.

Yep. It's New York. The entire, the reason I'm not okay with this is that it ruins the legend of New York. The whole thing about New York is, you need to thrive when the spotlight is hottest. You need to take questions from the media. This was what Aaron Rodgers is going to have to grapple with.

This is what Derek Geter's legend was made out of. He did not melt under the spotlight. There have been GM's that have withered under the glare. Absolutely. And Leon Rose is like, you know what, I don't have to do. Feel any of that. Yeah, it's like, Pablo, it's like, I hear what you're saying and also, what if I don't?

And it's like, counterpoint. Just, yeah, no. I got to point this, no. As a basis of rejecting the standard, it is quite breathtaking. Like, there's a part of me like, I don't know anything like this.

No, in any city. No. He's in New York, like, in any city. No. He's in New York, he's like, in any city, we here, they have to, you have to, at least, at least three times a year. One that I pretend like you care. Once at the beginning of the year, once like around trade deadline or whatever,

a kind of state of the union, and once end of the year. That's the bare minimum. That's not even counting like if you made a big transaction, a trade, a signing or whatever. The idea that this man hasn't spoken to the media in over two years and hasn't spoken to the media alone since 2020, fascinating. I did not know that you could just go Howard Hughes

or whatever, pick your recluse, pick your favorite recluse. I didn't know you could do that as the head of the New York Knicks. I mean, and look, the other wrinkled two Leon Rose's policy here of just not giving a f*** about any of this. It's that the Knicks actually have, oh my God, Lucy is in the eye, I'm so sorry, Lucy. Stop cursing, goddamn it.

We're allowed to say that one. Oh, great. I did not know that a president of the necks who would have ostensibly things to celebrate wouldn't take questions even then. I kind of respect it. They're a playoff team. I kind of respect it.

That like after a great year by their standards, he's like, I know what you're thinking. I'm gonna talk to the media now. Nope, no, I'm not. Just gonna keep this thing going for consistency sake. It is a consistency that is infuriating. And I'm not even at the level of fury that comes from being a person who grew up in Nick's van

who was then of course a strange from the Nick's view. All of the ways in which the Nick's organization previously had done things to a strange anybody you cared about the nicks jim dole and at all the reason i'm infuriated by it is because we're being deprived of content we should be getting questions and answers of the guy running a team that is one of the mean

who has more money in terms of revenue than the new York Knicks in the NBA? Ooh. Uh, nobody. Nobody. Not even the Lakers. The Lakers are the closest thing and they don't come close.

The Knicks, the demand for the Knicks is inelastic. It doesn't matter how good they are. Econ 101, I love that. It's like, it's like milk, right? Doesn't matter what the price is. People are gonna keep buying milk. And this guy, now that I think about it, does have an understanding of the economics.

He's like, it doesn't matter. It does not matter. And that, that elasticity is a threat to the legend of New York, the institution of the fourth estate. He's pointing out that actually none of you, none of this matters. Well, here's the thing, I think it does matter. I think down the line, there is a collapse.

Much like you could look at what's happening through politics in our country today, right? Like there was a way, even as like it was polarized and there was still a way you played the game, right? There were rules of engagement. And over the last seven, eight years, it's like, why do we play with these rules of engagement? I could just do this. I could just make stuff up, right?

And there isn't a, it was like, well, what's the difference? And we just end up achieving our short-term goal and nothing goes wrong. But over time, you see an erosion of the very institution, right? The institution of democracy, not just the institution of, yes, the people, what they represent. So similarly, like, yeah, you could be like, I don't need media. Like the next famously don't have media there. Every team and every sport in this country has a day at the beginning of their season.

When they first come back to camp, whatever, they come, they take their pictures, they do the, hey, what's your favorite Quentin Tarotino movie like questionnaire thing? They do the, let's go! Hi, videos on a green screen. They do all that stuff. It's called media day, because all the different media outlets can come in

and ask questions and get a little bit of time with everybody including the president of basketball operations or football operations operations, or baseball operations, or whatever, right? The nicks to my knowledge are the only institution in all sports, not just pro sports, but all sports that decided not to call it media day. We're gonna call it like content day.

Why? Because they're petally trying to like say, like media is bad and we don't like media. And make media feel unwelcome, right? And I'm not speaking on behalf of media here. I'm just saying this is the level of depravity that this organization operates with. So the point is like, you know what? We're going to call them freedom fries.

Take that. You know, meanwhile, Frank Isola is just like, can I ask a question of the most important person in this organization that I'm paid to cover as if, in fact, it is a civic trust, which all of these institutions, all of these organizations taking tax money in various ways, being so important

that they feel like civic trusts should have accountability for. Could you elaborate on the tax part? Because I think this is a fascinating that most people don't know. Yes, I mean, Madison Square Garden, the building of Madison Square Garden, I mean, is benefiting from a tax structure in which the city of New York public money, right? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it helps create a favorable business economic environment that fuels the largest of the nicks. All of these

buildings, the world's most famous arena, sitting in the middle of the nicks. All of these buildings, the world's most famous arena sitting in the middle of Manhattan. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh From the idea that this is a civic concern to be a little bit more specific Madison Square Garden plays one dollar in property tax a year think about this It runs from what 31st to 33rd Street and from 7 to 8th Avenue Just think about how much square footage that is of real estate in One of the most competitive real estate markets in in the continent ever imaginable on the planet $1 a year. Here's a headline. Madison Square Garden, a contender for biggest sports tax break, budget office fines. They benefit from what is accounted to be $42 million a year, which means that they have

accrued in totality because those tax breaks were first awarded by state legislators in nineteen eighty two they have received wait for it eight hundred and seventy five million dollars in public tax breaks that is what has been accounted for in terms of what madison square garden zoners jim dole and his employees likely on rose that's what they're getting exchange for not giving a fuck about anything. Lucy, you gotta get up and hit that button again to market. Pablo, it's just inconsiderate.

Yeah, stop, please. And Lucy's so tiny that it's like a little bad visual. It's a lack for her to like, like I can hear the, the footsteps, like, the headphones aren't long enough, so I have to take them off. It's a whole journey, but I'm getting my steps in today. Are you five, two, and three quarters, Lucy?

Five, three and a half. Oh. That's an important half. But this feeds in a mean to this larger question of, like, look, I think the next are legitimately a fascinating topic because not only are they doing this, putting a finger in the eye of all of these tax breaks by not answering questions from the estate that supports, that's a post to represent.

Represent the public. The people. It's also a question that's fascinating because Jim Dolan's over here running facial recognition software. Yes. And he is also running a team that he claims to be increasingly hands-off on. And this question of running a team that he claims to be increasingly hands off on.

And this question of, are the nicks good? Suddenly, finally, it's coinciding with a regime that is in every other way feeling more authoritarian in some ways than it ever has before. They definitely taking cues from certain other parts of the world in terms of how to handle success in the absolute most unlikeable way possible. And it is truly a fascinating thing. One of the big things in Vegas at a summer league was the sphere.

Like it was truly something to behold. And instead of being something that was celebrated, I think as it should have been, it just turned into this curio that people took pictures from like 600 yards away. Jim Dolan's stupid orb. Don Lebatard. Again, started on the breakfast line. Oh man, I've been singing a song to myself

one morning while I'm with breakfast. La, da, da, da, da. Stoo gots. You never heard the breakfast line song? No, hit me with it. Okay. I wish I had some breakfast blonde, dun dun dun dun dun Breakfast blonde, dun dun dun dun dun

What can I find, a breakfast like that? Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da do your thing. Christian and Alexis, welcome, welcome back to Dan Levitard show hosted by me today. These guys are cool. Legans. Yeah. We're thank you for having us. We're still waiting to meet Dan. There's been over a year. We have. Also, before we start, can I just say I want no smoke with Mr. Dolan? I love the next up. What he's doing with the team. I don't want to be banned from the stadium. You feel me? I'm a big, big fan. Nick's in six. Let's go. That's it. Meeting Dan is overridden. So listen, what happened last night is actually the biggest story in sports in my view, right? So the women's world cup, America, I want to get jingoistic with you guys, playing the Netherlands. It was a game that we should have

watched. I watched it. It was a nine that we should have watched. I watched it. It was a 9 p.m. start. We'll get into the times of all of these games in a bit because you guys are going daily now. You guys are going women's world cup daily correspondence for us. And so tell us if you missed this game, what you guys saw. What if, I mean, the first thing is, I mean, obviously, a draw is a decent result as far as workup

hopes. The US's workup hopes are not shattered by any means, but you immediately, you missed an incredible goal from Linda Hiram, but before that even happened, there was a challenge from her club team in Leon. And we don't really get to see a lot of like women's workup, like scuffles, and we got one. We got a nice little, we got a real shove. We got the camera catching Lindsay Huran,

swearing directly right there. But really, the result is ultimately the most important thing, just getting a point. It's a little, we're a little shakeier than we wanna be. And we're not really used to seeing a US women's national team that kind of struggles. This game, another Lenscourt first. We have not seen the US women's national team

out of World Cup be trailing in a game since 2011. So this is a very unfamiliar feeling, but just to get that goal, definitely, definitely comforted a lot of fans going for. Christian sounds like the producer of a reality show. He's like, we got to show. We're good. Okay. This is what we need drama. Yeah, I don't agree with, I don't agree with Christian. This is an absolute failure from the coach so far. He brought two centerbacks. You have to start two centerbacks. He only brought two. We got no backups. And he hasn't even played one. That hell is going on with this team. We should be bodying these teams.

Okay. That was my question. So I've read roughly 5,000 takes in the last 12 hours about the rotation last night. Not only did the US women's national team start the same starting 11 as the first game, but they also only used one substitution in the game against the Netherlands at half, which is Rosalvelle, who normally would be a starter, but is coming back from an injury. So what did you make of his decision to not put in any subs at all in the second half? And did you think that his explanation was satisfying? His explanation was like things were working out really well. We wanted to get a goal. I didn't think putting in someone else would be the best choice because we had a lot of

chances, basically. I didn't want to have to wait for someone to kind of warm up and get in there. If you, he did make a sub. He did make a sub in the second half. Yeah. It's only sub he made. Yeah. Let me tell you something. If you only make one sub in 90 minutes, you get fired make a sub, he did make a sub in the second half. Yeah, it's only sub he made. And let me tell you something, if you only make one sub in 90 minutes, you get fired from a Jersey Mike's, okay? You should be, you should be doing more, okay?

I need to see better, especially since the midfield was completely lost. Yeah, my initial reaction was, liar, why are you lying to me? Stop lying to my face. It was a terrible decision. Look to FIFA added two extra subs. So now we have five substitutions and this meant only used one. It makes no sense. When you look at the bench for the US women's national team, that is, that could be a whole other starting 11. It's literally the best bench in the, in the women's world cup. He looked

at them and said, yo, yo, isn't it crazy? We got these great seats at the world cup. That's, it's just such a wild decision on his part. And if you search the name black go on Twitter, you will not see anyone who is supportive of his decision. So it made absolutely no sense. But in terms of what we're blaming then, what I'm getting from this analysis is as much as the US women's national team, is not as good as they've been in previews, here's relative to competition, not as dominant, right? The reason is because of Vlaco,

because the manager is just that bad, or what are we attributing this to? I think it's a lack of taking a chance on a much more creative midfield. The fact that Ashley Sanchez did not come into that game. So Rose Lavelle, probably the best midfielder in this entire competition coming back from injury. I get that he, you know, he's getting her minutes up.

She played a good portion of the second half was good enough to start. Obviously, you don't want to start her and then have to make that switch. But if you know you're going to bring her in the second half, why would you start the same kind of slow, lacking in creativity midfield, bringing in Ashley Sanchez, someone who can get, we have our forward three is insane. So, Fiya Smith, baller, Alex Morgan, baller, Trinity, Rom and baller. And there's no one to give them service. With that, we still manage 14 shots. You know, if we had just a bit more creativity, a bit more service, bro, we would have been an onslaught.

Yeah, there's just, there's like a, like a, a confidence issue that is, I think, a, a bit of the problem. Just having, look, it's a much newer team than, a much younger team than the team that won the World Cup in 2019. And there's just a, the US-1's national team is not used to being down a goal. So the mindset changes completely the way they play, and you have to have a manager that trusts the rest of the players to make a difference. And to not bring anyone else in when you have such good players, these players have worked their asses off to get to this spot, to get to the point where it

may be not a starter, but they're in a place where, hey, I can help the team if necessary. And to just look at them and be like, nah, I don't, I don't think we need to make any changes after the midfield was getting eaten up. A lot of mistakes. And once you start seeing mistakes from the US and Miss National Team, that is a point where you're like, all right, we're not playing the way we need to be playing. Maybe somebody else can do something a little bit better. So this result is 100% on block O and no one else. One of the things that I noticed in the first half was the way that the Netherlands was so much better organized than the United States team and they were really able to control the tempo and the passing.

They also were extremely physical in the midfield. Like you said, we had Vanda Donk and Lindsey Huran kind of battling it out throughout a lot of the game. I know. Something changed in the second half. Obviously Rose Lovale coming in is huge. The team really needs her. But what was the biggest difference for you in the way that the US women's nationally was able to come back in the second half and put a lot more pressure on the Netherlands? They call it the Holy Helene for me, for me, the Holy Helene, hilarious.

Yeah, good bit. I think for me, the biggest issue, no, do bands. That's what we're here for. No, do bits. That's what we're here for. I think the biggest issue obviously was lacking the creativity bringing in the link of Rose LaValle. Change is pretty much everything for the way this team at least attacks and goes forward, which is why you saw them give up so much of the midfield and lose so much possession. But also low key, you know, crystal done and Emily Fox getting up further, sending in crosses, maybe tucking in a little bit, just adding more midfielders, which is why I don't understand how Andy Sullivan is still starting on this team. I would much rather take one of the centerbacks that isn't really a natural centerback,

at least hasn't been for a while in Julia. It's moved up into the defense of midfielder, bringing your other, your other centerback, the one of the only two you brought with you and have that partnership start and then allow Crystal Dunn to kind of tuck in and attack the midfield, clock the midfield. Like we used to back in the day. This is insane. I don't understand what he's trying to do. These teams ain't better than this.

Bro, go out there and ball. It's like if five, if the 92 dream team went out and said, what if we just keep passing the ball or what if we just play really defensively? It's like, no, get out there and show me some done. That's my G. Yeah, yeah. You guys, you know, you provide a lot of highlights. Why don't you do that at the store and I mean, yeah, I would echo the same thing.

I mean, having Julie Irton in the midfield, I think it's going to, what would have made a big difference. But overall, from, from top to bottom, the US is better than most teams are going to be playing against. from, from top to bottom, the US is better than most teams that are going to be playing against. They're probably doesn't need to be this much analysis on this. Just like, were they not better than I just have a very simple question on that level, right? Like who are we actually afraid of? Because another lens now is a, is scaring me a little bit. The coaches whiteboard is the only thing that can stop the biggest enemy.

But is that like an actual risk? I think you brought up 92 dream team. There was no, they could have passed a hundred times and run the Princeton offense. They still were going to win every game and they were going to win gold medal. Is there an actual risk of, hey man, if we met around kind of like we did last night, we're going to go home, you know. Well, these teams don't seem to be Angola, right? To use that 92 Olympics metaphor, it seems like part of the exporting of the beautiful

game that these women are playing, that our women are playing is that, in fact, the tide is risen. Right. Yeah. I mean, look, other nations have, you know, invested in the development of their players. Other players are getting to play at a higher level professionally from other nations. So you're seeing, you know, that, that gap that we had is starting to close, but we are still leaps and bounds.

What Christian said is true, our bench, our bench alone might get to the final of this World Cup. If you took the best 11 from every other nation in this World Cup, our 11 would still compete. I don't know if we'd win, but we'd still compete. That's how good the US is. The difficulty is, what do you start? You know, what is your best 11? That's the difficulty. And right now, black goes to one making those decisions and it ain't

looking good. It's looking soft. He's looking skittish. He's, he's, he's playing scared. Scared money. Don't make no money. Get out there. Ball out. Yeah. The debate, the debate seems to be like what is the best 11? A lot of people don't think it is the players that he's choosing, but it is, to me, it's simple. It's just like we have the better players. When our players, our starting 11 get a little bit tired, we have replacements that are incredibly good and have a ton of quality and can deliver something. So I don't understand as far as like what team to fear to me right now Japan and Spain look

like the teams I would be really, really tough to beat. But more than anything, the US cannot give up goals first. That has to be the mentality. Don't make mistakes early. Don't give up a goal first because we saw with Netherlands once they score first, they play incredibly compact, incredibly defensive. And it makes the game so much tougher.

So this is where the issue of only bringing two centerbacks and not having a natural center backs, playing that position, you make a mistake. And now the game gets a lot more complicated. Players getting their own heads. You see them making a lot of mistakes. Also, last time was strange in that everybody was slipping. People were saying that they were playing on a cricket pitch. They think it's a thing.

It's a bit early. Well said. I was, I was, we lost, you got a little digiter there at the end. Exactly. I like it. The degree of latency in Alexis's voice reflects, I think some of the difficulties that we're going to face on Tuesday as we're all trying to wake up and operate our brains at 3 a.m. So USA Portugal, not one of the teams. Portugal is not one of the teams that Alexis just called out as a team to fear.

But what is your mentality, guys, as you live these vampire schedules doing? Yes, again, another World Cup daily for Metal Lark Media, the Cooligins, Women's World Cup Daily at 3 God Damn AM Game Time. I mean, look, I'm not, we did it with the men's World Cup, some of these odd hours to watch games. This is where our dedication lies. I mean, this is what we're here for. We're doing the, I have a four month old, okay?

Damn. Sleep. That's not, that's not what I'm talking about, I'm not about that life. I have a four month old iPad and also it needs to charge. I don't have kids, pull out king. Let's go. Let's go. We're gonna all collectively pull out of this interview. Splash.

Oh. Please subscribe to the Coolagins, Women's World Cup daily at soccer Cooligan's on YouTube on the drag kings network wherever you get your podcast Christian, Polanco and Lexus Guerrero. We just got to see us amigos. I thought I broke in my mind. But it's him.

Also, no Pablo is not Hispanic. I'm Filipino. All right. Fine. I tried to get cool with you guys. Oh, my God. I think it sounds the same. Monday through Friday sounds the same. Also, low key Jersey got better at Cuban food than Miami. Bye you guys. Oh, that sounds the same. Monday through Friday sounds the same.

Also, low key Jersey got better at Cuban food than Miami. Bye guys. There are no Cubans in the studio today. That's for Miami. Also, I just got to be one Cuban somewhere around there, right? Not inside the studio. Outside of the studio, they're very, very, very, very, they've got their pitchforks ready.

And they're, and they're, and they're a Philadelphia. outside of the studio, 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, 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, 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