3/30 Seattle Reign FC Preview
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It's like Space Mountain.
It's like boom, boom, boom.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
you know, I do, I do.
I really liked the Red Hot Chili
Peppers Space Mountain Overlay.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I've never gone to any of the
special cool stuff like that, or
I've never like experienced it.
I just went to grad night, which
is pretty dope, not gonna lie.
Hi everyone.
Welcome to Casual fc, an Angel
City match preview pod, and a
footy therapy pod featuring two
podcast certified footy therapists.
Sup.
I'm your host Angela Morales with
my, uh, summer camp enlisting ever
accommodating co-host Mario salazar.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
you know, we love doing these.
We have schedule, but life is life.
And so, you know, we accommodate
each other best way we can.
And luckily we have a window now of a
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I know
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
of when we can do this.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
the, the best part is almost every week
for the last two months, it's been,
Hey, can we record on Tuesday from
one of us for a variety of reasons.
So, hi.
Hi.
From Tuesday, everyone.
Hi.
From yesterday.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Um,
you'll be hearing this on Wednesday,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Ooh.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Or you know, whenever in
the future you hear this.
But we are recording on Tuesday night.
Uh, so we are recording our
special preview episode.
Not special.
We do this every week,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Hey, it's special.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Each
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
it, let it live.
Let it breathe.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Um, we're
recording our match preview for Sunday the
30th, angel City versus the Seattle Rain.
They're coming down to BMO Stadium.
The match is going to be at 5:00
PM 'cause it's a Sunday match.
the broadcast schedule is going
to be on our not so favorite CBS
network, the CBS sports Network.
So
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
That's why you need to go.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: yeah,
that's why you gotta be at the stadium.
You definitely have to have a
cable subscription to see that one.
Um, you can't even get it like,
as part of a streaming package or
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah, it's really weird.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: this.
Yeah, it's stupid.
Um, or you can always listen to
iHeartRadio and our besties, uh, Isaac
and Tracy, we just love listening to
them and they always make it so fun.
you know, give them a listen
instead of CBS Sports Network.
If you can't really get to it, the,
so CBS Sports Network means you
go to the game or you find a bar
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
that is definitely a channel
that the bar will have.
And if they're not showing
it, make them show it
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Especially right now
because it's March Madness.
I'm just saying early rounds are on
sports, on CBS Sports Network for the men.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
there you go.
They'll have it.
You can have them change it.
Like they can't give you wedding excuses.
It's bullshit if
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Exactly.
And the cool thing on Sunday, the women's,
uh, March Madness games are at 10 and
two and 12, so you will not miss them.
You can go watch them, you can watch 'em
from home and then still come to the game.
Um, we have, I think it, there's
three sets of tickets I know of
that are up for sale right now
in sections 1 26, 1 28 and 2 27.
So hit us up if you need tickets.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
We know people who are selling
them, who, and a lot of it is,
those are our regular seats.
We upgraded for a special family
event or something like that.
So
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: yeah,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
still be there just
sitting somewhere else.
Cough, cough, Vero.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
all right, well, sorry, Vera's mom.
We already cast, uh, on the episode, so.
Uh, but Sunday is going
to be a special night.
It is women's history celebration.
Um, they're actually going to
have a dedication for a couple of
legendary US women national team
players Now, at the time when I got
the information, they still haven't
fully announced to, it's going to
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
They mentioned investors
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: as
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
of Angel City and women's
national team folks.
So, uh, we can narrow
it down a little bit.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
we can narrow it down.
We know Mia Han's gonna be part of that.
Umca, I always screw up her name.
She does the, um,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
The three things that fish used to do.
Yeah.
Um,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: There was
a really cool video of, of a couple of, of
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
the 99 ERs seeing the, um,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: the,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
yeah.
The training facility.
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: cool.
So check out the, the Angel City, um,
social media and, and that was a really
cool video of them just kind of like.
Geeking out at like the new
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
They're like, imagine
what we could have had,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: yeah,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
how good we, like, how good they were
and yet how much better they still could
have been with like a training facility.
It's such a, a wild concept.
Like you look at that team
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: there was
a comment in one, one of them was like,
they have, they have a, an ice room.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
was like the hotel,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Ice machine.
Like
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
machine or something.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
And it's like, I mean, you look at
like Michelle Aker who essentially
has like no knee left in either knee.
She's like a gazillion surgeries,
a bunch of concussions.
Like there's so much that those players
went through to see, like, to get the
game to where we have it today that.
I wish, like that's the one thing
I wish was different, is that they
had like accommodations and, uh,
training facilities and like hotels
didn't have to drive themselves
to games, got paid, whatever.
But that's asking too much.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: I mean
they definitely paved the way, um.
Both fortunately and unfortunately,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yes.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
sucks, sucks that they had to, but,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Glad they did.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
glad they did.
So, um, yeah, there will be special
dedication, so get there early.
Um, little Birdie is kind of
telling us that the green lott
may be open by this next match,
so parking might be a SCO better.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
A scot meaning like 3000% better.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
well, don't, I'm not gonna
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I mean, parking is never great, right?
Like it's always a little
bit of a shit show.
But, um, the green lot, my favorite
lot, if you will, um, is fantastic.
And if you are in the South Bay
area and want to zoom from BMO
to Hermosa, Eva's playing at St.
Rock that night.
So she won't be at the
game, but she'll be playing.
My mom and I are like this second,
the whistle blows booking it.
We got places to be and she'll be going
on after like, you have time to get
from BMO, even with the traffic to St.
Rock.
Easy peasy.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
And, you know, kind of on that,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Oh yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: our
good friends, Jack's at Watch Me Sports
Bar was, uh, in Long Beach posted up
the fact that they are going to be
doing a party bus from Long Beach.
So if you're down in the, the LBC
area in the, the South Bay and the,
you know, just down south, if you're
over there and you wanna just have a
good time, out the Watch me website.
Um, uh, social media, they
have all the information there.
They have a party bus.
Uh, your paid ticket to reserve
your spot, I believe comes with
like, comes with like a drink.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah, like some kind of food thing.
A raffle, like they're,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: yeah.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
they're doing
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: there's
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
so much,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
just, it's just, it's not like.
It, it's, it's not like you're,
you're paying that one ticket to, to
get onto the, like the bus to Vegas.
And it's just like you
get nothing, but you
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
but the transportation,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
But the transportation, this
is going to be a fun party bus.
It sounds like.
There's going to be, um, uh, Merry mint
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
so there's pre and post game.
I just pulled it up on Instagram,
pre and post game drink specials.
They may also already be sold out.
Um.
Hang on a second.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: out.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Um, do, do, do.
Yeah.
There, there probably have all kinds of
secret surprises that you're not gonna
know about until you're on the bus.
It's gonna be a party regardless.
One, it's a party bus two, it's
watch me three, it's Angel City.
Like, that's, that's
a rager at this point.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: And
then you don't have to drive, um,
they'll take you to the stadium.
Uh, after the whistle, uh, it's
about like 30 minutes after, then
they'll start heading back and then.
Um, you can
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Hang out at watch me.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: out, have
another, have another drink at watch me,
you know, um, enjoy the fact that you
didn't have to sit in traffic by yourself.
Um, so go check them out and, uh, you
know, if there's some spots and you're
down in the area, um, give it a shot.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Absolutely.
Um, so
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
they're also doing it for
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
the US Women's National team
for Brazil Match too, um,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
And if anybody's going
to that, let us know.
'cause Eva and I will be there
and it'll be a, a good time.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Nice.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Um, all right, well, that's
what we're talking about today.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
So many things.
So we have like a little random banter
section in our notes, and I know Mario's
like, what in the heck is what I put?
So first of all, I wanna send a big shout
out to Katie for having the brilliant
idea of activating the voice channel on
the Discord during the game last week,
so Friday when Angel City was playing
Portland, Katie was like, yo, what if
we all jump on the, the voice channel?
Like video non video doesn't matter.
Like let's just, let's just hang
out and talk during the game.
Honestly, this is the
best night of my life.
Like, it was so much fun.
It was so silly.
So much shit.
Talking of just like random stuff.
I'm like, man, I'm the best cook on
the planet as I'm like eating dinner.
Um, we talk like we were showing each
other our Legos, like everybody was
just like having fun and watching
the game and being like, oh my God.
And like, you heard the delay, like it
was so, it was just so good because then
we realized two different people were on
a delay and it was like, don't spoil it.
So it was just like, like
you got that, like everybody.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
for two seconds.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
Like, okay, there we go.
Like, no, it was, it was a super blast.
And I think we're gonna try and do it for
just about every away game or when folks
can't make it to a game, jump on there.
Like, it's just, it's just a good time.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah, it's, I was able to jump, uh,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
You're 1%.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: on
a, because the game was on a Friday,
um, was able to jump in the second
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: uh,
on onto the Discord, um, primetime
and bedtime is at the same time.
So, you know, took priority to make
sure that the kids were gonna be put to
go to bed and everything was all set.
And then I went outside, jumped on the
discord, and yeah, it was a lot of fun.
So come join the Discord and we'll have
some more, uh, fun watch alongs basically.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah, it was, it was a great time.
And then The other thing is Eva and I had
to reset our wifi situation in the house
and we renamed finally our wifi network
'cause it had just been like Spectrum
one, 2 billion numbers after that.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Q five
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
And then we were like,
what are we gonna do it?
And she was like, I got it.
No joke.
Named it emotional support caprice.
So thank you everybody.
Spotlight to Katie for both the
Discord channel, voice channel,
and emotional support Capri Sun.
So that's it.
If you, if anybody comes over,
you end up getting our wifi.
You will also connect to these
guys wifi powered by Capri Sun.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: All right.
Well, uh, the week was, as always, I think
the way that NWSL is starting is great.
It feels, it feels different.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It does.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
it feels more exciting with all
that excitement comes more chaos.
So what do we got as chaos?
Uh, our chaos award for this week?
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
So there's two.
One funny one, one bullshit one.
Um, during the Kansas City match coming
at halftime, the refs had to zip tie
a hole in the, the net of the goal.
And it was funny because on the
broadcast, the commenters were like,
did the B, did the ball go through that?
Did that, just did that?
Is that how that occurred?
How did this occur?
Because they like pointed out the refs
walk the field like they, before the game.
And at halftime they walk the
field or before play starts.
The second half, make sure everything
were, is where it's supposed to be.
The net is secure, like things
are safe, essentially like just
kind of checking that everything
is the way it should be and then
all of a sudden you just see like.
Zip tie, like zup, zup, like,
and the net is all like, it's
not all nice and pretty and tied.
Tied, right.
Um, and everybody just kinda laughed
and was like, how did this happen?
Like, when did this happen?
Because it didn't, like,
players hadn't gone flying
through the net, like, you know?
Like what?
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: I,
I re-watched the play, the last play
where they scored, I was looking
for the ball to be like, went
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
Like, I don't know.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
no, nothing happened.
Um, I think they, they mentioned that
it might have been maybe the pyro,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Oh,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
supporters group.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
maybe So,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: so it
could have been, but I mean, at that point
it was like, it happened during halftime.
Nobody
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
yeah,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Um, it
happened at the end of the half and,
um, you know, it didn't affect the play.
So, but yeah, it's just
really funny to see them like
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
it felt very rec league soccer.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: it
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: rec league
and it, and I hate to say that, like, when
we know that the end of EL has been like,
there's all these like, ways of looking
at it and trying to like de de-legitimize,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
but it's like, look, they're
playing in purpose-built stadiums.
They're filling
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It's like this is the thing that happens.
It was just really silly.
And the timing was like,
how, how and when and
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: then,
you know, for, for things like that, it's
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: it, it's
one of those things where you're trying
to be like, oh, how do you fix this thing?
What's the proper way to fix this thing?
And it's like, honestly, just
duct tape it or like just
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
zip tie it.
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
like that's just straight
most straightforward way to
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Get it done quick.
It'll stay secure.
You fix it after the game.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
Um, the other thing, and this I have a
terrible gut feeling that this is gonna
become prevalent in far too many places
for different players, is the fact
that during the Orlando Gotham game.
Stuff happened in the stands where people
were coming after Barbara Banda and like,
so to kinda give some backstory, there's
a lot of really shitty things that happen
in in women's sports that kind of don't
go talked, get talked about, because
they don't happen to a lot of people.
They happen to very specific people.
Most of the time it's black women.
Most of the time it's more
masculine presenting black women.
In this case, Barbara Bondo was targeted
for appearing more masculine because what
happens is that sport as a whole has a
very Eurocentric standard of body shape.
Body size, body type, um, hormonal
levels, all kinds of things.
Very white, very like male centered.
So there's, if there's discrepancy,
and this happens a lot in the
track and field world, which.
If you want to talk about this with
me, I will talk about it forever.
'cause it makes me crazy.
Um, and it's starting to happen again.
World Athletics is now implementing
gen like mouth swabs for like gender
hormone testing to make sure that
you're actually a woman and your
testosterone levels aren't too high.
Or like, granted, this doesn't really
happen to men, it just happens to women.
But it's a whole thing
and it's very, um, awful.
It it, for me, it goes beyond like sexism,
transphobia, all that kind of stuff.
It is disgusting behavior.
It's eugenics at its base, it's awful.
And it targets players a lot who
come from Africa and African descent
and all that kind of things because
bodies are different depending on
where you come from in the world.
Um, there's misogyny,
there's mis misogynoir.
Like there's so much that
goes into why this occurs.
But regardless.
The bull teams.
So Gotham and Orlando put out statements
like squashing the behavior, the
Players Association put out a statement.
And surprisingly, the league also
put out a statement which kind of
blew everybody away because the
league doesn't, isn't necessarily
quick to jump on that kind of stuff.
Um, and then the next question is, are
they actually gonna do anything about it?
That's where I think
the no is gonna come in.
And that's the part that
pisses me off because
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It's performative.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
performative.
And if you're not keeping players
like Barbara Banda, Tema Chia, like,
'cause Chi Winka has gotten it too.
Barbara's just the latest.
So like Tema Chico's sister has
spoken out about how much they've both
gotten it throughout their careers.
And it's like, for what?
For who?
For why?
Um, you're just mad that these women
are better than you and this is what
you're grasping at at this point.
So.
Part of this is also to blame.
Um, like you can put blame towards JK
Rowling at this point, especially for
specifically Barbara Banda, uh, stuff.
So that's all.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: it's so
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
That shit doesn't fly here.
Um, I'm literally wearing my state champs,
like NW and women's football shirt today.
'cause I thought about it this
morning when I was getting
ready for work and I got mad.
So if you want this, it comes
in English and Spanish has a
cool soccer field on the back.
State champs.com.
Go support Ally and Cass.
Thank you.
Bye.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: I, yeah.
And okay.
To, to kind of reference, uh,
you know, a point that, that
Angela made here where the,
the surprise that the NWSL a statement.
It's not,
it's, it, it's one of those where
like, great, you made the statement,
it surprised everyone because nobody
expected you to actually do anything.
Um, so like, yay, great.
You did the very least.
Um,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Pretty much.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: and yeah.
And.
Is this going to end
up being performative?
Is this just going to be like, Hey, we
made a post on social media, like, you
know, or is is shit gonna actually get
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
And I, I mean, I have the
answers of like, what is enough
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: it
to be considered addressed, right?
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Well, because it's, it's hard
because the next step is like at what
point, especially given everything
that's going on in this country
right now, at what point do players
like Barbara Bonde and Tema Cho
Winka have to weigh their options?
And will one of those options be
that they either need to change teams
for safety reasons, because Florida.
Sorry about it, but y'all are doing
weird stuff and so is Missouri and
Kansas City, like the Mahomes, even
like you're voting against the interest
of your team, of your players because
you're rich and bragging about it.
So at what point you can say, yeah,
they're international players, but
they're employees here in America and it's
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: yeah,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
getting dangerous for them
as it is for a lot of us.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: and
unfortunately, moving would help
solve part of the problem to a,
a more favorable, uh, nicer, uh,
work environment and in another team.
But you still have to go to those
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yep.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: to play.
So you're still gonna have to go to
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: the
Kansas City, to the Orlando game, like,
you know, so it doesn't, it doesn't
fully, and then just on the jk, like
what I do, you know, Mario, um, I.
I deal with signage and I deal with a lot
of, uh, like donors and things like that.
Um, the number of times that, uh, that in
a lot in recent years has been a lot of
taking down and renaming because of shit
that comes out of, from, from the, the
not stupid shit coming out, but like the,
the gross stupid things that people do
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
finally exposed.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
Are finally exposed and being like,
we don't want your name on our
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
you know, that type of stuff.
Um, and, you know, we were just talking
about, um, um, like just artists and like,
you know, you, you may like their, music
and it's like, do you separate the, do
you separate the music from the artist?
Can you even do that?
Um, there is a bit of like.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Weird gray area.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: thing,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
separate the
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Millennials get nothing.
For the record, everything is being
taken from us day by day by day.
You know how much I listen to Nelly and
how much I don't listen to Nelly anymore.
He's a dilemma.
He ha.
Gotcha.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I was about to go off on
something else and then Yeah.
Um, yeah, I mean, it, it, it, it sucks.
This is complete but,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
um, I, I appreciate that the
teams didn't drag their feet
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
in a statement and there was like
a statement from both teams, like
right away, pretty much to say like,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
Like this doesn't cut it in either of
our stadiums, in either of our fan bases.
We don't, we're not about this.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: And
then, uh, having the league come out.
But again, I think it just
also comes back to like.
What is,
what is going to be done or
what is what, what's the plan?
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
this is one of the few times where
having concepts of a plan might help
to, to say like, Hey,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I wonder how their group text is
going Anyway, let's go back to
soccer because I got stuff to say
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Okay.
All right.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I need to yap with my friends.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: roundabout
of scores in, uh, the rest of the league.
So we were actually the very
match, um, and we ended up tying,
and we'll get to that real quick.
Uh, but the other matches that happened
around the league, we have North Carolina
losing against Seattle two to one.
We have, uh, the spirit losing
to, uh, Kansas City, uh, zero
to two, the Wave beat Utah.
Yay.
Uh, three to two.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I kind of wanted both of them to lose.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: What?
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I wanted both of them to lose.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
Yeah.
I, I wasn't saying yay for San Diego,
I was saying Yay for Utah losing.
But, we have bay beating,
uh, uh, uh, the racing two to
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Also, that game was insane.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: we
have the red stars losing to the
dash, uh, two to one, and then we
have, uh, Gotham losing their home
opener to Orlando, um, zero to two.
And that brings us to our own
match, which we went up to Portland
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: one, one.
We had a beautiful goal
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
We did.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Fuller.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Beautiful.
Beautiful goal.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: we had
we, it was a beautiful Fuller house.
I'm, that's forcing it.
A beautiful turn and shot from
almost the, the edge of the box.
Right?
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
That goal was very Sid Larou adjacent.
Like I'm sure you could go back in the
archives and find an almost identical
goal by Sid because Kennedy does like a
360 or 180, I don't even know, I can't
think of it off the top of my head.
If she did half or a full circle,
but knew exactly where she was and
where she was lined up and just
rocketed this thing in and that like
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: was,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
that is Sid's biggest thing.
When she talks about like why
she can score, she's like,
I always know where I am.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: yeah.
Yeah.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: awareness.
Just it's, uh, it was great.
It was a rocket.
It was a glaso like that just went
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It took, it took the fans outta
that stadium very quickly.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
And that happened nine minutes
in, so we were, we were pumped.
I wasn't yet because I didn't get to
watch till the second half, but, um,
watching the, the replay and everything
like that, like everybody was pumped.
And then 30 minutes in, uh, Ryland
Turner from, uh, Portland ends up
scoring, which again, I didn't see it
because like I was walking in and out.
I see the tv.
I was like, Ooh, we're winning.
And then, yeah.
So that happened.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah, it was raining.
That game was fine.
It
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah, it was, it was poor.
It was funny too, because like, it's
one of those games where like the rain
doesn't show up on TV until you get
to like, the lower field level shots.
or the zoomed in shots.
The wide shot of the field
doesn't really show the rain.
So I didn't actually know
it was raining for a while.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It was at times it was pouring, like,
it, it was one of those where you're
watching and like I watch a lot of
baseball, so like, and so does Eva.
So we're used to watching games
in the rain and you rarely see
the ga, the rain on camera.
You might start to see like their jerseys
get wet or whatever, but like you don't
see the rain individual raindrops when
you are seeing the individual raindrops.
And it's not, like you said, not
super zoomed in, it's not a really
tight shot, something like that.
It's like, oh shit,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: I
remember asking on the Discord, like,
oh wow, it kind of looks a little empty.
And then the shot right after was like
the rain, and I was like, oh, okay.
That's why.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
we were all like, it's raining Mario.
Like,
um, but yeah, like I.
This game is weird.
'cause I feel like we could have
or should have won the game.
Um, we had a bunch of opportunities
and it, I walked away being
like, all right, it's fine.
But I feel like we love points
on the board, and I think the
team kind of felt that way too.
I'm grateful we came home with the point,
like, always we're not dropping points.
Well, we kind of are, but like
we aren't, we're not losing.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: the diff,
the big difference between a tie in our
first game was it felt very much like
we didn't let ourselves get frazzled.
We pushed back, we played really
hard the entire time, and we won.
So that was a, that was a good tie.
would say.
This one was a meh.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
begrudging ty.
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yes.
This, this one.
The other tie was one that you
felt, you, you, you deserved.
This one was like, we lost points.
We, we really
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: one.
But,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
But I,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: glad,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
that we got at least the point
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Because like, I don't think last season
we come back with a point because, and
I think somebody mentioned it, we'll
go over it later, but like we were last
season, there was a lot of like, we're
up then we're tied and then we lose in
the last like 10, 20 minutes of the game.
We haven't done that and I'm here for it.
There's a lot that still can happen,
um, from one, like I said, I think
a couple episodes ago, last episode,
I don't know, from one big ang
to another, like the saves that
Angelina had alone were fantastic.
And even the, the goal she gave up like
some, like, you can't always, like,
you're, you're gonna, your weight's
gonna be on the wrong foot or whatever.
Like it's, you can only
move your body so, so much.
But that last save she had holy shit like.
At the death tipped
the ball over the goal.
Like everyone in the discord,
like in the voice channel, like
we all were just like, like the
amount, the gasps, the collective.
Oh my God.
Like I can feel it in my body still.
She's definitely the reason
we came home with that point.
Um, instead of like going down
to one, she was the, it was her
and Kennedy in the Postgame.
Presser and they were just talking
about the fact it's like, yeah,
like we, we played really well, but
we still have like, we should win.
We should have won this game like we
we're there, but we're not quite there.
Well, you know, we're doing all right.
Um, we did talk a lot about, uh, I
think it was Cassandra and I some,
I don't remember who is who right
now 'cause my brain is pudding.
But we were talking about how
throughout its history, angel City
has not had a lot of consistency.
Players lineups, coaching front office?
Uh,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I did my lineup breakdown
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
yeah, like there's been no consistency.
So there's parts of the, the lineup
that we all have questions about, but we
had the same lineup two times in a row
and we use different subs, which, hey,
if it, it's something we're building
something, I don't know what it is,
but we're building something mostly.
I'm just really curious what is gonna
happen with the midfield because it
feels like there's some sort of a plan.
But like the biggest question
for me is Macy Hodge.
'cause I feel like she needs a little
bit more time to cook, to bridge the
gap between college and the pros.
And I, I'm gonna talk about this more
later, but like short term, I don't know.
If we start Katie Zel over her and
bring her in the second half or like
sub out at halftime something or
why there's, why we're not starting
Katie, like is there a knock?
Is there something we don't know about?
Which is very possible, but I just have,
I have questions about that situation.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: It.
Yeah, I, I get it.
Uh, I also think like it's, it's
like it's a catch 22 of, of what
you're trying to say of like, Hey,
she needs a bit more time to cook.
She needs a bit more time to
maybe transition that game, that
gameplay from college to the pros.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
because there's like a half
a step to a step delay.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
you hinder that
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: benching
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
exactly.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: player?
Right.
Like you,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Exactly.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: like I
said, at the, uh, uh, in our, in our, at
the beginning, in, in our first episode
and also in like our preview episode
of the season, honestly, because of the
playoffs system, I think we can afford to.
Keep this little experimentation
kind of going for the first, like
maybe three, four matches, um,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
will see.
We'll also talk about that later.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Okay,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It is part of the preview.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: okay.
All right.
Well, with that, um, like we always
do, we do our, uh, footy therapy post
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Oh, wait, one more thing.
Why are we voting for player
of the match at halftime?
I don't understand it.
Um, there's still freaking 45
minutes minimum left of the game
because you get Kennedy Fuller
who scored in the first half, but
then you have a save at the death
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: have
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
by Angelina.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: yeah.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
This is what my hand did.
Like, I don't know, I
that's so weird to me.
Player of the match,
but only the first half.
Like or do first half, second half.
I don't know.
Fix that please.
Somebody.
Anyway, back to what Mario was saying.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Alright,
back to the footy therapy part of this.
Um, I did post up like I
usually do on social media.
Uh, Okay.
I say social media, like I'm posting
it everywhere, just on Instagram.
Um, like the rain in Portland
washed away two of our points.
How did you handle the rain?
And, you know, we got a lot of fun,
uh, comments going in with this.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Oh, sorry.
I was supposed to read that.
Um, Ethan came in with the
haiku, came in hot, like ready
to go, need work on set piece.
Both Kennedy's soul of the team fun
season is here, which I do not disagree.
And then Alicia said, well, we're
still undefeated, but she's not wrong.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
This is not wrong.
Janthony came in with, uh, a post from
blue sky that reposted itself, and then
there was another repost on top of that.
And then his comment.
So I'm gonna start from the original
one, which was from, uh, Southern Silvas.
Listen, LA
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Sylvia is their name.
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Uh, okay.
Listen, LA loses that game last year.
So there's that.
Anderson may be very legit.
And we, we've been on the
Anderson train this whole time.
Okay.
So the repost on that goes.
This is the bar massive.
Yikes.
Two draws that leave plenty to
be desired, but more concerning.
Zero idea what the way forward looks like.
Crying face.
And then, uh, gently in our, in our
discord said this, is the reality.
If the bars on the
floor, we're clearing it.
Is this good?
Will, you know?
It's not bad.
Um, I,
I
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I have very large thoughts
about a lot of things with this.
I think people need to remember that
this is a rebuilding year and two, LA
is one of the most fickle sports towns.
It's the second game of the season.
Take a deep breath.
Everyone, collectively,
myself included, nobody died.
Like,
yeah, I, I, I have mixed
feelings about it, like, yeah.
We don't walk away with
either of those points.
The last two games last season,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Nope.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
at all.
Is that, does that mean the bar is low?
Yes.
But it also is an obstacle course because
there are so many things that needed
to be fixed between the off season.
Now things are still in the works.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah,
the bar is low because we're rebuilding
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yes.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
we have to rebuild.
So, and, and rebuilding doesn't mean, you
know, the baby out with the bath water.
Like, you can keep the original
team rebuild from there, and
that's kind of what we're doing.
But you don't, you don't have
to like, start from scratch.
You can, you can re tinker what you
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
uh, with the, you know, with
a uh, eventually head coach.
Um, or, you know, uh,
doing what he can right
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Right.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: seems to
be, I'm not gonna say absolutely working,
but it seems to be building up to a
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
So, I mean, again.
Match number two.
Come on.
Come on guys.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
and like also just as a reminder, like
Savvy King got to Angel City, like
during slash pa, like after Coachella,
like there were late add-ons that, and
people who had knocks early in spring
training that came back later on.
Like things are still getting
figured out and they're getting
figured out relatively quickly.
But it sucks.
It, I mean, it sucks to not have a
winning team, but I don't think that's a
reason to completely throw it all away.
Two games in,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
So, so I mean, I agree with Anthony.
Anthony.
I'm saying like, you know, it's,
it's not good, but it's not bad.
The fact that, you know, our bar is
as low and that's just, can only go up
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Uh,
Cassandra came in by singing Blame
It On The Rain by Milli Vanilli.
And then we had a nice, fun conversation
about needs explanation about Milli
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
we had to expose our age to.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Also throughout, um, super
ly by, uh, Missy Elliot.
And then I had to also come chime in with
like, I've also had to explain Miss Elliot
to people, and I'm just like, this is,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
For those who don't know, Mario
and I and Mario's wife Jen saw
Missy Elliot in concert last year.
Mario saw me lose my absolute total
shit, um, multiple times that night.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
have it on video.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
He does.
It's absolutely fantastic.
Easily top five concerts of my lifetime.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It was, it was
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
So you think Missy Elliot is good bet?
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: uh, right,
uh, Katie, so last year what seemed to ha,
uh, happen so often is we would be tied
all of us holding our breath till the end.
Inevitably the last five
minutes, ACFC would ACFC and
the other team would win by one.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yep.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Guys,
we have an ACFC F seed in two matches.
I don't think I can use
that verb accurately at this
point in our current season.
have held the other team to a tie.
I'm stoked.
That's progress.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I think too, like a lot of
people see that the team has a
different fire underneath them.
It's not like a comp, there's
not a complacency vibe of
like, well, this is what it is.
It's like, no, we can rewrite
the narrative right now.
We fix this now.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: And
then, uh, Eva also came in with, yeah.
Personally I think it's a huge deal
that after giving up both goals, we
held it down for the rest of the game.
Previous years we'd had, we have
given up two goal more goals
given that this back line didn't
even have a preseason together.
I'll take it midfield and frontline
look different as well and already
looked better from last week.
I feel optimistic.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yep.
Yep.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: And then
we have just a few more from Instagram.
We have MNA coming in with, Anderson was
the player of the batch of Myana opinion.
And I, I kind of, I kind of agree,
like, you know, that's, that's
the, the, the famous quote of
like, yeah, goals are are fun,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Defense wins games.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
defense wins games.
This literally was one of the reasons we
won, or at least held onto this match.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
And Jeff also comes in.
Anderson was a ball
umbrella most of the game.
Kept us in it and should have
been the player of the match.
She stepped up big and yeah.
And then our new friend Eric, uh,
he is the host of the Dash dispatch,
which is the Houston Dash podcast.
Um, you know, he's a neutral in this.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Right.
Which is always a good way to, to also
get the, the perspective of someone else.
Uh, we're heavily invested in Angel
City winning, um, you know, heavily,
uh, but he came in with like, Hey,
that was a really fun match to watch.
So as a neutral, he enjoyed that match,
which is, which is to say, you know, these
games, like we said, have not been boring.
Um, the
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
That's for damn sure.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
great all the way around.
So
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I, you know, I'm here for it.
Let's keep going.
Let's keep the momentum going.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
yeah.
So you ready to talk about this weekend?
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yes, yes and no.
Only because I'm not gonna be there that
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I know, I know.
So,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: yeah.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
yeah, like I said, three sets,
three sets of tickets that
we know of are up for grabs.
You can sit in Mario's seats, you can
come hang out with me or you can sit
in somebody else's seats downstairs.
Um, but yeah, there's,
there's a lot to talk about.
So Angel City wise, like overall
overarching ideas is that we need to
start winning the league moves so fast
and parody just is there so heavily
that it's starting to shift that for us
to continue to be a second half of the
season team, it's gonna be a problem.
So yes, it's still the game two,
but we need to right the ship faster
so that we can stand a chance come
the second half of the season.
'cause you can't, like last season
we dug too low to come back up.
We need, like right now we're
in eighth place with two draws.
We need to stay there or higher,
which means we need to keep winning.
Or start winning or, and
keep keeping teams to a tie.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: there
was, there was a really funny meme that
I believe, uh, attacking third put out.
Um, and I believe all of them
were, um, white lotus characters.
I don't watch the show.
But what they were doing, and it
was like happy couple with like the,
the, the one team that has two wins.
I, I believe
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Oh, I saw that.
I saw, I know what you're talking about.
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
and then it goes down.
We're on the, like second to last
one because, you know, we've, we've
drawn twice and then we have the
red stars all by themselves because
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I know.
I, they're, this season's
gonna be rough for them.
I hope Mel's okay.
Like, I hope a listen Air's doing okay.
Like she's just getting worked and
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
But I think we really need to
kind of become a three quarters of
the season team, you know, like.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I, I will, I mean, as we've been
saying, at at least we haven't lost
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yes.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
we're at least gaining some
points out of what we've done so
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Um, we'd be in a way bigger
hole if we were Chicago.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
Because they've also, they have a very
large goal differential at this point.
Two games in, we don't, which
is a saving grace right now.
We may have made up a, uh, four gold, four
gold goal differential two seasons ago in
the last game, but I won't do that again.
I would like to stay on the
positive side of gold differential.
Um, but no, I think that's gonna
be the biggest thing, is that we
need to figure out how to stop
dropping points that are achievable.
There's going to be games where
it's like, it's just not clicking.
It happens like they're human.
Weird things happen.
The universe does things, but.
I think if we can like lock it in
by mid-April and then go from there.
I think we'll be okay.
Which I think we could honestly,
I really think we could.
Um, my second biggest thing is that
after we score, we have to figure
out how to hold the line a little
tighter because like, granted
we did that in that first match.
We went down, we came back
and equalized and we held it.
We had a couple chances.
They, you know, like there were, it
was the first game, whatever we had,
it was like, like freshmen of high
school, first day of school where you're
just like freaked out and everybody's
like, Ugh, what am I supposed to do?
Like, that's what it felt like that game.
But this one we had chances I
wish we could have scored again.
The last like 10 minutes
of that match was insane.
It was just like, and you're
in the attacking third.
No, now you are.
Now you are.
And just the ball was
going back and forth.
It felt like ping pong.
It was very strange.
Um, but we've made progress in the
sense that we're not leaking goals.
After we score,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
and now it's like, okay, cool, let's
get a clean sheet after last weekend.
Angie deserves it.
Like she, she deserves a clean sheet
after like, like, pew, pew, pew,
pew, you know, like getting all the,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
all the, all the saves, I wanna say
the two goals that have gone in,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
that first game was so lame, like,
and I shouldn't use that word.
I just can't think of another one.
And I'm sorry, it just was lackluster.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
it was a dink of a goal.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
it, it, 'cause it literally just
went like dink, like I don't think
anybody was really shooting it.
It was more of a fluke
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
At least that's what it felt like.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
So, and those and fluke type goals, like
you honestly can't do anything about
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
'cause they were just
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
And it, the box was crowded.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
know it was
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah, the box was crowded.
A lot of people were in her line
of sight, that kind of thing.
Last again, it was just,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: goal.
Same, same kind of deal where
like, you know, it was a goal.
Like
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
it was solid.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
it was a solid one.
Um, but you know, you can't really,
can't really blame her on that.
Like, there, there are goals
where you can be like, you know,
that was a hundred percent your
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: but
you know, there, the, the fact that
she was doing so well for that entire
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
tells you that that goal was just a
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: There.
just some goals you can't stop,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Exactly.
Yeah.
And then after that, like we need to
lock down the midfield, figure out who's
going to step up in different places.
Um, I, uh, I think I understand
the Macy Hodge experiment.
I say experiment because she's a
rookie, like she's a fantastic player.
It's just a matter of
what's going on right now.
Um, sorry, I'm about to sneeze and
I'm trying not to like, hold it in.
Um.
But overall, like we need to figure out
the system in the midfield, which we've
been saying as long as we've had this
podcast, but I think we look a lot better
than we have in the last couple seasons.
Could I be wrong?
Sure.
We don't know.
But that's where, that's
how I feel about it.
Um, my Seattle preview is a
little different than normal.
Um, especially I was gonna have this
player on my list regardless, but then
she went and scored a fricking banger
of a goal, like texted to me tech, you
know, Instagram, like, did you see this?
Did you see this?
I'm like, yes, I know.
I'm talking about her.
Like, calm down.
Um, Jordan Bug on Seattle.
Annihilated a goal.
It was so dope.
Like it was one of those where
you're like, oh, hell yeah.
And then you're like, wait,
we play her on Sunday?
Damn it.
Like, yeah.
Um, but she, she's had a
fantastic run with Seattle so far.
Um, between her and Lynn, we have to,
I mean, Lynn is May, I don't know if
she'll be available for this game.
She's got a little bit of a knock, but
like from the jump, that's, those are
people you have to shut down regardless.
I'm gonna talk about Lynn b Dolo
because it's, she's Lynn, she's Lenny.
She's Lynn Williams.
She's, she's Lynn, like the Lynn Olo.
I keep wanting to say Williams and it's
really difficult, but the story of her
changing her last name is really sweet
because she was talking to her family
about it and her husband's family, like,
there's only, there's like less than a
hundred of them with their last name.
And her dad was like, Williams.
No, who cares?
Like everybody, like this
is such a common last name.
Like, I don't care.
Go be part of something so wonderful
and so uncommon, which I think is
really sweet because now it's like, um,
there's one more person in the world
with that last name and everything
from her wedding was wonderful.
But Jordan Bug is a revelation
and we gotta be careful.
Our defense is gonna have their
work cut out for them regardless.
Seattle came outta the gates hot.
It's a very like, wild
start to the season.
'cause a lot of people were like, I don't
know what's gonna happen with Seattle
because there's a lot of changes here.
King's gone, Pinot's gone.
Like, there's so much that's different.
Um, people retired.
There's a shift happening in Seattle,
but as Ali Krieger said in like 2023 or
something around there, your team gets a
hundred percent better when you add Lynn.
So, so Lynn Williams, whether or not
she's on the pitch doesn't matter.
She's still influencing the team.
And that's something that, I don't
wanna say people forget, but it can
be overlooked if somebody's veteran
presence in the locker room, mentoring,
presence, hype, like all that.
Like there's so much to say about Lynn.
I could be here for hours
and then I just cry.
And then we're not doing that tonight.
Um, my goal is to not go three for
three because I know what's coming
up and I know what will happen.
Um, and then last but not least, we
talk about her every season because
I love, I love her as a player.
She's the NWSL lifer.
Um, Jess Fishlock is wonderful.
She's from Wales.
She plays for the Welsh national team.
She's married to Sierra King.
They're the most beautiful couple.
I just wanna be her friend
'cause she seems super cool.
Like, it's one of those things where I'm
like, no, you're just, you're just fun.
And I think it'd be neat to hang out,
but she's also really, really good.
Those who are newer to the
NWSL through Angel City.
You may remember a couple seasons
ago she scored on us and then did
the chicken dance, which felt really,
um, infantalizing at the time.
But after the game, she did say that
she had been doing that with her
nephew, who's like her favorite person.
So she did that for him so he
could see her do that on the pitch.
And I was like, fine.
I guess that's fine, but
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
can you just save it for the next
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I know.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Oh,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Um, but she, she's a fantastic player.
She's always a threat.
Seattle is perpetually good.
They're another one of those teams
where even when it might seem
like they're down and out, they're
gonna dig deep and find a way.
So
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: is
another one of the, like, just the
Pacific Northwest is just soccer.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
powerhouse.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Soccer powerhouses.
They're, no matter them being in
a building year or being at the
top of their game, always, they're
like, they're like a lock for
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
e even now where everybody was a,
where the, the conversation around
it was like, Hmm, there's a question
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
We don't know what's going on.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
But like you always end that, you
always end that question mark with,
but they're probably gonna make
the playoffs 'cause they always do.
and yeah, so.
It, it's both, um, good and bad
thing that I'm missing the game.
Right.
Like it's gonna be a nerve wracking
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yes.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: but it's
so, yeah.
Yeah.
But okay, let's, let's talk about our,
you know, we'll be at home, so we get
to see our own players up and close.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
So the bandaid was ripped off.
Finally, everyone, I
think took a deep breath.
Christen Press subbed
in in the second half.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
which having her sub in, if like,
were being like careful having
her sub in, in the rain on turf.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I know, I don't know.
I, I don't know.
But granted, we don't
know her training plan.
We don't know what, what the decision was.
But yeah, she made her her
season debut in Portland.
She'll, she'll be there.
And like I said, we have to kind
of temper our expectations of how
much and how often she's gonna play.
'cause that's up to her.
She might say like, I don't have it today.
I'm in a lot of pain today.
Um, injuries don't adhere to a
schedule as much as you want them to.
So we'll see what happens.
I, I have a lot of grace for her
and her recovery because I know what
that feels like, um, multiple times.
So.
Like today, it, yesterday
was like 80 degrees today.
It was foggy and cold down here.
And my ankles, my hips, my shoulders,
like every part of my body hurt because
the weather swung 15 degrees in 12 hours.
So
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah, yeah.
And Angela's,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
doesn't feel good guys.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
are weather barometers.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It very much so, yeah, like,
whoa, earth, pretend earthquake.
Um, I'm essentially a barometer,
like my ankle needs to crack so
bad and it's not, and it just, I've
just been in pain all day, whatever.
Um, so the question of it
all, Macy Hodge, is she good?
Is she worth the risk?
Is, is what is happening?
I'm gonna run through, not even all
of her accolades, just a handful.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Just, oh, this is just a
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
This is legitimately even.
I went through like her
whole col collegiate career.
This is just a handful.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I'm looking at the notes
in the script and I'm like,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It's also, it's also, uh, indented a lot.
So it just makes it way longer.
Okay.
So she went to Mississippi
State, she played in the SEC.
If you, if you know anything
about college sports, uh, the
SEC is a powerhouse conference.
Football, basketball, doesn't matter.
Um, I feel bad for the players from
Mississippi State Women's Basketball
because of what happened LA the other
night against USC, um, best wishes.
Wishes to Juju Watkins to feel
better and get through surgery.
Okay?
And so being shitty to players who
didn't foul her hard, they just foul her.
And then she got hurt on
the way down, whatever.
Um, anyway, Macy Hodge, so she was a
finalist for the 2024 Mac Herman Trophy.
Which meant she was also the first in
Mississippi State soccer history, I
believe both men's and women's programs
to get nominated for the trophy.
She started all 21 matches and
accrued over 1700 minutes that season.
Defensively, that team, so like
her senior team, only allowed
two goals the whole season.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Oh, geez.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
She was named SEC Midfield of the
Year, all SEC, first Team Honoree.
The team won its ever, or its first ever
SEC regular season championship with a
perfect record, had only been done by
three other teams in the conference.
She was named to the, the United Soccer
Coaches 2024 Women's Midfielders to watch.
She was voted as a team
captain her sophomore year.
So her sophomore season she was a
captain, so she's got the goods.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
know, that first year on the
team, she played attacking mid
defensive, mid and a center back.
So there's some stuff happening.
She's got, uh, a little, what's
the word I'm looking for?
What's the word?
When you can do multiple things.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: She's
a, she's a, a, not a switchblade.
Um,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
What is the word?
Oh my God.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
army knife,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Okay.
That's one way to say.
It's not what I was trying to say,
but yes, she can do many things.
Um,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
of all trades
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
yeah.
Still not what it was.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
still done.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Uh, she can do like, yeah, she
can play multiple positions.
She can do a lot of different things.
In 2022.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: of that in
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Huh?
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: I'm
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Good.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: in too.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
In 2022, she started every game and
helped them secure their first NCAA
tournament match win in program history.
She then.
In 2023, she earned
first team all SEC 2023.
They also had a semi-final appearance and
went to the third round of the playoffs.
Like she is essentially like Mississippi
State Soccer royalty at this point.
Um, she finished her college
career with 97 appearances.
96 of them were starts, which
is the most in program history.
And maybe she just needs a little
bit, uh, more time to cook.
It depends what kind of
program she'd been playing in.
Obviously she was very accustomed
to that for playing that much.
So I think, like I was saying earlier,
like I see the logic, but the question
I have is do we have the time?
Granted, we're two games in.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Mm-hmm.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
not like I am, I feel like I'm
a tin hat wearer right now.
Like, but the question is that is
her trajectory of, of transition.
So her transition trajectory, that's
very hard to say such that the time
that she is taking her to adjust.
Is like, is that fine?
Do we have that leeway?
Do we have that time?
Or do we need to adjust to get results?
Now while she still builds that
up, that's the biggest question
truly, that everybody's asking
in a million different ways.
Whether it's like, why
isn't this person starting?
Why is she starting, why is this,
it's like the question is all being
asked, do we have the time to allow
her to adjust to the professional
high speed, very transitional game,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: mm-hmm.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
or do we need the results right now?
That's, that's it, that's got the goods.
It's just a matter of like, uh,
adjusting them for the NWSL.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: the.
I'm in the camp of Yes, we do have time.
Look, I am,
I know we're, I know we're a team
in la I know that the expectations
are very, very high, especially
the way the last three years went.
the expectations were high
already when we started and
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Sorry.
I'm like delusional.
I'm so tired.
Anyway, go ahead.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
the, the expectations were high
already when we started and we
didn't deliver a bunch of reasons.
It feels like everything in the
universe was against this team
functioning the way it was supposed to
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: like
it on paper every single year on paper.
We've been a great team
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: and
the universe has not let us be that
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
let us be great.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
and I think level setting.
I'm gonna speak to all fans, all
Angel City fans here, myself included.
We've been talking about
this level setting.
not a bad
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Setting, setting our expecta, it's
not setting our expectations low
because we're, uh, because we, we
don't feel that they can achieve much.
And so we're like, oh, we're
just gonna start at the bottom.
It's, no, it's setting the
expectations to a more realistic,
um, level that realistic level.
And that doesn't mean that it's
absolute like ground floor.
Like we, like we suck.
It's, we have to understand the
situation and let them cook.
And, you know, as the casual fan, I
completely know that not gonna know
a lot of this stuff, a lot of this
background, you're not gonna know
that, um, you know, Hey, what happened
to that one player with the pink
hair that I saw a couple years ago?
Why isn't she playing?
Um, it's like she
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
she is.
She's just,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: through
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
you know, like there's, there's
backstory to all of this stuff,
and that's what we're here for.
But we're also here to say, let's,
let's temper that, that like
expectation and know that we didn't
give the team time to cook Last year.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: year the,
the lineups changed every single match.
We didn't have a consistent M.A.
lineup.
So the fact that we did have this
consistency two in a row already is
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It's like, oh my God.
Yeah.
And that's why I was like, oh,
there's actual like consistency in
like, we're gonna trust the process.
It's gonna be a little weird,
but like I said, when is the
time for us to get weird?
Literally immediately
straight outta the gate?
Because what do we have to lose?
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Um,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I, I think she has time to cook.
I, I think, I think fourth, fifth
match, if we're still kind of like.
Haven't figured it out.
Still middling.
Then we worry.
I still think, I still think we could,
we'll, we've got time and looking at this
freaking list up from Macy, I'm like,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Even honestly,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
figure it out.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I do wanna say like even if this season
isn't the season where she makes it like
a hundred percent, she'll get there.
Like I have full faith in that.
I watched a couple clips of her in
college and I was like, oh, we all right.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
rookie season.
I mean, come on,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
There's also the adjustment period.
And that was like another
thing I wanted to talk about.
Like I, I'm gonna quickly
mention both Kennedy Fair.
Oh my god.
Kennedy Fuller and Casey Phair.
My, like, I can't, I can't talk.
My brain gone.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: we've,
we've been mashing up names too many
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Uh, Alana Kennedy
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
There's been a Alana Kennedy,
Fuller, Ali, Riley, Tiernan, like
all kind, all kinds of stuff.
But, so Kennedy Fuller, she scored last
week, assisted the goal the week before.
Um, she recently talked about how
she's not doing the space buns every
game because she doesn't wanna get
into like super superstitious stuff
and like she wants to have a more
healthy mindset around the game.
And I cannot express to you.
Both you, Mario, and anybody
else who wants to listen and
myself, how healthy that is.
I am when competing, I was, I
don't wanna say very superstitious,
but a lot of stitious.
Like I was stitious, at
least at the very least.
Like I had a specific, 'cause I'm
allergic to grass and as a shot
put and discus thrower, like,
you're just chilling on the grass.
I'm like, cool.
So I had a very specific blanket.
I used like very specific things, but
a lot of it was just like the routine
I built too, because like I knew the
size of the blanket, so I knew how
much space I had and like if I had to
like adjust it, that kind of thing.
Um, yeah, and I, I think.
If you watch baseball, like you watch
a batter getting into the batter's box
and it's like 900, like shhe pisses
me off because it's like flick flick,
flick, flick of his batting glove flick,
flick, flick, flick of the other hand,
and then it's like shift, shift, shift.
I'm like, oh my God, get it together.
You don't need to do all that.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: I'm
just thinking, uh, Garcia Parra, like
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Oh yeah,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: like
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
no M.A.
Yeah, so much.
And a lot of it is like breath count
and like there's other stuff that
goes with that, but it can get really
unhealthy really quickly because
there's a lot of neurodivergent
tendencies that can like feed off that.
And if you fall into one of the
mini buckets that it could be,
that can trigger other stuff.
Like there's so much that goes into that.
And that decision of her just to
do her hair differently as she sees
fit is such a sign of maturity.
Like you, you.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: it is
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I did my hair the exact same
way every game for basketball in
high school, every single track
meet from high school to college.
Like I didn't, I did not, like,
don't, don't mess up my system.
So I was stitious.
But yeah, there's a lot that happens
in rookie seasons and like your first
couple years that goes unspoken and like
undiscussed because it's very private.
Um, Casey Phair was recently
on the Urban Pitch Podcast.
I don't know if you saw this clip
at all, but she's talking about her
mindset between last season and this
season, and she talked a lot about
how nervous she was last season.
She didn't talk to people, she
didn't engage with the team
because she was terrified.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah, she was a child.
She's still a child.
Like, it's like,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
and I don't wanna start this whole
conversation about like, like they're,
they're too young to be playing in a
professional sport against women or what?
Like, if you're good enough to play,
if you're good enough to play on the
pitch, you're gonna be on the pitch.
Like,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
But,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: as that.
But it it's
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
but like a 14-year-old started and as like
a 30 something, you're not gonna, I, I
don't like, I would feel so uncomfortable
bodying a child into the sun.
Like, 'cause it's gonna happen.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It, it's gonna happen
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
that feels icky.
But that's, that's not the
conversation we're having now.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Okay.
It's not to have conversation, but
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
understand the, Point of view that she
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
look, I'm, I am, I'm a child
here, a teenager among, you know,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Whole as adults.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: women
like, but even like Kennedy Fuller,
like, yes, it's one of her peers, but
her, it's still like someone who's
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: of school.
Like, you know,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah, it's different.
And she talked about how scary
it was and how she didn't like,
she didn't feel comfort, like
comfortable or confident with headers.
So she didn't, so she wasn't aggressive.
Like she's like, I wasn't playing
soccer the way I normally play
soccer because I was so scared.
Which now looking back on last
season makes so much sense.
She wasn't showing up the way she was
hoping to show up because she was letting
that, like, that fear and that anxiety
and like all of those thoughts that
we all get into when you're nervous,
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Mm-hmm.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
was letting that get
louder than like the truth.
And she said that the vets, so Sid, um,
uh, Christen Press and she mentioned
one other person I can't think of
right now, but she's like, no, they
were crucial in me, like pulling me
out of that and just being like, no.
She said she worked with Sid in the off
season, like header, header, header.
When she scored at
Coachella, Sid was like.
See, you know, like we told you.
And so I'm really excited to see how
that transpires this season to see if
she's getting more of that confidence
back at training so that she can come
in and be a difference maker or start
a, start a match, you know what I mean?
Like it's gonna take time regardless
to kind of break that thought cycle.
But the fact she's talking
about that out loud is huge.
Because like I said, after last,
after the first game, she was hyping
up Alyssa, like, no, just 'cause you
didn't take that one chance doesn't mean
you, you're not gonna get another one.
Doesn't mean you're not gonna
do that again, doesn't mean
you're gonna make it this time.
So like she's doing that for other people.
It's sinking in
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Yeah,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
just made me really happy.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: and
it's just gonna take, it's gonna, again,
the same thing we're talking about
Macy, it's gonna be the minutes and
her being able to get on the pitch is
going to be a huge growth moment for
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I mean, she's making game day rosters.
She wasn't doing that last season.
So
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: wasn't
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
that's already a huge difference.
And like we kind of joked that we
were gonna make like, you know,
milk cartons, like missing, have
you seen Casey Phair kinda thing?
Like what's going on?
Because everybody was like the
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
we couldn't even see her on the,
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
sidelines.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: game day
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
she wasn't even there.
Um, you know, like if,
yeah, it was just like, because, so,
so she felt like she was completely
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: But I am
hoping that this shift and, know, this
kind of confidence boost of just being.
Just being around these players
already for a year, um, and being
able to have an off season with them
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
And like learning how the league works
and how the team works and all that.
Like there's so much to learn.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
and just being like, look,
you, you did really well.
You have the skills.
Look what you did with
your, your national team.
Look what you were doing,
uh, internationally.
could do
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Mm-hmm.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
You're capable of it.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Yeah.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
It's, and it's a completely different
environment, but you are capable of it.
And then, you know, once,
once that clicks, I think it's
gonna be, it's gonna be great.
And then, yeah, hopefully
we get to see more minutes.
And you know what, why not do it on
a nice sunny day at home, at BMO.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Um, but yeah, that's, that's
my little preview of Angel
City and who to look out for.
I think there's a lot to discuss this
season already, so it's just a matter
of really locking it down, figuring out
the midfield, and just letting them cook
and letting them get used to each other,
which I hope we're gonna see big time.
On Sunday, we have a lot of history with
the rain because of the challenge cup
and all the things where we played every
team 14 times or every West Coast team 14
times it felt like, um, across regular and
playoffs 'cause the one playoff appearance
we did have, we played the rain.
We are two wins, zero draws,
and five losses against them.
Overall, it's two wins,
one draw, and eight losses.
So I would like a win.
I will settle for a draw.
No more losses.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
No more losses.
No more losses.
Um, okay, well that was our preview.
Our upcoming match against the Seattle
Rain this Sunday, the 30th at BMO Stadium.
Again, five o'clock kickoff time.
It's gonna be on the CBS Sports
Network, so go to a bar and, and be
able to watch it with some friends if
you can't be at the stadium, or listen
to it on the radio with iHeartRadio.
Uh, Isaac and Tracy always do an amazing,
play by play.
Isaac just has an amazing play
by play, voice and speed and
cadence, and it's, uh, it's
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
He is wonderful.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: And
Tracy's insight, uh, from being a player,
from, um, a broadcaster, all of that is
just, they just are perfect together.
Um, and remember it is the theme night
of a women's history celebration.
So there's going to be an honoring of some
women's national team players, um, at this
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
I think there's also a giveaway.
I think it's a cape.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
no, that's Mother's Day.
That's
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
Oh, right, right.
I was like, I know it has
something to do with women.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: Um, this
one's just going to be the ceremony,
but, uh, either way, it's a Sunday game.
Make it early, go to the
tailgate, go hang out.
There probably isn't going to be a fan
fest, but that usually means that there
is a street fair, which means there might
be like a taco truck or two, um, there.
if there's not, don't worry.
The sgs got you.
angela--barely-human-_1_03-25-2025_214234:
For sure.
yo--gabba-_1_03-25-2025_214234: tailgates
going, they have food going, um, for, you
know, a small, uh, donation to them and
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It's all fun.
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Yeah, I'll just put it in my
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