6/7 ACFC v Chicago Stars FC - Pride Night
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
guess who I now follow on TikTok.
Also
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Who?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
the company that makes those, planners
that they gave us in middle school with
the wishy wishy cover that you hate.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Oh god damn it.
no.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
them.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Now I'm
thinking about it and I'm like, oh, Jesus,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
Well I'm not a good friend if I
don't torture you a little bit
over something really weird.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Maddie tortures me over that.
She goes I'm gonna scratch it.
I'm like, oh.
Oh Jesus.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
An 8-year-old terror.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
She doesn't understand why.
It's a weird thing.
I'm like, it.
Everybody has a weird thing.
Don't worry about it.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
a thing,
but I get it.
Sometimes if you do it
the wrong way it's ugh.
But Okay.
I'll stop
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: okay.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
it.
I'll stop talking about
the big cup instead.
I'm just kidding.
Hi everyone, and welcome to Casual
fc, an Angel City match preview and
footy therapy pod, featuring two
podcast certified footy therapists.
I'm your very tired and sleepy host,
Angela Morales with my sleepy and
very tired co-host Mario Salazar.
May was
lot
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
may, may was a lot.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Mother's Day.
My mom's birthday.
Maddie, your daughter's birthday.
My
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
like everyone who could have a birthday's,
birthday, a lot million things.
Disneyland.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Legoland.
Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
of lands, lots of birthdays.
We take one week off
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: One week.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
for an international break slash
maybe I just needed more than
five hours of sleep for one night.
and I was maybe not okay.
Just to kind of recover from life.
We take one week off and now
there's 9 million things to
talk about, which is good.
Honestly,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: is great.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
we took it off because we would've
recorded and I would've been pissed.
and then this happened and this
happened, and then this happened
and this happened, so whatever.
But we're here.
As I said in our last episode, we're here.
We're queer and happy, pride, everybody.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Happy pride.
It is now officially June.
So this is our match preview of the
Pride match the match on Saturday
June 6th versus the Chicago Stars fc.
Sure.
If you want to go by that now
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
It's the Red
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
which feels disrespectful.
I'm gonna say
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
someone who's ever gonna
purposefully name someone unless
it's a branding dumb decision.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Twitter,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Twitter, red stars, I, I don't know, Capri
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: internet,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
a, in a jug.
I've been asking for a Capri Sun
in a jug my whole life, and now I
get it and I'm like, I hate this.
I said a couple episodes.
I got two like big bottles of it.
I have not touched the
second one because I'm like,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
that's too much.
Yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I have no self-control.
I
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
these are perfectly, these are
perfectly portioned pouches.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yeah, I have to take my time.
Otherwise I'm just like, I don't know.
It's dangerous.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: so yes,
our magic in Chicago Stars FC at
BMO Stadium This weekend, 7:00 PM
broadcast schedule is gonna be on
I on TV and you can also hear it on
iHeartRadio and 13:30 AM in Spanish.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
think it's Yeah,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah, and
like we said, it's June, it's Pride Night.
It's the Pride Night match.
it fan fest.
There is going to be an official
fanfest, thrown by the a ACFC.
It's gonna be three o'clock
till the game starts.
lots of activities.
Last time they had a, a dance off and
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
of stuff last
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
All but a ton of activations.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
very similar.
I will not be at fan fest I'm
getting my haircut that day.
be racing to the game from Long Beach.
fingers crossed I get a bandana.
I'll be
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
if I don't.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I may
or may not be there, mainly because
adulting and parenting, really a
parenting, not adulting, just parenting.
and, you know, kids birthdays, that just
come up like one right after the other.
So we're in that, we're
in that season right now.
and it was like, and, and I'm
totally letting her choose.
So I'm like, do you wanna go
to the game or do you want to
go to your friend's pool party?
And she's so
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Ooh, that's tough.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
a lot of fun at the games, but
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
party when you're like eight,
because then you end up like, I
don't know if they're, if kids still
do this, but like pool parties.
You had pizza and grapes or sandwiches
and grapes after swimming for two
hours, and then there's either cake
or oh, do you remember those Mrs.
Fields cookie cakes
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
where it's just
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: so
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
ass cookie?
Oh my god.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it depends
because we've, we've gone to a couple
friends of her friend's birthdays
where they're like, very much like
what we grew up on, it was just like,
pizza, some like fruit and like fun.
And then there was others that have
gone for the full spread and like
tiny sandwiches and bo and I'm like,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
No, I
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it's
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
foot
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: this
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
sandwich that's been cut up into pieces.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
not even the subway sandwich.
I want this, I want this.
Yeah, the sandwich tray from
V like that's what I want.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yes.
Give me a sandwich tray
from a grocery store.
like a six foot long burrito.
Like something like so outrageous
that you're like, who eats this?
And it's only for moments like that.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Oh man.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: so
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
two, three hours of swimming in a
pool and then eating like a fist full
of grapes and three slices of pizza.
And then just getting back in the pool.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
things better in my
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
so we've got that going.
and
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
enjoy the pool party.
'cause that's what she's going to pick.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
so I, there's a possibility I might head
in later by myself instead of taking
the whole crew, but, that's a slim one.
But either way I will be enjoying
it on I, on TV if I stay home.
and like we were saying, pride, pride
Night Fan fest starts at three o'clock.
There's gonna be tons of
activations, face paint, music,
DJs probably live performances.
'cause there were, last year there was
like a dance off all sorts of stuff.
and, all the sgs are gonna be doing
their tailgates for all of these things.
So whenever there's a fanfest, there's.
Sgs are always gonna be there,
and we will always do the roundup.
and it'll be, it just sounds like a blast.
It's always a blast.
have fun.
There is a gate giveaway.
It's a pride bandana, which
is like the, the staple.
They've just gone like
with bandana every year.
Although they, I'm glad that they're
changing the design of it every year,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: like,
what are we gonna do for Pride?
Pride bandana.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
why, that's why I'm like stressed because
my mom and I have back, back to back,
back-to-back appointments in Seal Beach,
and then we have to haul ass to BMO.
There's a half marathon in
Englewood, and I'm like,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
You knew what day it was.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I know, but I, don't,
I'm just, a long story
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Okay.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
to talk about,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: okay.
Well, yes, that was, our, what
we're gonna be talking about
eventually, once we get to it.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
exactly.
So Pride along with everything
that's going on at Fan Fest.
Fan fest.
The very cool thing is that our supporter
groups, our supporter groups, are
known for the community work they do.
with that is also fundraising.
So why do I sound Canadian today?
Also oh my God, it's because I'm
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: We said tired.
We said we were tired.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
but there are multiple
pride raisers going on.
So for those of you that don't
know, there's a company, like a
fundraising company called Pride
Raiser that does online fundraising
for different events like that are
related to the L-G-B-T-Q community.
It's just dope.
It's so cool.
Everything they do, you pledge, it's
not like a normal fundraiser too.
It's not oh, just give money.
It's like you pledge for like how many
goals somebody picks or you know, this,
it's this year it's corner kicks and
or goals for one of the, campaigns.
And it's just like you, it could be
a dollar, it could be, you could you
know, if you can afford 50 cents per
goal, let's say we score 10 goals, then
you're, is too much math for my brain.
Let's say you
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: It's
like, it's like your old school.
It's like your old
school Jog-A-Thon, right?
You put, you put an amount and
every time it happens, every lap
you do, that's what you're, that's
what you're promising to donate.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
you because I needed an analogy
and I could not find one.
And now I'm like, oh yeah, like a
jumpa on with jump ropes and you
know, like all that kind of stuff
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
And.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
we get to do it with money.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: So the, the
two groups, that the, sgs are supporting
is, brave Trails and Rainbow Labs.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yes.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: so
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
you.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: go check
out, you know, go check out the,
the, the social media, channels
from all the supporters groups.
You'll find the information there, or you
can actually just go to, pride raise.org.
It's org.com
does not work.
They should really just buy.com
and redirect it.
But either way, it's dot org and then you
can actually, find them directly there.
and yeah, it's great.
qualifies for all the June matches.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah, so we can really raise a lot of
money guys, I need to actually like.
I am terrible at following through
with online things because I forget
they exist 'cause they're not tangible.
But this year my goal is to do a
little donation from to both of them.
So we'll see.
but into the soccer or before we get to
the super soccer of it all, I'm gonna skip
ahead and steal one of Mario's tidbits.
'cause it ties into pride.
The pride numbers this
year on the jerseys.
I hate them.
I hate them because where are they?
Is pride in the room with us?
it, are we getting scared?
Are we bending a knee?
Like what,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: NW.
So it feels like they
went backwards on this.
Like
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
like we went
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
having as a league bold, big kind
of ugly, which I thought was great.
Like it was almost campy
in how weird they looked.
Inclusive rain, like the newer rainbow
flag with the trans, pride flag colors,
the, the black and brown for the different
minority groups, like one of those where
everything is encapsulated and like
the number one, you know, like every,
it's just like a bunch of little lines.
that was great.
And everybody was like, this is sick.
We got all kinds of colors.
This is so cool.
This year it's like an even
thinner outline than the last ones.
It's like, how small can we make this
so that it's still pride, but it's not
gonna piss off the people who don't
wanna believe that, gay people exist.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: It,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
what it
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
And, I don't, I
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
people think that.
And there's been some other stuff
that's happened lately and statements
made where I'm pretty sure league is
shifting and I don't, I don't like it.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it's.
It's stupid.
I, I, you know, I just, it's exactly
what we were saying, that the,
it becomes this little outline.
It becomes a whisper of,
of pride, which is like
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
like the opposite,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: opposite
of what you're trying to do.
Look like
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
commit
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I, I know, I know, I know.
At a certain point the numbers
are like performative, right?
It's oh, you can only wear the, the pride
numbers during June, and then after that
you go back to your regular numbers.
there's that little aspect of it, right?
But it also means a lot to your fan base.
And it means a lot among a lot of
the, the, the sports out there, right?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
walked away from the national team because
they would've had to wear pride numbers.
So say it with your
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
like just wrong with having a.
Fucking rainbow on your
back for, two hours.
I don't, I don't understand.
Like I'm grateful, but I'm not
appreciative of the impending erasure of
pride numbers because like you said, as
a performative, yes, but give it to me
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
are like, for no other reason, people
are willing to pay money for big
ass rainbow numbers on your back.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
queer players, you have people
in the community that like allies
amongst women's soccer who go to
battle harder than it's just, there's
so much with this, but the very
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I am.
I'm gonna throw this out.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
oh,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: You know, it's
kind of tradition for Angel City to get
fined for some stupid shit every year.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
right, where old school pride numbers be
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: So where
let's, let's go to the team store.
Do the old numbers on the, on the kits.
Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
You
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: And,
and wear those on the field,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Oh my God, that'd be amazing.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: right?
okay.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
But the cool thing about the Pride
Collection that the NWSL has put out is
that the Nicole Barnhart, who we have
spoken about many times on this podcast,
because she's great and I love her,
and she just recently retired, designed
like this year's Pride shirt, it's dope.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
It looks it's really cool.
Yeah.
I like it.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
a beautiful design.
She did an amazing job it's just
a really great representation
of what pride should be.
Anyway, now getting into the soccer
of it all hit us with the bullet
points of everything that happened
over the last like week and a half
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: All right.
It is a lot.
So Strauss is officially here.
We signed two new players.
We have two players on injury.
that's, that's a lot, right?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
like circumstantially just sucked,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
Okay.
But, with the, the, the news that when
you keep reading into it just sounds
better every time Strauss is here.
So let's talk about that real quick.
Like no more, no more Slay, slay is out.
you know, that it,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
we'll get
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: we had,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
to the last game, but
there's some shit to say
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
there, there was glimpses.
We like, I I'm not gonna,
I'm not gonna hide it.
We were, we were saying, Hey,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
sometimes.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: good.
It looks like we were gelling.
It looks like Sam had some type of
plan and then it just all went to shit.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
then the 24th happened
that, I'm just glad you didn't,
at least you didn't see the game
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I,
yeah, I, I didn't, I didn't see the
game because it was, my birthday
and then my, daughter's birthday.
So we were,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
was
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: that day,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
on.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: there
was a lot going on that weekend.
you know, we were at my, at my parents'
for, my daughter's birthday and then
the following day was my birthday.
And then, yeah.
So a lot of stuff going on,
so I wasn't at the game.
Discord was popping off,
but, again, we'll, we'll get
to get, we'll get to that.
We're talking about Strauss.
he is officially here, June 1st
was his like, official start date.
and you know, he probably got the
HR onboarding and he got his like
password and, you know, had to
reset it, doing all the good stuff.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yep.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: but yes.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yes, which is super exciting.
I hope that I, whenever like new coaches
or new heads of something come in,
there's always like a first day, like
not quite training, team training.
It's like that is what
I am, this is what I do.
This is where I'm hoping we go.
have some fun, you know,
hands in 2, 4, 6, 8.
Who do we appreciate?
always that, and I just hope
that whatever that was for
the team, I hope it went well.
I hope there's so much good that's
already happened this week, because I
feel like the whole team's needed it.
They
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
they needed the break.
Mentally,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
we're, we're gonna get the, the
new, the new coach bounce, right.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
But
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: So I hope,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
bounce might just be like a step up.
It's like we just jump to that,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
and we
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
That's what I think is gonna happen.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I, I'm
hoping, I'm hoping that he has the, the
eye to recognize the pieces that we have,
because we've talked about this till we've
turned blue of Of we, we have the pieces.
We're good on paper, we've been
good on the field, but then there's,
there's, there's things that, you
know, whether within our control or
not at, or or out of our control.
there's things that just
kind of hinder that.
And hopefully he has, he's, he, I
mean, with all the successes that
he's had, in, the Bunes Liga and
and in, the, the national team that
he was, the U 20 threes that he was
coaching, it was one of the U teams.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: and and, and
all the successes that they had means that
he has an eye for that player development.
He has an eye of like where all
those pieces need to go and how
to adjust when you need to adjust.
Right.
So hopefully that is definitely
coming with him and that is
something that we can, I.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
before the 85th minute.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I wonder
if he'll play one of our highest played
and most anticipated players and the
player that everybody wants to see
on the, the player that actually does
shit like immediately once she plays.
It'd be amazing.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Who knew it could happen.
There's gonna be
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: well,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
throughout this episode, my friends.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yes.
Yes.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
ready.
Be prepared.
We are salty.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Okay.
but the other thing is that
we got, two new signings.
One of 'em that caused a lot of questions
for a lot of people, which was we
signed a third keeper, Hannah Seabert.
she's our permanent third keeper.
Now, if you think back to when we
signed, our current third keeper,
she was signed onto one of those
newly made up positions contracts.
That was like a temporary,
Like part-time contract.
Like it was, the contract ends in June.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like it's, it's not, it's not like
where the contract was for like a
year and a half engine or contract
engine midway through a season.
It was, nah, you just got
signed up now till from whenever
they signed you up, till June.
And we have two players
on that type of contract.
So that means, by the end of this
month, those two players are either out
of contract and won't be on the team.
They might hang around and we, you
know, we have practiced players.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
squad kind of things.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
Or they might be given a contract,
but at this point for the
keeper, that's not gonna happen.
'cause we signed, this, we, we signed
Hannah as our like permanent third
keeper and Hannah comes, she's, she
has the, the, the knowledge, the,
the, the history, the skill, like
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
The
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
the veteran leadership.
Right.
The chops and.
I think Angelina at this point
is still going to be our keeper.
I, I, she's still going to, she has
that, but like we've always said, the
keeper position is really the one where
you, you have it until you lose it.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Mm-hmm.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: but I
think she can only get better by
learning or by practicing and, and
talking with a veteran keeper that way.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Hannah Seabert has international
experience, so there's more,
it's more diverse experience.
It was like other, Hannah, we now
have a, a trio of Hannah's kind of.
but we have Hannah Stombaugh who is on
the Japanese national team or within
that realm, but is still very young.
Still hasn't had a lot of call
up and experience that way.
So it's, it's just gonna be interesting.
It's a different game.
So I'm very curious to
see kind of what happens.
But she went to Pepperdine,
she's from here.
it's, it's almost like a sense
of bringing another person home.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
bringing another person back to
an environment that they succeeded
in, that they did well in.
And it's yay.
Another Angelino, another Californian.
Like that kind of thing.
so you know, her family can
come see her a little bit
easier, like that kind of thing.
Portugal's
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah, yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
just saying it's, it's
very far in comparison.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
and then, the other signing that we
had is a Icelandic Forward, actually.
She's playing, she was playing in the,
Bundesliga, but her name is Es daughter.
I had to phonetically,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
daughter
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I
had to phonetically spell it out
so that I can get it in my head.
also goes by Jane, in every single
interview that I've looked up, on her.
she also goes by Jane, and I think
that's just because it's like easier
for some of the other players to say.
Yeah.
but she plays with the Iceland.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
spines translates to,
or something like that.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
like whatever it would be close to.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
but yeah, she, coming from the Bundesliga,
from, Wolfsburg and she also plays for
the ice, the Icelandic national team.
So everybody that is more advanced
and expert than I was, than I
am, was excited for this and
that excitement makes me excited.
Because the, the name
meant something to them.
They were like, oh my God, we signed her.
And I'm like, all right, cool.
Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
If other people are
excited, I will also be
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
until proven.
Proven different.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it's
like, it's like the one meme of
everybody clapping around and
the one person going oh shit.
Uhhuh.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yeah.
Totally.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: you know, I,
I, I, do you have anything else about her?
'cause that's,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I don't, because I don't get to
watch a lot of international soccer
because of my job, but I have to
have that in order to, stay alive.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yes.
Yeah.
but either way I think we're excited to
have just, that influx of, of just, you
know, talent and just also a different
mentality of, of playing, right?
Someone that's coming from, a
different league, a different pace.
We know that the NWSL has.
Is known as a fast paced league, but also
kind of a physical league versus which.
Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
We'll get
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: and,
but having, I think having all of
those, little bits and you might
also think oh, another forward.
weve already got a
whole bunch of forwards.
Well, we, you know, I bump, bump bum.
That leads into, Sid came, Sid, our
beloved Sid, came back from her,
mental health leave and she's she said
she was gonna come back and she was
gonna be, she was just gonna be Sid
and she was gonna be the same person.
She was gonna
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yep.
She
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
come back to herself, come
back in her, in her own.
And
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I think, I
think the discord went, the discord went
crazy and and like when we didn't see her
on the injured list for a game, we were
like, she's off the, she's off the list.
Woo.
She's back.
She's back.
And then we got stuff of her, video of
her practicing and all of that stuff.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
And then the newest
episode of BFFR came out.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: And
she has a big old boot on her lip.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Then we cried collectively as a fan
base because Sid LaRue her calf.
I
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
they haven't really talked about
it, but I dunno if it's a baby
tear or a big tear, but either way,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it was,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
hate
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it, it
was, it was a tear where when she
talks about it, it was audible.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Mm-hmm.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Like
she landed, she heard it, the coach
on the side heard it and they were
like, oh yeah, that's not good.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
and the hard part with that is
that it can be big or small and you
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
it, depending on how it's done.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Okay.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I say
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: S
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
experience, unfortunately,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: So
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I'm so bummed because I know she was very
excited to come back and it's, it's always
a bummer to have a setback like that, but
I think I, I'm like, we're gonna be okay.
She's gonna be okay.
It's gonna give her
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: she's,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
rehab.
And it's just one of those
like comedy of errors at this
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
think, where it's yep.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
of course, of course.
Right?
Angel said he's gonna get injured
and Angel said he's gonna get fined.
that's just gonna happen.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
We have had news of a fine and
we've already made it halfway
through the season, so let's go.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
Let's go.
so yeah, we have that.
But I mean, with that, I, we have,
we, I think we're building up
to this, this idea of yes, we're
gonna be a little bit forward.
'cause there was always.
It's never been quite
true a hundred percent.
But Angels or, or the, the ownership group
and the coaching staff has always tried
to talk about Angel City as a, high press,
very forward, like attacking minded.
We'll get there one day, then, you know,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
season, but
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: building
that up, we're building that up.
But, you know, that's, that's what it is.
you know, with Syd, we wish her all
the best wish, her speedy recovery.
I hope that we get a rookie of the year
moment where that muscle just kind of
like comes back, that calf muscle and
she's just like running like crazy,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
it
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: even
faster than she does already.
And then the other news, which.
Really, I have no other updates
beyond what we, what we got.
So we'll see if she's on
the injured list or not.
but Gisele Thompson, we were all
excited when she got the call up.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Mm-hmm.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: So both
Thompsons got the call up to, oh,
actually all three Thompsons got
the call up to the national team.
Their little sister got a call up to
the, one of the youth, the youth camps.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
found out they had a third sister,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
which was hysterical because I knew
this, I don't remember how and when
I learned it, but I knew that there
was a third, like a younger one.
I didn't know if she played
like as seriously or not, but
then getting, like seeing the
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: we, when we
were talking to Bright and she was talking
about like the, the, you know, just,
the, the, the younger siblings of players
usually come in better than the, because
they, they grow up in that environment.
So now, and, and I think
she mentioned that,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
the
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: she
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
and we were
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
the third time said, mm-hmm.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
But very fun to watch like the
country be like, I'm sorry, what?
There's another one.
Oh,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: okay.
But, and then the big question mark
was, Giselle was also being shown as
a forward, as part of being called
up as a forward, not as a defense.
so everybody was like, Ooh,
how is that gonna work?
and then, you know, before the
first game even happens, we get
the news that she was being sent
home early due to an injured hip.
it wasn't supposed, it
wasn't a severe injury.
so the, the statement was
it wasn't a severe injury.
She was being sent home as a precaution.
and, like that, that's just what it was.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
pulling someone else in.
It was just like, that's it.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
Yeah, that's it.
I mean, they're friendly is, you know,
it's, it's good for match experience
and things like that, but I mean, you,
you don't really need to right now.
It's not like we're qualifying
for anything at the moment.
But, so with that.
We have another injury that we
honestly don't know the severity of.
It could, could have just been like she
bruised her hip and then you know, the
now that week off that she had, she's,
she's fine now, or we're gonna get her on
the injured list, come this next match.
So
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
It might
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I, I,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
week or so, but I, I generally think
she's not gonna be out for very long.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: no,
no, I, yeah, at the, at the very
least it'll be like one match.
But yeah.
So yeah, there's a lot, a lot of stuff
that just, and I, I, I have a feeling
that there's probably something else that
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
There's
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: we miss,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
missed.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: but,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: but guys,
I, I have to, we, I write these scripts,
like in between like projects and
when I have five minutes down here
and there to throw stuff together.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I'm like on my break at work, on my phone
in a Google Doc, like writing things.
Yeah.
So sometimes we miss stuff, but I think
that's the majority of the big things
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
at least.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
Yeah.
all right, so back onto our normal
schedule of stuff in our episodes.
We've got the Chaos Award for that last
match week, which is two weeks ago.
And at this point,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Chaos Award is a hundred percent
the hair pull, followed closely by
the missed handball, which I don't
know how was missed, but whatever.
We're here, we made it through the night.
but yeah, that's, that's the
number one is not even the hair
pull, but like the hair pull,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: the, the hair,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
around.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: the hair
pull, the, like the, the like almost
half headlock and the, shoved down.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Which, which,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
happened.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
which that needed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
we'll get there in a minute.
then my second thing, most importantly
was last weekend was we hope, pride, and
the team posted a video of Macy Hodge and
Lily Nabet full on, just like starting
the video, going Good morning lesbians.
And it is the funniest thing.
It's on TikTok and on Instagram.
and I have probably watched it 10, 15
times because it's just hysterical.
It's just very it felt like one of
them walked up to the social media
team and was like, gimme your phone.
We're just, we have this
thing, we're just gonna do it.
it felt so instantaneous and I loved it.
That's all.
it's just fun.
'cause you can tell it was not scripted.
Like it wasn't fake.
It wasn't one of those where
you're like, oh, hi, I am Angela.
You know?
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah,
like here, we need you to say this
in front of camera real quick.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
No, it was just like,
good morning lesbians.
Like it was, so they were alert.
There's probably six cups
of iced coffee in them both.
yeah, especially if you're walking
in the, in the WeHo Pride parade.
You have to be there early.
You end up there late.
It's a long, parades are
harder than you think.
If you've never walked in a parade,
it might be like a quarter mile.
It feels like it's three days long.
Like it's always too hot, regardless of
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
outside or too cold.
There's no nice, perfect time, but
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Even when
it's too cold, you might be, you might
be overdressed and then it gets too hot.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
have too many layers on or something.
it's always, it is just, they're hard.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I've been in parades, I've worked
the West Hollywood Pride Festival.
a lot, A lot happens.
But I hope everybody who was
out there last weekend had fun.
I hope everybody who's going
to LA downtown La La Pride,
whatever they call it.
I hope everybody has fun this weekend.
There's too many people for me,
so I've, I have done my time.
Enjoy my friends.
But yeah,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: have fun.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
scores, do we, M.A.
do we care?
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: No, I, you
know, it, it's been a week and a half.
I forgot about it.
I was looking for the posts that I usually
use to remind myself and I couldn't
find it, so I said, oh, well, whatever.
So the games happened, you know, the
main thing is what happened in our game.
the, in the, the good thing or the thing,
just the thing is, we're in seventh place.
We're in seventh place after
what happened last week.
That's what really matters.
Still in the playoff convention.
we're getting close to that
midpoint of the season.
you know, keeping, you know, we
just gotta keep padding those
numbers and keep padding that.
And that's really what we're looking for.
We're looking to, you know, keep
cooking, keep figuring out, keep
gelling, keep playing chess.
and hopefully, you know, that just kind of
gets us, you know, shift, shift by shift,
by shift, up that ladder and we can.
You know, get us, get
us a good, a good spot.
but with that, I am going to rely a lot
on Angela's recount of what has happened.
And I'm sorry to make you recount
all of this, but as I said,
it was my daughter's birthday.
we were having a, a family event.
so I did not watch any of the match.
I saw a few of the highlights that
the hair pull, and the handball
that was not called, and the discord
just popping off like crazy and
me going guys, what's going on?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
it's bad when we're at the stadium and
everybody's in the discord screaming.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
So game
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Normally, normally in a good, on
a good match, we'll get like a
handful of like discord messages.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Or wow, that was the best
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
one person.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
just Mario
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: like the,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
hello.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: home
and me filling in everybody on oh
yeah, I see the camera angle right now.
Here's what's going on.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
happened.
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
people who don't live in the
area are like telling us what's
happening on the broadcast.
We're like screenshots from group
texts, like that kind of thing.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
the final score was three, two
racing incredibly controversial.
I also now understand more of the
controversy around the Portland game I
don't understand why racing is the way
racing is because like I said in our
preview episode, they're a good team.
They don't need to resort to like
behavior because you're good.
don't like, and you don't have to do
that anyway, but especially if you're
like decent and you can hold your own
and you can be in the middle of the pack.
Why are you doing that?
So we talked about Ari board just being
out and that was her last game of her
like extra suspension after a red card.
And I was like,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it
was a three game suspension.
Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
was additional like, so she had the
one one game and extra three games.
So the game starts, the lineup is,
how do I say this nicely?
Because I like sports and
eventually wanna work in the
sports industry without bridges.
What was that?
What?
What was that?
It made no sense.
It felt like a couple games
ago when we were all like, do,
you know who's on your team?
Or because here's the thing.
I am an incredibly competitive person.
Part of the reason why I never wanted
to be a coach is because of how
competitive I am, because I don't
wanna put my like bonkers brain on
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: you don't,
you don't want to traumatize the kids.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Exactly.
Because I've had that done
to me and it's not fun.
And I'm like, oh, that's
what I don't need to do.
But regardless, if I'm put in the
position to succeed, like I have a team
and I'm managing them, I'm going to do
best win, regardless of what that means.
I don't care if I am a full-time head
coach, an interim head coach, I'm taking
over for a game because somebody's
like throwing up in the bathroom.
Like it doesn't matter.
You put out your best to win.
You have a strategy to win.
Your goal is to win because regardless,
you don't know if you're an interim,
if you're gonna end up a head coach.
Like all the, there's so many
things that could happen.
Why in the hell.
And honestly, if this is my last game
as an interim, I'm going out on top.
I'm going out looking damn good.
So I get another job.
Do you wanna retire?
that's what that, that's
what that lineup deserved.
Not like retirement of the players
o of this coach, but he's gone now.
So it's fine.
But the game started,
it was already chippy.
They called a handball on Macy Hodge.
Taylor Cor Taylor Flint almost did it.
I almost had it.
Taylor Flint hit the
penalty and they scored.
It's up.
One, nothing.
We equalize, of course,
Riley Tiernan scores.
Of
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
does.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yep.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Before her call up, of course she does.
So
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Our, our, our Golden Boot, race.
Race competitor.
Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
she scores right after we
come back from halftime.
So when we go to halftime,
they're up one, nothing.
What ifs like fine.
Now we equalize.
Cool.
Neat.
They score.
Emma e scored.
Savannah Della scored within
three minutes of each other in
the 53rd and the 56th minute.
Stupid.
There were weird mistakes made.
A lot of, it was a weird lineup.
just, it was, the vibes were so bad.
and then the game went on and
then the, the hair pull occurred
around the 65th, 67th minute.
Oh, there was a va, there was like, there
was so much review or non review of calls.
It was insane.
Anyway, I don't even
remember all the details.
It doesn't matter, but they somehow miss.
The fact that Madison Hammond not only
got her hair pulled, she got pulled.
Like your hair's gonna get pulled.
If you have it in a ponytail
and you're playing sports,
it's just you, it gets stuck.
It, you know, like whatever.
if someone like reaches out
and yanks it, that's just shit.
That's
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
don't do that.
It's bad sportsmanship.
It's an injury waiting to happen.
There's this girl full
on, jacked her head back.
She spun her around, had, like you
said, had her almost in a headlock.
Like it was so egregious.
Like we saw it and it was weird because
not everybody could see what happened.
half the stadium is like screaming
for a foul, screaming for a red card.
The other half is like, what happened?
they replayed it 900 times on the big
screen and it was like, yeah, send
her off because what the hell is that?
And if I remember correctly,
this is the same girl that Merri
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Mm-hmm.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
had a conversation with on the sideline.
Last season, season before,
I don't remember last season.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Last season.
Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
due to her behavior and something
happened the season before that.
And I'm like, girl, why are you like this?
Because now you're a
liability to your team.
And that's the one thing that I
credit Madison Hammond for after that.
Because if somebody had done that to
me, the way I would've been in her face,
but Mad Madison knew she was gonna get a
red card, there was no way they weren't
gonna review it because it was so bad.
Like we could see it from, from our seats.
You saw her go, like her whole head
cock back, all that whole thing.
She knew if she retaliated,
she's also sent off and now
everybody's playing at 10.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
know, like you, that's one of those
moments where you, you are so mad and you
just have to be like, don't do anything.
Don't do anything.
Don't do anything until
you know what I mean?
Like you're, the team
comes first at this point.
'cause now we have an advantage.
And then what felt like nine seconds
later, the most ridiculous missed
call I have seen in years occurs.
I don't know who it was on their
team because it doesn't matter
'cause they didn't get the call.
this handball, like the ball gets kicked
and you see this girl's arm deflect back.
The direction of the
ball changes severely.
They review it.
No, no, no, no, no.
We're not gonna review it.
No.
VR excuse me.
Excuse me.
No.
Again, as something we could see
from the opposite side of the
stadium, no call, no foul, no pk.
We had the ability to equalize and granted
we should never have gotten to the point
of being down to one, three to two.
shouldn't have happened be, but
that's a different story altogether.
But we should have been able to have
the opportunity to equalize with a pk.
No one, no one is denying
that except that referee.
And then we lose three to two
and everybody goes home mad.
The general vibe is, ugh.
And honestly, guess who didn't
get sub in until the 83rd minute.
It's almost like we could have put in
players to run a team into the ground
because we were up, had a player on them.
Why we, why we were not putting
in new legs makes no sense to me.
Because if there's one thing you do when
the other team is down, a player because
of a red card, you hurt their feelings.
You do every single thing in
your ability to hurt feelings.
You maintain possession of the ball,
you run them into the ground, you run
them in circles, you, you tire them out.
You have an extra person.
Ugh.
It's just
in a
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yes,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
especially subbing in literally anyone,
but especially Christen Press with 14
seconds left in the game is embarrassing.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it's it, I.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I don't know if this dude is like ageist
for veteran players or what the hell,
but like this is so dumb, so dumb.
And I tried so hard up until
this game be like, you know what?
Shit's weird.
Maybe there's stuff I don't know.
No, I can actually be honest
now and I'm glad it's over.
The
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Look.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
is over and now we have a head coach,
and now maybe we can move forward
and maybe something good will happen.
Maybe we'll make the
playoffs in the top five.
Maybe we can win consecutive games.
Maybe we can have a
lineup that makes sense.
Maybe we can score goals, maybe.
Maybe we can make substitutions
when it makes sense and not
just to appease the masses.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yes.
we like, I don't know.
I don't know what,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
talk.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I don't
know what stick this guy had of his ass.
'cause honestly, honestly, like the, the
fact that he didn't put in press earlier.
Then the, like 80th 80 something
minute the entire time until he got
this backlash from all the press
and everything like that of being
like, what, what's going on here?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Mm-hmm.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Then
he is oh, I should have put it,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
she was on the team.
What
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I
should have put her in earlier.
no dude, come.
no.
so again, Sam, he's out, he's gone.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
girl?
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
granted, granted they said that
he was going to stay on as like
part of the, the coaching team.
He's gonna be there, but if he just never
showed up again, I, you know, wouldn't be,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
the person on the team.
don't talk to me.
I don't like, I don't see you
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
like, like one of those where
it's know, you and I are talking,
and then he comes up to try and
start entering the conversation.
It's oh, I'm sorry.
Do you hear something?
What?
What?
Like I would, ugh, I
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: He's trying,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
so annoyed.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: he's gonna be
like trying to yell out like instructions.
He's gonna be like, God damnit,
and then Ari's gonna be like,
just, just do the drill.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Fine.
okay mom.
You know, like that when you're
mad at one parent, that kind of
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
So people had thoughts.
We're gonna give you a few of 'em because
like I said, it doesn't matter anymore.
Nothing matters.
Sorry.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: It was, yeah.
I mean, he was, it was egregious.
The, the foul was egregious.
The handball that, I
mean, I don't understand.
there's times when, okay, yes.
When you're reviewing the whole
point of VAR, is it, the mandate
is, it has to be clear and obvious.
Right?
And a lot of times when like these,
these plays that happen where we feel.
As fans, it was fucking clear and obvious.
Right?
And,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
clear and obvious.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: as refs,
sometimes they're looking at it with,
you know, the, the whole letter of
the law and they're like interpreting
it and, but like doing, and then like
really making their judgment calls
as the professionals that they are.
Right.
I get it.
I get it.
Right.
There's, there's times, there's times
where it's look, I don't agree with you.
I know you are wrong, but you
are the person in the job.
This one was not that as a player as a
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
direction so loudly, like you
heard it hit her arm of all, and
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: well.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
arm like swung back and then the ball like
went dunk, dunk and made a right turn it
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I mean, I
understand that if it hits something,
it's gonna, it's gonna deflect.
The thing is that as a player.
As a defender specifically, but
as any player on the field, once
you're in that box, it is your
responsibility to be aware of your body.
And most players are going to
tuck their arms behind their back
because as soon as that arm lifts up
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: you,
as soon as you chicken wing that
thing, or as soon as you go huh.
Right?
like it,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: you
are making yourself abnormally big.
And that is a direct no, that
is not your natural position.
That's not naturally,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
that barely anybody
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
that barely happened in the
first half, you sure as hell
better call the second one
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
when the ball gets like
fricking thrown into the stands.
But
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Don't
think your, don't think your red car
for a freaking head hair pull was the
like evening out of the, the game.
no.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
you gotta call all the big stuff.
Not just, not just the one that could
have in injured somebody very, badly.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Badly.
Yes.
Okay.
with that, our,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Mario?
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: our,
our prompt was just, what was that?
You know what, it could have gone,
it could have gone with expletives,
but it was just, what was that?
so Ethan, our, haiku master came in with
racing, laid the SmackDown cornerbacks
without support and where are the subs?
And I did that he gave us a little,
a little note, tip afterwards.
He's it should be lath, but
layeth doesn't meet the syllable
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
I had written this correctly, but
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Dustin
just came in with like ugly all around,
just, it was just an ugly match.
That's exactly when I asked, I was
like, what's going on, everyone?
I'm not watching the game.
And everybody says it's a shit game.
You're just be glad
you're not watching it.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
boo, just don't watch.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: And then,
and then after the game, after everybody
was so pissed off it, the thread
devolved into everybody's comfort,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
comfort, remedy,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
fast
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: and,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
way home Del Taco for some,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
pie for others.
And
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
In and out, what's your order here?
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
we dove deep into, peak fast food.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yes, yes.
I mean, God, I get our mind off of it.
Max.
Max came in with sand lady going
out of, going out in style.
And by style I mean stripes with plaid.
Yikes.
And then Max came in again after that
and said, finally watch the game.
properly.
Not even going to BAR for that
handball is flat out insulting to ACFC.
Ang needs to be more
aggressive on set pieces.
Our central defense is just
astonishingly bad this year in
transition, which I have faith that
strau, to fix because it seems fixable.
Madison Hammond is a good attacker
and I feel way, and I feel that way
about, oh, and I feel a way about that.
Emma M.A.
as a forward is so much more
effective than, Giselle as a
forward more experience, and
it shows in her positioning and
her willingness to take chances.
But hopefully with suspend this, we
won't have to see either lineup there.
So that was a long one, but we agreed.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yes,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: and then, we
did get a couple of 'em on, on Instagram.
Nette came in and like it was hell
and no call on that Avie handball
was actually, that actually
changed directory of the ball.
The new coach can't start fast enough, if
we all pitch $5, can he start tomorrow?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
it's
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: And Alma
came, and Alma came in with Bull.
And not that we should have
relied on the handball.
That wasn't, but what
the f and then yeah, and
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
more, but it was a lot of the same.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: a lot of
the same of the, the ref screwed us and
what was that game and yeah, all right.
the other thing that the Discord
devolved into after we talked about,
emotional support, food, and, and orders
and stuff was, strategies of sage.
How to sage the place, how to,
how to get the juju, get the
bad juju out, after that game.
So hopefully everybody did their cleanse.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
You know, I
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Ev.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
by, what night was it?
what night was Eva's show?
Eva played up in Highland Park on
Sunday night and we were driving home
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Mm-hmm.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
were driving down fig 'cause there
was like weird stuff on the freeway.
And BMO was like this beautiful bright
pink, just the inner lights were just
on 'cause they keep 'em on at night and
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Oh, it was probably the, it was
probably the grow the glow lights.
The, the,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
it
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: gr
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
grow lights, those are different colors.
Those aren't pink.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Well, the
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
neon pink.
It
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Oh.
Oh, okay.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yeah, it wasn't the like orangey,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
pink that looks like soul rosa.
No, it was like, it was like this,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Oh, wow.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
this.
pink, it was very like deliberately pink.
So maybe that's, maybe that's what it was.
Maybe it's just kind of like, okay,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
get, get the bad stuff out.
We got new stuff coming in.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
era has begun
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yes.
The Strass era.
The Strass era has begun.
So let's, let's preview our first
Strass era match, which is going to
be this weekend against Chicago Stars.
Take it away.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
So I really think that this last week was
like a much needed mental break for the
team, physically for people to recover.
Emotionally for people to recover,
mentally, for people to recover.
There's been so much that has
happened to this team this season.
Good, bad and otherwise.
And like I hope that this like week and
a half of just kind of figuring out the
new normal is helpful, is grounding, is
rejuvenative was just good for the team
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
they deserve it.
And I think we all do.
I think we all needed it.
'cause I'm actually really glad
I didn't, or we didn't record an
episode after that game 'cause I
would've been big mad the whole time.
Just pissed.
but no, I think it's really, really
hope now this is like a good new, not
necessarily a fresh start, but like a,
like when you come back from a really good
vacation and then you take an extra day
off work to recover from traveling and
your house and you know, do the things
you need to do before you go back to work.
And then you get there
and you're like, oh, okay.
I'm like a normal human again.
Cool.
that's what I hope this was.
So Chicago is dealing
with some stuff as well.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Mal is out on maternity leave after
like the whole first part of the season.
Nobody knew why she wasn't there.
It was just personal.
So whatever was happening in the
early stages of her pregnancy,
I hope she's all right.
Hass been playing with the Cubs, so you
know, at least doing something there.
'cause he was out for a few games too.
But they're missing They built the
team around, which is interesting.
And because of, oh, not because of this
only, there's a few other things, but
they're currently in last place and
they lost four of the last five games.
And so they only have four
points on the season and their
goal differentials minus 16.
And this makes me so sad for a listener.
let me say for the majority of the team,
like a team doesn't deserve this, but
I don't think their ownership in front
office is setting this team up to succeed.
Lauren could only do so much when they
didn't really make any off season moves.
They didn't do anything to reestablish
their defense and you know, do all
these things that like you do in
the off season to better your team.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Is Lauren still there?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
No,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah, he, he's gone, right?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
like you.
You expected him to make
magic and he is magic.
Like he's done so much women's soccer
both in the states in Colorado with
the Jamaican national team, who also
were not getting what they deserved.
Like I don't like it.
It feels messy.
Both the Chicago teams for
women's sports right now.
What are you doing?
The sky and the stars.
I don't like what's happening in your
front offices and I need you to get it
together for the betterment of the league
and the sport and the team and your fans.
But yeah, the good thing is
still has really good players.
Like regardless of what the team is doing,
you still have a list of air to deal with.
And she's just, I mean this
in the most like wonderful way
that she's a freak of nature.
She's so insanely good.
You know what I mean?
Like it's one of those things where
I'm like, I don't understand how you're
like this, I love every part of it.
That's all.
That's just a listener,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I mean, Alyssa, you can't.
With ane there, and with the
history of ane, with the lore,
with the, the legend of ane right.
You can't, you can't read too much into
that negative 16 gold differential on her.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Right.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
as we know when, when a gold
differential gets really big,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
There's
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: it's
really, it's, it's really because
the entire team is Swiss cheese.
like people are just cutting through you.
And like a, a goalie can only
do so much to stop shots that
are being kicked at them, right?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
As we've talked about for the last
two and a half years with deedee
and Angelina, like you can only
do so much if your midfield can't
stop the ball from coming at you.
You know,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
you're, your defensive line can only
do so much if they're just getting
peppered with shots and you know,
there's only so much you can do.
And I think
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
for that goal differential right now.
But
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I mean, yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Sam, stop is back.
And this is not just oh cool, she's back.
It's like a she's back kind of thing.
She's a defender.
She'll be wearing number three.
She had three consecutive years of, or
three consecutive iron women seasons.
That's so hard.
Three, three
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
with
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: years,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
of games each year,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: all
90 minutes every single game.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yeah, every minute of every game.
then that fourth year, last
season, she got hurt and was
out for the rest of the season.
She's such a good defender.
And Mal being on maternity
leave with Lauren not there, her
leadership as a veteran so important.
it's so important to have steady, calm,
like mature players on your back line
for a variety of reasons, obviously, but
especially when it comes to leadership on
the field, that's why you see the Becky
Sour Buns, the Ali Kriegers, like the, the
people we look to as oh yeah, those are
our captains because it's Sarah Gorden.
Riley, you know, like it's Naomi Germa.
They are all just like staunch
defenders and, and so calm and
so steady in that Sam Staub.
So I'm glad she's back.
I'm not glad for us.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
When you say she's.
Are you saying she's back from SEI like
this year, or she's back like this week.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
no, no.
This year, this season.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
But she, I mean, it's a
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Okay.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
just because
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: so
she's still part of that four
point team this season, but,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: she's a good,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
She's a good part of it.
the organization of the back line is
gonna be crucial though, because we
actually have a very nicely created
attack I think it's gonna be even
more well organized this weekend.
So I'm curious how this
is gonna pan out for them.
And like I said, as much as I
love a listener, as much as I love
defense, like I hope we ruin you.
I hope, please
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
us have this.
It's pride
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I, I hope
we can, I hope we can add to your
goal differential and improve ours.
'cause at one point we
were in the positive,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I irritating.
We're just like, we're
doing this, we're up, down,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
up, down.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
it.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: But
at least we're, at least we're up,
down, up, down, like within a, like
three, four point range, right?
Like it's,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
to to minus two.
We just keep doing that,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
point jump.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
But in the midfield they have shake room.
She wears number 10.
Eva refers to her as
the NSLS resident Pest.
just in your pocket all the time.
It's the way, like for me, playing
basketball, there's always one or two
point guards where it was like, get
like I can't breathe, get away from me.
And that's how I feel about Shake Room.
She's just there.
Like I have in the notes, she's always
the most annoying player on the pitch.
And in the parentheses
it's like complimentary.
I don't mean that like you want to
be that player somebody who's like
more of a defensive midfielder.
You want to be annoying, you
wanna piss off the other team.
you get the fouls called,
then you get the free kicks.
You know, there's a, a positive
feature to being annoying in sports.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: It is a
tactical pest, not a, not a asshole pest.
There we go.
Invasive.
Invasive is a nicer word.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I deal with invasive
pests all day at work.
but she, she's just a very clever player.
She's one of those people that you're
like, she's here, she's there, she's every
f And where like that, where you're like,
why are you, why, why are you over there?
I was watching, what game was I watching?
The national, I think it
was the national team game.
I was like, why is Alyssa in that corner?
Like, where did she,
where did she come from?
Oh, no, no, no.
It was, it was the last Angel City game.
I was like, why?
Why is she over here?
Why did she, why did she run diagonal?
I was so confused.
But you have those players
that just pop up everywhere.
It's a blessing for that team.
It's a curse for every other.
So again, they have great players.
They're just going through some things.
And then last but not least,
Mila, number 14, she is a forward,
I just, I shake my head because
Brazilians are different.
Like they're built
different in their souls.
And I don't know if anybody saw the video
that came out of the Brazilian camp.
I.
Over this international break.
It was very funny.
who do you wanna have
tea with every morning?
Marta, who gets up earliest.
I have everybody, Marta, and
it's all the different players.
It's hysterical and it was so cute.
but Ludmila had an amazing, very exciting
showing in the Olympics with Brazil.
She's just great.
She's a forward, so she's gonna be
very much in our face and give our
defense an issue along with shade groom.
Like I said, Shea's more of a
defensive midfielder, but she's just
an everywhere midfielder, honestly.
she's gonna be a pest for our defense
as well, but Ludmila comes in with a
different type of experience in the sense
that it's a, she has, she's been playing
in the NWSL, but her experience at a very
high international level is valuable given
everything that's going on in Chicago.
She's gonna be able to mark different
players differently because she's oh,
I played against them in this league.
Oh, I played against them at this
friendly, oh, I've watched film on this.
you have a different level of experience
coming in you're on a national team
because you have different exposure.
You're playing against China,
you're playing against Jamaica,
you're playing against Nigeria.
You know, you're just like popping
around different places it's really neat.
But that's, that's my
preview of the red stars.
I almost started singing the song from
the Yes Network, which is the network.
It's like the Yankees entertainment
something, something like, it's
the, the station that, plays
the Yankee games in New York and
Eva streams it on the MLB app.
So it's like constantly on
if the Yankees are playing.
So it's in my head constantly.
Sorry, Dodger fans.
I'm still a Dodger fan.
Don't worry.
nothing has changed.
I watched the series.
It was great.
okay, so I'm, I'm wearing a very
depressing Angel City shirt.
I just realized that it's Mario
and I have, similar shirts from
this first season that someone
made where it's like the frontline,
the midfield and the defense.
He is the, the frontline.
He is the four words.
I have the defense.
RIP, this lineup of Vanessa Gils, Megan
Reid, Paige Nielsen, and Ali Riley.
I mean, we still have
two and they're great,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah, we have two.
One active, but yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yeah, one active one trying
to be active, but we'll see.
Okay, so for us.
This is like a, I'm trying to get back
to, to our regular way of talking about
players and teams and all that good stuff.
So I'm gonna start with Angelina,
our goalkeeper number 19, of the
tallest keepers in the league.
She's six feet tall.
She's got a crazy wingspan.
I love it.
So we mentioned, I mentioned
whatever Alyssa Air early.
Your job as a goalkeeper gets like way
more intense when you're facing up against
her just because she's a honestly, it's
one of those things where it's like you
rise to your competition regardless.
Yeah, I don't care about
their goal differential.
It, it's zero every game.
And I'm so curious how coming
out of the U 23 camps did
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: That's true.
That's true.
She did get the call
out for the E 20 threes.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I'm curious what that's gonna mean.
gonna need to be a brick wall
because they have firepower.
Because if, if Alyssa never stops a
goal, Angelina better stop a goal.
It's like one of those things
where it's like be so in my head,
I don't think I could be a keeper.
I think I'd be good at it,
but I think I would be like
But Angelina, she's just, she's doing
so well and I really hope that the call
up and everything are really good for
her and like a learning experience.
And she can come back after, after
this U 23 camp, in with Strauss.
we have a new coach, we have a new system.
Like this is just beneficial for her.
But yeah, everybody knows I,
Angelina Anderson like big Ang
to big Ang, you know, high five.
We
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah, I
mean, the fact that she got the call
up is that, you know, there, there was
something there that, you know, we, we see
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
we
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: what's there.
We know, yes, there has been.
Some rocky starts last year.
There's been some rocky games here.
I mean, our, our gold differentials
kind of in that, like even,
you know, that even point.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Mm-hmm.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: but we see
the potential and the greatness there.
Right.
And so does the national team,
like they called her, they
called her in for training camp.
They called her in.
might not be starting or backup,
but still enough to be like
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
with
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: there to,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Fallon, you're there
with, what's her name?
McGlynn.
you're there with big names.
You're there with Jane Campbell.
You're there learning from big coaches.
You're on the big stage.
You, you
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
experience changes your mindset.
It changes the way you handle things,
and it, it, you just, you grow from it.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Or you don't, but you don't get
those call ups if you don't.
And she keeps doing it.
So that's a good thing,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yep.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
the future.
and then moving into the defense.
We've talked about her
a little bit already.
We all know she's one of our favorite
players, friend of the pod, friend
of the merch store, number 16, Ola.
She's just, I just, she's so tenacious.
I honestly think that's
probably the best word for her.
She's just spunky and tenacious
and like she's one of those
who has that dog in her.
She's just gonna to dig in and fight
for those balls and fight for a lot.
Her position on the field, her,
her starting position, like she's.
She doesn't quit.
she's had a little bit of a slower
start to the season, which makes
sense given that over the last couple
years she's started and stopped
given injury and you know, whatever.
But this is the most
consistent she's been playing.
So sometimes it takes a little
bit for your body to adjust,
for your brain to adjust.
And I think she's like
ready to hit her stride.
I really think that this international
break is gonna be like peak for her
to reset because it's just gonna
be like, okay, I have a break.
I can breathe, I can take a
minute and now like game on.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
And I will say, she should
also be getting call ups.
That's it.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: She, I mean,
there's, there's quite a few players that
we think should be getting cobs, right?
or that there's a majority of
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
call up and she hasn't
been called up again.
Especially when you have Emma
Hayes saying out loud with her
chest to the public that M.A.
is one of the best defenders.
So come on.
And M.A.
Vignola truth her forever.
but no, I think she's
gonna have a great game.
I think the second of the season,
I feel like this for me and
my brain is the halfway point.
Granted, like we still have another
month before we take the big break,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: the big brick.
Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
but in my mind I'm like, oh no.
But it's, it's because of the, the
changeover for Angel City, like the second
half of the season starts this month,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yes, yes.
As,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
what
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: as,
as we said, the Strauss era.
The Straus era, this TRS era.
It's a whole new, whole new ball game.
Whole new everything, whole new, idea.
So let's, let's, let's run with it.
Let's, let's give it, let's give it
the runway that it needs, and M.A.
will be running up and down that thing.
So let's go.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Definitely.
So the last person I'm gonna talk about
is someone we haven't been able to see too
much this season 'cause she's had a little
bit of a knock the last like month or so.
But our Scottish Shrek the queen
of most of our hearts, honestly.
Claire Emsley, number
10, one of our strikers.
If you don't love Claire, I
dunno what's wrong with you.
Just as an a, a quiet personality,
but like she's just gritty and
gritty in a different way than
American players are gritty.
there's a difference between like
European players and American players
just in the, the way the game is played.
But because she played college
ball here and it's come up through
the NWSL, it's like this combo
of finesse, gritty and also grit.
Grit.
she'll body you into the sun,
but also will say thank you
and.
Up until this season, and I honestly
think this is a good thing because
it means other people are scoring.
But up until this season, she's been
a huge part of our attack, like the
engine of our attack essentially.
Once Kristen went down, when Sid,
you know, oh, all the things.
Claire was the one to step up and now like
she can kind of take a breather a little
bit and like I said, she's had a little
bit of a knock, but I hope that she's able
to come back in this second part of the
season and just have more fun and, and
get the balls she needs to score and get
on the, the stat sheet that way because
it's weird that she hasn't scored yet, but
it's also not when you look at the fact
that four other people have been scoring
regularly and nobody's mad at that.
Claire had a fast start last season.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: She
had a fast start last season.
There was a reason why she
was, in that kind of leader
board of the, the Golden Boot.
But now, like you said, with, with
the, the fact, the fact that our, our
whole lineup is building up to what we
ideally would want that lineup to be.
She doesn't have to carry it like she
was carrying the load, last season.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Like
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Very,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
everything.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
it.
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
And this season it's
spread out a lot more.
Like in the last couple seasons
when we've, when we've kind of done
end of year, look at look backs and
look at who's been scoring the last
couple years, it's only been like
two or three people really scoring
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: and
then, and then everybody else
was there supporting, right.
But there was only like two
or three people attacking
that had more than two goals
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Mm-hmm.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: on the season.
This season I think it's kind
of spreading out a bit more.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
RI Tier and Alyssa Kennedy, Katie
Zel, Christen Press, I think that,
oh, Macy Hodges scored like, yeah,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
people in a season that have scored
than the last four years combined.
It feels know, we, we've already,
I wanna say we've eclipsed
goals scored of last season.
It feels
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Oh.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
emotionally
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: emotionally,
definitely prob, but, but we're
probably close if not past it already.
the only reason it's not showing up is
that, you know, we've had, we've also
let in about the same number of goals.
we can, we have that team to
very much be that, that 8,
9, 10 goal differential team.
Right.
But yeah.
And so yeah, with Claire, like hopefully
like when she's getting, when she fully
gets into the flow of things, hopefully
we get that, hopefully we get a bunch
of pieces that we can juggle around
and then they all just work, right?
Like you,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
we have, and I feel like with
Strauss coming in, you have someone
who's used to doing things on a
little bit of a bigger stage and
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
to manage bigger names like that.
So I, I hope, please
don't let me be wrong.
I hope this is what happens.
I really don't wanna be wrong guys again.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yes.
we, we, it, I don't even know
how to follow that up, but yes.
Yeah, we, we, we just want the,
the fan base, the, the city,
just want this to be a good team.
and, and
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
much this year as Angelenos.
Just give us this nice thing.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: we've
been through too much with the
team over the last four years,
this year in particular though, for
just, and just LA has been rough.
So yeah, just, just we need
good, we need good for the city,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
absolutely.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: and.
We need good for the city
with this team, right?
There's going to be good for the
city with other teams around, all
over la from the colleges to the
professionals, that's all good.
They can have their moment.
We need our moment.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Absolutely.
But the good thing come into
this game with a winning record.
We've
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
thrice.
We've had one draw and two losses,
so we're on the winning side of this.
I would love to make it win.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yes.
And, you know, given their record at the
moment, it can very well be a fourth win.
and you know what, if I really do
hope that it is one our fourth win
against them, two is just becomes that
confidence booster that like launches us.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
hope it's an assertive win for the team.
Granted, like an assertive win usually
means I hope we score a million goals.
And it, it does, at the same time,
I hope it's one of those wins where
you look at each other after the
game ends and you're like, hell yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yeah, that, that's exactly what we wanted.
And that's
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
we got.
that's what I hope it is.
Truly.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Okay.
So assertive win
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yes,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: on pride night
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yes,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: and
the fourth win over Chicago.
So let's go and let's get that
fine and put the original, pride
numbers on the, on the kit.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
on our shirts.
and also, this is really random,
but for anybody who listens, Eva
and I have started card collecting,
like baseball cards, soccer
cards, women's basketball cards.
So if anybody wants to talk
cards, feel free to DM me.
I should
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
And,
and we also have, People like Aaron, with,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Oh yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I forgot which, which handle?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
we've
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
Okay.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
yeah, like
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yeah.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
in with the card folks that we know.
But I'm just saying if anybody
else wants to talk about, not
necessarily trading cards.
'cause I'm being very particular about
I'm buying singles for the most part.
but it's really exciting.
We've made date nights out of this.
It's a very good, very chill idea.
So if anybody wants to steal
it, by all means have fun.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Yep.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
all.
Take us home, Mario.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: All right.
So once again, this is our match
preview of our match Saturday, June
6th against the Chicago Stars at BMO
Stadium, 7:00 PM This is always weird
that we start at 7:00 PM and most
of the MLS game start at seven 30.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I don't know.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
It's just, eh, eh, 7:00 PM game.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
asked me if I watch the
LAFC game this weekend.
And I looked at him and I said,
Ricky, I don't watch men's soccer.
He was like,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Don't, you know, don't you know?
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
And he was like, dang, I thought
you were just like into sports.
And I was like,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: And
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
And I was like, but my friends
this season two get older.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: she
does, she doesn't care for the men's
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I don't
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: footie.
The men's footie.
Mm-hmm.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Anyway, okay.
BMO 7:00 PM the seventh,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
On, on the, on the sixth,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Nope, the seventh Friday is the sixth.
You didn't
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: God.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
the beginning, so it's fine.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: Okay.
I'm trying
7:00 PM It's gonna be
streaming on i on tv.
It's gonna be on the
radio with iHeart Radio.
listen to Isaac and Tracy.
If you can't, Be there or watch it on tv.
It's also gonna be on 13:30 AM for the
Spanish broadcast, it is Pride Night.
So there's going to be a fan fest.
The sgs are gonna be there way earlier.
Fan Fest is gonna start at
3:00 PM Lots of fun activities.
Check out the Instagram,
you'll see what's going on.
and it's a gate giveaway
of the Pride Bandana.
usually it's like the first,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
10,000.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: how many
people, but it's like usually 10,000.
Oh yeah.
So get there early.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
I'm trying.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: I remember
last year there was also a very low
number and everybody was stressed.
So I got there.
That was like the one,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: few
games that I got there really early.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
No, we need this for everyone.
Heineken.
'cause
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: You needed,
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
again this year.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
you needed 22,000 of them.
You should have just
put them on the seats.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
Yes.
Don't do a gate giveaway
'cause it's stressful.
Put them on the seats and that way we know
if somebody doesn't come, we can take it.
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all of that, if you've listened to
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Yep.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: we
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angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
He took it.
Yeah.
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644: with that
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
what to say to, yeah, that was,
marito_1_06-03-2025_215644:
happy pride everyone.
We'll see you at the game.
angela--barely-alive-_1_06-03-2025_215644:
See you Saturday.
Bye.
