00:01apologies in advance my friend because the avoid the voice has gotten even more annoying
00:06uh mark ryan in for mike veleni today alongside rico beard and uh yeah mike was all broken up um
00:14celtic's trade yeah jalen brown didn't really know what to do i said mike why don't you just
00:19go ahead and take a day yeah this this is a very hard time for him it was he he
00:24was he was just
00:25throwing things seriously mike was just walking around his house like i can't believe this you
00:29know so yeah well i need to tell you guys something uh we need to help rico beard exercise his
00:36demons
00:36because you look around what do you see rico we got two tvs here what are both tvs talking about
00:41they're talking about the same thing oh the other tv behind you what is that tv talking about oh it's
00:47talking about the same thing that tv and that tv are the same yeah yeah yeah okay so so rico
00:53beard and i
00:53have been having a little uh office war as opposed to an office romance and it's because every chance
01:00i get rico is taking pot shots at my sport he's taking pot shots at the beautiful game he's taking
01:07pot shots at at what is the crowning moment what has been the crowning moment for soccer in this
01:13country and i need your help today showing rico the light showing him the right path yeah because you
01:20you always pro soccer right oh always okay as a matter of fact i've said that the one event that
01:27would get me to run naked through the streets of detroit which is what no one wants to see
01:30is the united states men's team winning the world cup it's probably a good thing they haven't won it
01:35then look i'm not anti-soccer it's just a lot of stuff doesn't make sense to me you're anti-soccer
01:42no i'm
01:42but oh okay but david is just kind of funny because to i texted with a person last night who
01:52i'll leave
01:52nameless okay he may or may not be sitting across from me he may not so when all the stuff
01:59was going
01:59down with the red card question is this still a great sport answer man total bs yeah okay okay yeah
02:11there was it was flo balligan gets the red card total bs in this hour we're going to tell you
02:17why
02:17that might actually help the team but rico number one there are other sports that have that bs and
02:22it's college football they've got targeting it you got a running back lowers his head at the last
02:27second you make contact with his dome you're out the rest of the game you're out the first half of
02:31the next game yes except in a real sport oh you know what can happen he's not a soccer hater
02:38you
02:38listen to this no you know what can happen guys man you could appeal you could appeal the targeting
02:45they could go back and look at it and say you know what it actually wasn't targeting you can go
02:50ahead
02:50and play in the next game can you appeal this no soccer doesn't have the appeal that's it what sport
02:59doesn't have an appeal process well soccer doesn't have the appeal for you in general and i'm looking
03:04to change that no no soccer has no appeal and you know what i say exactly well last night flo
03:13balligan
03:14who got the red card got the u.s off and running in um early on in the game got
03:20him off and running
03:20early on in the game they score right before halftime they take the one nothing lead 60th minute he gets
03:27the red card and then you're like oh my god can we hang on for dear life like there was
03:32about a 10
03:33minute period where i thought we were going to to lose the game then in minute number 82
03:41minute number 82 set piece malik tillman i'm just gonna get out of the way
04:01say it with me rico go come on rico i like this it feels good i like this guy
04:14okay he's trying to he's trying to beat bill withers record okay oh there's more to that
04:20yeah we cut that i had to cut that we actually cut that if you can believe it so but
04:26but malik tillman
04:27got us to the round of 16 where the americans will take on belgium and look i am not here
04:35to say
04:35anything grandiose i'm not here to say is are we a soccer nation i actually agree with you that this
04:42is a little party right now and then in a few weeks we're going to go back to doing what
04:47we normally do
04:48but this is the best team we've ever had no no it is and i watched that because with tillman
04:55i remember
04:55saying i'm looking at the tv don't mess around with this just kick it in the net don't try to
05:00set
05:01up the strategy because you're down a man and he did he just you know what right to that corner
05:06ball game walks off i don't like the fact that seriously there's no penalty box but it felt like
05:14you were in a penalty for 30 plus minutes of the game the 10 minutes of extra bonus time which
05:20is
05:21just another joke in and of itself there's extra time not gonna tell you how much just keep playing
05:26until i blow the whistle but yeah so i'm like so there's no substitute and it was a bogus call
05:34because i've said this before and it's not because it was team usa mark everything looks worse in slow
05:40motion of course you slow it down and oh my how did you miss that because i saw it at
05:46regular speed
05:46i think that officials should be forced to watch it at regular speed unless it's like did the person go
05:52out of bounds or not or like a tag in baseball but other than that normal speed normal speed
05:59if anything a yellow card and i thought that was pushing it but they're like yeah he's gone and he's
06:04just like are you serious and not is he not only is he gone at least in targeting if you
06:11get to
06:11targeting in the right time you can play the next game so i can see if he was had to
06:18sit out for the
06:19first half he's gonna sit out the entire game great sport hey listen you're proud of yourself
06:25cut the crap on this on the soccer bashing here all right you you cut that out okay but let
06:30me to
06:31your point stop me when i say something incorrect okay i didn't think so and i digress uh can you
06:40imagine to your point in the nba if you lost rasheed wallace for the game every time he popped off
06:48at
06:48the official and got thrown hey guess what you guys are four on five the rest of the game it
06:52is
06:53absurd how penal that is right this was it in any other sport okay a backup has to come in
07:00but it's
07:00like wow they're gonna have to play for because it happened in the 60th minute at some point so
07:06you got another 30 minutes and then you got whatever the extra time is that yeah you're you're
07:13it's a pen it's like hockey it's a penalty kill for the rest of the game you got to play
07:17defense
07:20how beautiful was that fortunately you got that or else it was a lot of people
07:25already to say how oh they don't want america in here and you know it today i was just i
07:33was
07:33flabbergasted like wait so he's gone well i'll tell you this there's a lot of real quick here's
07:40what i do like about your sport i like the little cool uh luxury airline car seats that the whole
07:49team gets to sit on the sideline that was nice airline car seats i love it they paid for the
07:54big
07:55seat they brought it they're like first class seats like that's is this leather oh this is nice
08:00they got them from spirit airlines no the comfy seat yeah extra 50 bucks like man they were available
08:07spirit seats were available i thought they had extra 1901 society club seats those are the home
08:13plate seats right yeah this is nice okay hey uh hey mark going in actually i'm kind of comfortable
08:20i'll order some wings go ahead and put david in i'll just sit here in these nice cushy seats how
08:26much of
08:26this abuse am i going to take over the course of this show today i'm convinced i will tell you
08:30what
08:30there's a lot there's there's a lot of hosts around america a lot of hosts in different markets
08:36and i don't necessarily think you're one of these guys but they secretly want the u.s to lose because
08:42they don't want to continue to have to talk about soccer right there's a lot of hosts around america
08:47right no no no no no first of all there are they're hoping they lose i will be flying my
08:54cape verde flag
08:55when they play argentina because we we picked them that flag is going to last for about 10 seconds
09:01no upset of the year right there there you go we're gonna we're gonna get we're gonna win
09:09okay you believe that we will win yes okay so i want to ask you guys this question i'm totally
09:14into
09:15the world cup as a matter of fact i was telling myself this last night i don't remember the last
09:20time
09:20i was this hook line and sinker invested uh quite honestly like i'm invested but like i'm like in bed
09:28thinking about this stuff i'm dreaming about it right now that's my level of excitement rico i'm having
09:34to drag him kicking and screaming so when it comes to the u.s in the world cup whose side
09:40are you on
09:41and i will be so incredibly impressed if one of you guys can convince rico beard to get on the
09:48train
09:48with me okay i have failed miserably i need your help getting rico on the u.s world cup soccer
09:56train
09:57yeah this hurts this hurts my feelings are deeply hurt 248-539-9797 is where you guys can get to
10:05us on
10:06the show if you were putting up a billboard to sell rico on the world cup what would your billboard
10:12say
10:13i want to know what you're thinking tell me what's on your mind uh it's valenian rico mark ryan in
10:19for
10:19mike here on 97.1
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