#376: The bartender who scooped everyone on Balogun to Orlando

Scuffed | U.S. soccer, World Cup, Yanks Abroad, futbol in America

Adam Belz

Sports, Usmnt, Men's National Team, American Soccer, Us Soccer, Soccer, Mls, U17 National Team, U20 National Team, Youth National Teams, Yanks Abroad

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A Scuffed patron and part-time server in San Diego, BasedGallagher, joins the pod to explain how he learned that Balogun would be visiting Orlando last week. However it all ends up, this was a Tier 1 scoop and we (Watke, Vince and Belz) had to hear from Gallagher, on his impression of Batson, and on the moment he spilled the tea about Balogun's visit.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Scuff Podcast where we talk about US soccer. It's game day.
0:15.0	game day USA versus El Salvador in Orlando this evening 730 p.m. Eastern time.
0:20.0	I'm here with Waki and Vince.
0:22.0	We'll get to the game tonight and a bunch of other stuff on a busy USMNT weekend,
0:27.0	but for the first part of this episode we have a guest. Let me explain.
0:32.0	The scoop on Fuller and Baligan going to Orlando was initially
0:36.4	reported not by anyone on Twitter or by the Washington Post but by a scuff
0:41.6	discord user named Baste Gallagher who works at a bar in San Diego and
0:46.2	served J.T. Batson, the CEO of U.S. soccer, drinks on Friday night
0:51.2	March 17 when Batson was in town for the Federation's annual general meeting.
0:56.0	While we didn't have the confidence, or I guess I would say I didn't really have the confidence to run with the information.
1:01.7	Yes, thank you.
1:03.0	Thank you. Well, anyway, Gallagher's here now. We should, we should say hello to him.
1:08.0	Yeah, well, yeah, he's here. Let me just, let me just say, in retrospect, it was a tier one scoop top tier and so we brought Gallagher on the
1:16.2	podcast to talk about it a little bit before we get to the usual Monday review stuff.
1:20.3	Mr Gallagher how are you? I'm fantastic.
1:24.0	Thanks for having me on, you know, a first-time caller, long-time listener.
1:28.0	It's a pleasure and honor to be here guys.
1:30.0	Thanks for having me.
1:31.0	Hey, man, no problem and just know I believed in you.
1:34.0	Thanks, Vince.
1:35.0	I believe in you too.
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