Welcome to the scuff podcast where we talk about U.S. soccer.

Hey everybody, we are on to the semifinals of the Gold Cup, able to squeak past Costa Rica, despite

giving them a good chance to beat us. Greg, how are you doing? I mean, Bells, I am doing

wonderfully, reveling in yet another Gold Cup quarterfinal circus. I feel like we've enjoyed quite a few of these over the past five or six years.

Not least of all because there's at least one American who is not enjoying Gold Cup

quarterfinal circus, and that would be Jesse Marsh.

I feel like just to keep scuffed on brand.

We've got to just talk about it right away.

Yeah, it's too bad we don't have Vince here to, you know, truly revel in this.

But, yeah, Canada knocked out by Guatemala.

Rubio Rubine with the equalizer.

And, you know, Aaron Herrera with a goal line clearance.

Canada's out.

Jesse Marsh squirming in the press, flopping all over the place.

Right, because the guy just loves the press.

And I personally, I mean, again, to go off brand a little bit, I personally don't have anything against Jesse Marsh.

But I love the drama.

I love the soapiness of the whole thing.

You know, we've been enjoying that for years now on the U.S. side.

So it's like, this is, it's just perfect for the soap.

Jesse is perfect for the soap because of his compulsion almost to like weigh in on some of these U.S. things and sort of twist knives

whenever he thinks he gets a chance to twist a knife in a way that he always has a little bit of plausible deniability.

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