All right, everybody. Welcome back. Sam's Army episode two point two 21. We got a lot to talk about this week. We're going to start with US men's national team, put a quick little bow on the gold cup. Good riddance to that.

We're weekly. What if we're going to hit pro rel headlines, coma ball and cuck caff messy and deckland rice. Then round the world with women's world cup time. It is it is time to get into it.

This week we got the the women's world cup is here. It's time to do some previews and maybe a little predictions and just start to get your mind right because for the next month. That's going to be a big topic of conversation. And then we got stoppage time with Ivan Tony's best bets and everyone's favorite segment.

Go as and then of course stay tuned this week for an insightful chat with long time friend of the program Julian Gressel. We talked about you know sort of what went on behind the scenes at US men's national team camp for the gold cup.

I grilled them a little bit on guys reactions to the negativity, especially on Twitter and how much burr halter input burr halter had on the starting 11's really got it really got after it with with Julian.

So stay tuned for that. But now it is time to welcome in this week's this week's distinguished panel of beauties. First up, we got Tommy McGunner who earned some major brownie points this week by voting that I out drove Tyler Tarns and Spencer Richie based on you know nothing more than the clips that we put on Instagram on the story. So question for you. And I need absolute honesty on this Tommy was that a vote on a pity.

No, because in golf, I think I have the most pity for myself. I'm awful. I did have the best round of my life yesterday. Still well over 100, but steady improvement.

And putting putting was good yesterday. So no, that was not out of pity.

Okay, all right. I appreciate that. I actually don't even know what the answers. I don't know who has the longest drive of that one, but I appreciate your vote.

Next up, Twitter number two, Mikey podcast. Now as the resident South American soccer expert expert around here, I need your learned opinion on something Mikey, who is going to have the better career.

Andrick or Vito or okay.

Oh, man, you catching me off a weird and Rick game. Did you watch that game? No, I didn't.

He's obviously a star, extremely confident in playing in a physical league, but I don't think putting the child as the lone nine on the road was such a smart idea or at home, even in a competitive game like that. He just look like a kid. So that's going to be tough.

Let's go with him. I'm going to go with him, because I don't think Vito or okay is going to be somebody I'm rooting for for a while. He's not going to be in any clubs that I love. I do have a soft spot for a youngster going to mature like that. So I'm going to root for Andrick more than I'm going to root for Victor Vito.

This is a vote for Real Madrid over Barcelona. Yeah, for sure.

Okay. I'm going to do a good Barcelona. That's fair enough. Fair enough.

Now let's move on to the US men's national team segment here. Let's keep it quick. And let's say goodbye and good riddance to the 2023 version of gold cup.

Hopefully we never speak of it again. US lost in highly regrettable fashion. It was one one to Panama. We lost on penalties in the semifinal. So let's start with the one word answer game, which everybody knows and loves around here. One word to describe that game.

I'm going to say triggering because I think what it did was hit all the sweet spots of a hit of somebody who wants to hate while also still kind of, you know, it's the B team CT Marguerbly. It's a cup we don't care about.

So the people who are apologists can do their thing as well. So what it did was unnecessarily add a matchbox to whatever was already bubbling under the surface. So I'm going to say triggering.

Alright, that's fair. I mean, yeah, it was, I think regrettable is the word that came to mind when I saw, you know, when I first thought about it. And, you know, I hate to say this, but it's probably true that we were in sort of a can't lose situation right there. If we win the goal cup, if we beat Mexico and win the goal cup, I mean, that is, you know, shit talking for life for us.

The fact that we didn't win it, obviously kind of stinks, but, you know, for fans, it really is frustrating and disappointing.

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