ExtraTime Radio: Nelson Rodriguez (Chicago Fire)
Extratime
Andrew Wiebe
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Hat tricks, ejections and last-second comebacks marked a weekend of MLS action that saw Clint Dempsey feast on the service of Jordan Morris, Jesse Marsch get the boot in LA and Giovinco prove he’s the class of the league – again. Ben the Research Baer jumps on to deliver a hot take on Seattle’s playoff chances, and Nick Rimando makes more history.
Ahead of the US Open Cup semifinals, Chicago Fire general manager Nelson Rodriguez stops by the studio to give a behind-the-scenes look at the club’s transfer dealings, explain why they haven’t splashed the cash – yet, anyway – and dream about winning a trophy in front of the home fans at Toyota Park.
In the mailbag, the guys share their MLS origin stories, plus Sounders fans explain what a successful season looks like, even if it doesn’t include the playoffs, and why LA is obviously excluded from the Cascadia Cup.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Extra Time Radio in the Octagon out in San Francisco, Matt the armchair analyst Doyle. |
| 0:08.2 | Do you do you like not care about your hygiene? Is that what we're hearing here? I'm actually an |
| 0:13.2 | obsessive hand washer. Or maybe the best team in the MLS in... Wait a minute, no, you're |
| 0:18.8 | a gas man, that's wrong. Why? Because, no, that's absolutely wrong. |
| 0:22.0 | That's why he's here. |
| 0:24.0 | Oh, from New York, New York, you are listening to extra time at radio on SeriousXMFC Channel 85 |
| 0:30.4 | at in Lass Soccer.com. |
| 0:32.3 | I am Andrew Weebi of course next to me who else who else Dave |
| 0:36.8 | Who else would it be why would you ask me I don't know because you're the one sitting there Dave Goss and then in the actagon |
| 0:42.4 | Matt the armchair analyst Doyle you're the one sitting there, Dave Goss, and then in the Actagon, |
| 0:42.7 | Matt the armchair analyst Doyle. |
| 0:45.0 | If you could co-host this show with anyone in the world, |
| 0:48.4 | right, let's say the large world of Major League soccer. |
| 0:51.4 | Oh, of Major League soccer. |
| 0:52.4 | So like we can add US soccer to that. |
| 0:54.5 | Like I think David Beckham could go in that. |
| 0:56.4 | I'm looking around the Star Wars Cantina |
| 0:58.0 | who are going to buy a drink, who's going to sit down next to me for this? |
| 1:01.3 | I mean, Greido is the obvious choice until I have to waste him. |
| 1:05.0 | You didn't get that reference? No? Just over here, just giving me the blank stare. |
| 1:10.0 | This is why you're my co-host. |
| 1:12.0 | I don't know how we ended up on Star Wars. Yeah, well well, I mean it's just because it's a great image. I'm gonna give that to Ariel Castillo. She's the one that put that image in my mind at all-star the Star Wars Cantina as you know equation for like MLS and MLS media. |
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