00:00Cousins, my Scottish cousins are all going up to Boston for the World Cup.
00:06Scotland plays Haiti, and then Scotland plays Morocco.
00:09This is our quick Scotland World Cup minute here.
00:11He was telling me that basically Scotland versus Haiti is the Super Bowl for Scotland.
00:19Really?
00:20Well, if you look at the way the qualifying works,
00:24Scotland's probably going to lose to Brazil.
00:26I feel like we all feel kind of comfortable in that, right?
00:30And then Morocco is really good, too.
00:32I think Morocco went on a deep run in the last World Cup.
00:36So Scotland has to beat Haiti to have a chance at advancing.
00:41Because if they can beat Haiti and then maybe get a tie with Morocco or Brazil,
00:45all of a sudden you're in shouting business.
00:47What are the odds on that one?
00:49I don't know.
00:50I figured you would know the odds.
00:51I've got to be honest.
00:52I don't know the Scotland-Haiti.
00:54You can find that for me, WB.
00:55Let's see.
00:57I'm going to guess Scotland's a favorite over Haiti.
00:59I don't know.
01:03But I wonder, and I don't know this because there's 64 teams,
01:07and Lord knows there's things I don't know about the world.
01:09Is there a less populous matchup between two countries in the World Cup
01:15than Scotland playing Haiti?
01:17We're talking about two pretty small island nations.
01:20I don't know.
01:22That's got to be among the smallest.
01:24I will not try to sit up here and act like I am the brains behind the World Cup.
01:30I will be watching it.
01:33There you go.
01:34You got odds for me?
01:35I'm going to Friday night.
01:36Saturday night, I'll be watching.
01:38Friday night, I'll be watching.
01:39The U.S.
01:40Minus 185 on the money line.
01:42All right.
01:42So they're a favorite.
01:43All right.
01:44Not an overwhelming favorite, but they're a favorite.
01:46That's good.
01:47Got to beat Haiti.
01:48That's where we start.
01:50But my bigger thought was.
01:51Yeah, Jay, I'm going to have to go against you, man.
01:53My grandfather is part of Haitian now.
01:55Uh-oh.
01:56We run into back Scotland versus Haiti?
01:59The rivalry nobody knew about?
02:03Oh, man.
02:04My grandfather was dark scared with blue eyes.
02:06Boy, I was like, whoo, dog.
02:08The ladies liked him, boy.
02:10Who's dead?
02:10My mom's dead.
02:11Oh, that's funny.
02:11My grandmother would say, your damn eyes are going to get him in trouble.
02:16Boy, Brian, I don't know that you can find this.
02:17This is an incredibly inane thing to find.
02:20Find the smallest countries playing each other.
02:24So Curacao plays the Ivory Coast.
02:26I don't know if that would be.
02:27That'd probably be smaller.
02:28I think Ivory Coast is a little larger of the actual geography of the Ivory Coast.
02:33It's a bigger nation, I believe.
02:37Again, could be wrong.
02:38But I think you could.
02:40It's kind of got a lot of people in these light towns, though.
02:43Glasgow's a big city.
02:44Glasgow's a legit big city.
02:45But I think you could put, like, the geographic mass of Scotland and Haiti into the Ivory Coast.
02:52You could probably put them into Texas.
02:53Yeah.
02:54Certainly into Texas.
02:55This is a...
02:57I got Ivory Coast roughly.
02:59Now, I don't know the population of it.
03:01But it seems about the size of, like, Arizona.
03:04That's my extremely rough geography.
03:08But, again, my greater point with the World Cup, because it's here, right?
03:15Like, it starts Friday.
03:16Mm-hmm.
03:17And the games are finally here.
03:19And you and I aren't going to pretend that we are going to...
03:24Once the games are on television, and certainly once it gets into the knockout rounds, I'm interested.
03:29Like, I will watch.
03:30The Ivory Coast have 31 million people.
03:33Okay.
03:3431,934,280.
03:38Scotland has five.
03:40Five million?
03:41Yeah.
03:41Wow.
03:42All right.
03:42What does Haiti have?
03:43Haiti's population.
03:4412.
03:45So, combined, we're looking at 17 million people between Haiti and Scotland.
03:49Yeah.
03:50So, that's smaller than the Ivory Coast off the break.
03:52Yeah.
03:52Now, Curacao's probably way smaller.
03:56But...
03:56You're already losing to one of the teams.
03:59Dog.
03:59Dog.
04:00Do you know what the...
04:02This is incredible that they made the World Cup.
04:04Credit to Curacao.
04:05What's their population?
04:06Guess.
04:09100,000.
04:10200,000.
04:11158,000 people.
04:13That is...
04:14They deserve real credit.
04:16And I know they changed the rules, and there's more teams making it.
04:19But to hell with that.
04:20They have 160,000 people who are able to qualify for a World Cup.
04:24Credit to you, Curacao.
04:25I mean, there's some athletic folks in that town.
04:27Sure.
04:28That area.
04:29Now, again, what I have realized this morning, driving downtown, and I'm not here for the
04:37blame game and how and why.
04:40It's a bummer we don't have World Cup games.
04:43Oh, you're right about that.
04:44It's a bummer, dude.
04:45I remember...
04:46So, there's none here at all.
04:48Period.
04:48No Baltimore, no nothing.
04:50They always asked me something about Northwest State.
04:52I said, I don't think they don't have no games there.
04:55They had one of the friendlies or something going on before.
04:57They had the France-Columbia.
04:58Remember when we got the t-shirts and everything?
05:00And I don't want to play the blame game because the people involved now are doing plenty that
05:06when the Women's World Cup comes to town in 2031, whenever that is, I believe it's 2031,
05:11I bet there will certainly be games here.
05:15But it's just...
05:17This is the capital of the country.
05:19Yeah.
05:20There should always...
05:21If there's a world event, there should be games here.
05:23Yeah.
05:24And...
05:25You're right.
05:25It's just a bummer.
05:27They're going to Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, LA, Miami, Meadowlands,
05:33Philly, San Fran, and Seattle.
05:36Now, I don't know who DC should bump off.
05:39They should bump somebody off.
05:40Mm-hmm.
05:41And it just kind of sucks because I was thinking about this when I was a kid.
05:46When was the last World Cup here?
05:4794, I want to say.
05:49Does that sound right?
05:5196?
05:52No, 96 was the Atlanta Olympics.
05:54I want to say 94.
05:55I think Italy won.
05:56I could be wrong on that.
05:58But they had games at RFK.
06:01And I actually weirdly went to a game in Orlando.
06:04I saw the one World Cup game I've ever seen, Brian, is arguably the most boring game in
06:08history.
06:09Who was it?
06:09Belgium versus Morocco.
06:11I have a lot of ties to Morocco, apparently.
06:12Who scored?
06:131-0.
06:14Dude scored in like the second minute of the game.
06:16And this was before...
06:18Now they have that goal differential rule, so teams keep trying to score.
06:21Mm-hmm.
06:22But back then, they didn't have it.
06:23So then they just played defense.
06:24They just like kicked the ball back and forth with the goalie the entire game.
06:27And it was 2,000 in Orlando.
06:29Brazil played Italy, Brian said.
06:32Who won it?
06:33Brazil?
06:33Yeah, Brazil won it 3-2 in the Rose Bowl.
06:36Yeah, I remember that.
06:36That was cool.
06:37That's very cool.
06:39So I'm excited for the World Cup to start.
06:42I just don't know that...
06:46It just is a bummer that neither of this is here.
06:51Like, something should be here.
06:55So, that said, that's your World Cup preview from B. Mitch and Finley.
07:00I did get invited.
07:01I was thinking about this.
07:03I don't know if the boys...
07:04I don't know if the boys in there will put up 20 bucks a man.
07:07But you and I can maybe front some of this.
07:10I got invited to a World Cup pool.
07:14And I don't really know much, but I like gambling.
07:19I know that much.
07:19Well, if you don't know much, that's the first thing to not do when it's gambling.
07:24So we have to pick the two teams to advance from every group.
07:29And then we have to pick the winner, the team, and the dude that scores the most goals.
07:34So it's kind of like...
07:35So I think in this situation, I'm not listening to you.
07:39Brian, can you help us with this?
07:41JP just said he don't know much, but he want to gamble.
07:44Yeah, there's also eight third-place teams that are advancing.
07:46So are you just...
07:48It doesn't take into account that?
07:50See, you know everything.
07:52The pool is...
07:53I'm going to talk on the sports bible.
07:55Which two teams will finish first and second in each group?
07:58So it's not necessarily advancing.
07:59It's who finishes first and second.
08:01Okay.
08:01Also, you said eight third-place teams advance?
08:04Yes.
08:05Gives us more hope for Scotland.
08:07Maybe the Haiti game ain't the Super Bowl.
08:09Maybe all the games matter.
08:11Should the U.S. advance?
08:12How are we feeling about our boys?
08:14The U.S. is favored to win the group, slightly over Turkey.
08:18Really?
08:19So the U.S. is...
08:20I guarantee I get a text from somebody that says the U.S. is favored over Turkey.
08:24The U.S. group is U.S., Paraguay, Australia, and Turkey.
08:29I like our chances.
08:30I was listening to...
08:31You know, I get a text every day when we talk about everything.
08:34Especially Turkey.
08:35This dude from Turkey.
08:36I know I'm about to get a damn text now.
08:38So, I was listening to Sebastian Salazar with the Junks yesterday, and he was saying Paraguay
08:45just lost like their leading scorer.
08:46So, that's good news for us.
08:48They did, and they're last friendly.
08:50And I watched some of the U.S.-Germany game that last weekend was their last friendly.
08:56U.S. looked good.
08:57Like, I assume Germany's a higher caliber team, and the U.S. more than held their own.
09:03They lost 2-1, but it was like a good game.
09:05Yeah, the U.S. attack is very good.
09:06Our goalie kind of stinks, and our defense isn't great, but the one guy's been hurt, and he's
09:11coming back, Chris Richards.
09:13The U.S. having a bad goalie is crazy to me, because we've always had good goalies, and
09:18kids here grow up using their hands.
09:20We should have good goalies.
09:23Like, we are a hand-eye coordination country.
09:26The rest of these countries are in the foot-eye coordination.
09:29We should have good goalies.
09:31Damn it.
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