00:00Mike Marr, you're on the clock.
00:02Yeah, a lot of people call me World Cup Mike.
00:04I have to dust off that nickname.
00:06I have you as Soccer Mike, but I'm Soccer Cake,
00:09so maybe I can't have you.
00:10And when this team is raising the trophy next month
00:14at the Meadowlands, you'll be calling me Meadowland Mike,
00:16MetLife Mike, because that game will be played
00:18where the Giants play.
00:19I was talking with some of my friends who are soccer heads,
00:21and they said this is a layup.
00:22You can't pass on this team.
00:24They have the best player in the world.
00:25He'll probably end up winning the Golden Boot.
00:27So give me the favorites, Spain, plus 450, to take it home.
00:32Are you a big Yamal guy?
00:33I'm sure he knows who that is.
00:35Yamal, is he the best player?
00:36Is that the guy he's referring to?
00:37I think Sebastian talked about it.
00:39He can't even find Spain on a map, let alone tell you
00:43Lamal or Yamal is.
00:45I couldn't.
00:46You couldn't find Spain on a map?
00:48I don't know the map.
00:50I'm telling you I couldn't.
00:51I'm telling you it's a fact.
00:52Spain's a pretty easy one.
00:54There are some countries where I'm going to struggle.
00:56I'm just telling you I couldn't.
00:57Spain is one I'm going to nail.
00:58You're lying.
00:59I'm not.
00:59I know Italy.
01:03I don't believe you.
01:04He's doing the dumbed down bit.
01:05I'm not.
01:06We need a map in here.
01:08If I gave you $100 right now to go find Spain on a map,
01:14you couldn't do it?
01:15I might get lucky.
01:19I don't know what you guys don't understand.
01:20I didn't learn the map when I was a kid.
01:23He doesn't care about the map.
01:24I don't care about the map.
01:25I never took geography.
01:26I wish I did.
01:27He's never going to Spain.
01:28I mean, I wish I knew it.
01:29It's a life leak.
01:30I don't know maps.
01:32All right.
01:32Who's up to?
01:33Who's up to?
01:34Valdez.
01:36Valdez is on the clock.
01:39In honor of Awad's French green bean call yesterday,
01:43I'm taking France.
01:44Not string bean.
01:45Green bean.
01:46French green bean.
01:48All right.
01:48So Spain and France are both.
01:50The only thing I know, Mbappe.
01:51That's the only thing I know.
01:54So two European powers taken first and second in our 2026 World Cup draft.
02:00So there's 12 groups, correct?
02:0212 groups, yeah.
02:0348.
02:03All right.
02:04Next up, draft T-shirt on the clock.
02:06All right.
02:06I think this team has an easier path to the final.
02:11I'm looking at both England and Portugal here.
02:15England's got a lot of firepower with Rashford and Bellingham and Harry Kane up front.
02:20I am worried about the heat.
02:22Okay.
02:23Those pale pink redcoats.
02:29But you still like them.
02:31I still like them.
02:32I think they have an easier path to the final.
02:34It's coming home.
02:35England and draft T-shirt together.
02:38All right.
02:38It's a draft T-shirt.
02:40Three for three European powers.
02:42Spain, France, and England.
02:44I'm just going to go with the highest ranked team odds-wise.
02:47I know who it is.
02:49I'm Team Ronaldo, baby.
02:51I'm taking Portugal.
02:53Portugal off the board.
02:56Got a bunch of Euros here through the first four.
02:58Is it JP next?
02:59JP now on the clock.
03:01And he can't pick Italy.
03:02Well, I hope he picks Italy.
03:03They're not in the field.
03:04Remember, he took Sergio Garcia in the U.S. Open when he wasn't playing.
03:10I'm going to go with the defending champions, Argentina, Group J.
03:13I knew you were going to do that.
03:14I'm going to go with the team I like.
03:16Yeah.
03:17I can't go with Brazil because Sergio or Sebastian, Sergio, Sebastian talked down about him.
03:24Oh, he did?
03:25Yeah.
03:26If you remember.
03:27All right.
03:27So Brazil scratched for you.
03:29For me, I'm going to go Germany.
03:31Ooh.
03:32All right.
03:33So we have Florian Wurtz is their best player.
03:35Five of six teams from Europe off the board in the first round.
03:39You're writing it down, right?
03:39You're keeping track.
03:40I've got it right here, right in front of me.
03:42All right.
03:42So now Bish Bucks, back-to-back picks.
03:44All right.
03:45Well, I'm going to go.
03:46I think I've got to go Brazil, even though Sergio blasted them.
03:51But they could still win a lot of games.
03:53You mean Sebastian.
03:54Sebastian.
03:55I said Sergio.
03:56It's all good.
03:57He said Sergio.
03:58We've been throwing out a lot of.
03:59We've got too many answers.
03:59So I'm going to take Brazil.
04:02Okay.
04:03Brazil off the board.
04:04And I'm also going to take, hmm.
04:08Do I take Belgium or the Netherlands?
04:13Hmm.
04:14You know what?
04:15Going with the Nethers.
04:16Two more countries.
04:16EB could never find them.
04:18The Nethers.
04:19I'm going Netherlands.
04:20That's something I studied.
04:21All right.
04:21Netherlands.
04:22Okay.
04:23All right.
04:24What's another name for Netherlands?
04:25You know this.
04:27Holland.
04:27Holland.
04:28See, you got it.
04:29Easy.
04:30Easy.
04:30What do you call their people?
04:32Dutch.
04:33Dutch.
04:34The Dutchies.
04:35All right.
04:35I just don't know the map.
04:36That's not a big deal.
04:39EB, you're up.
04:40I never had a globe.
04:41Did you ever have a globe?
04:42Definitely had a globe.
04:43You know?
04:44A lot of people had globes.
04:45I didn't have a globe.
04:46We should bring globes back.
04:47Globes are silly.
04:48Globes are modern.
04:49I actually think they are kind of cool.
04:50Actually, my father had a nice.
04:52He had a classy globe.
04:55Fancy globe?
04:55In his office.
04:56Yeah.
04:56I never looked at it, but it was classy.
04:59It wasn't like a red, white, and blue one.
05:02No, it was one of those brown ones.
05:03It was like a brown one.
05:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:05I remember it.
05:07All right.
05:08It's my turn?
05:08Yes.
05:09You have Germany as your first pick.
05:10Now you need your second.
05:11And Jason, of course, he took Netherlands.
05:13He went chalk, chalk.
05:14I will go chalk, Belgium.
05:17All right.
05:18Belgium off the board.
05:20I'm liking my squad.
05:22All right.
05:23JP, you're up next.
05:24You took Argentina with your first pick.
05:26All right.
05:26I'm going to get some early points.
05:27I'm going to head over to group A, and I'm going to take Mexico.
05:31All right.
05:32You got Mexico.
05:34All right.
05:34JP has a Latino flavor to his first two.
05:37Argentina and Mexico.
05:39Right.
05:39I see what he's doing.
05:40Both off the board there.
05:42All right.
05:42I'm going to go with another team that's just comprised of a bunch of guys who are fair-skinned,
05:47like, drab t-shirts, the English crew.
05:51I'm going to go with, these guys are probably going to get sunburned a lot over here, Norway.
05:56Norway.
05:56They're the highest team I still have left on my board, odds-wise, 33-1 to hoist the World
06:02Cup.
06:03Norway off the board.
06:06All right.
06:07Now, drab t-shirt, back to you.
06:09I'll be honest.
06:10Can you recap, like, the second round for me?
06:12Sure.
06:12So far, Netherlands went with the first pick of the second round to Bish Bucks, EB took
06:17Belgium, JP took Mexico, and I just took Norway.
06:22All right.
06:23Well, I like Latinas.
06:27I think I'm going to take Colombia.
06:28Okay.
06:29You got to take Colombia over Japan.
06:31Yeah.
06:32That's my only reasoning.
06:33Yeah.
06:34Yeah.
06:35All right.
06:35Did you like Latina chicks?
06:37Who was the Colombian soccer player with big hair?
06:40Oh, Valderrama.
06:41Valderrama.
06:42Who was the Colombian soccer player with big hair?
06:43Silly soccer can't explode that.
06:45How did you pull that one?
06:46Wasn't it a Colombian guy that got killed for the own goal?
06:48Yes.
06:49Yes.
06:49Kind of legendary.
06:50Yeah.
06:51Feel bad for that kid.
06:52That, I think, was in the 94 World Cup, right?
06:54In that era.
06:55After that, yeah.
06:55In that era.
06:58All right.
06:58Same year, we did the picking out of a hat.
07:01All right.
07:02Valdez, you're up next.
07:02Is it me?
07:03Yes.
07:03You took France with your first pick.
07:05Well, you're starting to get to the doo-doo now.
07:08Well, you keep thinking USA's doo-doo.
07:10I'm the only patriot here.
07:11I'm rooting for the red, white, and blue.
07:14All right.
07:14All right.
07:15Yeah, you can't take Japan.
07:15All right.
07:15So you have France and the USA.
07:17Pretty good one-two punch there.
07:18Now back to World Cup Mike.
07:23He took Spain with the number one overall pick.
07:26Now turn your mic on, stupid.
07:27I think all I need is them, is just Spain, but I guess I'll pivot here, because I was going
07:33to go USA if Valdez didn't.
07:35Give me Croatia, because they were in the World Cup in 2018, the World Cup final.
07:41Okay.
07:42So I'm just hoping they can turn back the clock a little bit.
07:44You sleep a little bit on the fact that I believe Croatia chose Alexandria as their training base
07:49while they're over here in the United States.
07:51Yeah.
07:52There was a bunch of people out there.
07:52You didn't know that nugget, did you, EB?
07:55No.
07:55Now you know it.
07:56Weren't they at Episcopal?
07:58I don't know where they were.
07:59I don't know the site of where they're training, but I know it's pretty sick.
08:01Episcopal High School.
08:02There's a billion fields out there.
08:03Very good.
08:04All right.
08:04So to recap, Mike Marr's got Spain and Croatia.
08:07Valdez has France and the U.S.
08:09Drab has England and Colombia.
08:11I have Portugal and Norway.
08:13JP selected Argentina and Mexico.
08:16EB, Germany and Belgium.
08:19And Bish Bucks with Brazil and the Netherlands.
08:22We will do rounds three through six off the air.
08:27Like right now.
08:28Yeah, like right now.
08:30Yeah, during the commercial break.
08:31Like super fast, guys.
08:32Yeah.
08:32And if you want to weigh in, 800-636-1067.
08:36You're welcome to do that on an open line Thursday here with the Junks.
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