00:00Hey, you know, of all these stories, and we got the World Cup,
00:03and I think it's going to be kind of fun to see as this tournament goes on,
00:08especially the games here.
00:09And by the way, watching it and watching Portugal and Colombia,
00:14who wouldn't want that?
00:16I don't really care if it's in.
00:17Oh, it's great.
00:18It was great having it at our stadium.
00:21Great.
00:21There was nothing bad about it.
00:23Watching the coverage, and the Colombians had tickets this time.
00:28They weren't climbing through the windows and stuff and the bathrooms.
00:31I mean, it was just refreshing to see.
00:34They actually had tickets.
00:35Last week, there was a Tartan Army down here.
00:37We were on the Scottish.
00:39My son went to the game in a kilt.
00:41You know, he came down.
00:43The baseball game.
00:44Excuse me, the baseball game.
00:46Yeah, yeah.
00:46And he came down wearing a skirt, and I said, do you have something to tell me?
00:54But, yeah, the whole surrounding events of the World Cup are a lot of fun, too,
01:00in addition to the game.
01:01It's a great event.
01:05And, you know, they were fired up.
01:07I thought the Portuguese might bring a few more people.
01:10I didn't know that Colombians were going to take the whole frigging stadium.
01:12Holy smokes.
01:13You know, I was looking at those tickets are the most expensive in South Florida
01:18than anywhere in the country.
01:19Did you buy?
01:20I was watching the coverage before.
01:22They said they could have sold, what, a million requests for tickets?
01:27Oh, that's for that game.
01:30For that game?
01:31Where did they end up going?
01:32I know I did a column a couple weeks ago before, and they were going for over $3,000.
01:38Now, they probably came down as it got closer to the game.
01:41But, yeah, it's been fun to watch.
01:46And the stars have acted like stars, right?
01:49Mbappe and France, it looks like, to be one of the best teams,
01:53and they're very athletic.
01:55And then this thing with Messi leading his team.
01:58Argentina is now 3-0.
02:00He's got six goals.
02:02And now we're in the knockout stage where the games will get better
02:06and the consequences get bigger.
02:08Yeah, get this thing going.
02:09But we've still got a lot of games here, right?
02:11We've got three or four more games?
02:12Yeah.
02:14Actually, I'm not sure.
02:15I think the last one is a quarterfinal game.
02:18Oh, and then they have the third-place game.
02:20So we have a game coming up Friday between Argentina and Cabo Verde.
02:25Then there's going to be a quarterfinal game.
02:26Then the third-place game will be here at Miami Stadium.
02:29Oh, good.
02:30Good.
02:31So Messi plays here Friday?
02:34Oh, my God.
02:34That's great.
02:35At Miami Stadium.
02:37You know, it's Miami Stadium.
02:38I know.
02:38I still call it Hard Rock.
02:39I know.
02:40I'm just joking.
02:41But it's...
02:42I didn't realize so Messi and Argentina are going to be here.
02:45Oh, my God.
02:46This thing's going to be unbelievable.
02:48Oh, God.
02:50Isn't it funny?
02:50We talked about this.
02:53about when he got here, like, they need to play a game at Hard Rock Stadium.
02:58That was a conversation.
02:59You're right.
02:59Because they were talking about how many people, you know, make it...
03:03Don't jack the prices up so everybody can come see this guy.
03:06The greatest player maybe to ever play the game.
03:10He's in the discussion.
03:12Oh, yeah.
03:13Yeah.
03:13Him and Pele and there's Cristiano Ronaldo fans.
03:18But if Messi keeps going like this, I mean, this must be his last World Cup, though.
03:2638, turning 39.
03:27I mean, he...
03:28Yeah.
03:29But it does validate what you've seen in Inter-Miami.
03:32So, but the thing that gets me...
03:35I'm really infatuated with this whole thing now.
03:39That...
03:39And, again, I'm not soccer's biggest fan, like other sports.
03:43But the fact that he still wants to play at this level...
03:48I mean, you got to really...
03:49He could easily...
03:50He's made over a billion dollars.
03:53Like, if the...
03:54You know, like, all right, I've made enough.
03:55I've had a good career.
03:57He still loves playing.
03:58I mean, there's not...
04:00He's still possessed and loves playing.
04:02He wants to win championships, which the book talks about.
04:06And all these things to play at that level.
04:11He's the best player in the league.
04:12You know?
04:13It is like a Tom Brady wanting to play until 45 and playing at a high level.
04:19Those are the surprises now in sports, aren't they?
04:22Where guys are pushing the limits.
04:23At some point, can someone go to 50?
04:27I mean...
04:28I don't know, but there's a lot more quarterbacks going to be going to 40 now.
04:31We're seeing Aaron Rodgers is now 41, 42 years old.
04:35Tom Brady, I remember when he was in his mid-30s and he was talking.
04:39People are laughing like 45.
04:41And then he goes, and by the way, I thought he really, on his career, not the comeback in Atlanta,
04:48which was obviously big on the resume for greatness, but going to Tampa Bay and winning the championship without Bill
04:57Belichick, I just thought put him...
04:59People started a whole new discussion about Tom Brady.
05:04When he went there, he's calling his own plays and they kind of turned everything after they were kind of
05:08up and down early in the season.
05:10And he got it rolling and they win a championship there to go somewhere else in your 40s and win.
05:17Don't get me wrong.
05:18They had a great defense and all that stuff, but that puts a new level.
05:22And we got this guy and we got another guy.
05:25We got Djokovic over at Wimbledon.
05:27Almost he's sneaking up on 40 and still playing at a really high level.
05:31Um, again, these guys have made hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and they're still motivated to be great.
05:39There's the, there's the issue that I, how do they keep their motivation to coming into that league?
05:44Like that's, he's coming into this league that still gets ripped.
05:47This MLS gets constantly gets ripped about how bad a league it is.
05:52So, you know, I was like, but, but he is, he's dominating.
05:57Doesn't care who he's playing against.
06:01Well, we'll have Paul Tenorio on tomorrow, but in that book, he talks about in Messi's first meeting with the
06:08sporting director, the general manager of Inter Miami.
06:11He said, tell me all the trophies I can win.
06:14Yeah.
06:15And now he's gone out and he's gone out and won them.
06:18So I, I, I love that they're going to, I didn't realize Argentina was here on Friday.
06:23Speaking of hot tickets.
06:23It seems like all the good games have been out West, but, um, that'll, that'll be nice to have.
06:28Hey, listen, that Portugal, Columbia game.
06:31That was, that was a big game.
06:35Yeah.
06:35That thing.
06:36You saw Columbia every time they're here.
06:39I mean, if they don't have tickets, they're still coming through.
06:42They're watching the damn game.
06:44Hell, we had the head guy.
06:46Didn't he get kicked out and arrested?
06:47The head guy from Columbia.
06:48Last time he was here, he smacked the security guy.
06:50I wouldn't let him down.
06:51I forgot it.
06:52That was an issue.
06:53There was damage.
06:54There was damage done to the, to the, to the kid.
06:56I think we're asked clown one and two that day, man.
06:59They've got stupid on us.
07:02Remember that they had the women going through the, I forgot all the asses going through
07:05the, trying to get those, they were going, they were going to, what are these girls do?
07:10What are these women doing?
07:11They're getting in that game.
07:12They're going to watch that damn game.
07:14All right.
07:14Hey man.
07:17Hey, trying to get you uncomfortable, Dave here.
07:20Just being back here this morning here, eight o'clock hour.
07:23It's coming up.
07:23I don't know.
