Podcast: Red Cards in Helltown Episode X

Rick Gethin, David Burgin, Justin Bell and Larry Johnson sit down for an hour to go over soccer things. Mostly MLS and Crew this week with some John F. Kennedy thrown in.

0:40 HEADLINES
• Landon Donovan retirement, thoughts from the room
• Importance to the US Soccer, MLS (overshadowed)
• Did he take it to the level(?)
• Donovan moments, best American player discussion (Justin doesn't think so)
• Jermaine Jones, MLS

16:20 COLUMBUS CREW
• Mix Diskerud, almost. We jump way in.
• Right fit? What are the needs
• "Vessels for MLS get excuses out, reasons out"
• "..we're like one leg of the table..."
• Limits of Berhalter, focus on many things
• Where is Asher Mendelsohn
• Romain Gall signed
• Toronto FC match comments
• Larry presses the wrong buttons!
• Berhalter audio (at min 30:00)
• Enertaining game
• What to do with Arrieta

39:20 MLS NEWS, NOTES
• MLS standings
• Same old story for some of the playoff bubble teams
• "don't do nothing"
• 13 min "media scrum" telling
• Did this result matter more?
• Expansion draft
• Bobby Warshaw piece, JFK's "We Choose to go to the Moon" speech.
• Stay or go, best situations

55:00 QUICK HITS, WRAP UP
• DC United, Sunderland partnership
• NYCFC and Red Bulls coexisting