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The Five stages of grief in one hour
We try to put you on a path to acceptance as we give our instant, unfiltered reactions to the loss in Houston.
After a frustrating, controversial Sporting KC loss in Houston, we’re opening ourselves up. Instant, unfiltered reactions to show the world who we are. This is my blood. It’s red. Like yours.
Shades of Blue attempts to escort you through the five stages of grief… all in one show. Perhaps by the last segment we can find acceptance. From the handball, to missed chances and bad substitutions, we’re airing all our grievances this Festivus season. Then we deny and bargain our way through a full match recap.
This can’t be. Were the tactics wrong? What if they called the handball? Can we eliminate PRO entirely?
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Segment 1: Denial & Anger
Segment 2: Bargaining & Depression (23:10)
Segment 3: Acceptance? (44:00)
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I just started the episode, I love the dramatic music under David’s rant. He did most of my hours long podcast in a few minutes.
I’m in the minority for the handball. If that was us, instead of Houston, we would say that it wasn’t a handball. I think the ultimate issue is that VAR needs to be run from a central office for the entire league. That way there is some consistency with the way all reviews are done. This would hopefully prevent a lot of the issues SKC had this year with inconsistencies. Still can’t fix the referees that call things differently every week.
Vermes should have subbed earlier. At least he went with not like for like subs. He never does this. I’ve always thought in any elimination game (US Open Cup, Leagues Cup, MLS Cup, etc) we should go kamakaze in the final 15 minutes. Nothing to lose!
I’m already at acceptance.
In the spirit of helping the crew get past this, if SKC losing in the playoffs is the main source of the trauma in your life then things are going pretty well.
As for the handball, Houston outplayed us and deserved the “W”, the handball call could’ve negated that so the no call is correct….just kidding, what in the ever-loving f@#& were they thinking not calling that?!?!
My big issue with refereeing is the lack of transparency. Each coach should be able to list up to three incidents which the ref, in a recorded statement should have to explain what they saw and why they made the call. Where the statement is “I didn’t see it live and relied on VAR”, then the VAR should have to provide the explanation. No press shooting gotcha questions, just explain to me why this wasn’t a handball or why Hector got several “final” warnings and no yellows.
The pool reporters in each location need to ask the questions but of course they only go to the ref, not the VAR.
This was a good listen.
Thank you, sir! Appreciate that.
As always this was another great listen guys. You helped me work through this difficult time. Thank you for that. Now onto a few of the rants…I think that I agree with David on his long list of grievances. I think the handball was a handball. Would I think that if I was Houston fan? Probably not, but I’m not so I don’t care! Also about the Houston fanbase being undeserving of this win. I 1000% agree! I have been to a Sporting game in Houston and there were no Houston fans there and the ones that were there were terrible! And the subbing…why Peter why?! Ok that’s enough from me. I’m going to try to go do some work and move on towards acceptance.
It seems that one of the major problems with VAR, as pointed out by Wiebe on Instant replay, is the wording clear and obvious error just for VAR to call the ref over. VAR needs to be able to initiate replays on close calls so the ref can check their own call. As soon as VAR holds up the game, the ref should go to the monitor. It showed in this game, and the Columbus/Orlando game, where the ref didn’t look at the potential offsides. I don’t know if either play should have been overturned (I’ve been convinced that it was a handball), but the fact that the person that could have overturned the calls, didn’t go and look at the play, seems like a major a problem
This is a good point about just send the ref over. They make a call in an instance, often with obstructed angles. I think they’d love to have a second look at such a key play. Also, he stands around for 90 seconds, he could have easily gotten to the monitor in that time. If it added a bit more delay, I think we’d all be okay with that to get the calls right (except Houston today of course).
I hear what everyone is saying about us not losing because of the handball and that we didn’t play well enough anyways. I hear that, but imagine we do get that call. Then we’d have leveled the game again right before halftime and we would be going into the locker room hyped. Do you think our play might have been better coming into the second half knowing that we just evened the score? Don’t you think we would have come out with some fire?? Don’t you think Pulido would have put the team on his back and finally lived up to his multi-million dollar hype??? WE WOULD HAVE GONE ON TO WIN MLS CUP BUT INSTEAD WE’RE ROBBED BY PRO’S INCOMPETENCE! I DEMAND JUSTICE!
It doesn’t hit as well without David’s dramatic music. To be honest though, I was upset but not totally put out by the loss. We really did look pretty meh until the 80th minute and PV was super disappointing on his subbing and tactics. For as awesome as he did with STL, he totally pulled a 180 in my opinion. It’s a disappointing way to go, but I am happy that Sporting at least made it fun to watch soccer again.