Hartford Athletic

And, uh, kind of a, a bunched up pack there between everyone else.

Uh, Hartford Athletic, unfortunately, they lost in the, the USL Cup, uh, just recently by Louisville, who's in the, the playoff positions.

But Louisville, they've actually, kudos to them, they've won everything available to them.

But they haven't clinched a playoff spot.

I went back and watched the USL All Access preview of it.

Uh, Devin Kerr and Mike Watts are clearly the biggest Hartford Athletic fans in the world.

They have had four interviews with Hartford Athletic players and staff in the last two seasons, and they've done a preview of each cup with a Hartford Athletic player.

So last year it was SeeAhha, this year it was Samadia And they need to start spreading the love.

In fact, I also realized they've never done a Rhode Island FC interview in the three years now that we've been operating as a club.

Maybe they feel like we do enough to carry the water around here that they don't need to.

But, uh, you know, I think Devon Kerr might secretly be a Hartford Athletic fan.

So, uh, I was very happy, Stacy, that they lost.

A lot of heartbreak in Hartford the last two days.

Hartford Athletic on a national stage coming up on the short end.

And another awful soccer game, by the way.

Horrible.

alright well we've got another our final caller of the night probably calling us from the top of the founders bridge in Hartford he may be in the river or not in the river this could be the time where he takes the plunge.

I don't know.

They're a very, very, uh, tough couple loss, uh, for a Hartford athletic this afternoon.

Uh, Jake Fenner may or may not be with us.

Thank you, guys.

[upbeat music] USL Cup Final, Hartford Athletic hosting Louisville City in the final.

This is from a corner.

Aidan McFadden heading the ball in to score.

Oh.

Oh, that burn.

Yeah, our own Mark Donaldson, in-house commentator at Hartford Athletic.

Not heard from him tonight.

Uh, but like the teams ahead of us kind of are really running away with it.

So if we look at the results from the weekend, Hartford and Louisville draw.

So that's just one point.

So not really extending that gap there very much.

We have Pittsburgh.

They're above us on the table.

We have Hartford Athletic.

They are above us on the table.

I'm talking Louisville.

against Hartford at Trinity Health Stadium.

We literally had them take on each other this past weekend.

Which team made more changes from the two from their previous encounters? Louisville took on Loudon before, and then I think Hartford took on Las Vegas.

So there was a lot of changes for one side, not so many changes for the other.

We're going to talk about that match.

We'll talk about Brooklyn and Birmingham midweek.

Then we'll get into OC.

I mean, apparently I, I saw, uh, something online, a similar comment about the, um, the, was it the Suns or whatever leaving Connecticut.

And they're like, "There's no other professional team here." [laughs] And ironically, Hartford, unfortunately, is doing really well.

And they're just still 100% focused on the Sox.

I don't wanna talk, we have to talk about that a lot tonight.

It would take a absolute collapse from this team.

But to be able to get to a home playoff spot, especially with the way a lot of these other teams are playing, you know, you, we, we, we mentioned, you know, we don't ...

We're gonna unfortunately talk about them m- too much tonight, but Hartford is on an incredible run.

Let's just ...

Carvalho was good.

This team does not lose one iota of the things that make them Hartford Athletic.

You talked on the broadcast, Payton, about Brendan Burke doesn't see the directness as like a thing he's in love with.

It is just a practicality of injuries and roster and all of that.