Both Sides of the Short-Rest Debate

S2E45 - For the Glory KC is back with the 52nd episode of the show! On this week's episode, Sporting Kansas City play twice and get two wildly different results. We spend way more time on the happier of the two results as Sporting KC stole all three points off the Houston Dynamo despite playing down a man. We give our thoughts and observations on the squad rotation, Johnny Russell's red card, Erik Thommy's hell of a night, Khiry Shelton's best game of the year and a bit of a stinker from my favorite, Nemanja Radoja. If you prefer your thoughts in video/Tweet form, I encourage you to check out this thread I did after the game if a podcast isn't your thing. It's got video and gifs of the red card, some questionable fouls and officiating and some downright scary plays. We can't avoid bringing the ugly Nashville SC game into it, although we keep that brief because to quote Sheena, she forgot about that game. The KC Current get the week off, so we instead do a mailbag of Sporting KC centered questions, including: How long is Pulido out and what does SKC do next weekend with Russell suspended? Sheena answers for her Tim Melia early season slander Is defense the problem or actually the offense? Is Vermes the man to lead (and build) this team into the future? The Digital Crawl does get some KC Current love as well as SKC II, the USWNT and USMNT and of course I annoy Sheena by updating her on Messi and briefly saying what's going on with him (he's hurt! -- probably). [Sorry for the delay getting the episode out. We recorded yesterday but my mic was all funky and it took a while to try to fix it.] Here is a quick rundown of topics (and approximate start times): Sporting KC battle Houston for all three points - 1:33 They also lost ugly to Nashville - 28:02 Mini-mailbag - 40:16 Digital Crawl - 54:38 Upcoming Games KC Current @ Washington Spirit - Sat. Sept. 30th at 6:00 PM CST Sporting KC @ St. Louis City SC - Sat. Sept 30th at 7:30 PM SKC II will have a home playoff game where they pick their opponent (date and time coming Tuesday). Big thanks to Splitter Conspiracy (listen to them here) for our theme music made with the permission of the KC Cauldron.