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MLS suspends Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba for missing All-Star game - did Don Garber make the right decision?
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00:00And Leo Messi, Jordi Alba have been suspended by the MLS
00:05for missing the All-Star game.
00:08So they will be held out of the final MLS game
00:12until the league goes on pause for the League's Cup.
00:16Cincy in Miami tomorrow, 7-15.
00:19You nailed it.
00:25Good call.
00:26Don't be so certain, Hawk and Crowder.
00:28Don't be so certain.
00:30Because this league is going to make an exception for Messi and Alba.
00:37They should really get the credit they deserve for bringing back.
00:42I mean, this Don Garber, what a coward, this Don Garber.
00:45Honestly, what a massive coward this Don Garber is.
00:48I mean, you have Leo Messi playing back-to-back-to-back-to-back 90-minute games.
00:55They're headlining him at the FIFA Club World Cup,
00:58but the only team to get out of the group stage from your league.
01:01Rules, man.
01:02Rules, rules.
01:02He has significantly grown this league to a level that Don Garber could have never imagined
01:09against everything Don Garber wants to institute in this league, by the way.
01:14I'm very thankful to a Cuban guy in Jorge Mas, who is trying to bend the rules and grow the
01:18league and make everybody more money.
01:20And Don Garber is like, oh, no, you can't play because he didn't give us 15 minutes of
01:24PR in the All-Star game.
01:25Rules are rules.
01:26What a joke.
01:27Don't play in the MLS All-Star game and you're healthy enough to play, then you can't play
01:31in the next game.
01:32That's the rule.
01:33It's written.
01:34It's a rule.
01:35Absolute joke.
01:36No, I don't know if Don Garber wrote this one, but go a step further back.
01:40That rule is dumb.
01:42It's like the NBA thing, the players load management stuff.
01:47It's silly.
01:48No, who gives a damn thing to play in the MLS All-Star game?
01:51Nobody cares.
01:52Let them play when the game matters.
01:53No, I totally disagree with that.
01:55That's a celebration of the league for the league's fans.
01:59You're going to tell me the biggest star can't show up?
02:01Hawk, what about the dunk contest?
02:03What about NBA?
02:04Nobody wants to participate when they do all-star game.
02:07You're talking about four contestants.
02:09That's different than being voted in and representing the league in front of the league's fans.
02:15If you don't want to play in the league's celebration of the league, there has to be some sort of
02:20punishment.
02:21That's the punishment.
02:22That would compel most players who are interested.
02:28If a game means something, the one coming out of the break, that would compel most players
02:33or organizations to compel their players to go play.
02:36Didn't work with Messi and Alba.
02:38And now Inter-Miami and those guys have to suffer the consequences.
02:42So you're mad that I don't play in this game.
02:44So now you're going to not let me play in another game in the league that people are watching.
02:48Which is a huge game.
02:50It punishes the team.
02:52It actually punishes the team.
02:56Inter-Miami's playing.
02:58We're trying to grow the league.
02:59We've got 60,000 fans here to come see our biggest stars.
03:03And you're one of our biggest stars, if not the biggest star, and you just choose not
03:08to show up.
03:09Well, your team gets punished.
03:10I got no problem with that at all.
03:12I think it's silly.
03:13I'm tired of everybody just taking days off willy-nilly.
03:17Get out there and play.
03:18How many shows are you doing next week?
03:23One.
03:23I'm trying to get out of it.
03:27Your weather.
03:32Bro, it's hot, man.
03:33It's really hot.
03:34Today's hotter than yesterday and the day before and the day before.
03:36It's 94 degrees right now.
03:39So stay indoors.
03:42Hey, Goldie, you're listening.
03:43Pull a little sunscreen on the top of your head.
03:46Oh, now you're mad at Goldie.
03:47Yeah, wow.
03:49Wow.
03:51Goldie wants to know maybe his brother, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:04I leave Goldie alone.
04:05I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:07I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:08I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:09I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:10I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:11I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:12I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:13I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:14I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:15I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:16I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:17I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:18I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.
04:19I leave Goldie, Wionel Messi, is available.

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