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