Good Vibes FC: The Playoffs Are Set

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Sam Mewis (0:51)

You're listening to the MIB Media Network, and this is The Women's Game. Which of these games is like circled on your calendar as potentially the spiciest one?

Becky Sauerbrunn (1:00)

Spiciest is Kansas City, Angel City. Angel City is going to go into Kansas City's place. I think that they're going to win. I think it'll be a crazy game. It'll be super tight, but I think Angel City is going to get it.

Sam Mewis (1:14)

Hi everybody, and welcome to Good Vibes FC. I'm Sam Mewis, coming to you from the Women's Game World Headquarters in Vermont.

Becky Sauerbrunn (1:19)

And I'm Becky Sarburn, coming to you from Portland, Oregon.

Sam Mewis (1:21)

Good Vibes FC is presented by our great friends over at Ollipop, use code TWG20 for 20% off at drinkollipop.com. Today in the podcast, we're calmly recapping Decision Day after frantically watching it live with all of you on Sunday. Playoffs are set, Gotham won the Shields. It was a crazy day. I'm excited to delve back into that. Then we'll chat briefly about the NWSL GM survey that came out recently. And finally, we've got an email from Erin about navigating friendships through all the different phases of life.

But first, Becky, have you recovered from Decision Day yet? It was a crazy day.

Becky Sauerbrunn (1:53)

It was crazy. Have I recovered? No, I think once we ended, and I took a snapshot of my setup, just because that was hilarious with all the screens that were up.

I did need like five minutes where I just sat in a dark room and just kind of reset.

Sam Mewis (2:10)

You just need to disassociate for a minute. I go through that a lot.

Becky Sauerbrunn (2:13)

Just for a few minutes and then I realized, oh, I've got responsibility in a form of a small child, so I must go and take care of him. I must reassociate with the world and take care of him. It was crazy, but it was so much fun, Sam.

I was very worried about my technological setup and just being able to get the games up. Of course, frantically, once it turned 2 PM for the start of the games, I'm like, why aren't any of the games showing up? Where's the Gotham game? Why isn't all the channel everyone said it was going to be on?

Sam Mewis (2:46)

I know. I feel like they teased us saying Gotham Channel was supposed to start at 4:30 PM Eastern time, 30 full minutes before kickoff with like, I was like, they're going to have a pregame show. It's going to be all, and it was not even on. It was like one of the, like, it was so hectic and it came up so late.

Becky Sauerbrunn (3:02)

I know. And I, I.

Sam Mewis (3:04)

And we were already live.

Becky Sauerbrunn (3:06)

Were we ever.

So I'm really impressed with how we handled that because that was kind of scary and kind of crazy. I'm also so impressed that I could open up four different ESPN sites and put four different games up and they didn't kick me out of the website. Seems like an oversight.

Sam Mewis (3:24)

ESPN, very generous. Or there's some sort of snafu going on that you're going to have to correct. If you did miss it though, on Sunday, Becky and I did a live watch along on TWG's YouTube channel. We were on there for like two and a half hours. We had all eight games going. We've recapped what was going on. We tried to watch all the games. It was really fun. People were in the chat. People called in at half time. I forgot about that. It was so fun and so crazy. It actually is still up on our YouTube channel. If you want to check it out for a few minutes and see what all the mayhem was about, feel free to head over there.