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Hey folks, it's Scott from StreamPunk Soccer, and happy 2025
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If your 2024 sucked ass like mine kind of did, congratulations, it's over
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And on the other hand, if your 2024 was great, let's make 2025 a little bit better than that
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Anyway, I wanted to talk a little bit about the announcement that was made by referee Ted Unkle
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who has decided to walk away from officiating after 13 years to spend more time with his family
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You can see here, this is the post that he had put on Twitter a couple days back
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I know as an official, and specifically an MLS official, he's not always been one of the most popular figures out there
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Somebody actually admittedly I've gotten to know. And as you can see, he wrote me a really, really nice message after I congratulated him on retirement
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I think I'm going to quote the late great Joe Garagiola from Baseball, who said
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the greatest applause that an official can ever get is dead silence. It's an impossible job. It's a job I sure as heck would never want to have myself
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there's no way I could handle actually being able to be hated like that I'm probably already going
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to be disliked on this video for defending him anyway you know he did put in 13 years you may not have liked some of his decisions on there you know you may not have thought he did a good job but you know what at the end of the day you got to respect the fact that you know he did put in 13 years You may not have liked some of his decisions on there You know you may not have thought he did a good job but you know what At the end of the day you got to respect the fact that you know he wants to spend more time with his family He wants to basically
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enjoy his family while he still can, because that's a really tough job. I think in a lot of
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ways tougher than what players have to deal with. These guys are traveling all over the place
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just like the players are, but they don't get the salary that the players do. They certainly don't
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at the recognition that the players do. And in his case, I'd love to be able to talk with him more
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I'm probably going to follow up with him maybe around March or April. You know, once he has a
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chance to settle up a little bit, maybe have him on, basically pick his brain a little bit
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have you guys ask some questions for him. But just to wrap this up, what do you guys think about his
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legacy? Did you like what he brought to the table? Did you hate what he brought to the table? You know, let me know your thoughts one way or the other. I'm interested to hear from him
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Anyway, congratulations, we're into 2025, holy crap, Y2K was 25 years ago, and as always
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take care and stay awesome
