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that time when Tyler confessed having a scrap with a senior NYRB player

Despite the short stint with the NYRB, the amount of legendary backstory this guy have is massive 😂 Also the banter in this clip is off the chart

also, Jesse is a massive Tyler fanboy is confirmed.

this podcast is gold. Do give a listen!

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A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff’s massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff’s family. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Bernie Madoff: Robert De Niro Ruth Madoff: Michelle Pfeiffer Frank Dipascali: Hank Azaria Stephanie Madoff: Kristen Connolly Catherine Hooper: Lily Rabe Mark Madoff: Alessandro Nivola Eleanor Squillari: Kathrine Narducci Andrew Madoff: Nathan Darrow Martin London: Steve Coulter Dan Horwitz: Michael A. Goorjian Ostrow: Geoffrey Cantor Michael Schwartz: Jason Babinsky Waitress: Marta Milans Agent Ted Cacioppi: Kelly AuCoin SEC Investigator: Amanda Warren Peter Madoff: Michael Kostroff Reporter: Portland Helmich Upscale Gala Guest: Doris McCarthy David Sheehan: Hamilton Clancy News Reporter: Tommy Bayiokos Reed: Gary Wilmes Club Codette: Cece King Trader: Kelly Aaron Party Guest: Amelia Brain Pinks: Marion McCorry Nicole De Bello: Sophie von Haselberg Driver: Karen Goeller Emily Madoff: Sydney Gayle Photographer / Paparazzi: Vincent Chan Caterer: Adam Butterfield Mike: Razor Rizzotti FBI Agent Kane Partner: Derrick Simmons Visitor: James Brickhouse Kenneth Langone: Ray Iannicelli Florida Fisherman: Guy Sparks Carl Shapiro: Ben Hammer Pool Kid: Ethan Coskay Picard Reporter: Victor Joel Ortiz Federal Agent: Chris LaPanta Daughter: Nicole Scimeca Young Mom: Anthoula Katsimatides Irving Picard: David Little Pierre: Jean Brassard Robert Jaffe: Mark Axelowitz Audrey: Reagan Grella Girl in Pool: Giulia Cicciari Party Guest: Wayne J. Miller Tom FitzMaurice: Neil Brooks Cunningham Palm Beach Party Guest: Lori Burch Bartender: Christine J. Carlson Inmate Gonzales: Sammy Peralta 17th floor Office worker: Ralph Bracco Young Daniel: Eli Golden Ike Sorkin: Mark LaMura Pool Party Guest (uncredited): Robert Levey II BLM Employee: Geoffrey Dawe Film Crew: Producer: Joseph E. Iberti Screenplay: Sam Levinson Executive Producer: Barry Levinson Screenplay: Samuel Baum Screenplay: John Burnham Schwartz Book: Diana Henriques Co-Producer: Amy Herman Original Music Composer: Evgueni Galperine Casting: Ellen Chenoweth Director of Photography: Eigil Bryld Editor: Ron Patane Costume Design: Rita Ryack Art Direction: Ryan Palmer Executive Producer: Robert De Niro Executive Producer: Jane Rosenthal Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler Executive Producer: Berry Welsh Co-Executive Producer: Jason Sosnoff Original Music Composer: Sacha Galperine Production Design: Laurence Bennett Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Skip Lievsay Movie Reviews:

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Mike Grella for AQ mag

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Soccer star Mike Grella, via the new Winter 2017 issue of AQ: Athletes Quarterly.

Photograph: Katie Thompson

Design: Robert Newman

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Milan 3 Roma 1

One team, one dream

The usual ratings and comments

MAIGNAN 9 MOTM Made several key plays early including streaking off his line to claim a cross headed for Abraham. Later stuffed Zaniolo on a clear chance. On a night when we started our 3rd RB, 2nd RB, 5th CB and defensively inept LB across the back he had to come up huge. HE DID. Nuff said. I will fight anyone and everyone on this. 

FLORENZI 7 For a guy that was a last minute signing, that Roma was trying to GIVE AWAY mind you, has proved quite valuable. Another solid veteran performance. Free kick crashed off the cross bar otherwise this is a solid 8. 

KALULU and GABBIA 7 Did an incredible impression of late 2000s Silva and Nesta. Gabbia the stay at home guy and Kalulu making the runs. If you watched the pregame on CBS Mike Grella pointed out the kind of runs Tomori makes to cut out danger. Kalulu did exactly that on several occasions. That was massive. Got a little scattered right before the half but otherwise remained on point. 

Quick aside.... Grella’s work on tactics and analysis at CBS has been great. He started off a little slow for my tatse but is getting better every week. Straight to the point and no nonsense. He shows you something simple and then you see it in game. No over involved explanations or wonky stats. What more can you ask for? 

THEO 7.5 Great job last night. Agitated all night long and really took the pressure off the rest of the back 4. Every starter on Roma’s right got a yellow card and 2 of them saw red. Their ratings on Whoscored? 5.6, 4.8 and 4.7. Masterclass of shit housery and skill. 

TONALI 8 My second MOTM behind Maignan. Brilliant all night long on the ball. 

KRUNIC 7.5 Here we were worried about the double pivot during AFCON. How would Bakayoko hold up? Turns out Krunic is the guy and we’re fine. With his combination of durability and versatility he, along with Saelemaekers, are the glue guys keeping us rolling. 

MESSIAS 8 Love when he gets super wide. Out there he can drag defenders and beat them 1v1. Also has impeccable sense of when to make runs to goal. Exactly the kind of guy we needed at RW. Haters have vanished. 

DIAZ 7 Pre-Covid Brahim was back. Love the space that Giroud affords him by staying high. The difference between the space afforeded him against Roma as opposed to when Ibra started against Napoli is night and day. 

SAELEMAEKERS 7 Equally frustrated and agitated Roma’s flanks. Him and Theo are solidly rent free in all those guys heads. Does whatever is asked of him and does it 100%.

GIROUD 8 Created space all day long by staying high and needing constant attention. Truly a ‘team’ performance by him. Smashed home the PK. Master stroke loan move. 

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LEAO 8 DUDE! IT IS SOOOOOOOO NICE TO SEE YOU!!

BAKAYOKO 7 Better. Not great. Just better. 

ZLATAN 7 Great hold up play and assist to Leao. NO MORE PKs bro. I thought we talked about this? 

CONTI 7 Farewell/testimonial game for him. The guy I was legit most excited about during the summer of triple handshakes. Dude was a freak. Two busted ACLs robbed him and us of what could have been. 

MALDINI 6 He played. 

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PIOLI 10 Master class. No other way to put it. Things I loved?

- With no back line decided to press high and chase Roma all over the place. This took the pressure off our backline and dumped it all on theirs. 

- Krunic making runs to get super high and keep Roma pinned in. 

- Kalulu making similar runs from the back to cut out any counters. 

-Started the game with Leao and Zlatan on the bench. I think most figured they were there just in case of emergency. instead brought them on with blood already in the water. There’s not a manager in Europe that’s done better at managing the 5 sub rule. 

Mourinho came in wanting to sit back and counter in his absurd 532 and Pioli stole his lunch money AND his girlfriend. Honestly can’t remember the last time a Milan coach so thoroughly destroyed his opposition. 

THOUGHTS

- I thought the ref was ok but now the FIGC is giving him a week off I guess? He got the calls right, now doubt. His control of tempers and the temperature of the match was poor though. 

- This makes 19 different starting lineups in 20 games now for Milan, including 14 different back lines. Pioli is a wizard folks. I was wrong.

- We are currently leading the league in counter attacking goals with 6. I love that stat. 

- If you are not getting the Paramount Plus feed with Matteo Bonetti and Andres Cordero, I feel for you. For my money there is no better announcing duo on any network on any sport. Bonetti brings the passion and there is no better informed and researched play-by-play guy than Cordero. They are at the top of their game and clearly doing the league they love. Great stuff. 

All for now.

Venezia early Sunday, Genoa in the Coppa mid week followed by Spezia the following weekend. 

FORZA MILAN

Lisi

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Amazon narrows its HQ2 hunt and Chicago may not make the cut

It’s been a busy few days in the ultra-competitive, nationwide hunt to land Amazon’s lucrative “HQ2” second headquarters. New reports suggest that the company has narrowed its search to just a handful of cities and Chicago may not be among them.

According to a weekend report by the Washington Post, the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant is in “advanced talks” to bring HQ2—and its estimated 50,000 jobs and $5 billion of investment—to Crystal City in northern Virginia. The Wall Street Journal followed up with a report that Amazon was engaged in “late-stage talks” with not only Crystal City, but also New York and Dallas.

Though Chicago was not mentioned among the municipalities participating in the negotiations, the newspaper did not necessarily rule out the Windy City. Chicago was one of the 20 cities named to the HQ2 shortlist in January and hosted Amazon delegates during multiple visits to large-scale development sites including The 78, River District, and Lincoln Yards.

The plot thickened on Monday when WSJ published a second article saying that Amazon will split its HQ2 plans between two cities, citing an unnamed source “familiar with the matter.” The decision to divide HQ2 would allow the company to draw employees from two separate talent pools and mitigate anticipated strains on local housing markets, transit networks, and other infrastructure, said the source.

It’s unclear whether the two-city strategy would improve Chicago’s odds of scoring the coveted corporate campus. Chicago officials had offered the Seattle-based company several prominent development sites and were prepared to provide $2 billion worth of incentives including tax breaks and associated infrastructure and capital expenditures. Chicago also commissioned a William Shatner-narrated pitch video to appeal to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s love of all things Star Trek.

Amazon’s director of economic development, Mike Grella, was quick to fire back at the recent reports, taking to Twitter to say that leaking confidential bid information was “not doing Crystal City, VA any favors.” Grella also dismissively lampooned an article claiming that the flight logs of Bezos’s private jet could hold the key to sussing out the HQ2 winner ahead of the company’s official announcement.

The Washington, D.C., area—which includes Crystal City—was rumored to be an HQ2 front-runner ever since three nearby cities were named as finalists. The area’s proximity to federal regulators, the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post, and the CEO’s large second home further bolster that thesis.

Amazon said it will reveal the winning city—or perhaps, now, cities—by the end of the year. Will Chicago surprise the critics and oddsmakers and come through? Stay tuned to find out.

Source: https://chicago.curbed.com/2018/11/5/18065580/amazon-hq2-chicago-crystal-city-new-york-dallas

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Mike Grella quiets the doubters, including himself, with game-winner

Mike Grella quiets the doubters, including himself, with game-winner

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OBETZ, Ohio – For Columbus Crew SC, Mike Grella’s game-winning goal for his new team locked up an important three points.

For the veteran winger…

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mike so close to almost punch Jesse in the gut 💀

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Mike Grella of the New York Red Bulls for Athlete’s Quarterly Magazine

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Elon Musk’s threat to leave California could cost Tesla $1 billion — and be worth it

Workers assemble cars on the line at Tesla’s factory in Fremont. David Butow (Photo by David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images)

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We all know that Elon Musk talks a lot — and loosely. But what would it take to back up his bluster about moving Tesla to Texas or Nevada?

The 48-year old CEO of Tesla has been bickering on social media with California and Alameda County officials about reopening Tesla’s Fremont, California electric car manufacturing plant, on which the electric carmaker is unusually dependent, since its only other auto manufacturing plant is the newly-opened Gigafactory outside Shanghai. Recently, Musk took to Twitter to threaten to take his company and go home, if by home, he means new digs in either Nevada, or locations where Tesla is reportedly scouting locations for a new Cybertruck plant, Austin, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“The unelected & ignorant ‘Interim Health Officer’ of Alameda is acting contrary to the Governor, the President, our Constitutional freedoms & just plain common sense,” Musk tweeted. “Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately.”

Moving the company’s factory would cost at least $1 billion given the costs associated with building a new facility, and could take 12 months to 18 months, said Dan Ives, who follows Tesla for Wedbush Securities. More to the point, Tesla would have to relocate thousands of employees. The company had 48,000 workers when it completed its most recent annual 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but doesn’t say how many work in the Fremont plant.

California is ‘not worried’

The bigger problem would be the same as the reason Musk is so worked up about Fremont being closed for coronavirus in the first place, says CFRA Research analyst Garrett Nelson: it’s the only U.S. factory Musk has, and makes virtually all of the company’s vehicles for the U.S. market, including the old Model S and X lines, as well as the higher-volume Model 3 and the newly introduced Model Y crossover. Closing it any time soon would leave Tesla with too few options to build its products and generate revenue.

“We just don’t see it,” Nelson said. “It’s too expensive and they’re too dependent on the Fremont factory.” 

California Governor Gavin Newsom told CNBC he doesn’t see it, either. Speaking on CNBC’s “Fast Money” on Tuesday night, he said he is “not worried” about Tesla CEO Elon Musk moving the company’s operations out of the state “anytime soon.” 

“We’re committed to the success and the innovation and the low-carbon, green growth economy that he’s been promoting for decades and the state of California is accelerating in,” Newsom said in the “Fast Money” interview.

Tesla did not respond to requests for comment.

The potential billion-dollar price tag for a move wouldn’t be the biggest problem. Tesla also would face potential manufacturing disruptions during the moving process. The right location, if Musk is serious about moving either headquarters or the Fremont plant,  would likely be next to the factory where the company builds its upcoming Cybertruck pickup. Tesla is reportedly sifting offers from Texas, Oklahoma, and potentially other states, to host the plant, which would also produce Model Y vehicles. 

That decision is expected to come soon, with Texas holding the edge, offering sites in the Austin area, where Tesla already has an engineering office,  said a report in green-economy Web site Electrek. 

“Texas is the biggest pickup market in the country, 50% bigger than California, which is No. 2,” Nelson said. 

Tesla closed the first quarter with $8.1 billion in cash and short-term investments on its balance sheet, after a year in which it established itself as solidly cash-flow positive. It also raised more than $2 billion in a stock offering in February. 

Tesla’s success scoring fat state incentives

The company is also known to be pitting states against each other to offer fat incentives for the Cybertruck plant, as it has done before, said Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, a nonprofit watchdog that tracks corporate incentive deals and believes many of them are wasteful. Good Jobs First says Tesla has taken $2.4 billion in state and local incentives for different projects, mostly in upstate New York where it built a large solar panel plant, and Nevada where its battery plant is located, and would likely seek subsidies to move headquarters or shift Fremont’s production elsewhere. 

When Tesla picked Nevada for its gigafactory battery plant near Reno in 2014, the company committed to pick up only about $2 billion of the $4 billion to $5 billion capital cost, according to Tesla’s 2014 10-K filing.  

Nevada gave the company $195 million in transferable tax credits in exchange for a commitment by Tesla and battery partner Panasonic to exchange at least $3.5 billion in the plant. If Tesla meets other targets, it can claim as much as $1.3 billion in state tax breaks over 20 years, most of it in sales and use tax abatements, according to Good Jobs First. 

Some states may finally say, ‘enough, we’re looking at a fiscal cliff.’ Others will go  the other way, [thinking] there aren’t going to be many big expansions available so we’d better come loaded for bear.

Greg LeRoy

executive director of Good Jobs First

The Fremont factory itself was initially financed in part by a federal loan guarantee as part of the 2009 economic stimulus, which Tesla later repaid to prevent Washington from cashing in warrants to buy stock at less than 1% of today’s stock price.

Car factories are major employers whose owners usually get states to make generous offers, LeRoy said. In Tesla’s case, incentives could include credits against Texas’ gross receipts tax that could, over time, obliterate much or all of its investment. 

Car companies can also often get sales tax breaks on materials or equipment used to build and outfit their factories, he added, and governments will often build infrastructure to suit them. Texas upgraded rail facilities to nab a Toyota pickup truck plant in San Antonio, which later helped the state convince Toyota to move its U.S. headquarters to suburban Dallas from California.

“There are two ways the pandemic may play out,” for state-sponsored incentives, LeRoy said. “Some states may finally say, ‘enough, we’re looking at a fiscal cliff.’ Others will go  the other way, [thinking] there aren’t going to be many big expansions available so we’d better come loaded for bear.”

Tesla could also make back its capital spend on lower operating costs, said Calandra Cruickshank, CEO of Statebook, a data provider to economic development organizations and private companies. Depending on how many jobs move, the company could capture hundreds of millions of dollars of operating savings, with big savings on production workers, who are 25% more expensive in Oakland than Austin, and electricity costs half as high,  she said in an analysis provided to CNBC.com.

“If 10,000 employees moved and the company saved $25,000 per worker in payroll and benefit costs (which is not unreasonable given there’s zero personal income tax in Texas and in most places a lower cost of living), that alone would be $250 million a year year in savings, exclusive of any government subsidies,” said Mike Grella, former economic development director for Amazon.com, who is now head of  consulting firm Grella Partnership Strategies. 

Stock analysts think Musk is probably bluffing. Ives thinks that, if Musk is serious, the factory is likelier to move than the headquarters, partly because of the difficulty of replacing the white-collar workers at Tesla’s Palo Alto headquarters..

While Governor Newsom doesn’t think Tesla’s going anywhere soon as a corporation, Ives said given the high cost of manufacturing in northern California, he sees a business case. 

“Texas gives them a significantly shorter supply chain,” Ives said. That includes proximity to other auto plants, such as Toyota’s pickup plant in San Antonio, and car manufacturing operations throughout the southern U.S. that rely on more closely located industry suppliers, from Mexico and elsewhere, as well as stronger transportation network links.  “The cost per vehicle could go down by 10% to 25%. The writing is on the wall that they are going to do more production in another U.S. facility,” he said.

Nelson thinks moving corporate would make more sense than auto manufacturing, mainly because of the cost to move a huge manufacturing facility or construct a new one, as well as productivity impacts, since Tesla may lose a number of trained workers in the process because workers and their families may not be willing to move. “We think Tesla will instead focus on building new factories in Germany and the U.S., and not tinker with disrupting operations at the plant which accounts for over 70% of their current vehicle production capacity,” Nelson said.

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Amazon keeps everyone guessing about HQ2

Amazon keeps everyone guessing about HQ2

(CNN)The mystery over which city or cities Amazon will choose for its second headquarters continues.

“Memo to the genius leaking info about Crystal City, VA as #HQ2 selection. You’re not doing Crystal City, VA any favors. And stop treating the NDA you signed like a used napkin,” tweeted Mike Grella, Amazon’s Director of Economic Development. Amazon (AMZN) declined comment to CNN Business about…

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Amazon Exec Throws Shade on Headquarters Stories in Bezos' Paper

Amazon Exec Throws Shade on Headquarters Stories in Bezos’ Paper

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(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc.’s economic development director isn’t happy about a Washington Post report that the e-commerce giant is in advanced talks with a Washington suburb about being the location for its second headquarters.

In a tweet Saturday morning, Amazon’s Mike Grella addressed “the genius leaking info,” saying: “You’re not doing Crystal City, VA any favors. And stop treating…

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Kota New York, Los Angeles, serta juga Orlando City menang

David Villa mencetak dua mencetak angka utk menolong New York City FC mengungguli FC Dallas 3-1 guna kemenangan liga keenam mereka musim ini. Laurent Ciman mencetak mencetak angka pada tendangan bebas di menit ketiga masa-masa tambahan ketika Los Angeles FC membuka Banc of California Stadium senilai $ 350 juta dengan kemenangan 1-0 atas Seattle Sounders. 

Penjaga gawang Seattle, Stefan Frei, berjongkok guna menyelamatkannya sesudah tendangan Ciman menepis tembok, akan tetapi tdk dapat bertahan, utk mengasyikkan kerumunan 22.000 pemirsa yang terjual habis. Yotun dikonversi dari titik di menit ke-77 utk menyerahkan Orlando City memimpin 2-1, sesudah Cristian Higuita sudah menyamakan mencetak angka pendahuluan Dominique Badji guna Orlando City di menit ke-52. Serta pula tersebut pula memang enggak lupa pula kita orang orang guna mengingatkan teman-teman sobat berita sepak bola online indonesia agar dapat berlanjut mengikuti informasi seputar sepak bola lainnya setiap harinya. 

Columbus Crew menyelesaikan empat kekalahan berturut-turut saat mencetak angka debutan dari Mike Grella meyakinkan kemenangan 2-1 atas San Jose Earthquakes di MLS. Yoshimar Yotun mencetak mencetak angka penalti serta juga Cristian Higuita menjaringkan mencetak angka kesatunya semenjak 2016 ketika Orlando City mengungguli Colorado Rapids guna meraih kemenangan kelima berturut-turut klub MLS. Kru membuka skor sesudah 28 menit berkat pemogokan 12-halaman dari Harrison Afful yang mengejar pojok atas, akan tetapi header Danny Hoesen menyamakan skor sebelum babak kesatu.

Kekalahan berarti Gempa kini telah enam pertandingan tanpa kemenangan. Jesus Medina pun mencetak mencetak angka guna New York City. Santiago Mosquera mencetak mencetak angka guna FC Dallas. Tyler Miller menciptakan tiga menghemat guna mendapatkan lembaran bersih guna LAFC, akan tetapi mereka tampaknya mengarah ke hasil imbang tanpa mencetak angka dalam pertandingan kandang kesatu di tanah baru mereka sebelum kapten Belgia mereka berderet tendangan bebas di menit terakhir bermain. Grella, yang datang dari bangku cadangan ketika dirinya pulang dari cedera lutut yang dideritanya pada mula musim, mencetak mencetak angka kemenangan pada menit ke-84.

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Crew snap 4-game winless skid, beat Earthquakes 2-1

Crew snap 4-game winless skid, beat Earthquakes 2-1

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Mike Grella quiets the doubters, including himself, with game-winner

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OBETZ, Ohio – For Columbus Crew SC, Mike Grella’s game-winning goal for his new team locked up an important three points.

For the veteran winger himself, scoring in his first shift in Columbus was proof he could still compete at the MLS level, and a major step toward quieting the doubts that have cropped up even in Grella’s own mind.

Grella hadn’t played in an MLS game since June of 2017, and revealed he hasn’t been healthy since November of 2016. The technically skilled winger had knee surgery last year to repair a damaged piece of ligament in his left knee, and had been rehabbing in Columbus until this spring. 

After the first major injury of his career, he even wondered if he would make it back onto the field.

And when he did, it took him just 19 minutes to score a game-winner in Crew SC’s 2-1 win over the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday.

“I swear, in the back of my mind, I thought, ‘Maybe I can get a goal,’” he said after the game. “I thought, ‘I’ll play well; I’ll do what I can.’ But I knew as soon as I crossed the line after such a long injury…I had already accomplished something really big. So I felt like, ‘Why not just try to get something else, get a goal or something?’ It was a dream come true.”

Grella was lauded by his coaches and teammates for his performance. Head coach and sporting director Gregg Berhalter said he couldn’t be happier for his winger.

“This is why I’m proud to be in this business; to see the struggle, and then see the triumph when a guy comes back and is able to make an impact like that,” Berhalter said. “So, for Mike, the whole group is extremely proud of him, and I think it’s a testament to him as a person and as an athlete that he’s been out this long and comes back and can make that type of impact.”

Even though Grella said he believes he’s taken a “huge step in the right direction,” he doesn’t want to push himself too much. 

But in Columbus, he said he’s “with a team that actually plays really good football” for the first time in his career, and said fitting in is coming “really easy” to him.

The next step, Grella said, is getting past that cautious stage to where his goal can be “to give as much as I can to this team and stop worrying about myself and my own health.”

He thinks he’s on his way.

“I learned a lot about myself and my character,” he said. “I’m really happy I came out the other side.”

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