1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:23,560 He's a tough kid. 2 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:30,560 All I gotta say is Portmanteca is a genius. 3 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:31,560 It's sensational. 4 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:32,560 It's sensational. 5 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:33,560 It's Seattle South FC soccer. 6 00:00:33,560 --> 00:01:03,520 Welcome to Sounders, Scuttlebutt, the ultimate podcast. 7 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:04,520 For everything rave green. 8 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:10,560 I'm your host, Aaron Lingley, and I'm joined by two incredible voices in the Sounders community, 9 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,920 Alliance Council Secretary Cameron Collins. 10 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:13,920 Hello. 11 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:14,920 That's me. 12 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:20,840 And the one and only Alliance Council extraordinaire, Nicholas Biella. 13 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:22,840 Why, hello there. 14 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:23,840 All right. 15 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:30,920 Well, we're here to break down all your Sounders mumbo jumbo game analysis, of course, and 16 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:32,920 the Scuttlebutt. 17 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:34,880 That's why we are we are Scuttlebutt. 18 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:39,360 So if you want to be part of the show, join our supporters section on Patreon that supports 19 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:41,360 us literally. 20 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:47,360 That goes right to hosting all the jazz behind the scenes. 21 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:48,800 And I really do appreciate it. 22 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:52,360 So I want to say thank you to our supporters in there. 23 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:53,360 What who do we have? 24 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:54,360 We got a new one. 25 00:01:54,360 --> 00:02:00,800 Daniel P. Thank you, Daniel, for joining Alex D, James C, Pat C and Cedar. 26 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:01,800 And of course, you Cameron. 27 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:04,320 Yeah, me. 28 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,160 And then you can always join our discord. 29 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,000 That is where we pull the Scuttlebutt. 30 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,120 We have some great channels in there. 31 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:13,400 I think they're called channels, right? 32 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:14,400 Yeah. 33 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:15,400 Yeah. 34 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:16,400 That you set up, Cameron. 35 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:17,920 You guys are always active. 36 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:21,440 I am not as active, at least recently. 37 00:02:21,440 --> 00:02:25,120 Should I drop the news? 38 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:26,120 I think so. 39 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,720 I think before you drop the news, we need some alcohol for this. 40 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,960 So whoa, you did not even wait. 41 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:36,640 That's like, oh, you are drinking alcohol. 42 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:37,640 Yeah. 43 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:44,080 I've been reading a lot of Irish history lately about how my relatives were genocided during 44 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,560 the potato famine and stuff like that. 45 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,320 So drinking some Guinness. 46 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,360 Good job. 47 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:54,760 Back to the paps. 48 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:55,760 Back to back paps. 49 00:02:55,760 --> 00:02:56,760 Yeah. 50 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:57,760 Yeah. 51 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,160 I'm getting ready for my tournament. 52 00:03:01,160 --> 00:03:04,000 I'm actually wearing one of my pond hockey sweaters. 53 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Oh, that's right. 54 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,200 You got your attorney. 55 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,960 And it's still January, so no alcohol for you, Aaron. 56 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:13,520 Or is that off because of your big investment? 57 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:15,640 Well, yeah. 58 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:21,680 So I broke the streak of not drinking last week. 59 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:22,680 Understandable. 60 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:23,680 Yeah. 61 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,960 It is hard for alcoholics not to drink. 62 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:35,440 No, I accepted a job in San Diego, La Jolla to be exact. 63 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,200 I need a drink because I'm going to miss you. 64 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:39,200 Yeah. 65 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,960 Well, I need a drink because I'm going to miss you guys. 66 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:44,560 I mean, we'll still see you on the internet. 67 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:46,240 Yeah, we'll still do this. 68 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:50,120 This is not affecting everyone, everyone who is pulled over because they're freaking out 69 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:52,280 because they're listening to this in the car. 70 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,200 Because Scuttlebutt will survive. 71 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:55,960 I will still be on it. 72 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:59,840 Nothing is changing thanks to the technology of 2025. 73 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:01,480 We already do this virtually. 74 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:02,480 Yeah. 75 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:04,800 So, yeah, nothing's stopping. 76 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:12,600 It's important because we may be number two Sounders podcast in terms of numbers and downloads, 77 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:15,760 but I think we're number one in the people's hearts. 78 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,840 Absolutely. 79 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:22,560 So yeah, that's happening fucking a week from Saturday. 80 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,960 So I will see you both at the public presale party. 81 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:27,440 It's just insane, dude. 82 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,440 That's so fast. 83 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,200 Yeah, they needed me on the third. 84 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,080 And I mean, like I said, it's a job opportunity. 85 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:36,240 Is your family going down later? 86 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:37,240 Are you going down early? 87 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:38,800 Yeah, I'm going solo. 88 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:44,280 I will be back on the 13th because the evening of the 13th, Margo, her first birthday is 89 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:46,080 Valentine's Day. 90 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:48,560 So I'm not missing that and they totally understood. 91 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:49,560 So I'll be flying. 92 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:54,320 Plus I'm like living at the, well, everyone knows that listens to the show regularly that 93 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:55,320 I work in hotels. 94 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,840 I'll be staying at the hotel for pretty much until I find an apartment. 95 00:04:58,840 --> 00:04:59,840 I'll be doing the scouting. 96 00:04:59,840 --> 00:05:03,680 I got everything planned already. 97 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:09,440 So hopefully I can get a key turned and I'm in an apartment on the floor by myself with 98 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:10,440 my laptop. 99 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:11,440 Yeah. 100 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,240 Hotels are cool too. 101 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:18,000 I mean, yeah, I just, once I start working, like the weekend that I'm there, I'm not working, 102 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,000 right? 103 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:26,440 So I'll be just be with the rental car and I'll be, excuse me, going all over San Diego. 104 00:05:26,440 --> 00:05:30,160 But once I start working, I don't know if I want to keep sleeping there just because 105 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,960 I'm now I'm your boss. 106 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,520 But anyway, that's just gets awkward. 107 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:39,200 Yeah. 108 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,200 So that's crazy. 109 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:41,200 They're moving. 110 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:48,320 So I'll probably be doing some shipping, shipping, freighting, one car as well and unpacking 111 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,080 10 days later. 112 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:51,640 So we'll be living pretty lean. 113 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,340 I'll probably be going to Ikea and shit. 114 00:05:53,340 --> 00:05:55,440 You're leaving Winnie behind? 115 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:56,440 Actually. 116 00:05:56,440 --> 00:06:01,460 So when I come back on the 14th, I'll be leaving on the 15th in the morning with Winnie behind 117 00:06:01,460 --> 00:06:07,000 me and hook our cat in the back, right passenger seat, still trying to figure out the best 118 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:08,280 little system for him. 119 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:13,560 Like a little portable cat box on the floor, some drugs, you go to the vet, get some drugs. 120 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,000 That's the only way that cats making it that far. 121 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 That's true. 122 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,080 That's not a bad idea. 123 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,440 I'll be stopping in Redding. 124 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:24,280 There's actually a really nice like little hotel and it's really highly rated. 125 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:26,880 That was like 120 bucks that accepts cats. 126 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,560 So I'm guessing Redding is generally the stop for people relocating. 127 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,200 Yeah, it's good halfway mark. 128 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,400 Yeah, it'll be about nine hours. 129 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:38,880 It's nice you get to stay on I-5 the whole way instead of like going to San Jose. 130 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:39,880 We have to cut in. 131 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:40,880 Nick, I'm sure. 132 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:41,880 Do you ever do that drive? 133 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:42,880 I did. 134 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:45,800 I've done both five and I took the 101 all the way down. 135 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:55,280 I did not do that, but I did do five to 505 to 80 to 680 to 880 to whatever. 136 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:57,600 No, no, no, no. 137 00:06:57,600 --> 00:06:58,600 The five. 138 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:00,820 No, no, we will be calling it I-5. 139 00:07:00,820 --> 00:07:02,480 We will not accept that slander. 140 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,600 You're not becoming an LA FC fan or an LA Galaxy fan. 141 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:08,360 Or a San Diego FC fan? 142 00:07:08,360 --> 00:07:11,960 You get a San Diego FC fan as long as you root for the Sounders first. 143 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:12,960 Of course. 144 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:13,960 I'm actually pretty stoked about that. 145 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,240 They'll be moving there just before the season starts for them and Snapdragon. 146 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,640 I mean, San Diego is pretty easy to get around. 147 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,160 It's a pretty small, big city, right? 148 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:29,800 And Snapdragon is pretty much downtown. 149 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,280 So anywhere we pick to live will be pretty close to that. 150 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:38,440 So I'll definitely, absolutely go into the, when Sounders go there. 151 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:42,760 But anyway, yeah, I'll probably come up once every few months, especially over the summer 152 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:47,040 because that's going to be hard for me to be apart from PNW summer. 153 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:48,040 Born and raised here. 154 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:49,040 It's surreal. 155 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:51,640 I'm going to get it. 156 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:55,640 But if you're going to be one place that's not Seattle in the summer, San Diego is nice 157 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:56,640 year round. 158 00:07:56,640 --> 00:07:58,200 I mean, it's not like it's going to be a hundred degrees there. 159 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,640 It's going to be 80 degrees with a nice windy breeze like it is here. 160 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:02,640 Yeah. 161 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:07,760 That's, I mean, I had family in Mission Valley, so I'd go to San Diego like growing up about 162 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,000 a week or two at a time. 163 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,060 And I just loved La Jolla, loved San Diego. 164 00:08:13,060 --> 00:08:15,760 So much to do for the girls too. 165 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:19,660 Every apartment community has a pool and like a fitness center and like all that jazz. 166 00:08:19,660 --> 00:08:21,240 So SeaWorld is still there. 167 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,200 You can go see Shamu murder the attendance. 168 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:26,760 I don't think that was Shamu. 169 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:27,760 No it wasn't. 170 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:32,440 It starts with a K. I get my blankie on the name. 171 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:35,560 I'm on the fence about SeaWorld. 172 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:38,680 Yeah, I'm not a big fan of SeaWorld. 173 00:08:38,680 --> 00:08:40,640 You ever saw the black fish? 174 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:42,120 Yeah, that's what I was referencing. 175 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:43,120 But it wasn't Shamu. 176 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:47,680 I think it's Shamu's grandkid that was the one that did that. 177 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:48,680 Yeah. 178 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:49,680 Yeah. 179 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:50,680 I don't know. 180 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:51,680 Zoos. 181 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:56,880 I mean, as a vegan, I don't love zoos, but then you have something like Seattle Zoo, 182 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:02,360 Woodland Park Zoo, which rehabilitates bald eagles and basically helped them no longer 183 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:03,560 be endangered. 184 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:07,400 They were an endangered species and thanks to the zoo amongst a few others, they no longer 185 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:08,400 are. 186 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:09,400 I mean, at the same time. 187 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:10,400 Yeah. 188 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:17,040 And both San Diego and Seattle both kind of revolutionized the idea of creating natural 189 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:23,740 habitats for the animals in there and really kind of redefining versus what you traditionally 190 00:09:23,740 --> 00:09:27,520 would think of as a zoo, which is just animal cage. 191 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:28,520 There you go. 192 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,520 Especially San Diego Zoo because it's huge. 193 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:31,520 Yeah, it's huge. 194 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,040 And the one time I went, I've probably been there more than once, but I got to see peacocks, 195 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:36,600 which was pretty crazy. 196 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,920 Peacocks walk around Woodland Park. 197 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:39,920 Yeah. 198 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:40,920 Oh, really? 199 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:41,920 Oh yeah. 200 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:45,160 It's fun when they scare the shit out of people that are unsuspected. 201 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:46,160 Yeah. 202 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,520 I went to one in Paris. 203 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:49,520 Maybe it was in Stuttgart. 204 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:54,960 It was when I was living in Paris and I saw giant king penguins and that was cool. 205 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:55,960 That's cool. 206 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:58,680 They're like three feet tall. 207 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:00,360 So anyway, yeah, that's the news. 208 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:01,900 Aaron is moving. 209 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:09,440 So if you are a pub leaguer and you're listening and you're going to be at our spot on Saturday, 210 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:10,440 come give me a goodbye hug. 211 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:12,800 Yeah, I got, I got a question for you. 212 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:13,800 How was my intro? 213 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:14,800 Good. 214 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,520 You don't sound sick anymore. 215 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:19,520 That's true. 216 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,920 And I figured reading would be better. 217 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:23,280 And I was like, you know what? 218 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:24,480 Chat GBT. 219 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:26,640 Here's the prompt. 220 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:27,640 And it worked. 221 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:28,640 And it was pretty good. 222 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:29,640 Yeah, sure. 223 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:30,640 That was the first try. 224 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:35,860 I mean, they had to burn down an entire force in the Amazon in order to create the energy 225 00:10:35,860 --> 00:10:37,640 for it to write you that paragraph. 226 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,640 But that's okay. 227 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:48,200 I actually was just at an event at Seattle University put on by the department. 228 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:52,200 I used to teach in which was arts leadership department and the department that I now teach 229 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:59,540 in which is the sports and entertainment master's program that was entertainment evolved a conference 230 00:10:59,540 --> 00:11:01,440 on the business of entertainment. 231 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:07,320 And there was a discussion on AI's impact and content creation, distribution and stuff 232 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:08,320 like that. 233 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:13,320 It was kind of fascinating and how here, you know, it's largely frowned upon. 234 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,920 This was actually an audience member, but the professor who was leading the talk brought 235 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:25,240 them into the conversation for a second, because we think about it like they're using AI usually 236 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,680 in Hollywood in order to not have to pay actors. 237 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:31,760 I mean, that's part of the reason why the strike went on recently, right? 238 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:34,120 Like this stuff's happening. 239 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:39,920 But there's an AI film festival coming up in March, which I'm not sure I feel about. 240 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:46,520 But what I did find interesting was they someone emailed the guy putting it together because 241 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:49,280 they didn't ask for a free entry because they couldn't afford it. 242 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:53,640 And it's because they're from Iran and they can't have a bank account to give money to 243 00:11:53,640 --> 00:11:55,360 anyone in the United States because it's frozen. 244 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:57,320 Like they can't transfer money that way. 245 00:11:57,320 --> 00:12:01,160 And actually, that's how they make films there with AI because every camera and microphone 246 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:02,860 you buy would be tracked. 247 00:12:02,860 --> 00:12:07,480 And so the only way you can make content that would be of a dissident sort would be to use 248 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,180 AI because that's not tracked, at least not right now. 249 00:12:11,180 --> 00:12:13,280 So that was a pretty fascinating discussion. 250 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:16,320 That is interesting. 251 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:27,040 Nicholas, you and I just prior to Christmas attended a Rick and Morty themed musical. 252 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:28,040 We did. 253 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:29,040 What was that? 254 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:30,040 We did. 255 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,240 Back to the future, the musical. 256 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:33,240 Yeah. 257 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,040 So last night, and let's have you talk into your microphone. 258 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:40,480 I know you got your new setup, but when you turn away, we don't get to hear your robust 259 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:41,480 awesomeness. 260 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:46,480 Good to know I'm kind of dialing in that sweet spot with the new setup. 261 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:47,480 Yeah. 262 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:48,480 Yeah. 263 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:57,120 So last night, frequent contributor to the show, Dan Boniface, and father of future 264 00:12:57,120 --> 00:13:03,320 Seattle sounder Beckham Boniface, attended and then wrote an article for the Denver Gazette 265 00:13:03,320 --> 00:13:09,080 entitled Back to the Future, the Musical Comes to Denver Unlocks Nostalgia for This Superfan. 266 00:13:09,080 --> 00:13:16,400 So we'll be sure to share that in the show notes here because it's pretty cool little 267 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:17,400 read. 268 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,480 He critiques some of the changes, which we won't talk about too much, but obviously there 269 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:25,920 were some changes from the original story that he and I had a discussion about when 270 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:26,920 he got off last night. 271 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:30,840 Because I think there's some things that don't make sense to modern audiences. 272 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:31,840 No. 273 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,840 Like what's a Libyan. 274 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:41,800 I gotta say, that's pretty impressive considering we're on the same path there. 275 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:48,120 I had written articles for a local newspaper in Denver as well during my time when I was 276 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:49,520 living there. 277 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:53,600 So the DU clarion. 278 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,400 So kids going somewhere. 279 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:56,400 Yeah. 280 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:02,280 I mean, the Denver Gazette is nice because unlike the Denver Post, they're owned by a 281 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:03,280 billionaire. 282 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:05,200 They're owned by the LA Galaxy owner. 283 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:12,080 So they can put articles in that maybe others can't because they're allowed to be more creative 284 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:17,240 instead of just trying to get only clicks. 285 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:18,240 Good times. 286 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:19,240 For sure. 287 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:20,240 Yeah. 288 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,360 I got something I've been doing that's sounder related. 289 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:24,360 Okay. 290 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:25,920 Well, sounder specific. 291 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:30,760 Actually, I'm almost done reading. 292 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:31,760 A book? 293 00:14:31,760 --> 00:14:32,760 Sound and Glory. 294 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:33,760 Matt Pence's book. 295 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:34,760 Matt Pence. 296 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:35,760 Yeah. 297 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:36,760 And it's good, man. 298 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:37,760 Oh yeah. 299 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:39,600 I've been flowing through it. 300 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:41,760 You gave it to me like a year ago. 301 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,760 It's been in my, I haven't read. 302 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:45,800 I've been taking the bus. 303 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,480 My dad, we ran into Matt. 304 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:53,480 My dad was with me and we ran into Matt Pence in an elevator on the way to when they unveiled 305 00:14:53,480 --> 00:15:04,080 the Sounders nightfall jerseys at what was the Jersey sponsor place called? 306 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,360 They sold mainly women's and babies clothes. 307 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:08,520 But no, they were on the front of the sponsor. 308 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:09,520 They were sponsored. 309 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:10,520 Oh, Zulily. 310 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:11,520 Zulily. 311 00:15:11,520 --> 00:15:12,520 Okay. 312 00:15:12,520 --> 00:15:14,360 So we were going, you were there, Nicholas, right? 313 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:15,360 When we went to Zulily. 314 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:16,360 Yeah. 315 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,800 And we ran into Matt Pence and my dad was super stoked because he loved that book. 316 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:20,800 Yeah. 317 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:21,800 He did a really good job. 318 00:15:21,800 --> 00:15:26,280 And I was thinking, I don't know, maybe, well, first off, did you apologize when you ran 319 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:27,280 into him? 320 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:31,360 We did not fist bump him. 321 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:32,920 But it'd be good to have him on the show. 322 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:34,640 That'd be a good Patreon episode actually. 323 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:35,640 Yeah, definitely. 324 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:37,320 I'm not sure where Matt is now. 325 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:45,960 I feel like he is elsewhere, but definitely worth tracking him down because obviously 326 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:49,240 he could talk a lot about that and we're always happy to. 327 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:50,240 Oh, he works. 328 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:51,960 He works for the athletic now. 329 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:52,960 Yeah. 330 00:15:52,960 --> 00:16:02,200 So it's good to have him on, just talk about his book because maybe he'll send more copies. 331 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,680 And if you haven't read it yet, I mean, we'll be corporate shows. 332 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:08,280 Go out and buy it because it's pretty awesome. 333 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaking of the Nightfall Jersey, have you seen the leak of the LA Galaxy Away Kit? 334 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:33,560 Because honestly, that one looks to me very much like what the original concept behind 335 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,360 our Nightfall Kit was going to be. 336 00:16:36,360 --> 00:16:43,400 And it makes me wonder if Adidas just basically files some of that stuff away for, okay, we're 337 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:44,920 going to revisit this idea. 338 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:47,200 Yeah, because it's not like the design. 339 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:54,680 We had that design, but it definitely is in the vein of what it should have been, could 340 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:55,680 have been. 341 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:58,680 And actually, I have it up. 342 00:16:58,680 --> 00:16:59,680 Yeah, go ahead. 343 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:00,680 Screen the share. 344 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,960 I shall do that. 345 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:07,400 And editors note, Matt Pence is not with the athletic anymore. 346 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,360 It looks like he's not even in writing anymore. 347 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:11,200 I mean, he's probably sure on freelance. 348 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:12,200 He's a consultant somewhere. 349 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:17,760 I saw on his LinkedIn if it's up to date, but not somewhere that I've actually heard 350 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:18,760 of. 351 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:19,760 But shout out to Matt. 352 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:20,760 You guys should ping him. 353 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:21,760 Yeah, I will for sure. 354 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:22,760 Anyway, so yeah, share your screen. 355 00:17:22,760 --> 00:17:24,760 I want to see what you're talking about. 356 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:26,360 Did you guys put it in Discord? 357 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:27,360 Has it been discussed? 358 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:28,360 No. 359 00:17:28,360 --> 00:17:29,480 Not yet. 360 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:34,860 So basically, it was a sunset on the beach. 361 00:17:34,860 --> 00:17:38,080 So yeah, I mean, I think it's like a modern... 362 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:43,400 Just as what it would have been in modern time versus the more chunky straight up black 363 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:45,400 and pink colors we got. 364 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:46,560 Multiple pinks. 365 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:47,560 For sure. 366 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:49,560 There's my SoCal. 367 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:50,800 For sure. 368 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:51,800 For sure, bro. 369 00:17:51,800 --> 00:18:00,000 But yeah, as of right now, 18 kits have been leaked. 370 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,120 The Sounders are not one of those 18. 371 00:18:03,120 --> 00:18:04,120 I'm impressed. 372 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:05,120 I'm glad. 373 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:06,120 Let's keep it that way. 374 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:07,120 Yeah. 375 00:18:07,120 --> 00:18:14,720 I mean, Sounders have been pretty good about keeping things under wraps for the most part. 376 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:17,480 And so we'll see how that goes. 377 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:19,600 There's release date. 378 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,520 But I'm looking forward to it. 379 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,000 Look at this. 380 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,880 This is a completely different, but it's an Inter Milan kit. 381 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,320 This is someone saw it and then made their own version based on the recollection. 382 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:34,200 But this is the leaked Inter Milan kit, which is interesting. 383 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,880 It looks like a pharmacy, like a European pharmacy. 384 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:39,880 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 385 00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:40,880 It's in the green pluses. 386 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:41,880 That's a weed. 387 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:48,760 So I don't know if you guys heard me or if you're just ignoring me, but you guys don't 388 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,040 know when is the Sounders kit release date. 389 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:52,040 Should be mid February. 390 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:53,800 Yeah, mid to late February. 391 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:55,920 It's whenever the league does their Jersey week. 392 00:18:55,920 --> 00:18:59,320 And we're usually one of the last to do it during Jersey week. 393 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:05,320 This is a really ugly away shirt that New England Revolution had. 394 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:06,960 It's a white t-shirt with red accents. 395 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:08,920 The white t-shirt. 396 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:13,800 And typically what happens is MLS tries to coordinate them all to happen at the same 397 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:14,800 time. 398 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:22,120 And they usually give about a three day window where they will stagger the releases within 399 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:24,040 that three day window. 400 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:32,000 And ours is about leaked before by not FIFA, what's EA24, whatever it's called. 401 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,680 So here's all the leaks if you want to see them together. 402 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:40,080 And some are all right, some are normal and some are what the hell. 403 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:46,560 Well, the San Jose earthquakes one looks very much like a 12 year old boy, the front of 404 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:53,400 his high school notebook, complete with the S that everyone would draw. 405 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:57,680 The Stussy S. Yeah, the Stussy S is on the Jersey. 406 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:58,680 Is it really? 407 00:19:58,680 --> 00:19:59,680 It's bad. 408 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:00,680 It really is. 409 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:05,160 I mean, it's not worse than the LAFC one though, the white t-shirt with the gold, but I haven't 410 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:06,160 seen it. 411 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:07,160 I don't know. 412 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,360 I am jealous of black and gold Portland Jersey. 413 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:12,680 I've always wanted to do black and gold. 414 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,720 I thought LAO, is it green? 415 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:15,720 Oh, okay. 416 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:16,720 Nevermind. 417 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:20,360 It just looks black on my screen. 418 00:20:20,360 --> 00:20:21,520 I like how they don't have ours. 419 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,760 So they said, this is their logo, so it probably looks like this. 420 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:31,160 I'm trying to find the San Jose one up close, but they have not seen it. 421 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:32,160 It's bad. 422 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:33,160 Oh man. 423 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:34,160 I think we posted it. 424 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,160 Oh, there it is. 425 00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:38,160 See, right there under the crest. 426 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,320 Under the crest is the Stussy S. 427 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:42,400 I might get sued for that. 428 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,600 I love the idea behind it. 429 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:49,280 I don't know if the execution is great. 430 00:20:49,280 --> 00:20:53,200 I like the old Quakes logo on it that looks like an earthquake. 431 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:57,400 Of course, shout out to the 408, which is still my area code from when I lived down 432 00:20:57,400 --> 00:20:58,400 there. 433 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,480 But yeah, I'm not sure how I feel about that. 434 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,800 I'm not a big fan. 435 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,000 I like that it's not a t-shirt like the- 436 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,320 Yeah, and maybe it looks better in person. 437 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:10,800 Some of those look better in person. 438 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,240 I mean, it looks like that we got templates. 439 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:17,280 This is, look at the Nashville one. 440 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:23,440 It's Michigan blue and gold, or yellow, but it's the same as the LA, well, it's the same 441 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,200 as the St. Louis one, but with different colors. 442 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,160 It's the same as LA, FC. 443 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,200 So yeah, a lot of people are just getting template kits. 444 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:35,200 That sucks for them. 445 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,640 Yep, sure does. 446 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,120 And I know you guys know ours. 447 00:21:40,120 --> 00:21:41,440 Do you like ours this year? 448 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:42,440 I do. 449 00:21:42,440 --> 00:21:43,440 Yep. 450 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:44,440 I do. 451 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:48,080 I put it on par with Austin is the best too. 452 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:52,120 I'm a fan of Austin. 453 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:54,480 And I think the LA Galaxy one is up there. 454 00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,640 Honestly, I like the LA Galaxy. 455 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,280 I can't give it to the Atlanta one, the red and black stripe. 456 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:05,640 It's their normal kit with just subtle differences. 457 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,720 So the San Diego one's boring. 458 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,560 Oh, these are all the carried over. 459 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:12,560 Kansas City one's boring. 460 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:13,960 The Kansas City one's boring. 461 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,440 The Minnesota one's intriguing with the clouds. 462 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:18,440 But as a whole- 463 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,440 Because you know they have clouds in Minnesota. 464 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:21,440 Oh, they do? 465 00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:22,440 Yeah. 466 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:23,440 That's good to know. 467 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:24,440 That's pretty. 468 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:30,200 I mean, it looks more like a public attempt, the Minnesota one. 469 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,360 But anyways, none of these are anything close to public. 470 00:22:33,360 --> 00:22:36,880 These are things that we really shouldn't really be talking about on a podcast when 471 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,440 it's a visual medium right now. 472 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:39,440 That's true, but people- 473 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:40,440 But here's the thing- 474 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,040 Well, the link is in the show description. 475 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,800 Open the link in the show description and they can pull it up while they're listening 476 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:45,800 to us talk. 477 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:46,800 While they're driving. 478 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:52,320 And we'll post the photos into the Discord as well to keep the conversation going. 479 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,640 We could also one day do a slideshow that we attach to the show so it goes on YouTube 480 00:22:56,640 --> 00:23:00,080 and is available on certain podcasting apps. 481 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,480 I do that with another podcast I listen to. 482 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,040 I can pull it up and watch what they're talking about. 483 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,040 But hey- 484 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,720 We'll do a video one day. 485 00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,640 It's also silly season right now. 486 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,640 We've got a lot of transfers coming in these last few weeks. 487 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:15,640 Charlotte, man. 488 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:16,640 Charlotte doing it up. 489 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:17,640 You don't have to comment on that. 490 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:18,640 You know what I'm talking about? 491 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:19,640 I don't know what's going on. 492 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:20,640 Tell me. 493 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:21,640 I've been busy. 494 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:22,640 I'm not sure. 495 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:23,640 I know they sent one of their- 496 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:24,640 Let me get the actual- 497 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:25,640 Swiderski. 498 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:28,640 The actual, yeah, Swiderski with the Pantheonocos? 499 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:40,640 But they are bringing in a big time player from Europe, Wilfred Zaha, former Man United 500 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:41,640 star. 501 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:42,640 Oh, wow. 502 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:43,640 Yeah. 503 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:46,640 So I haven't seen the latest news on it. 504 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,640 Yep, they confirmed the signing of the game. 505 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:52,640 They're going to be doing a live stream of the game. 506 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,640 So we're going to have a live stream of the game. 507 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,640 They're going to be doing a live stream of the game. 508 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,640 So I haven't seen the latest news on it. 509 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:06,640 Yep, they confirmed the signing of former Manchester United and Crystal Palace winger, 510 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,640 Wilfred Zaha on a one-year-long- 511 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,640 What's his age now? 512 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,640 I think he's 32-ish. 513 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:13,640 Yeah, 32. 514 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:15,640 No, he's not in his 20s anymore. 515 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:16,640 No, yeah, yeah. 516 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:18,640 But still, I mean, there's certain players. 517 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:23,640 I don't love signing players of that age, but there's certain players that have a skillset 518 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,640 level of a player. 519 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,640 Yeah, that's a good sign. 520 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:33,640 Other things, the Dallas Allen Velasco Taboka Juniors has been finalized. 521 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:38,640 So Dallas is in full rebuild mode for sure. 522 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:43,640 San Diego, your future home, did sign Luca de la Torre. 523 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:45,640 That's a big move. 524 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:46,640 Yeah, yeah. 525 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:51,640 I think Luca's a San Diego native, I believe. 526 00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,640 I could be wrong about that, but- 527 00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:56,640 Oh, interesting. 528 00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:57,640 He was. 529 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,640 I was sent Kossi Tafari over to LAFC as well, the defender. 530 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,640 I did not realize that. 531 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:07,640 So they're going, and the LA Galaxy sent their- 532 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:10,640 Mark Delgado to LAFC. 533 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:11,640 Which is weird. 534 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:12,640 I don't get that. 535 00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,640 He must have wanted to stay in LA, but they were going to move on. 536 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:37,640 Well, they had to because the Galaxy were running into an issue where because Ricky Pooj is going to be on their books all season long, because they expect him to come back around playoff time, you couldn't use your mechanism to basically put them on a season ending reserve and take them off the books. 537 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:48,640 So because of that, they're basically rolling with two DPs throughout the year. And when a team win the championship, a lot of time to get that championship bump in salaries. 538 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:54,640 Keep in mind roster bonuses also can count against the salary cap. 539 00:25:54,640 --> 00:26:04,640 So LA Galaxy, unfortunately, probably had to get rid of a few players that they didn't really want to just as cap casualties. 540 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:08,640 You're right about San Diego, by the way. He is born there. 541 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,640 I thought so. I thought Luca Delatorre is from there. 542 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,640 What about this big move right here though? 543 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:16,640 Eric Zavoletta? 544 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:30,640 Yeah. Former Seattle Sounder. Former not defender that the Sounders turned into a defender like they are currently doing with our boy Josh. 545 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,640 Resigned with LA Galaxy. 546 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:41,640 Well, I mean, that makes sense because apparently he can only play against teams that go against the Sounders in the playoffs. 547 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:53,640 Or only play for teams that his uncle is the coach of after leaving the Sounders, because he played for Toronto and then he played for LA Galaxy where his uncle's the coach. 548 00:26:53,640 --> 00:27:01,640 But with that said, Portland, they acquired Kevin Kelsey from Shakhtar Donetsk. 549 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:07,640 So 20 year old U22 spot, $6 million transfer fee. 550 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,640 So it's interesting because Portland had a really potent offense last year. 551 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,640 Yeah, defense was where they needed to shore up. 552 00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:20,640 Well, you got to keep in mind that Evander wants out and has been very vocal about that. 553 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,640 So this has got to be a move in that direction. 554 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,640 No! 555 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,640 Is this us? 556 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:33,640 Oh, no. 557 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:34,640 Speak words. 558 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,640 No. Okay. This is a different Igor Jesus. 559 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:37,640 Igor Jesus? 560 00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:44,640 Yeah, there was a different one that I wanted the Sounders to sign who's a young Brazilian. 561 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,640 But okay. 562 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,640 I'm glad it wasn't the one I wanted. 563 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,640 I was going to be so sad. 564 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:57,640 But yeah, I mean, we were seeing moves all over the league that- 565 00:27:57,640 --> 00:27:59,640 Jonathan Bomba going to Chicago. 566 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:04,640 That's a big one for sure from Kelta de Vigo. 567 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:13,640 I mean, LA Galaxy bringing back Yoshida is pretty big because he started for them in the MLS Cup final. 568 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:18,640 Well, it was also clear that Delgado wasn't part of their plans anymore. 569 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:26,640 And so shoring up the defensive side is probably a priority for them for sure. 570 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:33,640 But it sounds like the other Chicago rumored transfer, Neymar coming into the league, 571 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:45,640 that looks like that is going to be on hold as Neymar appears to be locking in and settling in with Santos, his home country, one of his youth teams. 572 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:54,640 And that's probably for the best because I mean, I don't know if you've been paying attention to Neymar's production over the last few years, but it has not been great. 573 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,640 Yeah, he's been hurt and when he has played, yeah, not good. 574 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:13,640 Yeah, I mean, I think that's probably an addition by subtraction for Chicago there because I feel like that would have absolutely turned into a who is in New York City, a Pirlo situation or a Girard situation for sure. 575 00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:23,640 I thought this move was interesting. So I want to make sure to talk about that. Ariat Pio from MacArthur FC in the Australian A-League to Real Salt Lake because he's only 20. 576 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:31,640 So he signed a three year deal with an option for a fourth year. He had four goals and 14 appearances since making his professional debut. 577 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:38,640 So he was brought in by Chief Soccer Officer Kurt Schmid. 578 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:43,640 Former Sounders. Yeah, I didn't know when he went to RSO. I was wondering about it as well. 579 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:50,640 I remember earlier this year we talked about it on an episode. So clearly like last year or the year before. 580 00:29:50,640 --> 00:30:02,640 I will say though, I think this is a good sign for the league that we're talking about a lot of U-22 signings with some decent transfer fees of north of two plus million. 581 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:12,640 This is exactly what we want to see out of this league and see that growth, see those exciting moves. 582 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:25,640 I'm very pleased with both what we have but also just seeing what other people are doing and everyone's got a different approach to it. 583 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:35,640 And I think that that's good for the league. And the biggest signing news of the day, of course, came out on Instagram. 584 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:42,640 On his very own Instagram, Kim Kihee announced that he has signed with the Sounders. Spoiler alert. 585 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:53,640 We're going to have a call back to Kim Kihee later on. What's that? I heard what you said. Sorry, what did you say, Aaron? 586 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:57,640 I was wondering where you were, what platform that came from? 587 00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:01,640 Instagram. He posted on his own personal Instagram page in Korean. 588 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:08,640 So the reason I found out was somebody who speaks Korean posted about it on Twitter. 589 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:16,640 X, whatever you call it. I did post my first ever thing on Blue Sky. It's just a sexy photo of myself. 590 00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:28,640 But I made my first Blue Sky post after having that page for like a year. Page, account, screen name, what do you call it? 591 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:40,640 What are we going to do with Kim Kihee? I'm on his Instagram. I don't see anything. It's in Korean. It's a big long post with text. 592 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:47,640 It says he only has four posts. That can't be right. That's probably not him then. But yeah, so Kim Kihee is a Sounder. 593 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:53,640 Thank goodness he'll provide hugely for the locker room. Yeah, I loved him. 594 00:31:53,640 --> 00:32:07,640 And hey, also fun, fun news that came out today was that Sounders photographer Mike Bichner finished second place in the World Sports Photography Awards. 595 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:22,640 With his photo from the US Open Cup of a player we're going to talk about in a little bit, Kalani doing a flip after scoring a goal. 596 00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:27,640 That was such a cool shot. And that was a fun game to be at too. 597 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:37,640 And that's one of those shots that every time I look at that photo I notice a different part of that photo. It's a composition of it. It's got great emotion in it. 598 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:48,640 It's just a really, really excellent photo. So congratulations to Mike for finishing second place in the World Sports Photography Award. That's really, really exciting. 599 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:55,640 Yeah, I don't know Mike very well, but he's always so friendly when I talk to him. 600 00:32:55,640 --> 00:33:06,640 Yeah, we use that for our Instagram posts too. Oh really? Yeah, I had him upside down against Phoenix with the... 601 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:15,640 Sorry, my cat. Yeah, I thought it was a child at first, but your cat is so cute. I had to do a look behind me to make sure. I need those drugs now for that cat. 602 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:24,640 I'm not in my garage. No, you can see there's a bed behind you this time. Well, yeah, we just wanted to match the other podcast that has a cat that shows up sometimes I guess. 603 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:32,640 Anyway, yeah, no, we used an Instagram post for a new episode and we had that silhouette of him. 604 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:50,640 But also we made it with flames. Flames? Phoenix. Yeah. Moving on. Do we have any more Scuttlebot? I can't think of any more super exciting news other than Nine Inch Nails announced that they're coming to town and you're not going to be here for it, Aaron. 605 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:56,640 I think that probably show we could have gone together. I think it's August. 606 00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:04,640 Yeah, dude. Okay, so Payne Field by my house up here in Everett. $114 direct to San Diego. Okay. 607 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:15,640 So maybe you will. I can easily come up here for a night and go back down. Another thing I'm stoked about, I can drive to LA, go to a Laker game and come home on the same day. 608 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:25,640 You can. I'm gonna go to San Diego. I don't know why you would, but you can. You know exactly why. I know why you would. Excuse me. I don't know why one would. 609 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:35,640 Yeah. Look for me on the... Yeah, but with traffic, you know that's gonna be like three hours. Like I could probably drive to Portland in the same time you could drive from San Diego to LA. 610 00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:42,640 That's true. It says it's a 90 minute drive as the crow flies. Yeah. It's anyway. 611 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:54,640 Oh, this is the roster for today's Sounders game. Okay, let's talk about the second half. Patrick GC has an interesting thought for us to ponder. I don't know. Did you guys read it? 612 00:34:54,640 --> 00:35:11,640 Yeah, he posted it originally in the Sounders Scuttlebutt channel. I asked him to put it over in the mailbag for the show because I thought it was an important question that I certainly have strong opinions on, but I'm curious what y'all will think. 613 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:18,640 Yeah, Nick. You want to read it off, Nick, while I try to kill my cat? Okay, that'll be fun. 614 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:35,640 So the question is... It's on your screen, by the way, if you just want to look up at it. I am. I am. So do you think it would have been the same result for the first 15 games with Rothrock and Georgie on the roster from day one? 615 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:41,640 How are we supposed to take it seriously? When Aaron is here literally yelling at his cat. 616 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,640 Trying to throw a sock at him. 617 00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:53,640 Throwing a sock at him as if the cat's gonna be like, okay, dad, sure. It's not Dempsey. Dempsey the dog would give it. It's a cat. That cat would give a fuck. 618 00:35:53,640 --> 00:36:07,640 He doesn't. He's under that now, though. So I think the gist of what he's saying is ideally if Rothrock was in the starting 11 from day one, obviously they're both on the roster from day one. 619 00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:22,640 But yeah, so basically if you're taking the standard roster from the last 15 games of the year and extrapolating that to the first 15 games of the year, do you think it'd be the same result? 620 00:36:22,640 --> 00:36:44,640 That's the gist of the question. And Aaron, why don't you start us off with that? What do you think as far as would we have improved? Would we have about the same? Would we have been a little worse? What do you think? 621 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:49,640 That's an interesting question. I mean. 622 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:50,640 That's a child now. 623 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,640 That's a child, right? That's not a cat like talking words. 624 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,640 That would be from next time. 625 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,640 Oh, okay. 626 00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:02,640 I thought your cat was like, oh my goodness. My cat is. Yeah. 627 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:07,640 But yeah, I mean, motherfucker, you want to throw socks at me? 628 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:31,640 I'm gonna shit in your mouth tonight while you sleep. I do. I do have a friend who when her husband woke up, put the cat or she put the cat out and when her husband woke up, left to go to work and she was in the shower and she came out and the cat had gotten back in the room and was standing over her pillow waiting for her to come out of the shower, locked eyes with her and then peed on her pillow as a punishment. 629 00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:37,640 And my cat was like, I know what you did and I'm going to get you. 630 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,640 Patrick GC's like just answer the damn question. 631 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,640 Okay, just state it again. 632 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:54,640 Yeah, if Georgie and Roth Rock had been on the roster from day one as we saw them break through in the season, would the results. Would the sounders have struggled as much or the results have been better. 633 00:37:54,640 --> 00:38:03,640 My question is if they were then where is Pedro, then which I guess he was injured right but 634 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,640 I think they would be better right because 635 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:11,640 only because of the Ferrera and Raul swap. 636 00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:15,640 I'm sure now if you had Ferrera but I mean just last year. 637 00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:19,640 Like, well that's what he's saying and sub Ferrera for Raul. 638 00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,640 That's the second half of the season he's talking about the first half. 639 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:29,640 So comparing. No, I'm I think he's saying if you took the second half team subbed in Ferrera for Raul. 640 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:34,640 That's the second question. We're only talking about the first one which is if you had Roth Rock and Georgie. 641 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:39,640 Yeah, the second one is really basically him saying that that would be what this year's team is looking like. 642 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:47,640 Yeah. So if you had Roth Rock and Georgie from day one, would we have won some more of those games. 643 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:49,640 I think probably. 644 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:55,640 It's tough to tell because the other thing you got to remember is the human element there. 645 00:38:55,640 --> 00:39:06,640 We needed to the team needed to see and realize as well and trust in Brian that Raul was no longer the answer. 646 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,640 And unfortunately part of that is exactly. 647 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:11,640 That's a great thought. 648 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:22,640 And so we did need to see we needed to give Raul the proper runway. We need to give him a chance to to prove it on the pitch. 649 00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:34,640 Unfortunately, much like Nico the year before, just at the end of the DP contract and where he wasn't putting up DP production anymore. 650 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:42,640 And and with that in mind, whether or not we would have been better. 651 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,640 I'm very happy with the way the season went as a whole. 652 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:52,640 And we largely stayed out of the the drama. 653 00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:56,640 You heard multiple players talk about how tight the locker room was. 654 00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:02,640 So I'm going to say that I'm OK with it the way it actually played out. 655 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,640 And I don't think Georgie was ready. 656 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:10,640 I mean, he had to show some stuff just to get signed to the team, let alone start playing regularly for the team. 657 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:15,640 And he needed to play those minutes at Defiance in order to get to that place. 658 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,640 And those were minutes of success. 659 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:22,640 So I don't if he had come in from day one, he wouldn't have had the same confidence coming in. 660 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,640 He wouldn't have been starting the same way. 661 00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,640 So I don't know if we would have seen it. 662 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:33,640 Maybe we would have had more options to sit players because. 663 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,640 Everyone was playing poorly, not everyone. 664 00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:39,640 The deal wasn't on the offensive side, everyone was running poorly. 665 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,640 Like people were missing easy goals that they never miss. 666 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:45,640 So I don't think we advanced as far as we did. 667 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:49,640 Like Nick, you just said, if we didn't go through those trials and tribulations. 668 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:58,640 So, yeah, but moving this year, I think I think Ferreira sub-Ferraoui plus the other additions we've talked about that. 669 00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:00,640 I mean, we'll be better this year. 670 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,640 We'll be better. Yeah, that's why I was reading it that way. 671 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:11,640 But after today's game and we saw what Pedro looks like when he is more fit than he was last year. 672 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:17,640 Boy, I'm I'm I'm pleasantly surprised, not surprised, but I'm happy. 673 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:22,640 And again, keep in mind one more thing I cannot I cannot underestimate this. 674 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:30,640 Paul Rothrock in the vein of this question, and I would agree with it 100 percent that Paul Rothrock was our starting winger. 675 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,640 Yeah, absolutely. Locked in second half of the season. 676 00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:37,640 Who did we have playing because Chu started early, but then was sitting. 677 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:39,640 Who did we have playing at left wing? 678 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,640 Well, it was basically it was basically Jordan Pedro. 679 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,640 And then it was a little bit of a read. 680 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:51,640 It knows like Jordan on the left with Raul of Topp. 681 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,640 Little bit, but then a pretty soon. 682 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:59,640 Yeah, I guess it was it was 11 games into the season when and then and then she got a few runs out as well. 683 00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:02,640 She got some runs out. So we saw Reed. 684 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,640 We saw. Yeah. So, OK. 685 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,640 But and then Rothrock took that job. 686 00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:21,640 And then Rothrock basically took that when that all came about when Alex rolled on, got that concussion like, you know, 30 seconds into that one game. 687 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,640 Yeah. And and they subbed him on. 688 00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:29,640 And so really interesting, you know, just seizing your moment for sure. 689 00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:38,640 Yeah, I think more like that Patrick's questions hindsight, right, because Georgie obviously was better at the end of the season than he was. 690 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:44,640 Like you were saying, Cameron, he was he needed to come in to finance, but he's also saying not in the starting 11. 691 00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:55,640 He's saying in his question on the roster, so he would have presumably just, you know, a few minutes here or there, which we were saying if Georgie has 15 to 10 minutes at the end of a game, it's going to terrify. 692 00:42:55,640 --> 00:43:04,640 Yeah, basically, Georgie was taking all of Leo Chu's minutes from last year, basically, is the way I interpreted that question for sure. 693 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:16,640 I think that was the intent. But but but that goes back to the point that I was starting to make a few moments ago is that you have Paul Rothrock, who is your locked in left winger to the second half of the season. 694 00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:26,640 He's third on your left wing depth chart right now, behind Ariella and Morris. 695 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:38,640 It's crazy. It's crazy the depth that we're going to have the options we're going to have coming off of off of the bench this year and the attacking flexibility that we're going to have I'm really excited for that. 696 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:47,640 I can change the share so that you can see what see this better that we have today's roster. 697 00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:56,640 Well, well, should we break, we should go to break, but I just wanted to look at it in terms of where people fall on the list because yeah looking at that. 698 00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:16,640 You definitely have, you know, Jordan up top but then potentially he can play on the left, you have Ariella on the left potentially, you know, more natural on the right maybe but still, you have PDLV who can play on the left you have 699 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:27,640 Ferrera, who could play on the left so we definitely have a embarrassment of riches on the wings and up top. Now, we just need to see execution. 700 00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:36,640 And I'm glad that Frye of course in today's game played the CK I don't know what position that is but 701 00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:42,640 he got him to play the CK on the list, the goalkeeper. 702 00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:51,640 Okay, let's go to break and we'll kind of talk a little bit about that the preseason match. Yeah, everyone listen to me talk about Patreon. 703 00:44:51,640 --> 00:45:08,640 Patreon. 704 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:20,640 Hey, this is one of your hosts Cameron Collins. 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Well, we have bills to pay and we need to make sure that we can keep this show going. 709 00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:18,640 You would not believe the going rate for PA announcers. So head on over to Patreon, go to Sounders Scuttlebutt podcast and subscribe. 710 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:30,640 You even get a cool little downloadable membership that has our logo on it. That's Sounders Scuttlebutt podcast over at patreon.com. 711 00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:39,640 Now back to your regularly scheduled programming. 712 00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:42,640 And we're back. 713 00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:52,640 All right. Where are they playing? They're in Spain, right? They are. They're in Spain right now. Marbella Football Center. Marbella. World Class Center. 714 00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:58,640 They have multiple pitches, which is why the streaming was so nice today. I think that's better. 715 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:13,640 The angle of it though made me not recognize Newhoo because it was the lens is kind of a, it's not a very strong wide angle lens, but it's strong enough that it made me go, well, who is that? Oh, that's Newhoo. 716 00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:19,640 But everything looks cooler with a fish eye lens. 717 00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:32,640 So yeah, it was a Sounders versus Puskas Academia FC out of Hungary. Top of the table in Hungary. They are halfway through their season. 718 00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:40,640 I looked up their value of their players and kind of, you know, how much the team's total value is. 719 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:52,640 And while they have some players that are more valuable overall, they're kind of on par with a USL Championship team. So their overall value is right up there. 720 00:47:52,640 --> 00:48:04,640 So the second division right below the MLS. So higher than Defiance for sure, because Defiance is what, third-ish now? Third, between third and fourth kind of. 721 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:17,640 So yeah, so it's not like we were playing world beaters, but you know what? It was a game and you got to show up and perform. And for 45 minutes the Sounders did it, right Nick? 722 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:25,640 Yeah, I mean, this is a team that's going to be in Champions League next year at the current rate. 723 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:35,640 And so I thought the game was fast paced, especially the first half. I thought there was a lot of quick touches by both teams. 724 00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:43,640 They gave us a lot more space than I think an MLS team would have. But you know, I think we still have a lot of room to get better. 725 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:48,640 This is the first game we've played of competitive bowl. 726 00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:55,640 And yeah, so our starting lineup was for the first set, they split it up into two squads. Each squad played 45 minutes. 727 00:48:55,640 --> 00:49:04,640 The starting lineup for us was Steph Ryan Goal with Nuhu, Stuart Hawkins, Yeymar, and Kalani Kasi Rienzi. 728 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:10,640 He of the flip that we were talking about earlier on right back. 729 00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:25,640 Then you had Danny Leyva and Joe Paolo in the center with Paul Arreola, Sebastian Gomez, another Academy guy, Defiance guy, and Pedro with Jordan Morris up top. 730 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:30,640 We played very direct offensively. That was really nice to see. 731 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:42,640 Now, is that sustainable? Is that just more, oh, we haven't really practiced building out our passing sequences. So we're playing a little more direct for that reason. 732 00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:53,640 Or is this going to be a true change to our style? I don't know. It looked like at times we had three centerbacks. 733 00:49:53,640 --> 00:50:02,640 Yeah, because you can really see, especially on the left, you saw Nuhu getting up the field. And even in the second half, you saw Souza getting up the field. 734 00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:12,640 And so there were times where it wasn't even like they were crossing over. It was that the left mid and the left back were moved all the way up. 735 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:13,640 Yeah. 736 00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:27,640 But we saw a great ball movement. I mean, I think Pedro's goal was fantastic. He was the fittest we've ever seen him. His ball movement was great. His off the ball play was good. He had a goal and assist. 737 00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:35,640 Yeah, goal and assist in 45 minutes. It was really all over the place being very aggressive and challenging. 738 00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:43,640 Playing in the middle of the field too. I mean, he obviously was in a regular position, but he's not strictly stuck in that position. 739 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:56,640 Yeah. So unfortunately with the way that the stream was and the way that the camera was, Paul Ariola was mostly on the far side of the field from kind of the single fixed camera. 740 00:50:56,640 --> 00:51:05,640 So it was a little hard for me to analyze what I saw from him. And plus I was watching from my mobile phone. 741 00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:12,640 Yeah, I had it on YouTube on my big bedroom TV. But even then, yeah, he was still on the other side. 742 00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:31,640 But I mean, you got to see a lot of ball movement and I don't know, it felt good. It felt like this is how we should be playing and this is how we should have played last year as opposed to the second half, which kind of felt like last year to me. 743 00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:46,640 Well, I mean, again, this is a team, Puskas, who have the third most goals scored in the Hungarian League and we shut them out. And that's through 17 games. So I think that's a very, very good thing. 744 00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:57,640 They have the second highest goal differential right behind Farin Kavos, who you'll probably recognize from some FIFA games. 745 00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:02,640 But yeah, so this is not a walkover team. 746 00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:15,640 And this is the first competitive air quotes like match this team and was playing and I'm assuming I didn't watch it live. But I'm assuming there was no sub maximums right? 747 00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:22,640 Correct. They swapped the entire line switch for the second half. 748 00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,640 Quick question. Why wasn't Jesus there? Why should I know that? 749 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:30,640 Oh, he was with the USA, so he hasn't made it there. I mean, he may have made it there right now. 750 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:35,640 It released him, so he was on his way. So he's just he hasn't been practicing with the team yet. 751 00:52:35,640 --> 00:52:40,640 They fully expect him to be playing in the next game, which will be on the 31st. 752 00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:43,640 It was interesting how far spread out they are. 753 00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:47,640 That might also just be timing as far as who they're getting. 754 00:52:47,640 --> 00:52:57,640 Yeah, I mean, we play to we play hammer B and nor nor coping the same day back to back. So that'll be on February 5th. 755 00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:01,640 So that'll be interesting. I don't love a 4 a.m. Seattle start time. 756 00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:10,640 But hey, that's fine. We get a 7 a.m. for the second game, which was today's start time, although I felt like it started a little late. 757 00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:13,640 I wish we could. There could be replays to watch it. 758 00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:22,640 We watch it on YouTube. Really? I believe so. Yeah. Same same channel that you can pull it up and watch the whole thing. 759 00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:30,640 There you go. And then, of course, we play Alborg BK and then come home to play Louisville on February 12th. 760 00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:38,640 Louisville city. Yeah, when I was in elementary school, my best friend moved to Louisville. 761 00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:43,640 Ten thirty a.m. I wonder if we can sneak into that one. February 12th. 762 00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:48,640 Good times. That's actually the day before I leave for Denver. So that's not an option for me. 763 00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:52,640 You know, I'll be too far down south on the five. 764 00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:58,640 Oof. Oof. Yikes. No. I five. Get it right. 765 00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:05,640 Get it right. Get it tight. Yeah. So I'm excited. Hey, it's nice to be talking right. 766 00:54:05,640 --> 00:54:11,640 Nice to be talking. We got Sounders football. Sounders football is here. 767 00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:15,640 It's interesting the teams we do play because their midseason ends up being a lot of these. 768 00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:25,640 I think we talked about it before that I was pleasantly surprised that we played a Hungarian team that ends up being these like Sweden, Norway, Denmark type teams. 769 00:54:25,640 --> 00:54:29,640 Who I wonder that makes sense. So they're on a they're on break right now, right? 770 00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:33,640 Because don't they have a winter break because of the snow? Not Puskos. 771 00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:39,640 Puskos is our third match in a week. Yeah, but he's talking about the Scandinavians. 772 00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:45,640 That's the word I'm looking for because Norwegian is a specific country. Scandinavian teams. 773 00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:51,640 Yeah. The Vikings. Well, Albert BK, that's Denmark, right? Yeah. 774 00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,640 They're Scandinavian. Yeah. 775 00:54:54,640 --> 00:55:00,640 And IFK, I think IFK, Norrkoping is probably the same. 776 00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:04,640 Yeah, they're from. 777 00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,640 They are from. 778 00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:11,640 I don't even know. It doesn't say. We come from France. 779 00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:17,640 Oh, wait. No, they're Swedish. Yeah, they're Swedish. And I think Hammer B is Swedish as well, if I remember correctly. 780 00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,640 I believe you're right. Nick, you had a game for us. 781 00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:26,640 I do. I do. One thing I'd like to start doing here is I'd like to have little segments here. 782 00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:33,640 And so I've prepared a game that I am calling Who Made More. 783 00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:48,640 And so what I'm going to do is I am going to list two players and your job is to decide which player made more, had a higher salary for that year. 784 00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:55,640 Very simple. And I'm going to be comparing a player from our past with a player from last season's roster. 785 00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,640 Can I say one thing before you get there real quick? Yeah. 786 00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:07,640 Okay. I'm going to say this. Aaron, did you see Lewis come out in his Mercedes gear? I mean, his Ferrari gear? 787 00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:12,640 No. Oh, it was so wonderful. He posted it on Twitter. 788 00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:19,640 I was daydreaming today about a kind of like gradient transition of a Mercedes and Ferrari hat that would look kind of cool. 789 00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:29,640 I still want to root for Mercedes. I still want to root for Merck, but I'm of course rooting for Lewis and that sexy red. 790 00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:35,640 Anyway, he had a beautiful suit on standing in front of a Ferrari and posted it on there. 791 00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:41,640 Oh, and one other thing, because I was asked to talk about it. I've gotten really into Irish curling. 792 00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:45,640 Excuse me, hurling. Not curling, hurling, which is like... 793 00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:53,640 Those are two very, very different things. Hurling is like rugby meets soccer meets lacrosse and it's super violent. 794 00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:59,640 It's field hockey. Yeah, it's super crazy and it's a uniquely Irish sport. 795 00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:07,640 It's the same as Gaelic football, but instead of using a soccer-ish type ball, they use a little baseball sized ball with a stick. 796 00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:12,640 And you can score from all the way across the field if you make it right. 797 00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:18,640 So last year's championship, Cork lost to Kerry on the... 798 00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:22,640 Well, they had a chance to tie it on the final play of overtime. 799 00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:28,640 And if you tied it after overtime, you go to a retest. You don't get a second overtime. 800 00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:32,640 So they would have had to play an entirely new game the next week in the championship. 801 00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,640 So that's starting this weekend. I'm super excited. 802 00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:42,640 Just wait until next week when we talk about Bandy, which is basically ice hockey on a soccer field. 803 00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:48,640 Or the new German game, which is Arena League football type football, but on a hockey rink. 804 00:57:48,640 --> 00:57:51,640 Yeah. Like on ice. 805 00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:55,640 It's good stuff, good stuff. Wild world of sports. 806 00:57:55,640 --> 00:58:01,640 OK, so who made more? So I have seven rounds here. It's an odd number. 807 00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,640 We'll see which one of you will come out there, Victoria. 808 00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:05,640 I think this is not going to be fair. 809 00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:11,640 No, no, no. And I do. I will say that I have adjusted these for inflation as well. 810 00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,640 So that apples to apples. 811 00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:14,640 Of course you have. 812 00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:24,640 So who made more? 2009, Casey Keller or this year's Stephen Fry? 813 00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:28,640 Who made more? Aaron, I'm going to let you start first. 814 00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:35,640 The inflation makes it crazy. I'm going to go ahead and say Stephen Fry. 815 00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:40,640 That's what I would say, too. All right. So you both want to go on discount. 816 00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:48,640 Well, also, the also the the salary cap was so much lower than even with the. 817 00:58:48,640 --> 00:58:50,640 What do you call it? The inflation. 818 00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:58,640 So with that in mind, Casey Keller in 2009 before inflation made 300000. 819 00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:02,640 So adjusted for inflation, four hundred twenty six thousand eighty three dollars. 820 00:59:02,640 --> 00:59:05,640 Stephen Fry last year made six hundred thousand. So you're both correct. 821 00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:09,640 Stephen Fry. Congratulations. 822 00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:13,640 That's kind of a deal for Casey. Yeah, yeah, not bad. 823 00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:18,640 So round. I think I remember hearing something about like he wasn't he wasn't there for them. 824 00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:21,640 Oh, we know he wasn't there for the money. He was he was fine. 825 00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:26,640 Round two, we're going with center backs. Twenty nineteen. 826 00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:32,640 Kim Ki-hee or Yamar. 827 00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:41,640 Oh, this is a tough one. In the same year. No, the modern ones will always be this this current year. 828 00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:44,640 This last year released to twenty twenty four. 829 00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:49,640 I mean, he was a big signing when we brought him in, he immediately was supposed to be starting 830 00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:56,640 and he did start, but then kind of had to work his way back into it. 831 00:59:56,640 --> 01:00:04,640 That's interesting. And it's not that long ago that the inflation would be that much. 832 01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,640 We know Yamar makes quite a bit. I guess I go first. 833 01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:11,640 I'm going to say I'm going to say Kim Ki-hee. 834 01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:15,640 OK, Cameron's Ki-hee. That was going to be my same answer. 835 01:00:15,640 --> 01:00:18,640 And that's OK. If you both have the same answer, that's that's OK. 836 01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:23,640 And, you know, delaying a little bit to make sure the person at home can play along with us. 837 01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:33,640 So Kim Ki-hee, twenty nineteen, made six hundred forty thousand adjusted for inflation, seven hundred sixty two thousand seven seventy five. 838 01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:41,640 Yamar, seven hundred fifty thousand. So by twelve thousand, Kim Ki-hee is the winner. 839 01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,640 Yeah, I knew it was going to be close, but. 840 01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:48,640 OK, so now we're going to go old to new. 841 01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:52,640 We're going to go two thousand nine. Freddie Lundberg. 842 01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:59,640 Our first our first EP or Christian rolled on. 843 01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:03,640 Two thousand nine. Freddie Lundberg or this year's Christian rolled on. 844 01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:09,640 I mean, Christian's still on a pretty high number because of his recent contract signing. 845 01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:19,640 But I wonder if you had to take the transfer fee along with it and amortize it across like you do now. 846 01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:21,640 I don't know the answer to that back then, though. 847 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:25,640 I am going to tell you on that. The answer is no. 848 01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:29,640 This is going to be salary. This is not going to be. 849 01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:32,640 We are not considering the cap hit because of. 850 01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:36,640 OK, because because oftentimes we only know the cap hit and not the actual salary. 851 01:01:36,640 --> 01:01:38,640 But yeah, OK, this is my turn. 852 01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:45,640 I'm going to go with Freddie because all I can picture is Calvin Klein underwear. 853 01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:49,640 I wanted to say that. So and Cameron. 854 01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:53,640 This is a tough one. I think I'll go with Freddie as well since he was a DP. 855 01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:57,640 And that inflation number is pretty good. Going to be pretty high. 856 01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:04,640 So 2009, Freddie Lundberg made one point three million dollars before inflation. 857 01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:07,640 So that's one point eight million. 858 01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:12,640 And then Christian rolled on one point four million. 859 01:02:12,640 --> 01:02:15,640 So obviously no inflation at this time. 860 01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:19,640 So, yes, Freddie Lundberg. So you're both three for three. Not bad, not bad. 861 01:02:19,640 --> 01:02:24,640 Now we're going to get into, you know, in the back half here, we're going to get a little a little interesting. 862 01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:31,640 Twenty fourteen supporters shield winning Oba Femi Martins. 863 01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:37,640 Or twenty twenty four Albert Rusnak. 864 01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:40,640 Oba Femi Martins or Albert Rusnak. Rusnak was a DP. 865 01:02:40,640 --> 01:02:43,640 And this one is both of them were DPs. 866 01:02:43,640 --> 01:02:47,640 Yeah, yeah, but Rusnak was a DP, but a cheaper DP than he is now because he had yet to be paid. 867 01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:52,640 He was being paid RSL numbers because we traded for him. 868 01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:55,640 We picked him up in free agency. We signed him as a free agent. 869 01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:58,640 Oh, did we? Yeah. 870 01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:02,640 That was like the biggest free agent signing. 871 01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:04,640 And this is Cameron's turn to go first. 872 01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:15,640 Yeah, but I still think I mean, you got to go over just based on what a dick he was in the locker room because he was so rich. 873 01:03:15,640 --> 01:03:19,640 I'm going to go to it's twenty twenty four. Right. So twenty I'm going to go to twenty four. 874 01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:24,640 Twenty Albert, because I have that video. Yeah. 875 01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:38,640 So in 2014, Oba Femi Martins made one point six two million, which which comes out to two point two point oh eight five million. 876 01:03:38,640 --> 01:03:46,640 Yeah. Oh, wait, five. Albert Rusnak is two point oh eight six two point one five. 877 01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:49,640 Oh, yeah. 878 01:03:49,640 --> 01:04:02,640 And Lewis goes around the outside. Yeah, that's that's so funny because you think about I mean, Oba was should have won the the MVP that year. 879 01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:10,640 He got robbed of it and he's making so much less than modern MPP's one of the yeah, just just interesting times. 880 01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:15,640 That's why when I was putting this game together, I was having a lot of fun kind of looking and having kind of member berries. 881 01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:19,640 All right. Give us one more. Give us one more. All right. 882 01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:22,640 Is it the last one? I got three more so we can do this really quick. 883 01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:24,640 Let's do rapid. All right. Here we go. 884 01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:32,640 In the bedroom. We got 2017 Ozzie Alonzo or 2024 Joe Paulo. 885 01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:35,640 And it's Aaron's turn. 886 01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:43,640 I'm going to go Ozzie 2017. Yep. After the MLS Cup win after MLS Cup. 887 01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:47,640 He was making a lot of these two. I'm going to go to Joe Paulo. 888 01:04:47,640 --> 01:04:55,640 So Ozzie was making one point one million adjusted for inflation. One point three six Joe Paulo one point four. 889 01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:58,640 So Joe Paulo with the win. 890 01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:00,640 Okay. Round six. 891 01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:09,640 Twenty sixteen. Zach Scott or 2024 Obed Vargas. 892 01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:13,640 I'm going Obed. It has to be. It has to be. 893 01:05:13,640 --> 01:05:17,640 I really hope we were not. I love Zach Scott as a person. I really hope we were not. 894 01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:19,640 Zach got that much money. 895 01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:21,640 We're going to go with Obed as well. 896 01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:23,640 Okay. You both say Obed. 897 01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:32,640 So Zach Scott was making sixty two point five sixty two thousand five hundred adjusted for inflation. 898 01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,640 Seventy nine thousand basically league minimum at the time. 899 01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:40,640 Yeah. Obed Vargas eighty nine thousand seven hundred sixteen. 900 01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:45,640 Okay. All comes out of this. You're both tied right now. 901 01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:50,640 So twenty sixteen Nelson Valdez. 902 01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:54,640 Twenty twenty four Pedro de la Vega. 903 01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:56,640 It's Pedro. 904 01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:01,640 You know what to make it interesting because if I say the same as you we're going to tie. 905 01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:03,640 Nelson got paid a lot of money anyway. 906 01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:09,640 He was our own personal Fernando Torres who only did something once it mattered. 907 01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:11,640 Like when Fernando Torres. 908 01:06:11,640 --> 01:06:16,640 But I know how much he made because I read Matt Pence's book and there's a whole chapter on it. 909 01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:22,640 Okay. Well thank you. Then I'm going to go with Pedro de la Vega. 910 01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:24,640 Final answer. 911 01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:31,640 Nelson Valdez made one point two million dollars which adjusted for inflation is one point five. 912 01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:35,640 Pedro de la Vega made seven hundred eighty five thousand. 913 01:06:35,640 --> 01:06:40,640 So it was Nelson Valdez. That's the first one that no one got right. 914 01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:44,640 You tricked me with with your chapter reading there. 915 01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:50,640 And now you guys get stuck in a kissing siblings tie. That's what you deserve. 916 01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:52,640 All right. So that was who made more. 917 01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:55,640 I'm actually you know I didn't know Pedro was making that little. 918 01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:57,640 Yeah that's why he's such a deal. 919 01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,640 Yeah the DP is because of the transfer. 920 01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:02,640 Oh. 921 01:07:02,640 --> 01:07:04,640 Yeah. So that was who made more. 922 01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:10,640 One of the things I'd like to do this year is I'm going to try and come up with more bits more more segments little games things like that. 923 01:07:10,640 --> 01:07:13,640 I have a few in mind for future episodes. 924 01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:21,640 So if any of you have ideas for things you'd like to see don't be afraid to shoot that out in the discord and I'll put together some fun stuff. 925 01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:24,640 We did have a request from the discord. 926 01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:31,640 I have to look up the actual schedule for the Sounders but I believe. 927 01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:35,640 Excuse me. It was Charlotte February 22nd. 928 01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:45,640 We had a request for a meetup at that first game for listeners and maybe people from the podcast. 929 01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:55,640 I will have to be in the stadium so potentially we could do it at the grill of C table which is right above where you sit Nicholas if you're going to be there. 930 01:07:55,640 --> 01:08:00,640 So maybe Aaron can pipe in via telephone. 931 01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:08,640 Yeah FaceTime me and it would be like a flavor flave and like have your phone right in your sternum. 932 01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:16,640 My big issue is always my my pregame hype is always based on whether I have my five year old. 933 01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:24,640 But I figure you probably will have her and be in the stadium so most likely in there there is bars all around us when you're in the stadium. 934 01:08:24,640 --> 01:08:27,640 So it's like jail. Yeah, you can grab a beer. 935 01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:34,640 I also want to do. I also want to do like kind of. 936 01:08:34,640 --> 01:08:48,640 We talked about this where we watch a game and we're recording while we're watching live stream, but like you can time it so everyone watches on DVR you can get our audio instead of, you know, be like okay Matt starting whistle now. 937 01:08:48,640 --> 01:09:00,640 So you can like hit play and then you can just watch live and that just be fun because people like to either rewatch or don't get to watch a live like someone like me and if I was like I love this podcast and I hate MLS season pass. 938 01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:14,640 You know, like the one thing I'm really going full mystery science theater. Yeah, exactly. The one thing I've really missed about not having that being present at games is so I always go up and go to the bathroom at halftime and then I hear Jackson felt his voice. 939 01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:18,640 Yeah. And so whenever I hear his voice, it makes me have to pee. 940 01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:32,640 Because I'm always being when I hear his voice. So the other day I got dinner with Jackson, and I just had to pee the entire time. Every time I heard his voice as we were watching the Ohio State versus whoever they played in the game. 941 01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:48,640 I'm not sure if they were fighting Irish, Notre Dame, no game. Oh, the game before Texas, Texas. Yeah, he was written for our state because it's like 91 year old ailing grandma wanted to see how the state went, when one more time before she died. 942 01:09:48,640 --> 01:10:02,640 Unfortunately, much like Nicholas, she was happy. Because Nicholas is a sellout and roots for the Huskies rivals might as well just root for Oregon while you're at it. 943 01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:04,640 Hey, let's wrap this up. 944 01:10:04,640 --> 01:10:05,640 It's bedtime. 945 01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:13,640 Here on the 23rd of January, for some of us. Yeah, no you got hours in. 946 01:10:13,640 --> 01:10:15,640 Before you get out of there. 947 01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:24,640 Actually, that's not bad. Yeah, two hours is better than zero there Nick you, your brain work, especially if you're driving to tomorrow. Yeah, your brain will work better. 948 01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:25,640 Okay. 949 01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:30,640 So, where can they find you Nicholas. 950 01:10:30,640 --> 01:10:45,640 You can find me on Twitter at Nikita banana and IQ you it a BA NA NA. What about you. Oh, actually on Instagram at Cascades, you see and then what about you, Aaron. 951 01:10:45,640 --> 01:11:01,640 Honestly, I think, I think I might cut the cord on on Twitter, on x, I think it might just be confinement the discord. I am the when I thumb on there and it's got about, I really don't know about icon on blue sky. 952 01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:06,640 I gotta, I gotta, I think, I think we might go that direction. 953 01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:18,640 Well, maybe we'll spend more time curating your list and only following good people on on Twitter, because I just don't support it at this point. It's so that's all. 954 01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:32,640 But anyway, that button can find me on the discord, you can find you on the scuttlebutt Instagram sometimes once in every like once every month you might look at that. 955 01:11:32,640 --> 01:11:37,640 Yeah. I mean, did you ever did you ever respond to my friend request from two years ago. 956 01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:41,640 Three years ago, on my personal Instagram. 957 01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:45,640 No, he doesn't even have a password for it. 958 01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:51,640 Yeah, no you just go follow Randy that's that's the way you're gonna. Yeah, yeah, she's on it. 959 01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:59,640 That's that is 100% true. And Cameron, you legal minded punk everywhere you find social medias. 960 01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:04,640 Right on right on. All right, join our discord join our Patreon. 961 01:12:04,640 --> 01:12:07,640 Sounds see you next time. Take it away James. 962 01:12:07,640 --> 01:12:14,640 You can follow the sounders scuttlebutt podcast on Twitter at SS FC scuttlebutt. 963 01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:24,640 And for all inquiries including questions for the gents or sponsorship opportunities, please email contact at scuttlebutt productions.com. 964 01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:29,640 Be sure to subscribe to the show for new episodes following every sounders FC match. 965 01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:33,640 And don't forget to share your feedback by rating and reviewing. 966 01:12:33,640 --> 01:12:38,640 And you can follow me on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at Britvox us. 967 01:12:38,640 --> 01:12:47,640 That's Britvox US. We'll see you at Lumen and go sounders. 968 01:12:47,640 --> 01:12:55,640 Alexa, who's the best MLS team of all time?