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He's a tough kid.

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All I gotta say is Portmanteca says GENIUS!

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Hello everyone and welcome to Sounders Cuttlebutt!

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I'm from San Diego now!

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I'm from San Diego now!

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I'm from San Diego now!

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I'm from San Diego now!

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I'm from San Diego now!

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I'm from San Diego now!

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I'm from San Diego now!

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I will say it's important to note that I asked Roma who's better Bluey or the dog from Paw Patrol and she said Bluey.

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Of course.

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But when it came down to Bluey and Dempsey, she went with Dempsey.

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I mean, I think that's a good choice.

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For those that don't know, my dog is an Australian Cattle Dog who we named Dempsey. We've had Dempsey for 10 years now.

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Wow.

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And yeah, he was a rescue dog that we got from Texas and my wife was correctly assuming that he's a little asshole.

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So, you know, he's our little asshole that we love from Texas. So Dempsey was a perfect name for him.

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Plus he's good at rapping.

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It's true. It's true.

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But this is all his, you know, all her doing on that.

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And I'm a firm believer of name your pets after food or athletes.

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I think those are good calls.

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My dog that I had for a while was named Ziggy after Ziggy Schmidt.

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See? See?

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And my dad always walked up and goes Ziggy, Ziggy, Ziggy. Oi, oi, oi.

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So I bet you even though he has a different name now, my cousin, I gave him to my cousin eventually because she had friends for him.

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And it would have been a better life for him than me who's getting up at 6 a.m. to go to work and not getting back until 10 p.m. some nights.

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It just it wasn't fair to him.

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Yeah.

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And so he lived with my parents for a little bit. And then I send him over to my cousin because she had a good home with kids and two cats.

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And he became best friends with them. And they renamed him.

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But I bet you if my dad walked in and went Ziggy, Ziggy, Ziggy, oi, oi, oi, he would respond.

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Big hearty tail wag.

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Yeah. Good. He was a beaver. Like a little it looks like a it's a little terrier, but they're hyperallergenic.

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OK. So what do you got for some scuttlebutt here?

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It's been things of a fast and furious cock a cap champions cup.

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Did you get yourself there? It's been I'm not going there.

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Because once I start, it's going to happen.

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Something about a Chinese chicken.

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Chickeny China, the Chinese chicken. You have a drumstick and your brain stops ticking.

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Don't don't don't do you're sucking me in. You bastard. You bastard.

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So so we have some scuttlebutt that came in that is non sounders related.

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So I think that's a good place to start. We don't have a lot of other news, I think, beyond I guess we talked about the scores this week in the Champions Cup.

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Yeah.

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Because we did see her. I can never say that.

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I don't know. How do you say that?

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Herodiano Herodiano. Thank you.

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I put the emphasis on the wrong syllable most of the time.

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They played last night against LA Galaxy and in Costa Rica in Costa Rica.

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And it was a one nothing win for Herodiano.

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Yeah.

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Apparently young Galaxy fans are freaking out.

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All these young fans whose first experience was winning the Cup last year.

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I've been hearing from some veterans that have been around for a long time that these kids are like, we're out of the tournament.

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And someone is like, no, it's aggregate. And they're like, we keep losing.

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Well, that may be true.

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Yeah. Yeah. But still, they've been through it.

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So one nothing there. Of course, 0-0 in Seattle.

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She was Guadalajara beat Club America, one nothing on a known goal in a very interesting match.

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Vancouver tied Monterey one at home, which is a good result for Monterey.

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But I got to say playing Monterey, that's a good result for Vancouver as well.

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Absolutely. But what's really interesting about that Vancouver Monterey game is that Vancouver kind of punted on the lineup, even at home.

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They didn't really bring some of their top players to start that lineup.

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But that was a really interesting decision.

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Yeah. And yet they got a point out of it. That's kind of huge.

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Yeah. Yeah. And I think it kind of backed their way into the result there, both with the lineup and then also kind of figuratively,

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because they got that goal really late in the 86th minute.

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So, yeah, that was the only one I think was surprising to me.

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You know, Pumas beats the team they were playing.

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I can't even begin to pronounce. 2-0. Miami plays today and LAFC beat Columbus 3-0.

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So interesting. As far as the Pumas game, it's Alouense.

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Alouense. So a lot of interesting results.

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But I do want to go back to that Vancouver Monterey game, because I'm starting to come around on Vancouver.

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I thought with their ownership struggles and the fact that they didn't really make a ton of offseason moves, I thought that they were going to get worse.

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And I mentioned they didn't start their top lineup, but they still went toe to toe with Monterey.

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21 shots, six on target versus Monterey's seven shots. They had 65% possession.

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It was they, the youth actually kind of came out to play. So good on you, Vancouver.

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And, you know, honestly, I would not be opposed to seeing them knock out Monterey.

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I think it'd be a lot of fun to see that result happen.

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Yeah, absolutely. Plus, like I think I was saying to you yesterday, although it may have been to Dwayne, you were the only two people who said, my dad I talked to yesterday.

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But the longer MLS teams play, as long as they don't win it, the better because then it makes them have fixed your congestion as well.

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Exactly. And frankly, though, on that side of the bracket, you've got LAFC, Columbus, Miami, the Jamaican team, Monterey, Pumas, Alahuense.

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I totally skipped the other side since Daddy Tigris, who tied 1-1. I forgot to mention that on our side of the bracket.

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Yeah. Yeah. But honestly, I'd like to see a rematch. If we got to play someone on that side of the bracket, I want it to be Pumas again.

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Okay. I mean, I would like to see the team from Jamaica cavalry. Okay. I'm not expecting.

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Yeah, Alahuense in the in the semifinal, where the Sounders get to beat Chivas or America. No, after that, Tigris, we would probably play Cincinnati or LA Galaxy.

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You really think Tigris is going to get booted out? I don't. I'm not sure. I don't. Yeah, I do not.

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But I'm just saying that I don't also think those other two teams are going to make it on the other side of the bracket. I'm just saying what's easiest for the Sounders?

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Well, you know, the thing is, though, here's the reality for me is that I have a lot of respect for Pumas fans.

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They were fantastic last time we played them in the final. And when I'm looking at those eight teams that are over on that side of the bracket, if I'm going to lose to a final to one of them.

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Yeah, that's true. I'd be quite okay with Pumas being that team.

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Did you imagine how disappointing it would be to make it all the way to the final and then to lose to Vancouver?

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You're beating you're beating Cruz Azul and Club America.

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You get to the final and Vancouver's like, no. Well, honestly, that's basically

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that's kind of what happened in the 2020 MLS Cup, not necessarily by skill level, but we had such an emotional high coming back late against Minnesota with those Gustavs Venson led goals.

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I think we had scored two goals and extra time or late in the game. And we had this this high and then and then Columbus comes down with COVID and you think this is this is all us and we just kind of we kind of shat the bed.

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Those things can happen after being heard.

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Those didn't help. Yeah. And I mean, you saw that going that happens with upsets that happens. The Miracle on Ice team when this US beat the Soviets that was not for the gold medal game.

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That was to get into the medal round. And so they still had to play the gold medal game two days later and they went down to Sweden or

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No, they did win. But I was going to say but in between the first and second period after the US were down, Herb Brooks, famous hockey coach goes into the locker room, goes to the team, you lose this game, you will fucking take it to the grave.

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And just after that emotional high of beating the Soviets. These things happen. I mean, you see that happen all the time, you know, even to a degree happen with the Seahawks, you know, they had that great comeback against Green Bay and the championship game, the NFC championship game and then they threw the ball.

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Yeah, I mean, but also if Jeremy Lane doesn't break his leg or arm or whatever if if Kim Chancellor's avail was a Chancellor Chris April is available.

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That game. But yes, but that one actually I'm going to take that one back. That's kind of a bad example because the Seahawks didn't shit the bed. They had one bad play, but they didn't. They played a pretty poor game till the end though.

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But but but the Sounders, I would say if LA Galaxy had lost the final last year that Galaxy Sounders match was the real championship. Yeah.

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So anyway, so the whole point I'm getting at is, um, I really want to see the MLS teams beat each other up. I mean, one good thing is our opponent coming up with their next game is LAFC who just had that game against Columbus.

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And they started, you know, they started, um, Bwanga. They started a Bo Bisi.

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They started a lot of their their players, their starters. They're going for it. Interestingly enough, though, is that Gerude not getting a lot of time right now.

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So it's not. I mean, he's an interesting because he's not producing. But what he has been doing is drawing defenders off of other players to allow them better shots.

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So he's clearly has a value to the team. But a Bo Bisi scoring. I mean, that's I was so mad when he went there instead of the Sounders. I would. That's the kind of nine I wanted here.

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Okay, we would be dominant if we had him just a side note there. I like those kind of players. I love them in hockey. I love soccer. I love those kind of players that do the dirty work to get those channels.

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And I see that Danny Mussoff ski. He's making these runs. He's putting himself in dangerous positions. And it just breaks my heart that he can't get that because I do believe that once he gets on the score, once he gets once he gets his first one, and he finally kind of gets that monkey.

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Off his back, then he's going to be he can produce in a five to 10 goals this season clip. I do genuinely believe that as long as he gets that first goal before the third wave part of the season.

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I would have liked to see him sub on last night because you could tell Jordan was so gas that he was not crashing the box on shots like that. Oh bed shot if if someone had crashed the box that would have been a goal for the Sounders.

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Well, there was that collision that he had around the Yeah, around the 65th minute and I was watching him and he was it took her Yeah, it took him a little bit of time I thought he was going to get subbed off and then he but then it was it was one of those things right I sat next to two to discord members.

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And I said watch him and we were wondering is he hurt and it was like okay well wait for the next moment where he can, where he's needing to sprint and we're kind of see.

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Is it a, I'm just kind of be ginger right now and conserve energy or is it going to be something that and he looked fine once he started sprinting. Yes, yes he did. He just, he very much became that Eddie Johnson style player where when you're not moving a lot when you're off the ball.

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But then you're going on your runs, you know, as long as we don't bring back the the tired meme of lazy Freddie, you know just let's not bring that back.

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Do you want to start talking about the game or do you want to let's get to our non scuttlebutt questions. Okay, let's get a but non non soccer questions. Sounds good because we had some good ones that we've been sitting on for a little bit because they came in right after we recorded

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this time. Yeah, so what what what are your top three domestic beers and imported beers.

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Well, for domestic.

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As far as my top, I guess the question is the top three that I enjoy drinking or the top three that I usually buy because I think that's a little different. Enjoy drink. Yeah.

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I think there's a brewery Ellicottville brewing that does this great blueberry we ale. That is really good. So anytime I'm in upstate New York always pick that up.

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That's probably one of them.

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Anytime I am at Flat Stick pub.

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They have a.

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They have a sour there.

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It's a blueberry sour that hasn't been released, but it's often on there. Yes, like I think you at least the Pioneer Square is usually around number seven on the tap.

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And usually get one on there. And it's like a liquid sweet tart. It's super tart, but it's I love it.

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And then, you know, probably something like a I do love my fruit beers. I really do. I love a good raspberry wheat beer.

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But my third one is probably going to be the Sam Adams Oktoberfest.

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Hmm. Interesting. What about you for domestic.

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I don't know the names necessarily, but Holy Mountain had a sour that I really liked. So that's that I would go with that. They never have it.

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I've only gotten it at Holy Mountain itself. They never have it at Great Brewery. Great Brewery.

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Right now, whatever is in that number seven at Flat Stick I usually like right now, it's a mango sour.

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Oh, yeah, that one's good. I. Yeah.

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So I often will get that. I'm a big sour fan and I don't and ciders.

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I mean, other than that, it's cider. I don't really drink beer except for Guinness and and sours.

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So are you very, very opposite? I guess I like a good porter, but they don't tend to have those flats.

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I mean, most places around here are very way to IPA. I don't I thought IPA would have died by now.

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I'm frankly shocked that that because it got oversaturated, I figured it'd be like everything else.

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That's such a a trend that eventually it dies down, but it hasn't.

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But I think part of it is that the hops that are required for IPA's are so predominantly grown in this part of the country that you kind of use those local.

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I just think people would stop buying them.

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Well, they said someone once told me a master brewer for Pyramid Ale House once told me that two thirds of the world's hops are grown in the Pacific Northwest.

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That's wild. By the way, Paradise Creek is the Berliner Weiss, the Huckleberry Pucker from Flat Stick that we're talking about Paradise Creek.

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They also number eight. There is they have the Wander Brewing Black Current Millie Sour, which is out of Bellingham, which is pretty good.

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Are you on South Lake Union? Which location are you on? Those at the Pioneer Square one?

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Oh, I must be on South Lake Union. And I thought it was at Pioneer Square. Yep, I am.

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I'm like that didn't sound right. Yeah, I do. I enjoy it.

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And what about you'll know more about this cultures I feel like have been really popular lately.

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But the only one I've had is the Kingdom Coltion. That was terrible.

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Yeah, that I think that's future primitive, I believe, was doing that.

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And they usually have some good stuff. They got the Nazi punks fuck off beer, which is good.

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But I usually I usually have the hell bent coltion, my kegerator at home.

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So that's a really good one. What about what about imported beers like for me?

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Well, you go first. You get this. I mean, that's that's I'm very I like I like a Guinness.

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I prefer it though. I mean, I obviously just drink an entire Guinness in our first 20 minutes of our show.

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But I like a good Guinness. What is it called? A snake bite where you do half Guinness and apple cider.

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Yeah, strongbow. Yeah. Yeah. That's to me because you get the perfect amount of sweetness and tart with that like sourness of the Guinness.

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I can see that. Yeah. What about you?

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Honestly, one of my all time favorite beers again, I like I like a good fruit beer, the Schafferhoffer Grapefruit Radler,

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because you could just drink those all day long and, you know, 2%. It's not even about I like good flavor.

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You know, I like a good flavor. That would be that would be a primary one that I like when I'm going imported.

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I do like a Corona. I like a Corona. I used to live in when I lived in San Jose, I had a lemon tree and would take fresh lemons from my lemon tree with my Corona.

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I know you're supposed to do a lime. But when you got a fresh lemon tree, you just go with that.

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Yeah, no, that's good. And then maybe my third one.

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Hmm.

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Yeah. It I think I think I'm required by I think I'm required by marriage to save San Miguel, San Miguel, Filipino beer.

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It's not great. But, you know, or I could go Ecuador's Biela beer.

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Maybe maybe I can go with that. By the way, if any of you can ever actually acquire a bottle of Biela beer for me, I would I would definitely we make a good trade.

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So if you're ever going to Ecuador and can get a hold of it, please, please do.

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You just reminded me, though, there is one that I used to drink all the time and it's way too sweet for me now.

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But when I lived in Paris, all of the places would have Lindemans, lambigail on tap. Yeah. And it's fine in the bottle.

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But on tap, we would drink the giant steins, you know, with the the the Leder steins. Yes.

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And it it I can remember drinking like three liters of it one time and then getting on the subway home and then having to pee on my way and like dying because I would so much.

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And I'm as an American, I'm not used to being French and just peeing on the street like they do.

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At least back then. I don't know if they still do it. But 25 years ago, you could just go in the alley and pee if you were dude. None of your woman. It was weird.

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But, you know, it's two things. One, McMinneman's Ruby. That's another good one.

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There were it's not as sweet, but it is that raspberry beer because I really like the creek, the black, the cherry one and the past two.

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They were all good, but you can still get bottled. I mean, I should probably get a little bottle of it and joy because they got the little 12 ounce bottles.

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But now I'm also thinking about Black Ravens, Kitty Cat Blues, another good one. But you mentioned girls can't pee on the street.

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One time walking walking down Ballard Ave right by that little park right next to what is now Salt and Straw ice cream.

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And there's a girl sitting with her back against the wall squatting and peeing.

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She's looking towards Ballard Ave, like looking for people. And it's, you know, it's dusk. It's it's it's a little dark.

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But she doesn't realize that the other side is just wide open from kind of a triangle.

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So she's looking as we're walking up and she's looking over there looking to make sure no one's watching her.

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And then she just kind of casually glances over our way and just screams because she didn't realize it was.

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I I kind of felt bad for her, but I also did have to, you know, laugh rather loud and let her know that.

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Yeah, you said her. Did you know that Bielo beer is owned by Heineken now? I did not know that actually.

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I just found that out. Yeah, interesting. Ecuador, right? Nice beer.

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It's in Spanish. That's all I know. OK. Mas momentos, mas amigos.

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I like it. More moments, more friends. I mean, I can get behind that. Yeah. Yeah.

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I can definitely get behind that. And it's only 31 calories and it must be 310 because it's kilocalories in a in a light beer.

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That was a good question. That was that was that was a really good one. What else you got for us?

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Let's see. Anything else? None. Oh, this is another beer question. We'll finish it off on the beer talk.

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What's your favorite beer to have at Lumen and why?

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For me, it's just tradition with Rainier. Yeah. Yeah. I just a few years ago, I had a public team where I designed.

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We are the running Rainiers and I designed the jersey to look like a can of Rainier.

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It's actually one of my favorite jerseys that I've ever designed.

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And it just became our thing where basically everyone on the team would just take pictures of us holding up a can with the field in front of us.

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And to this day, you know, years later, we're still there's a few of us that will still text each other at halftime.

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We'll see pictures and it's just kind of our thing. I'm a sucker for tradition. What about you?

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You know, I think I don't typically drink at games because of the cost.

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Number one, I've never felt. I mean, it goes back to going to see our games. I've just never felt it's worth it.

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I will say that the Sounders now have several beer offerings that are cheaper, including five dollars.

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Yeah. Five dollar beer offerings for domestic probably.

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Grab and go sections. Yeah. And the grab and go. So it'll be six dollars, six dollars, seltzer, six dollars cider.

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Yeah. Yeah. So that's the place to go if you if you want cheap beer.

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And it's not just pre-match anymore. It is all game. Correct.

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And that's actually something that came up in this week's Alliance Council meeting.

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So yeah, I actually walked around and looked at the menus for all of the places that were not chain or not not on unchained restaurants, anything that was owned by Lumen.

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And and they also I confirmed have at least one item, one entree item available for under ten dollars at every single one.

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Now, one of them was nine dollars and ninety nine cents, but still under ten dollars. Hey, it's under ten dollars.

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You know, I did go to Bar Dojo because that is one of the few places that has vegan options on my side of the stadium.

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And I got decent jackfruit soup dumplings, but you get six dumplings for 18 bucks. So not necessarily the best deal financially.

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But but some people want cheap food. Some people want good food. You know, it caters to both sides, you know, just not a lot.

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You're going to be hungry if you just that's all you're going to eat.

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I mean, I think but but for me, beer wise, I mean, out there outside 120 is where Rubens is now.

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It's about the stadium, but that's where it originally was.

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And so I always would push people to Ruben since that's the official beer of Grill FC.

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And while we're on that subject of the Alliance Council meeting, a couple of things that came out because this is good schedule, but as well, I think.

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A couple of things that came out in our meeting on Tuesday talking about different fan experiences based on, you know,

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whether you're an alliance member or whether you're a new fan with the whole First Ones On Us program and and youth and families, you know,

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they're kind of trying to cater different experiences based on different types of people.

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But we did get a glance at the scarf that will be given to those those new fans as part of the First Ones On Us.

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And I like the design. What did you think of it? Yeah, I think it's pretty cool.

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I basic I like that it's it's obviously sponsored and you expect that and it's better than most sponsored content or items.

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Yeah, sure. I thought it's pretty good. So keep an eye out on that.

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If you're listening to this, you've probably been to games before.

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But I challenge each one of you to send that form to register for that to people that you know that have never gone to a Sounders game.

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Yeah, I mean, that's really the thing is, you know, once a week, try and find someone that you know, a neighbor, a friend, someone that you, you know,

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you know, has a kid that's interested in soccer and really, really push for that.

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I believe very strongly in that program. Yeah, I mean, it'll be super cool because you get a whole you know, you get you get swag, you get to go to a game, you get to meet other new people as well.

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Potentially other cool stuff will happen for you while you're there to get you into the experience.

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I think it's a it's a chance to really grow the Sounders brand in a meaningful way at a time when there's a lot of stuff to do in Seattle and people in Seattle can be finicky this time of year.

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So I think when you get out to a game and you experience it, as we all know, if you're listening to a podcast about the Sounders, you're obviously you're you know, yeah.

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And and it's, you know, bring more people into the community. There's no gatekeeping here, right? We want as many people in as possible to come enjoy what we get to enjoy.

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Spread that spread that love. Yeah.

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Have you had a chance for any of the games this season? I kind of know the answer, but I want to hear you say it.

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To go into the fan zone and the Alliance member. What were your what was your thoughts of what you're seeing in there?

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Yeah, I mean, it's pretty cool. Obviously, you have to be a season ticket holder. But if you are, you get to go into a special area which is currently in between the Pro Shop and the Super Bowl.

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Yeah, yeah, it's over by customer service there on the Olympic Hall and so northeast corner of the bill or northwest corner of the building.

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Yes. Yeah, north north ish west west north corner.

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It's not all the way in the corner. It's north northwest. Yeah.

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And, you know, it's cool that there's a little area and I actually didn't go in because you can just stand from outside.

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I think they're out of the pens the day that I stopped by.

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But they did you get an exclusive pen every single match. Yeah.

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Yesterday's was, of course, a sound wave pen.

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That's cool. You can hear the little rattling of the pens there.

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I'm sure sound effects and and my favorite, of course, was the Sammy logo one, the Orca logo. Yeah, which I'm a big fan of.

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So and they are buttons, I should say, if you want to be proper, but they're not enamel pins.

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They are what half inch buttons. They look. Yeah. No, they're about one inch. They're one inchers. One inch buttons.

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OK. Yeah. So the ECS pins were the half inch size, but they're a little bigger than that. Last game, the Antigua game.

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Yeah, the Antigua game. Roman Torres was there greeting people yesterday.

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Got to chat with Leo Bernie. Nice. You know, they're trying to make one of our discord people ask if he was on loan, but he's not.

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I think he's just not active on the roster. He hasn't been.

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Yeah, I thought they indicated they were going to send him for a season long loan.

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I thought that was the indication to Tacoma. Yeah, he hasn't gone anywhere yet, though.

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No. But yeah. So so ultimately, it's a great program.

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And I think that that that's kind of one of the things that, you know, my opinion is you want to get fans to understand, you know, access to players, access to the history of our club.

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I think these are all good things for for building into what we're about, you know, and becoming a new game day tradition.

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So really excited to see that. Yeah, I will say you won't always know who what player is going to be there because it is someone who didn't make the 18.

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So there will be not probably not every game, but a lot of games, there will be a first team person there who didn't make the 18.

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So once they know that, they'll know what player they can send over.

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And so you might just show up and though, you know, it could be a random day where, you know, maybe, maybe Castro, maybe Travian Sousa.

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Doesn't want to play that day and isn't in the 18 and he'll just, you know, or maybe Alex had a rough day being held up all night by his crying baby.

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And congratulations. Congratulations.

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Luca, I believe is all right.

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Luca, Lucas, Luca. I didn't play close enough attention to the baby's name.

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But yeah, another role done in the world. Yeah. So so there.

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So let's keep it rolling here because we're about a half an hour in and we have to we have to keep it under one hour.

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We have to keep it at a maximum one hour, 50 minutes.

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We can't go up to the two hour. It won't work for the YouTube.

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Yeah, that's probably not going to happen today. I think we'll be OK.

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I think we'll be OK. So Tim Hamilton asked us, how many players do we have fasting for Ramadan?

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Does the club need to manage those players differently during this period?

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What are the rules and what do you suppose the effect on the players?

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If any, I can say professional athletes do not need to.

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Not fast. Fast. Thank you. My brain glitched out for a moment.

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Professional athletes do not need to fast for Ramadan.

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They can choose to, but they are they under most I know sect is the right word,

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but most edicts of the religion, they they are able to forego that for safety reasons.

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However, should they choose to, they can.

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We saw the Niasse did it back in the day.

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And then I know, you know, some more recent players that were doing it.

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Yeah. So knew who has done it in the past.

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Sometimes I'm going off of 20, 23 was the last time this was kind of brought up in in in some news things.

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But in the past, Georgie Manuggu, who's a practicing Christian,

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will sometimes fast with knew who and Susoko was a AB Susoko was a Muslim practicing Ramadan as well.

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And so and so MLS also has a policy to allow for a break in play following sundown

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for players and on field match officials to receive hydration and nutrition if need be.

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So so that's also good. I don't know if that would apply in CONCACAF.

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But but that does apply in league play.

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So it hasn't affected us yet because we've had all seven thirty starts, I believe.

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Is that right? And so sundown is six before then. Exactly.

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That's the earliest. So anyone who had been fasting during the day can immediately.

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And frankly, that's maybe why that's that's actually probably why the last time this was really a news story was 20, 23,

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because with Apple TV in twenty twenty four, most of the games were a seven thirty start time.

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So so there's probably that's probably why I couldn't find more recent news on that. But great question.

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Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Sunday, it could potentially affect affect us. Yeah.

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The one thirty start time. I mean, it could affect.

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And there are multiple players across the league. So that may be practicing.

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And again, I think it's also not lost the officials as well that it could also affect.

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So so we'll see on that. But great, great question. Absolutely.

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Anything else known soccer related? I mean, soccer related non sounder specific.

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I guess we could say which sounders players are going to make the new next U.S.

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men's national team camp and will the club let them go?

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The Fisher Conjection. We already saw they didn't let Reagan go.

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OK, so here's the thing is the January camp was not a required camp, was not a required FIFA break.

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And that's the key difference. If it is a FIFA international break, then they are required to let their teams go.

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The January camp was not a FIFA mandated break.

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So most of the rest of the breaks throughout the season are FIFA international breaks.

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So they would be required to let those players go. That is a FIFA edict.

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So although the USA and MLS sometimes do break that one hundred percent, they but they collaborate together.

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But in the end, if a confederation says we want this player, they they have to do that.

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And it's tough to put the players in the middle of that.

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But but in this case, in this case, I do think Reagan's going to get some call ups.

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Obviously, Ovid Vargas is on the 60 man roster for the for the next.

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I don't see any other sounders, though, unless Jordan goes on a tear.

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He's he wouldn't be called up. I knew who's still getting called up to camera.

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But I meant for USA. Yeah.

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And of course, we do have, you know, players that that are representing other countries.

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I know Alex rolled on probably won't get called up to El Salvador for a while because of I think we alluded to this in previous episodes

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where they were having some corruption issues where they weren't paying the players and the players were on strike.

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And and yeah, so I would not be surprised to get called up to the youth team.

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Now, you teams are not is different because the FIFA release dates are always for senior team call ups.

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They do not have to allow them to go for youth call ups, which is why sometimes players get denied to go to, say, the Olympics,

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because that is not a senior national team call up.

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So so just keep that in mind, those distinctions there.

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I feel like I feel like I need to push up my glasses here and go full nerd.

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But yeah, great, great, great question there.

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But yeah, so I think I think Jordan and Christian could get some call up potentially.

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Hey, Zeus, obviously.

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But if I'm trying to know that Christian's back in his proper position, I don't see him getting called up anymore.

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They're very, very position. Yeah.

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So I would be surprised. I mean, I think he was only getting called up before as a great locker room guy to begin with.

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And then a utility guy should they need him.

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But we saw a calendar cost to always get in the play over him.

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Yeah. To kill and retire.

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Where is that guy? Yeah.

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Well, was he in Cincinnati?

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I feel like because he was always in Chicago now.

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He's moved around a lot because last I heard he was in Colorado and he got traded to L.A.F.C.

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And so now as of last year, he moved to Chicago.

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Okay. Interesting.

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I guess when you go to Chicago, no one pays attention because they haven't been good for so long.

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Do you want to go with the Kenny Sloth question about what are your pregame rituals or good luck practices during the season?

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Yeah, let's hit on that and then we'll take a little break.

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All right. Well, we'll also do that.

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We'll also do the follow up with Alex Diaz because I think those are there.

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Those are neck and neck. Go well together.

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My pregame ritual is I have to set up the grill of C banner.

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So then I will usually meet up with you, although because of timings of the games, it hasn't worked out the last couple of games when my dad's been showing up.

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But yeah, I mean, I think traditionally it was a flat stick.

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Largely, I will be inside the stadium as we move into the season, though, because I'll have to sit the grill of C table until we have some volunteers to do that

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because we need trustworthy people who have to handle money and a tablet.

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So you got to be careful not have strangers come do that.

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And yeah, so I think that's that's my main ritual.

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What about good luck practice?

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I mean, I don't I consider I usually it's what clothes I'm wearing.

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OK, although I've fallen off that in the last two years.

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I know, like after the Seahawks lost to Kansas City in 2013, I think it was.

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I put on a belt buckle and I wore it every day until they won the Super Bowl.

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And so I did my part to make sure because they never lost another game that season.

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I did my part to make sure that the Seahawks went on to win the Super Bowl.

367
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,080
So I do have things like that.

368
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,080
I don't I'm still waiting for my championship ring.

369
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:20,080
I don't know why I haven't gotten it.

370
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,080
So I definitely have stuff like that that I do.

371
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:32,080
But I've I think as I get older and more tired, I often just try to make it to the game at the proper time.

372
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,080
I mean, honestly, I feel you on that.

373
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:42,080
Like the last couple of games normally I'll wear like a some sort of Sounders shirt, you know, all that last couple of days.

374
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:50,080
I just games I've been so exhausted that I just kind of just had a sweater like nothing branded.

375
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,080
But I haven't even worn a game in two years.

376
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:57,080
My jacket or unless I bought it there, I've not worn a sound scarf to a game.

377
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,080
I don't know why I have millions of them.

378
00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,080
I just I just haven't.

379
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:12,080
For me, it's as simple as I've screwed up my shoulder from years of playing goalie as a soccer or hockey rather ice hockey goalie.

380
00:45:12,080 --> 00:45:22,080
So like I can't hold my hand above my shoulder for my arms above my shoulder for like more than 10 seconds without discomfort.

381
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,080
So I'm happy for you.

382
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,080
Well, I'll keep my elbows down.

383
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:28,080
I can't do like full extension.

384
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,080
It's just it just it hurts.

385
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,080
I got it on my shoulders.

386
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:37,080
I probably need surgery, but I'm no longer a I'm no longer an athlete.

387
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:46,080
I did play college sports, but like I I don't want to go through the surgery.

388
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:49,080
Like I can still play public right now.

389
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:53,080
But if I have a surgery, I can't do that.

390
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:57,080
And I'm like, I like to see what plop sometime.

391
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,080
I'm not working Sunday mornings yet.

392
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:06,080
I mean, for me, plop is actually more fun than the season, if I'm being honest, because you're playing constantly with new teams.

393
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:07,080
You're getting to meet new people.

394
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,080
You're making new friends.

395
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,080
Then the season, it's time to get serious.

396
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:16,080
Yeah, this series as you as you as one gets.

397
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:18,080
Now, the follow up.

398
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,080
Oh, I guess my pregame ritual.

399
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:24,080
If I've got Roma, usually we'll get it right around doors.

400
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,080
We'll get her a hot dog.

401
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:30,080
She loves playing in the the members area.

402
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,080
She loves and you go to yesterday.

403
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,080
You went. Did you go to the dogs?

404
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:35,080
I didn't go to Al's.

405
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:37,080
I went to gourmet dogs.

406
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:40,080
Did that I did.

407
00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:48,080
They had those soccer balls in the Alliance member center where you were basically heading the ball.

408
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:50,080
Did you see that?

409
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:51,080
No.

410
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,080
OK, so it's basically.

411
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:54,080
Oh, yeah, yeah.

412
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,080
I really said that I didn't I just saw balls hanging.

413
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:57,080
I didn't realize what it was.

414
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:58,080
OK, yeah, yeah, yeah.

415
00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,080
She's not doing a very good job.

416
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,080
No, no.

417
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:08,080
Yeah, I've got a video of Roma basically chasing it like a tetherball and just as a big cheesy.

418
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:11,080
Yeah, I did see her ball, man.

419
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,080
We should get I want to play tetherball.

420
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:15,080
Thank you for reminding me.

421
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,080
I love tetherball.

422
00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:35,080
Actually, you know what I did I did suggest to the club is they're asking for advice on on different things to installation to put into that that that pregame match area because they want to change it up from from match to match a little bit like last week they had a gigantic foosball table.

423
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,080
That's like the length of like five of them put together.

424
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:39,080
It's crazy.

425
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,080
It really was.

426
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:47,080
But one of the things I suggested was like super super checks bubble hockey. They have a soccer version of that.

427
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:51,080
And so so I didn't know what that was called.

428
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:56,080
And then and then someone described it was like I know exactly what Nick's talking about.

429
00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:01,080
But yeah, super checks bubble hockey is what it's officially called the hockey one.

430
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:11,080
But the same manufacturers make a soccer version of it based out of Buffalo, New York. Ice ice ice manufacturers ice something.

431
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:12,080
Yeah.

432
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:16,080
Anyways, us Buffalonians love our hockey.

433
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:19,080
But yeah, so it's not my kind of pregame Mitchell.

434
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,080
Buffalonians.

435
00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:22,080
Buffalonians.

436
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,080
Buffalonians not Buffalites.

437
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:26,080
That doesn't sound right.

438
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:30,080
That sounds that sounds too Old Testament.

439
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:34,080
The first letter from the from Paul on the Buffalites.

440
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:39,080
But um, but yeah, once all white if.

441
00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:42,080
Oh, no, no, we're not going to go there.

442
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:51,080
But yeah, so so one of the things I like to do is I like to go into the section early and say hi to hi to people there.

443
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:56,080
There are some people that I've traveled internationally with that I always say hi to.

444
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,080
Hi, Romeo and Esther.

445
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:02,080
Fantastic people they.

446
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:12,080
They are also from the Philippines and so they are always doing really nice things for Roma.

447
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:15,080
And you know they're they're just so sweet.

448
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:20,080
So I love saying hi to them and hanging with them for a little bit.

449
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:24,080
Matter of fact, their son.

450
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:33,080
Is the one who designed those really sweet MLS Cup scarves and the CONCACAF champion scarves that had the the starting 11 from those matches.

451
00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:34,080
I guess others.

452
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,080
Oh yeah, he made a really limited run of them.

453
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:42,080
I'll have to I'll have to show you sometime after the after the podcast.

454
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:46,080
But that leads to the as far as good luck practices.

455
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,080
I try to wear the same thing.

456
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:53,080
They try to sit in the same spot of ECS.

457
00:49:53,080 --> 00:50:00,080
But it like you said, it's been harder these last couple years to be consistent on that.

458
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:13,080
But what the follow up question from Alex Diaz was what are your postgame celebrations for a victory and your postgame coping mechanisms after a loss?

459
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,080
Why don't you start that one off?

460
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,080
Let's start with the victory.

461
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:24,080
Usually I stand in the ECS section and wait for everyone to clear out so I can take down the Gorilla FC banner.

462
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:25,080
That's true. That's true.

463
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:32,080
And it takes forever, which means if I get down there early enough, I celebrate with Roma.

464
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:33,080
Yeah.

465
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:37,080
Well, we always stay we always stay for the for the for the flames.

466
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:38,080
That's true.

467
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:43,080
But sometimes it takes a while to get over there because if I don't get there early, I'm fighting the crowd all the way there.

468
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,080
Exactly.

469
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:52,080
And so it depends largely on if I'm celebrating in my own section, you know, and then I have to take everything down and put it in the car and drive away.

470
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,080
So I don't I don't get to do a lot of postgame stuff.

471
00:50:54,080 --> 00:51:01,080
In fact, when we won the MLS Cup, my partner at the time, she was having a

472
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:06,080
panic attack.

473
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,080
Manic attack. Thank you.

474
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:14,080
And but she didn't communicate that it was happening and she just went and took the Gorilla FC banner down and made us go home.

475
00:51:14,080 --> 00:51:21,080
And I wish she had communicated what was going on so I could have helped her and we could have like hung out somewhere with less people and enjoyed celebrating.

476
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,080
So I never got to celebrate us winning.

477
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:28,080
So I feel like I'm I'm missing the void of of winning a championship.

478
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,080
Still, we'll work on that together.

479
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:35,080
Yeah, well, we need to I mean, I got to celebrate in 2016, at least in Toronto.

480
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:39,080
But yeah, I mean, so I don't get to do a lot afterwards.

481
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:45,080
You know, occasionally you and I have gone and gotten drinks afterwards, but usually it's when the weather gets nicer.

482
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:49,080
Yeah, especially with those hot summer nights where you just want to be out.

483
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:52,080
You just want to roll and revel into the fun.

484
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:59,080
Yeah. What about well, for me, I think postgame half the time we'll get a victory dog.

485
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:06,080
You know, you know, especially if I've got Bernie with me, the odds of us getting victory dogs are that much higher.

486
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,080
Um, well, I was going to Oasis before, too.

487
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:17,080
Yes. By the way, Oasis right across from Wajimaya, their bag of chicken for you, not vegan.

488
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:22,080
Sorry. Not for me. It's ridiculous.

489
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:25,080
It is a fantastic deal.

490
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,080
But Roma loves the bubble tea.

491
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:36,080
She is that that we try and really do, especially after a rain game, because I feel like it's much more subdued, much more chill.

492
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,080
Yeah. Easier to get around.

493
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,080
I used to go to Ho Ho a lot after Sounders games to celebrate.

494
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:42,080
Which one was that?

495
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,080
So Chinese restaurant, probably three blocks.

496
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,080
What was it's gone now.

497
00:52:47,080 --> 00:52:50,080
Three blocks.

498
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:53,080
It was three blocks east of Oasis.

499
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:58,080
OK, it had been there since 1981 and on Friday and Saturday nights was open till 3am.

500
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:05,080
It had the best vegan dish in town, which was their tofu.

501
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,080
What's that fake General Tso's tofu?

502
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:11,080
I was like, what's that fake General Tso's tofu?

503
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:20,080
It was an absolutely amazing dish, especially if you added some fried dried fried green beans or snap peas.

504
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:29,080
But sadly, after being there most of my life, they closed down five months ago and restaurants in Seattle have gotten so expensive.

505
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,080
I didn't even know, even though I used to go.

506
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:38,080
I used to be a weekly eater there, but can't get out as much now that things are so expensive in this town.

507
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:42,080
You know, it's.

508
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,080
It's there's some really good hidden gems over there.

509
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:50,080
Maneki is another one over there.

510
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:51,080
I'm hoping they bring Busch Garden back.

511
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:53,080
They put that sign back up.

512
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:57,080
The food was never good at Busch Garden, but the for the karaoke was good.

513
00:53:57,080 --> 00:54:00,080
Was it Nam Thanh?

514
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,080
Yeah, there's a few places over there.

515
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:03,080
I'm trying to think of the names of them.

516
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,080
But yeah.

517
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:12,080
And then what about your coping mechanisms after a loss?

518
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:15,080
I mean, I have to take the pain.

519
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:19,080
Look, it's easier because everyone's left because they're sad.

520
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:25,080
And then, I mean, really, if I get to the car in time, it's listening to Jackson Phelps in the postgame show.

521
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,080
How often do you get to the car in time?

522
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:32,080
I haven't gotten to the car in time in ages.

523
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,080
I haven't this season.

524
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,080
Or I usually I can make it for the last segment.

525
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:41,080
It really depends on if we lose, I can generally make it pretty quickly.

526
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,080
Because people get out of the way and I can take down the banner.

527
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:58,080
But yeah, well, the other thing is it goes up on the iHeart app or wherever you listen to podcasts so fast that often if you give it, if you're there 15 minutes after the show ends, which on a 730 match, we usually be 10 or 1030.

528
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:04,080
I'm not sure which you can put on and listen like I can just listen to the podcast version of it.

529
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:07,080
That's that's a good idea.

530
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:08,080
That's a good idea.

531
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:12,080
I should try and look at it because often I want to talk sounders like especially if we win.

532
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:17,080
I want to hear more sounders talk and it drives me crazy that we don't get it on sports radio 100 percent.

533
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:19,080
And I mean, that's part of the podcast.

534
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:29,080
You know, that's part of the the idea of this podcast in a lot of ways is kind of, you know, having having a beer and talking talking soccer.

535
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:41,080
But yeah, I think I think for me after a loss, depending on like, for example, Salt Lake, we lost a game and I just shut it off and I think, OK, time for me to just not think about soccer.

536
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,080
And a lot of times that's usually my responses.

537
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:48,080
I'm just going to take the rest of the evening off and not think about it.

538
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,080
It was kind of a brutal one, too.

539
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:56,080
Yeah, just sometimes some what's the line from Malcolm in the middle?

540
00:55:56,080 --> 00:56:00,080
I don't know what I thought I expected, but it was.

541
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:03,080
But I was yet disappointed.

542
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:11,080
Are my expectations were super low or basically the middle child basically indicating or the youngest child.

543
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:15,080
Anyways, I can't remember the Lego if you're not the boss of me now.

544
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:20,080
All all see what from Berenik and ladies, they might be giants.

545
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:22,080
So who's next in the geek cred?

546
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:28,080
We talked about violent fems last year, although I don't think they're still I don't think they're in the same vein as those two bands.

547
00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:39,080
I guess we're really looking at we're ready for some weird references that does before we take a break, though, makes me makes me realize we did have

548
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:44,080
another deaf, another singer pass away.

549
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:48,080
Of course, my brain is not working.

550
00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:53,080
And he is not always recognized as a great soul singer.

551
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:58,080
But Roy Ayers, who's the godfather of neo soul, like people who are in the soul know that.

552
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,080
But I don't think the average music fan knows it.

553
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:03,080
He passed away at 84 on Tuesday night.

554
00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:06,080
But see, they keep happening.

555
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:09,080
These we said there's going to be more.

556
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:11,080
They announced it on Wednesday.

557
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:20,080
But you would know his songs because if you're into hip hop, many, many, many, many of his songs have been sampled for his songs.

558
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:24,080
I would say was he part of?

559
00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:26,080
No, no, he's Atlantic.

560
00:57:26,080 --> 00:57:31,080
When you when he said neo soul, I was wondering if he was part of the stacks label.

561
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,080
But no, it doesn't look like it.

562
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:38,080
Yeah, so he.

563
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:41,080
Like you would recognize some of the songs.

564
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:44,080
It's one of those things where it's he's he's famous enough.

565
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:45,080
His music is big enough.

566
00:57:45,080 --> 00:57:56,080
But but you're going to recognize everybody loves the sunshine was his big single, which was named number 72 on Pitchfork's 200 best songs of the 1970s.

567
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:57,080
Sampled by Mary J.

568
00:57:57,080 --> 00:58:04,080
Blybes, tried called Quest, Junior Mafia, a bunch of other hip hop rap artists.

569
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:08,080
He's worked with Alicia Keys, The Roots, Tyler, the creator.

570
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:09,080
Yeah, so yeah.

571
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:15,080
And I think in the meantime there, too, the didn't did we talk about last time the singer of the New York Dolls dying?

572
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,080
I can't remember if we know we didn't.

573
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:23,080
But David Johansson, yep, who also was an actor and Buster Poindexter.

574
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:25,080
So hot, hot, hot.

575
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:30,080
Yeah, and an arrow song originally, which I became.

576
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:36,080
I didn't realize because I knew the song because I got it on a cassette tape of Arrow that I got when I was in Jamaica when I was a kid.

577
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:40,080
But it was the I think it was the official song of World Cup 86.

578
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,080
Hot, hot, hot by Arrow.

579
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:44,080
And that's how it became a famous song.

580
00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:47,080
And so it's pretty, pretty crazy.

581
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:51,080
But of course, David did not love what the Buster Poindexter made him super famous.

582
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:53,080
He kind of I mean, he's a punk rocker.

583
00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,080
Of course, he got kind of annoyed by it.

584
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:56,080
But but he liked the money, I'm sure.

585
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:57,080
Oh, yeah.

586
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:04,080
But yeah, someone one of my friends was his mom was there was Buster Poindexter's cousin, which is crazy to me.

587
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:14,080
But the other one that you might know him from was he was the ghost of Christmas past in Bill Murray's great comedy Scrooge.

588
00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:16,080
Yeah. Yeah.

589
00:59:16,080 --> 00:59:26,080
So if you needed someone who had a Tom Waits vibe, but you couldn't afford Tom Waits, you know, there you go.

590
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:38,080
Yeah. And sadly, the Oscars did not include Tony Todd or Shannon Doherty in their in memoriam, which I don't understand.

591
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:42,080
I get why they didn't do Michelle Trachtenberg, because it was so soon.

592
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:47,080
Yeah. Tony Todd and Shannon Doherty even died died a while ago, especially Tony Todd.

593
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:55,080
So important to the horror genre and especially black representation in film and in horror films that it is frustrating that he did.

594
00:59:55,080 --> 01:00:00,080
It is frustrating that he did not make it in there.

595
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,080
The I didn't realize the Shannon Doherty did not.

596
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:07,080
Yeah, it was not included in that admission.

597
01:00:07,080 --> 01:00:15,080
But but that seemed that seemed like a pretty screwed up snub in particular.

598
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:18,080
That it was on purpose. Someone just forgot.

599
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:20,080
But yeah, I mean, that's just how it is.

600
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:23,080
There's there's a lot of people.

601
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:27,080
Yeah.

602
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:31,080
Well, I'm yeah, there's no segue from that.

603
01:00:31,080 --> 01:00:35,080
But thank you for those great mailbag questions.

604
01:00:35,080 --> 01:00:40,080
Definitely appreciate those.

605
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:45,080
And oh, before we go to break, why don't we you know, we'll do it now.

606
01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:49,080
Why don't we talk about the winners of the last two match predictions?

607
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,080
Okay, cool.

608
01:00:51,080 --> 01:00:53,080
We'll do that. And then we'll go to then we'll go to break.

609
01:00:53,080 --> 01:01:01,080
So for those of you following along before each home match in the or I'm sorry before each match home and away,

610
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:11,080
I'm putting a prediction game up in our discord where you basically pick the winner, pick the score, pick who's going to score.

611
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:19,080
First, you get a point for each correct answer up to five correct five correct questions.

612
01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:27,080
So for the RSL game, we had a winner with three out of five.

613
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,080
And that was Daniel.

614
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:34,080
So congratulations to Daniel. And when you're filling these out,

615
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:42,080
definitely make sure you put your your discord username because that's how I'll read these off.

616
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:46,080
I don't want to give your email address or anything like that, you know.

617
01:01:46,080 --> 01:01:49,080
So Daniel, congratulations with three out of five.

618
01:01:49,080 --> 01:02:02,080
And then for the Cruises all match yesterday, we had six people with two points to was the high number there is because 00 is kind of a kind of a tough one.

619
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:10,080
But funny enough, I guess the rule was you had to sit with me because both Eric,

620
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:17,080
Eric 13, Bryce DeJef and myself all had two points.

621
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:23,080
And then I assumed it was Bryce DeJef. I know. I know.

622
01:02:23,080 --> 01:02:26,080
It doesn't say that, though. I know. I know. I'm just reading.

623
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:36,080
I was also assuming that as well. But then Asian Man 1974 also got got to.

624
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:42,080
And then a couple fellow Alliance Council members, Dwayne Nakamura and Toonces TDC.

625
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:49,080
So Scott on the Alliance Council both got to. So congratulations to all of you.

626
01:02:49,080 --> 01:02:59,080
And right now, the leaderboard, not including last night's, because I didn't get a chance to add last night's scores to it.

627
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:08,080
But the leaderboard, the top three are Alex Diaz with 11, Eric 13 with nine and Daniel with eight.

628
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:13,080
So, you know, keep those picks going. We're going to keep doing this all year long.

629
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:20,080
And I was just telling I was just telling Cameron a little earlier today that I'm going to come up with some prizes for the top three finishers.

630
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:27,080
Well, no idea what it is yet, but we'll figure out something. We'll, you know, give a reason for participation.

631
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:52,080
We always like to do fun stuff here. Yeah, absolutely. And on that note, let's take a break. All right.

632
01:03:52,080 --> 01:04:04,080
Hey, everybody. This is one of your hosts, Cameron Collins. Now, I know we said this time's time for a break, but really, it's a time for me to talk to you about our corporate overlords and our corporate overlords are us.

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01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:12,080
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641
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643
01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:49,080
Hey, we played RSL. We lost to nothing. Knew who had a known goal. I don't really want to talk about it. What about you?

644
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:53,080
Yeah, I think we did just talk about it. That happened.

645
01:05:53,080 --> 01:06:00,080
Terrible. The only thing I would say is they're a mile high, much like Denver, but they don't have to tell everyone about it every five seconds.

646
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:04,080
No, they're actually a little higher too. I think they got another thousand feet, if I remember correctly.

647
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:13,080
But another thousand feet above that is Mexico City. Yeah. And we are going there next Tuesday. But we did play a team from Mexico City last night.

648
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:24,080
Hey, but wait, before we go into that, the one thing I will say about that RSL game is we scored three goals. They scored one goal.

649
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:34,080
Yeah. And let's not forget they deserve two red cards. Not that it would have changed the outcome of the game, but they studs up tackles twice. Very, very hard.

650
01:06:34,080 --> 01:06:45,080
I don't care if it's if it's 30 seconds left in the match. It did not game state. Yeah, there was one earlier. There was one in like the 60th minute or something too. I don't think it changes anything.

651
01:06:45,080 --> 01:06:59,080
But no, but anyways, OK, so let's talk about last night's match against Cruises. First off, it's cocky, cap Champions Cup Champions League. I still don't want to call it Champions Cup.

652
01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:12,080
Yeah, so it's Champions League. We are playing a league MX opponent. So you know that you're going to get the away support is going to show up and show up. They did.

653
01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:24,080
So hats off hats off to Cruises all big time and to the point where you know what last episode I was talking about how sometimes it's hard to hear ECS because of the way the stadium is made up. Yeah, that was yesterday.

654
01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:41,080
There were so many Cruises little fans not like all around the stadium, but up in that corner. Yeah, their sound is comes down. And so until the goal that was disallowed, which we'll get to which shouldn't have been disallowed even even Spencer commented on it.

655
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:56,080
I need to see a good replay of that. I still haven't seen a good replay yet. Yeah, I saw I watched the replay only showed it once on the broadcast. I had it up and saw it. He was even it was a bad call. But anyway, the

656
01:07:56,080 --> 01:08:14,080
until that goal was called off. Seattle fans are little little quiet that change that changed everything though that that made it the crowd get fired up and I don't know if it was nervousness. I don't know if it was surprised. I mean, because it was probably 6040 Seattle fans, but the 40% were very, very loud.

657
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:37,080
Yeah, I mean, and that happens every time. Usually what typically happens is the away team, you know, Chivas or America will will start with their chance and then the rest of the stadium will try and keep up with ECS and try and contribute as well.

658
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:56,080
Because they don't want to be shown up in their own house. Now, I will say starting with the interesting decision by conca cap to take away the capos megaphones was were not allowed in the stadium. That's the first time I think I've seen that happen.

659
01:08:56,080 --> 01:09:13,080
But they did allow the speakers. Yeah, so it's just very, very bizarre. Yeah, I was there arbitrary all the club and be like, conca cap is searching us. And they were like, what way? Where's security as like security already searched us.

660
01:09:13,080 --> 01:09:35,080
It's also my understanding that conca cap tried to take down one of our flags. And we basically were like, fuck you. This is the second time that conca cap has tried to do this to us in the past. It was our was trans man.

661
01:09:35,080 --> 01:09:45,080
It was our trans lives matter. Yeah. This time it was our Black Lives Matter flag, which we fly, you know, every every match.

662
01:09:45,080 --> 01:10:08,080
So yeah, I was like, come and take it. Yeah, it was interesting. It was interesting. I was I was actually a little nervous. I do not recall hearing the chant. Yeah, you didn't hear it easier. No. Okay, that makes me really happy to hear.

663
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:20,080
I wasn't sure you don't need to do it in order to be true to your soccer culture. No. And well, the thing is, it's tough for me because we're literally in the front of ECS and we're singing right with ease.

664
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:39,080
So we are ECS. I don't want to I am I am a card carrying I'm involved in ECS FC leadership. I run public along with some of my colleagues. So I you know I care deeply about supporter culture I care deeply about ECS.

665
01:10:39,080 --> 01:11:02,080
But but there's kind of two different there's the ECS and then there's the ECS FC. So I'm more involved in the ECS FC leadership, not the ECS leadership. So I want to make that very clear that I don't ever want to feel like I'm claiming to speak for ECS out of respect for those who are in leadership there.

666
01:11:02,080 --> 01:11:13,080
So so anytime I bring my opinions about those supporter culture that's exactly what they are just my opinions. So I always like to make that that claim.

667
01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:37,080
And with that in mind, I find that in these situations, ECS is usually at its loudest and best I feel like we all kind of take that banner seriously and and my voice was already shot at halftime and that does not always happen for Sounders games.

668
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:49,080
But it was I mean, I had Bernie with me. Bernie was singing along with you know, like and she's not always singing. She's you know, clapping all the time, but not always singing, you know.

669
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:58,080
But but every time I'd look over she's singing it's just that's that's what I love about the energy of this kind of a matchup.

670
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:08,080
And and those are my favorite kind of soccer experiences those kind of those kind of genuine matchups all the Cruises all fans that I encountered were were pretty good.

671
01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:13,080
Yeah, I had largely positive experiences I didn't have I should say had zero negative experiences.

672
01:12:13,080 --> 01:12:23,080
Exactly. And I think I think game state always helps the game state helps in that regard, you know, if things aren't going in either teams way.

673
01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:35,080
There's a few drunk idiots afterwards in a but they weren't they were obnoxious. They weren't rude. They weren't they were just going I do you know they're I just come on guys really I realize it's your name.

674
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:41,080
But can you imagine if Sounders fans were just like green, green, green.

675
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:46,080
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

676
01:12:46,080 --> 01:12:50,080
You know what you're describing right now.

677
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:53,080
Oh, yes, it's the same dumb.

678
01:12:53,080 --> 01:13:07,080
No, no, come on. Come on. See Hawks. See, like it's the same. It's I know I I I I'm just saying it's the same thing.

679
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:20,080
And and and and 40 you know 40 listeners just shut off their pod right right then and there.

680
01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:41,080
But no, it's it's you know sometimes that that is one of the criticisms that some people will say about ECS is your songs are too verbose it's not a simple you know keep the song simple because for the masses and I and I and I get that side of it, but I also never want to be

681
01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:53,080
like Portland where they just go through the alphabet, a, b, clap, clap, c, d. Death. Death. Death. Like to me that'd be oh shit.

682
01:13:53,080 --> 01:14:16,080
I mean that could be. I mean we do the let him you know what we replace the let him die chant with just us like boom boom clapping with death. Death. Death. I mean that is that is that is completely inappropriate.

683
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:30,080
But kind of awesome. Like, like go full Norwegian black metal. Yeah, like just go.

684
01:14:30,080 --> 01:14:44,080
I need more beverages. Um, but no, but no so I thought I thought the crowd was good. It was a fun soccer atmosphere. And, and I appreciated that here it felt there's a buzz.

685
01:14:44,080 --> 01:15:02,080
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it felt like it, it felt like Champions League. It felt like it felt more intense than an MLS playoff game that's not the final.

686
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:14,080
It felt it just felt great. I love Champions League. I love the intensity. I love the energy and it's been great to see the evolution over the years.

687
01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:32,080
Let's put it this way. Five years ago, six years ago, you draw zero zero at home. No one's giving you a chance in the return leg. It's well you know if you don't have a three nothing lead at home, you've got no chance.

688
01:15:32,080 --> 01:15:49,080
And, and history would share that out you know for the longest time there were only a handful of teams the Sounders were the first team to win in Mexico. Yeah.

689
01:15:49,080 --> 01:16:04,080
It just yeah it's just it's just not easy to do. But let's talk about the game a little bit. First, so once we talk about the atmosphere setting the picture the atmosphere I thought was great.

690
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:10,080
Had a lot of fun with that. Unfortunately, a lot of Cruises of Zulu fans bought tickets in ECS.

691
01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:21,080
I know they had to get moved. What happened with that? Did they get? Yeah. Well, a couple things. One, you know, ECS has their own ECS security but we also work in conjunction with stadium security.

692
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:31,080
You know, we will point out people who are in opposing team colors and kind of connect with them and go hey we're going to move you to a different section. This is just not appropriate.

693
01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:45,080
You know, yeah, we're not going to let you drink in. You never know. We're not going to let stupid stuff happen. And everyone was really good about it. You know, everyone was really cool.

694
01:16:45,080 --> 01:17:03,080
You know, it was it was good. You know, I didn't see didn't see stupid stuff going on and you know and I always like to be a second set of eyes and kind of help point out hey these people here are wearing are wearing Chivas shirts.

695
01:17:03,080 --> 01:17:18,080
Let's let's move them out of the section like they can't be here. Like, yes, we understand that Chivas are not playing. But you can't be wearing Chivas shirt from Vince Leger that there were a lot of Chivas fans they're trolling.

696
01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:31,080
I think America fans I think oh yeah America. And it was one of the two teams in that match. Well, keep in mind because Cruises of America, Pumas are all based out of Mexico City.

697
01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:44,080
And then Chivas America and Cruises are the three biggest clubs historically in Mexico. Yeah. And so so it's so it's just fun atmospheres.

698
01:17:44,080 --> 01:18:07,080
It's fun. I saw a lot of people walking into the stadium. I saw a lot of people father son, you know, generational one wearing Sounders gear one wearing Cruises rule gear saw quite a few people wearing both wearing you know Sounders hat and Cruises rule shirts and so I love that I mean,

699
01:18:07,080 --> 01:18:14,080
if I were depending on how the sections work out.

700
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:26,080
Because I'm assuming, because I am in what could be the ECS section for PSG versus Seattle, which means I could only wear Seattle gear, but since we're up top. Maybe not.

701
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:44,080
Maybe they will that's designated. Yeah, right. So it depends on how they break it down. My plan currently is to wear both PSG and Sounders since I was a PSG fan. Before I was a Sounders before the Sounders MLS, the MLS Sounders, I was already a USL Sounders fan but the atmosphere

702
01:18:44,080 --> 01:19:08,080
was never the same for them as as a you can't that's like saying oh the ever aqua socks you never expect to be playing against the New York Yankees. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I will say I will say in 1997 the Sounders, the US is la league Sounders did play against Shiva's, I mean sorry, Cruz Azul and lost 11 nothing, including two hat tricks scored against us.

703
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:14,080
In the Champions Cup. So this is actually the second time the Sounders to play in the Champions Cup against them.

704
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:24,080
Little better result. Yeah. And so let's talk about the actual game. So we bring a pretty ideal starting 11, you know, depending on, you know, center attacking mid left mid, you can say, who knows where that's going to go but I would say right at this moment that's our strongest starting 11.

705
01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:42,080
Yeah, yeah, I mean even even even if hey Zeus was 100% fit. I think when you're talking about the difference between hey Zeus or Pedro it's kind of tactical preference. Yeah, but so we bring we bring a pretty ideal starting 11. Yeah, I mean, even if hey Zeus was 100% fit.

706
01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:57,080
I think when you're talking about the difference between hey Zeus or Pedro it's kind of tactical preference. Yeah, but so we bring we bring a pretty ideal starting 11 starting 11 that we're pretty pleased with.

707
01:19:57,080 --> 01:20:13,080
I think, for me, the first 15 minutes of the game was getting a little nervous or there was one moment around, you know, in the first 10 minutes where Chivas or sorry, Cruz Azul.

708
01:20:13,080 --> 01:20:29,080
We're making a move to get into the 18, and you could hear the fans swell. And I turned to my seat partners and I'm like, we cannot let them score first.

709
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:38,080
If, if, if this crowd has a chance to explode on the on the wayside.

710
01:20:38,080 --> 01:20:50,080
It's not going to be good. And so, fortunately, I thought we did a really good job of shutting the down their their opportunities in the final third.

711
01:20:50,080 --> 01:21:07,080
But I also felt like we just were getting absolutely swarmed in the middle third that's kind of what I saw from from my seats and not having the advantage of rewatching the game on replay what did what did you see

712
01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:12,080
on the on the Dela Vega goal? Well, well, let's start with the first half here. Oh,

713
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:22,080
Sounders are flat. I think they were a little scared. Well, I'd say the first 15 minutes completely outplayed second 15 minutes I think the Sounders played were the better team.

714
01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:28,080
And then, and then the third 15 kind of fell back a little bit again.

715
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:30,080
Couldn't do much in the midfield.

716
01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:33,080
And then just kind of.

717
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:39,080
I was a little frustrated, especially getting to the 60th minute without a goal.

718
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:49,080
Overall, I mean I know it's in the second half because I do think with Cruz Azul not starting seven players.

719
01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:58,080
Missing seven starters that you needed to put up goals in that match that doesn't mean we're out of it, of course, but it makes next week much tougher.

720
01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:03,080
Yeah, I think the Sounders were not. They seemed a little unsteady.

721
01:22:03,080 --> 01:22:07,080
And then whatever they said at halftime.

722
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:11,080
Brian would not repeat it. So I feel like it was a doozy.

723
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:27,080
But yeah, his press conferences fun his his fun. I love reading between the lines on his press conferences, but yeah, it sounds like it made a difference right second half we were the more dominant team we had several I mean Jordan had a chance in the first half.

724
01:22:27,080 --> 01:22:34,080
In fact, he had two chances almost back to back that header just went over and then the other header.

725
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:40,080
He was a little too close to it, but it was bad timing of the jump to I mean he could have had two goals right there.

726
01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:56,080
I will say my I was unsurprisingly highly impressed with bogus. You could see how talented was and what he could do with the ball and without the ball, but still controlling the ball like he did things that you saw overdo where you don't actually play it

727
01:22:56,080 --> 01:23:07,080
you let you you let it go and then watch how the defenders react and it let them just cut through our defense at times and it was it was pretty impressive.

728
01:23:07,080 --> 01:23:14,080
But our defense held on. I think you saw new who make an early mistake and then recover and have a great game.

729
01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:31,080
I think that's that's pretty par for the course this season so far, which is great news because of new who any defender I should say can recover from a mistake. Luckily this one didn't give up a goal. But if you as a defender can be what's that goldfish from is a Dory.

730
01:23:31,080 --> 01:23:33,080
Yes, yep, yep.

731
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:37,080
Just get behind you put it behind you forget about it.

732
01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:41,080
Just move on gotta be a goldfish and that clearly happened.

733
01:23:41,080 --> 01:23:50,080
I think we also saw in that first half. The beginning of what was the performance of the day and that was surprisingly Alex rolled on.

734
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:53,080
To me, he was the player of the match.

735
01:23:53,080 --> 01:24:06,080
Interesting. Yeah, I mean, I thought I thought Obed had a had a good game I thought Alex was great I thought new who had a really good game and my God if he puts that header.

736
01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:10,080
Just two inches lower. Yeah.

737
01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:26,080
You know, I loved watching the joy the absolute joy on De La Vega's face when he scored and that goofy ass running high kick dancing he did.

738
01:24:26,080 --> 01:24:36,080
When he thought he took the one nothing lead I love that passion I'm. Yeah, I'm probably going to be pissed based on what you're telling me because I have not seen the.

739
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:47,080
It was so it was dead on. I mean, from from the angle, you couldn't tell totally because of it was a bad angle it's from the corner is from the bottom right corner looking up.

740
01:24:47,080 --> 01:24:55,080
But you can see the lines in the field and that's what I was looking at, and I don't think they did that. Even Schmetzer said postgame that I don't think they had all the angles.

741
01:24:55,080 --> 01:25:07,080
I mean, to me, you knew how egregious it was because Schmetzer made two comments about the referee post match knowing he's probably going to get fine.

742
01:25:07,080 --> 01:25:21,080
Yeah, well I don't know how that works in cocker cow. That's true. They were innocuous the way that he did it. But he did it. And for him to make a comment he's usually one to say, we're not talking about the referees you can't control what they do you can only control what you do.

743
01:25:21,080 --> 01:25:33,080
So for him to say he got it wrong is a big fucking deal. Yeah, I mean, I don't understand. It was. Yeah, I truly don't understand what they saw.

744
01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:42,080
I don't even know. I thought they went to VAR. Well, he was talking to VAR. He obviously didn't go look. I don't know why they wouldn't go look at it.

745
01:25:42,080 --> 01:25:49,080
At the very least, there were a few.

746
01:25:49,080 --> 01:26:04,080
I think the result is what the result is. But I was not overly enamored with this official. No, he wasn't as bad as the one against Antigua.

747
01:26:04,080 --> 01:26:13,080
The second game. Yeah, the second game. The bad calls, even the first game I felt like there were some interesting calls, but they were they were consistent.

748
01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:22,080
They were consistent in what they were allowing to happen. And I thought it was a fair. This match.

749
01:26:22,080 --> 01:26:33,080
It felt more like the A.R.'s and the ref were not on the same page. The ref wasn't calling clear fouls, but was giving up touchy fouls to Cruz Azul.

750
01:26:33,080 --> 01:26:41,080
And then the A.R.'s were just making bad calls all game. I mean, I think that's that kind of hits it like like we are getting.

751
01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:46,080
It's almost like we forgot the dark arts part of Concord calf. Yeah.

752
01:26:46,080 --> 01:26:54,080
Because it felt like we're giving up fouls and we weren't getting the calls back.

753
01:26:54,080 --> 01:27:00,080
I mean, there were times where we're getting absolutely two handed shoved from behind.

754
01:27:00,080 --> 01:27:05,080
Because we didn't act like we got shot and roll in around the field like you.

755
01:27:05,080 --> 01:27:12,080
You just been stabbed in the face with a knife and then scream at the ref. We're not going to get the call. There was one flop.

756
01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:17,080
So egregious at the near the end of that match, because it was when I was standing or I was sitting next to you. Yeah.

757
01:27:17,080 --> 01:27:28,080
Hanging out with Roma and and Bernie. And it was like the guy threw himself up in the air and was like and fell down to the point where like

758
01:27:28,080 --> 01:27:37,080
I have never seen a stronger example of simulation in my entire life and how that guy isn't just permanently banned from the sport forever for flopping.

759
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:44,080
I mean, that was man who Janobly style. Tell me how you really feel. I mean, this is this is ridiculous.

760
01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:51,080
You haven't seen something like this ever before. It was it was wild. That was almost.

761
01:27:51,080 --> 01:27:59,080
I just as I was saying that I could almost hear Trump saying it. That was the voice was the I can't do it.

762
01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:05,080
I don't please don't. And it turned into like Obama meets Bill Clinton voice.

763
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:08,080
That's a good thing. It's a good thing.

764
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:16,080
But yes, so I thought I thought I thought the second half, the energy came to us for sure.

765
01:28:16,080 --> 01:28:19,080
Right. We figured out we could counterattack and that changed everything.

766
01:28:19,080 --> 01:28:28,080
Yes. And I and I and I thought we were doing a better job of getting behind them.

767
01:28:28,080 --> 01:28:32,080
They were doing a better job of staying on top of us.

768
01:28:32,080 --> 01:28:40,080
They were just swarming and it really made the team work on their quick one to passing in their quick movements.

769
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:43,080
It just felt like we just weren't able to get those balls behind.

770
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:49,080
I would have liked to have seen us get a little bit more behind when Georgie came on.

771
01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:56,080
And it just felt like they just couldn't quite get there. Their center back had a good game.

772
01:28:56,080 --> 01:29:04,080
I think you had mentioned halfway through the game that Bogus is still a storm in our side.

773
01:29:04,080 --> 01:29:07,080
But fortunately, it didn't cost us yesterday.

774
01:29:07,080 --> 01:29:11,080
No, I'm surprised we didn't have him take a couple of those free kicks they had.

775
01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:14,080
They were a little bit further out than the one he made the previous weekend.

776
01:29:14,080 --> 01:29:27,080
But yeah, yeah. But but I mean, in the end, the reality is we are we are at that stage of this tournament where there are no easy outs.

777
01:29:27,080 --> 01:29:36,080
And if you if you think any of these are easy outs, well, then I maybe you haven't been watching CONCACAF as long as some of us.

778
01:29:36,080 --> 01:29:48,080
So I don't mean to sound like like a dick there, but it's just that these are we are down to the final 16.

779
01:29:48,080 --> 01:29:56,080
And these are some very difficult teams. There's there's no easy wins.

780
01:29:56,080 --> 01:30:03,080
With that in mind, I think we can get a result in Mexico City.

781
01:30:03,080 --> 01:30:09,080
I think that it's very doable.

782
01:30:09,080 --> 01:30:14,080
We got to get through LAFC, obviously.

783
01:30:14,080 --> 01:30:19,080
Now, we got LAFC.

784
01:30:19,080 --> 01:30:26,080
Cruises who on Saturday has Monterey doesn't get easy for you.

785
01:30:26,080 --> 01:30:36,080
And they have Monterey with their one one game at Vancouver, even though that still gives them that way goal there, they still have to put in some good players there.

786
01:30:36,080 --> 01:30:49,080
Now, now the good news is for both teams is Chris Azul's playing in Mexico City and Seattle's playing in Seattle against LAFC.

787
01:30:49,080 --> 01:30:52,080
So neither of them have to do extra travel.

788
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:59,080
That's good for both teams, you know. But yeah, so so these are not.

789
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:05,080
But but I'm kind of happy to see that, because that means both teams got to play on Saturday and then on Tuesday.

790
01:31:05,080 --> 01:31:12,080
So it doesn't really give anyone an advantage there. So I I'm I'm very pleased with that.

791
01:31:12,080 --> 01:31:15,080
Yeah, yeah, I think so.

792
01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:22,080
But but yeah, so it both coming in for us, both the Sounders will be rotating the squad.

793
01:31:22,080 --> 01:31:29,080
So will LAFC, LAFC, even though winning three, nothing have to go to Columbus.

794
01:31:29,080 --> 01:31:34,080
So I think they may still sit many of their starters.

795
01:31:34,080 --> 01:31:39,080
And it's going to be a tale of who's whose bench is more deep.

796
01:31:39,080 --> 01:31:46,080
Yeah, so it comes down to and I think it's us.

797
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:52,080
So we're talking about the LAFC matchup. Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying, yeah, I'm talking about the fixture congestion.

798
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:59,080
So, oh, yeah, that when it comes to that fixture, I think it favors us in this instance.

799
01:31:59,080 --> 01:32:04,080
Yeah, I think that that I think that's probably correct.

800
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:13,080
But but in the end, all of the teams, they got to play the games, you know, and so I like

801
01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:17,080
I still I still stand by the fact that I like what I see.

802
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:23,080
We could have had we could have had some goals and boy, that's going to

803
01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:28,080
you know, if we don't get out of this round, we are going to be looking at some of that and going,

804
01:32:28,080 --> 01:32:31,080
I wish we could have would have should have.

805
01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:41,080
But I also think that this plays into this plays into we you know, we've got the ability to do this.

806
01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:51,080
And and there's a side of me that really wants to see us take on Cruz's all wants to see us take on America,

807
01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:59,080
take on and just and just, you know, advance through very difficult games and win, you know, and keep winning.

808
01:32:59,080 --> 01:33:09,080
I want you know, I want to I want to see us, you know, I want to see us win these tough games.

809
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:15,080
I don't even know if I'd put a percentage on it at this point, but it'll I'm just kind of in a I'm going to sit back

810
01:33:15,080 --> 01:33:17,080
and watch and hope for the best at this point.

811
01:33:17,080 --> 01:33:23,080
Yeah, I mean, if the Sounders score first in Mexico City, everything changes.

812
01:33:23,080 --> 01:33:25,080
Yeah.

813
01:33:25,080 --> 01:33:27,080
Yeah.

814
01:33:27,080 --> 01:33:32,080
I mean, if you can if you can get that crowd against you.

815
01:33:32,080 --> 01:33:40,080
So if you get those Cruz's all fans to turn on their team, that's that's the plan of attack.

816
01:33:40,080 --> 01:33:46,080
You know, you get that get that early, early goal.

817
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:52,080
You know that zero zero, they're going to come in expecting to push us around.

818
01:33:52,080 --> 01:33:59,080
And you know, and if we can just avoid that, I think I can have play rather than first half.

819
01:33:59,080 --> 01:34:04,080
Yeah. Yeah.

820
01:34:04,080 --> 01:34:07,080
Very pleased to see us get our first clean sheet of the year.

821
01:34:07,080 --> 01:34:10,080
So so great job by the back line.

822
01:34:10,080 --> 01:34:14,080
Really, really pleased to say something about that, though.

823
01:34:14,080 --> 01:34:17,080
I think I can't remember who said it on our discord during.

824
01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:22,080
Of course, you can you can come in on the Sounders match day channel and we during the match and all day long,

825
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:24,080
we're having Sounders discussions.

826
01:34:24,080 --> 01:34:28,080
So talking about the match live, it's pretty fun community to join there.

827
01:34:28,080 --> 01:34:36,080
But it does feel like Frye has his reactions are not as quick as they used to be.

828
01:34:36,080 --> 01:34:42,080
And I'm wondering if maybe before the end of the season, we do see the switch over to Andy Thomas.

829
01:34:42,080 --> 01:34:44,080
We're a long ways away from that.

830
01:34:44,080 --> 01:34:49,080
I was just I was a little bit surprised at some of his reflexes being slower.

831
01:34:49,080 --> 01:34:51,080
There could be a million reasons for that.

832
01:34:51,080 --> 01:34:54,080
We're not you know, and it could be where his defenders were standing.

833
01:34:54,080 --> 01:34:56,080
So he couldn't see the ball quite the same way.

834
01:34:56,080 --> 01:35:05,080
You know, but I was I mean, obviously, no goals went in great, great job by the entire defense, including Frye.

835
01:35:05,080 --> 01:35:09,080
Can you imagine if we had their keeper, though? Oh, my God, it would give us heart attacks.

836
01:35:09,080 --> 01:35:25,080
Oh, my God. He it I do think that the way we are pressing is the path because because all it takes is him to get a little too penisy.

837
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:28,080
Just wants it jumped at a different time on that one.

838
01:35:28,080 --> 01:35:31,080
Oh, I know exactly the one you're thinking of.

839
01:35:31,080 --> 01:35:38,080
Yeah. Although they tend to call the fouls on the offense there and not the goalie, which I hate because I mean,

840
01:35:38,080 --> 01:35:46,080
we don't need to go back to the old days. I have a video called Soccer's Hard Men that has what's the actor who played for Chelsea and Wimbledon.

841
01:35:46,080 --> 01:35:55,080
But he's in like lock stock into smoking barrel. Yeah. Not keen.

842
01:35:55,080 --> 01:36:08,080
It's yeah. Well, anyway, yeah, he's he's on the cover of this like, but he back in the 50s and 60s, you could just punch the goalie in the face.

843
01:36:08,080 --> 01:36:13,080
You could run up elbow them in the face and no fouls ever called. And so I'm glad he Jones.

844
01:36:13,080 --> 01:36:18,080
Yeah, Vinnie Jones. That's so funny. That's that's how my memory is going, because I love the show.

845
01:36:18,080 --> 01:36:27,080
He's even though he plays a man United fan in Euro trip. That is still one of the funniest scenes in that movie. That is that is a great scene.

846
01:36:27,080 --> 01:36:33,080
And speaking of, you know, RIP, Michelle. Yeah. Yeah, she's amazing.

847
01:36:33,080 --> 01:36:38,080
That one and that movie has the best cameo in the history of film.

848
01:36:38,080 --> 01:36:44,080
Scotty doesn't know. Yeah, it's got to know.

849
01:36:44,080 --> 01:36:51,080
If you haven't seen Euro trip, don't don't tell Scotty. Yeah, it's 2000 early 2000s trash 2004.

850
01:36:51,080 --> 01:36:59,080
You should definitely watch it if you haven't seen it, because it it's emblematic of what film was at that time for bad teen comedies.

851
01:36:59,080 --> 01:37:07,080
But very fun. But but, you know, it also has I mean, Fiona, I had a crush on her.

852
01:37:07,080 --> 01:37:14,080
I was after what she did to Scotty. No, she was in smallville.

853
01:37:14,080 --> 01:37:26,080
She was Lois Lane or Lana Lane in smallville. And she's Canadian. So, you know, you know, I'm going to yeah, I'm going to.

854
01:37:26,080 --> 01:37:33,080
Yeah. Yeah, no, my my era. That movie is all Michelle Trachtenberg for me or Swedish.

855
01:37:33,080 --> 01:37:38,080
Is it the Swedish lady? Oh, Jessica Bors.

856
01:37:38,080 --> 01:37:52,080
Makey. The beautiful thing is before Euro trip, there is a movie called Road Trip that starred Tom Green and Breckenmeyer that I feel like was the spiritual prequel to this film.

857
01:37:52,080 --> 01:38:00,080
I guess it was first. So predecessor. Anyway, so yeah, sounders sounders have to travel to Mexico.

858
01:38:00,080 --> 01:38:07,080
It's going to be tough. Do you have a just in case we don't get another episode in since Tuesday.

859
01:38:07,080 --> 01:38:11,080
So it'll be tough with you working every day next week.

860
01:38:11,080 --> 01:38:24,080
What what do you what are you predicting happens down in Mexico?

861
01:38:24,080 --> 01:38:35,080
If we get that first goal, then we are going to be we are going to be pushed on the pressure.

862
01:38:35,080 --> 01:38:41,080
We're going to be pushed. And so it'll really come down to how do we play?

863
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:47,080
Do we bunker and absorb it? Because if we try and bunker, I don't think that's the answer.

864
01:38:47,080 --> 01:38:56,080
I think the best offense is our best defense is a good offense to a degree. We got to keep attacking to a degree.

865
01:38:56,080 --> 01:39:01,080
We got to be able to do that.

866
01:39:01,080 --> 01:39:05,080
But I think we get that first goal.

867
01:39:05,080 --> 01:39:19,080
And I think around around the 60 to 75 minute range, they get the tie and then the last 15 are a buck clenching.

868
01:39:19,080 --> 01:39:26,080
You know, press, we tie one one and advance on away goals. Oh, that'd be amazing.

869
01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:36,080
Because you know, if we've got that lead late, it's just going to be kitchen sink time and and it's going to be a lot of clenching.

870
01:39:36,080 --> 01:39:52,080
It's going to give me some serious FOMO because that's where that's where we saw the two to draw against Pumas in the first leg of the CCL final in the pouring rain and wonderful, wonderful matchday experience.

871
01:39:52,080 --> 01:40:00,080
We weren't allowed to have drums in the in the stadium, so we bought a pickle barrel off of one of the vendors.

872
01:40:00,080 --> 01:40:02,080
We took a couple bottles of water.

873
01:40:02,080 --> 01:40:19,080
John Danforth, one of the original ECS drummers, you know, grabbed a couple water bottles and was drumming till his knuckles were bleeding because they were using water bottles to drum on a pickle barrel.

874
01:40:19,080 --> 01:40:24,080
We were surrounded by surrounded by riot police right in front of us.

875
01:40:24,080 --> 01:40:32,080
And you know, as we're singing para ganar los sounders, you know, you can see them nodding and, you know, giving some respect.

876
01:40:32,080 --> 01:40:35,080
It was just it was just a great atmosphere.

877
01:40:35,080 --> 01:40:39,080
And so I'm very happy for those who are going to make that trip.

878
01:40:39,080 --> 01:40:46,080
And hopefully, you know what you give us a one one draw, you give us a two to draw those results will send us through.

879
01:40:46,080 --> 01:40:49,080
So so give it to them. I love that.

880
01:40:49,080 --> 01:40:52,080
Make that happen. I just can't see Conca calf.

881
01:40:52,080 --> 01:40:55,080
I'm going to rain in your parade. I can't see concaf allowing us to score goals.

882
01:40:55,080 --> 01:41:00,080
We also have struggled to score goals outside of Conca calf this season.

883
01:41:00,080 --> 01:41:03,080
I'm going to nothing cruises. Okay. Okay.

884
01:41:03,080 --> 01:41:08,080
I think they have seven starters back and it's just going to be too much for the sounders.

885
01:41:08,080 --> 01:41:10,080
I'll push back on the seven starters back.

886
01:41:10,080 --> 01:41:12,080
Some of them didn't make the trip.

887
01:41:12,080 --> 01:41:18,080
Some it was ambiguous as to why some it sounded like was fitness issues.

888
01:41:18,080 --> 01:41:22,080
So so issues I question whether that's the case.

889
01:41:22,080 --> 01:41:28,080
I I think I think it's maybe a little bit of column a little bit of column B personally.

890
01:41:28,080 --> 01:41:35,080
But I mean, ultimately in this match, they had 56 percent possession.

891
01:41:35,080 --> 01:41:38,080
We have 44. They had seven shots. We had eight. They had two on target.

892
01:41:38,080 --> 01:41:42,080
We had one obviously our one shot on target that went and didn't count.

893
01:41:42,080 --> 01:41:48,080
So really we had nine passing and woodwork does not count.

894
01:41:48,080 --> 01:41:51,080
So we had to hit woodwork. They don't count as an on target.

895
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:53,080
Oh really? That should count. No, no, no, no.

896
01:41:53,080 --> 01:41:58,080
Because because on target is if there's no goalie, it goes in. That's true.

897
01:41:58,080 --> 01:42:02,080
So woodwork, there's no goalie. It didn't go in.

898
01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:04,080
So that's not on target. Same thing with hockey.

899
01:42:04,080 --> 01:42:09,080
Interestingly, they got two yellow cards to our one, but I feel like they deserve far more.

900
01:42:09,080 --> 01:42:12,080
And maybe one was a bench yellow card to the coach.

901
01:42:12,080 --> 01:42:14,080
So that doesn't. Yeah.

902
01:42:14,080 --> 01:42:18,080
And and which was interesting because really I think Bogus probably deserved one.

903
01:42:18,080 --> 01:42:23,080
He he he dove on that play and then winded. Oh, yeah, I agree.

904
01:42:23,080 --> 01:42:28,080
You know, overall, you know, am I disappointed?

905
01:42:28,080 --> 01:42:32,080
Yes. Is it a bad result? No, I don't think it's a good result,

906
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:37,080
but it's not a bad result because we live to play another day and you win and you're in.

907
01:42:37,080 --> 01:42:42,080
Yeah. I mean, I was driving with the Alliance Council member Scott

908
01:42:42,080 --> 01:42:46,080
to the Alliance Council meeting on Tuesday and I said, you know what?

909
01:42:46,080 --> 01:42:51,080
There's a you know, a zero zero. I think I'd be OK with a zero zero.

910
01:42:51,080 --> 01:42:55,080
So you can blame me. Sorry about that.

911
01:42:55,080 --> 01:42:58,080
Because right now, basically, we win the game.

912
01:42:58,080 --> 01:43:04,080
We advance any draw gets us to at the minimum penalties.

913
01:43:04,080 --> 01:43:09,080
But with any goal scoring draw, we advance that.

914
01:43:09,080 --> 01:43:15,080
Just on a strict technical level of all the different results that puts us in a good spot.

915
01:43:15,080 --> 01:43:21,080
Yeah. But I know the games are not played in a vacuum

916
01:43:21,080 --> 01:43:26,080
and obviously Mexico City with pollution and altitude combination.

917
01:43:26,080 --> 01:43:31,080
Not going to be great. We scored two goals last time we were down there, though.

918
01:43:31,080 --> 01:43:37,080
Yeah. Well, yes, they're both penalties.

919
01:43:37,080 --> 01:43:42,080
And and one was very, very late because Christian rolled on

920
01:43:42,080 --> 01:43:47,080
just was a bulldog in the box and they made a stupid play.

921
01:43:47,080 --> 01:43:54,080
But I also also very, very wet rainy day.

922
01:43:54,080 --> 01:43:59,080
And a different team. Yeah. You know, we Raul, we had Nico.

923
01:43:59,080 --> 01:44:02,080
So we've had success in that stadium. Yeah. Yeah.

924
01:44:02,080 --> 01:44:06,080
So I think there's reasons for I think there's reasons for optimism.

925
01:44:06,080 --> 01:44:10,080
Obviously, Paul Arreola has experience with the MX

926
01:44:10,080 --> 01:44:14,080
on play in a way that showed that he did yesterday.

927
01:44:14,080 --> 01:44:20,080
I love the pace on his crosses. Yeah.

928
01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:28,080
I'm going to set the over under of I'm going to say if I go one point five

929
01:44:28,080 --> 01:44:38,080
for own goals that he creates this year, are you going to take the over or the under on one point five?

930
01:44:38,080 --> 01:44:43,080
I think process because he can get he can although his crosses are so good that they might not go to the defender.

931
01:44:43,080 --> 01:44:47,080
They might always just go to our players. But but he's putting such pace on him.

932
01:44:47,080 --> 01:44:55,080
It forces the defenders to make a quick play. So that's why I don't know if it's going to be more than one because I also don't know.

933
01:44:55,080 --> 01:45:01,080
I'm making this up as I go. I don't really know how many own goals there really are in a season.

934
01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:09,080
But I feel like I feel like he's going to he's you know, we're going to we're going to harken back to this conversation at some point this season.

935
01:45:09,080 --> 01:45:19,080
It's going to happen at least once. And I think I'm taking the over on that as well, by the way.

936
01:45:19,080 --> 01:45:27,080
That's good. Yeah. So we got a few minutes left here. So let's let's talk.

937
01:45:27,080 --> 01:45:35,080
L.A. of C. real quick. Okay. Like I said before, they're going to rotate their squad. We obviously are going to rotate our squad.

938
01:45:35,080 --> 01:45:42,080
They have a game on, I think, Tuesday, I want to say, in Columbus.

939
01:45:42,080 --> 01:45:50,080
What do you think? And coming up on this match, I do feel this is a chance for maybe Roth Rock and Georgie to shine a little.

940
01:45:50,080 --> 01:45:55,080
I think they both struggled, especially Roth Rock against R.S.L.

941
01:45:55,080 --> 01:46:02,080
And Georgie last night tried to go in there and play like he was playing a bottom table MLS team and just immediately got schooled.

942
01:46:02,080 --> 01:46:09,080
He tried to go through players and they were like, no. Well, yeah, like one of his first touches, he tried to do a three on one.

943
01:46:09,080 --> 01:46:14,080
And we're just no, he didn't look terrible, but he clearly was overmatched.

944
01:46:14,080 --> 01:46:22,080
He I bet he's never played a team that talented before, just based on, you know, his pedigree.

945
01:46:22,080 --> 01:46:31,080
And that's not his fault. Well, I mean, one of the one thing that I keep talking about with Georgie is that he's always creating chances and he got no chances created in 45 minutes.

946
01:46:31,080 --> 01:46:38,080
So, yeah. So I think I'm sorry. That was sorry. That was the R.S.L. game.

947
01:46:38,080 --> 01:46:43,080
He had no chances. He had no chances created in 20 minutes yesterday. Yeah.

948
01:46:43,080 --> 01:46:48,080
So so, yeah, I think I think I still give us the edge.

949
01:46:48,080 --> 01:46:56,080
I think our bench is deeper. And from the way that Brian talked about it, it seems like Pedro is going to play.

950
01:46:56,080 --> 01:47:06,080
Honestly, I think the lineup.

951
01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:14,080
I think the lineup is going to look similar to the R.S.L. starting 11 with a couple changes instead of Morris up top.

952
01:47:14,080 --> 01:47:18,080
I think you're going to see Danny Mussofsky. Yeah, I agree.

953
01:47:18,080 --> 01:47:26,080
I kind of feel like he will not be starting. I don't know.

954
01:47:26,080 --> 01:47:39,080
I kind of feel like he will actually because I got him off in the 86 minute yesterday.

955
01:47:39,080 --> 01:47:42,080
Actually, let's think about this.

956
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:53,080
If you've got Mussofsky up top, you've got Rothrock and Georgie on the wings.

957
01:47:53,080 --> 01:48:04,080
Maybe Pedro in the center with JP and Danny Lava in the center mid. I like that.

958
01:48:04,080 --> 01:48:22,080
John Bell's going to start. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Ransy gets another call up.

959
01:48:22,080 --> 01:48:27,080
Can only do that three times in the season. Is that right? Twice for a player.

960
01:48:27,080 --> 01:48:33,080
Five. They change it after the call up for a single ship. Yeah. Yeah. Five.

961
01:48:33,080 --> 01:48:37,080
Yeah, they changed after Columbus got kind of screwed. They deserved it.

962
01:48:37,080 --> 01:48:41,080
I don't know. They did. They did. They should have done something about it.

963
01:48:41,080 --> 01:48:48,080
That's not anyone. That's their problem. Yeah. But do you see Cody Baker?

964
01:48:48,080 --> 01:48:53,080
I'd like to. I don't know what's happened. I don't know why he's not getting time.

965
01:48:53,080 --> 01:48:58,080
But yeah, I think it's he should be out there.

966
01:48:58,080 --> 01:49:13,080
I think I think when we see the lineup, it's going to look like a final 16 US Open Cup match lineup.

967
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:20,080
I don't remember. Oh, no, I wasn't referring to the last time when we played against them in the US Open Cup.

968
01:49:20,080 --> 01:49:24,080
I meant like final where you're going to see a mixture of starters and backups,

969
01:49:24,080 --> 01:49:28,080
but you're not going to see all starters is what I'm getting at.

970
01:49:28,080 --> 01:49:32,080
Oh, you meant last year. I thought you meant 2016. I was like, I don't remember that year.

971
01:49:32,080 --> 01:49:41,080
No, I didn't mean that exactly. But now you have me. Yeah. But now you got me curious.

972
01:49:41,080 --> 01:49:53,080
And like, I'm curious what our starting lineup. Oh, no, I'm just kind of so give me a score prediction for L.A.F.C. at home.

973
01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:57,080
I do think we get some goals. And honestly, I think Danny's getting off the score sheet.

974
01:49:57,080 --> 01:50:04,080
I am I am I am picking Danny to score a score goal.

975
01:50:04,080 --> 01:50:11,080
And you know what? Fuck it. He's going to get a brace. He's going to get a brace. We're going to win three one.

976
01:50:11,080 --> 01:50:17,080
Nice. I love it. That's a great prediction. I'm going to one with the Pedro de la Vega goal.

977
01:50:17,080 --> 01:50:24,080
And we will be up only one goal in the 80th minute and we're not going to allow a goal.

978
01:50:24,080 --> 01:50:30,080
OK, well, that might. Yeah, that's interesting. We're in that streak.

979
01:50:30,080 --> 01:50:40,080
Let's let's end it there. I do want to say we had some bad news happen during our podcast where that affects a lot of people locally in Seattle.

980
01:50:40,080 --> 01:50:52,080
A 12 year old over at Washington Middle School in the central district was struck by a car and killed in the parking lot at lunchtime just within the last hour.

981
01:50:52,080 --> 01:50:58,080
So, oh, man. So, you know, I grew up right by there and lots of friends that went to Washington.

982
01:50:58,080 --> 01:51:03,080
Sad. Sorry to end on a sad note. It's just been bugging me during this that that happened.

983
01:51:03,080 --> 01:51:07,080
And, you know, it's in a parking lot, but that is a place where people drive fast.

984
01:51:07,080 --> 01:51:16,080
So a real bummer. I'm sure. I don't know. We don't know any details, but, yeah, kids are short. Cars are big.

985
01:51:16,080 --> 01:51:22,080
We have not built our society around having SUVs. It's a bummer.

986
01:51:22,080 --> 01:51:28,080
Shout out to anyone affected by it. I'm sorry for your loss. It sucks.

987
01:51:28,080 --> 01:51:34,080
You never want to see that. Yeah. Bad news all around.

988
01:51:34,080 --> 01:51:40,080
On that note, where can they find you on Cascades to see? Yeah.

989
01:51:40,080 --> 01:51:51,080
Well, on Instagram, Cascades to see on blue sky, Nicholas dot B sky dot social.

990
01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:54,080
And I'm just going to stop talking about Twitter, because I've nickel it.

991
01:51:54,080 --> 01:51:58,080
You just got you just chose your first name. That's awesome. Yeah.

992
01:51:58,080 --> 01:52:07,080
I did punk on everywhere. Continue on Twitter, especially I'll talk about Twitter because I've had a fun time the last few weeks trolling MAGA people and right wingers.

993
01:52:07,080 --> 01:52:11,080
And I'm getting thousands of likes on some of my tweets.

994
01:52:11,080 --> 01:52:16,080
So there is a strong force of all the liberals left.

995
01:52:16,080 --> 01:52:22,080
And now it's just the leftists that are still there fighting. So it's it's pretty fun.

996
01:52:22,080 --> 01:52:33,080
Don't put a target on your back. And though I do want to say I do want to I do want to read a contribution really quick from our co host Aaron Langley.

997
01:52:33,080 --> 01:52:39,080
And he and I quote, You should mention I exist this episode. We did.

998
01:52:39,080 --> 01:52:49,080
We did. We did. You talked about how fun it would be to travel to San Diego in a playoff matchup, but not to watch the match in person with me.

999
01:52:49,080 --> 01:52:55,080
No, we wouldn't do that. You can stay home. We're going without you.

1000
01:52:55,080 --> 01:53:07,080
You're not going to watch live anyways. You're going to be like often the bathroom because you can't watch because it's going to ruin the score.

1001
01:53:07,080 --> 01:53:12,080
You can't know the score. It's not allowed. It's not allowed.

1002
01:53:12,080 --> 01:53:19,080
You must time shift all matches. I don't have I ever watched a match with Aaron. I don't think I have. I think he's always sat somewhere else.

1003
01:53:19,080 --> 01:53:24,080
Oh, Aaron, I can't wait to see you. I can't wait to see I miss you.

1004
01:53:24,080 --> 01:53:29,080
I let let's get that computer sorted out. Yes.

1005
01:53:29,080 --> 01:53:33,080
You know, get to get that sorted out. Let's get you in on our next on our next episode.

1006
01:53:33,080 --> 01:53:42,080
You're you're long overdue and you should be getting getting under under control in San Diego. Now that's me putting that out into the world.

1007
01:53:42,080 --> 01:53:52,080
I will say we can end the show in the way that he has done, but we have not done once, which is saying it's time to bring the show into port.

1008
01:53:52,080 --> 01:53:56,080
Oh, I only have beer. Was I supposed to get a port?

1009
01:53:56,080 --> 01:54:04,080
Boo. I do. You got you probably do have port back there, don't you?

1010
01:54:04,080 --> 01:54:10,080
I probably do. I definitely have port flavored with a port aged whiskeys.

1011
01:54:10,080 --> 01:54:18,080
Yeah, that's that. I mean, that there that's my jam right there, as I've said before, that I'm light on the beer content because I'm heavy on the whiskey content.

1012
01:54:18,080 --> 01:54:26,080
But drinking whiskey at 1pm on a Thursday maybe isn't the best idea.

1013
01:54:26,080 --> 01:54:33,080
That's going to be going all night as we bring it into port. Do you have any final words?

1014
01:54:33,080 --> 01:54:39,080
Um, stay the course. Let's let's enjoy the ride.

1015
01:54:39,080 --> 01:54:44,080
I like what I'm seeing from this team.

1016
01:54:44,080 --> 01:54:51,080
It's not going to be easy right now. Some people are like, Oh, I wish we just get out of CCC so we can get back to league play.

1017
01:54:51,080 --> 01:54:58,080
No, we go hard on every damn tournament and league that we're in.

1018
01:54:58,080 --> 01:55:01,080
And league play is about to get a lot easier anyways.

1019
01:55:01,080 --> 01:55:03,080
Yeah, in this weekend.

1020
01:55:03,080 --> 01:55:08,080
Just keep this in mind about our league play. Our league play starts hard and ends hard.

1021
01:55:08,080 --> 01:55:14,080
You know, the the last, you know, five weeks of the season are going to be tough for us as well.

1022
01:55:14,080 --> 01:55:17,080
Outside of that, let's let's let's roll with it.

1023
01:55:17,080 --> 01:55:21,080
You know, it's this is what happens when you're a good team.

1024
01:55:21,080 --> 01:55:26,080
And yeah, and speaking of hard being a good team is awesome.

1025
01:55:26,080 --> 01:55:33,080
It does not suck, but enjoy the ride. Don't be so doom and gloom people.

1026
01:55:33,080 --> 01:55:40,080
The hard part, like I I should have enjoyed yesterday more than I did, but the whole time all I could think about is what's going to happen when we go back to Mexico City.

1027
01:55:40,080 --> 01:55:42,080
Hey, live in the moment.

1028
01:55:42,080 --> 01:55:47,080
You know what you should have done? You should have lived in the moment and walked outside because that felt like I was in Mexico City.

1029
01:55:47,080 --> 01:55:53,080
All the vendors like all the vendors with the food, the weather was nice.

1030
01:55:53,080 --> 01:55:59,080
We got some we got some street food from from one of the vendors.

1031
01:55:59,080 --> 01:56:07,080
I think they overcharged us like they they well, they they charge us ten dollars a piece for a hot dog.

1032
01:56:07,080 --> 01:56:12,080
There's some hot dog vendors out there that are charging that much low to post game, not post game.

1033
01:56:12,080 --> 01:56:15,080
Yeah, but not post game.

1034
01:56:15,080 --> 01:56:19,080
But, you know, I, you know, it's OK. I know I did.

1035
01:56:19,080 --> 01:56:21,080
I 100 percent know I did. And you know what?

1036
01:56:21,080 --> 01:56:27,080
I like supporting because they came out to they came out to make some money and it was just it was just a great atmosphere.

1037
01:56:27,080 --> 01:56:30,080
And and I love that about Champions League.

1038
01:56:30,080 --> 01:56:37,080
I love that about soccer. And so why don't we why don't we let James take it away?

1039
01:56:37,080 --> 01:56:42,080
Sounds good. Bye, everybody.

1040
01:56:42,080 --> 01:56:49,080
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1041
01:56:49,080 --> 01:56:59,080
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1042
01:56:59,080 --> 01:57:04,080
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1043
01:57:04,080 --> 01:57:08,080
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1044
01:57:08,080 --> 01:57:13,080
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1045
01:57:13,080 --> 01:57:16,080
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1046
01:57:16,080 --> 01:57:19,080
We'll see you at Lumen and go Sounders.

1047
01:57:22,080 --> 01:57:26,080
Alexa, who's the best MLS team of all time?

1048
01:57:26,080 --> 01:57:47,080
Scuttle Sounders are both other people. Best MLS team of all time.

1049
01:57:56,080 --> 01:57:57,080
You.