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He's a tough kid. All I gotta say is the public

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can't say he's cheating. Hello and welcome to

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another episode of Sounders Scuttlebutt. I am

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one of your hosts Cameron Collins and I am here

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today recording live with the one and only Nicholas

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Biela. What's up? And we are not only live with

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each other, we are live with the Sounders St.

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Louis game. We're going to try something new

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today. We are recording this as the game goes

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live and we are seconds away from first kick.

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Matter of fact, if you want to watch along with

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us when you're listening to this, the first kick

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is kicked right now. Here we go. We are live.

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Okay, so what do you think about this experiment,

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Cameron? It will be tough, but I think we can

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do it. I think the result of the match will really

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determine how much fun it is. Yes, yes. I mean,

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I think we're experimenting a little bit. I think

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it'll be interesting. But before we do that,

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let's crack open a beer. We are ready to go on

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that. You'll hear. Oh, that's beautiful. Thank

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you. And I'm back to Rainier. Nice. And you'll

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hear me typing a little bit. That is just me

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communicating with the discord, letting them

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know that we're recording right now so they can

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get those questions in that are live about the

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game that is happening. And I will try to hold

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my reactions a little bit since I am about two

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and a half seconds ahead of you. Oh, that's okay.

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We can just roll with it. I will open my Coca

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-Cola Zero. Alternatively, you could try hitting

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pause and play really quick. Oh, yeah. So about

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104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, and 110. All right.

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I think I am less than a second ahead of you

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now. Perfect. Much better. So what do you think

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about this starting 11? We've got a pretty good

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starting 11, given all things, in my opinion.

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Yeah. I mean, considering that. Oh, no. considering

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he just looked like he got bowled over there.

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Yeah. Considering the injuries that we have,

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yeah, it's not a bad starting XI. I think the

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most interesting thing, we'll see if Jesus Ferreira

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can play at the number nine. That's not something

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that we have seen yet and something he hasn't

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done for a bit. Well, yeah, and I think the philosophy

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is sound because I really do like his... His

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distribution, he's already got three assists

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on the year, so I can understand him not being

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the true number nine. But right now, that's what

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we said at the beginning of the season was all

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that tactical flexibility. Well, now we're unfortunately

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having to use it not so much as a privilege but

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as a necessity. So let's see. How that goes?

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You know how St. Louis has been doing this year?

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They've been kicking ass defensively. They, I

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believe, have not allowed a single goal. It's

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impressive. It's impressive. I mean, when our

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defense isn't scoring on ourselves, I think we've

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been kicking ass defensively too. I mean, you're

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not wrong. But yeah, they're currently a goal

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differential of plus three, but they've only

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scored three goals. Yeah, they had a couple nil

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-nil starts to the season against Colorado and

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San Diego. And then they had that one 3 -0 lead

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against LA Galaxy last week. And I did watch

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that whole game, so it was really interesting.

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Their goalie is so damn good. What's going on

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here? Are they reviewing that? That's outside

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the box, right? That's not VAR -able. Okay, no.

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Okay. Just wanted to check on that. So, anyways,

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we can talk a little bit while we're watching

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this game about some of our recent results. I

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know it was a rough week to try and get coordinated

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schedules just with everything happening. The

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good news is we won't have to record multiple

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times a week because of fixture congestion. Yeah,

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that's beautiful. The bad news is it means we're

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out of CCC. Yeah. Yeah, but, I mean, that was

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bound to happen. Save some drama and some other

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things. Man, the Sounders cannot get the ball

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out of St. Louis' half. Well, I expect that to

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start. I expect St. Louis to try and take a...

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playbook from Cruz Azul uh who was doing a really

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good job of pressing us and and controlling that

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midfield and so so I think just kind of weather

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these first 10 minutes just kind of get our legs

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back under us and uh and let's see how that goes

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yeah it's interesting there's a lot of switching

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you see Ferreira I mean I guess we do it with

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Morris up top too but he's switching over to

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the right he's uh back in the center now but

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Definitely an interesting lineup, to say the

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least, just because it hasn't been a while since

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he's been in that number nine. I'd love to see

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him succeed. That was the first time we got the

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ball out of their half, I think. So let's keep

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that up. I mean, I feel like lack of possession

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isn't something that we can afford during this

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match. That giveaway there by Ferreira, where

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he just kicked it straight to the other team,

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isn't what we're looking for. Also, do you think

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you could ask your daughter to move a little

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bit further away from the mic with her kids'

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show she's watching? Oh, yeah. Is she doing that?

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I'm trying to set up my – I had to move everything

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into my living room. Oh, no problem at all. We

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know. I mean, she's got to stay entertained.

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We love Roma, and we want her to be happy. It's

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just a little bit in the background. Yeah, I

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kind of warned her, like, hey, if you're going

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to do that, you need to put that on elsewhere.

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Probably better than – Wearing headphones, though,

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that can damage your ears. And watch this. It's

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hard to react live, but up at the top of the

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box, we had a beautiful almost shot from Roldan

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Krah followed by an almost shot or a shot that

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was ricocheted sideways by Defender from Nuhu.

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Pretty fun five minutes. We won't do all live

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commentary. I think it's just as we are sitting

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here, it's the first. The first time we've done

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live commentary during a match in this way. Now,

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Nicholas and I, although we had to mute Nicholas's

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mic quite often, he and I were both involved

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with the 2020 when everything was shut down and

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the Sounders had live streams and I was hosting

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those and Nicholas would come co -host with me

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sometimes. And it was very much hosting people

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rather than talking about Sounders while watching

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the match. So it's a little different. Yeah.

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And I mean, that's where the running joke in

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our in our in our in our podcast of and muted

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comes from. Yes. Where I would make borderline

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I would make jokes that, you know, they weren't

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vulgar. They weren't bad, but they were pushing

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the edge of of good taste sometimes. Alex asks

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us if St. Louis season ticket members and players

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get free dog food from Purina. Well, I mean,

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as long as they don't play like dog food if you

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were a fan, right? Yeah. What are your game day

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routines when it's an away game? How does that

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change your watching of the Sounders? Well, I

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guess it all depends on if I'm watching with

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people. Or if I'm watching at home. But usually

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I definitely like to crack open a beer. Oh, Roseneck

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coming up with a nice run. See what happens here.

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Oh, good idea. St. Louis is giving them a lot

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of space to just run up there. I hope that's

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a trend that continues throughout the game. That's

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our ball. I don't know why they were trying to

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take it. Let's also. We'd be remiss if we didn't

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mention that Freddy Juarez is a Sounders coach

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tonight. He's the acting manager, as Brian Schmetzer

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did not make the trip due to illness. Yeah. Yeah,

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hopefully get well soon, Brian. Hopefully it's

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nothing major. Hopefully maybe just had some.

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uh sickness with the travels you know to mexico

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the flu has been coming around you know it's

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all over the place too hopefully it's not the

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flu but i wouldn't be surprised so get get better

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brian but also um i guess i should we should

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mention some non -sounder stuff sadly uh slick

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watts supersonics legend passed away um i'm on

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the board of his foundation and i found out this

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morning uh that that had happened and you know

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he suffered a stroke a few years back i got to

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spend some time with him but unfortunately well

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i know that's not true i got to talk to him a

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bit during the sonics gate stuff and and really

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uh meet him and he he he was real funny but he

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was he he hated um oh god who was the chris hansen

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no russell uh uh the the guy who was a usf legend

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uh he hated him and also that's also because

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russell tried to work with the uh um bill russell

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tried to work with clay bennett to keep the supersonics

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here but never but he basically went to the other

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side and then they never kept him here obviously

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there's no intention of that so uh slick was

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always super fun i didn't get to know him much

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until after he had his stroke and he was not

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the same person after that sadly you know in

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the show notes um Either in the show notes or

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in our Discord, we should definitely post the

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link to the Blue Scholars song by Slick Watts.

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Yeah, that'd be awesome. That's a good Seattle

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hype song. Yep, absolutely. So Slick passed away.

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He'd been doing pretty good. But, you know, that's

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the fear when you're older and you have a stroke

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of that magnitude and the way it affects your

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life. I feel like we've been talking about this

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multiple episodes now where someone's passing

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away. We had more musicians pass away since our

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last episode, too. It was so much time that I

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think more people have died since. It just keeps

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coming. And then also, let's be sure to shout

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out Michaela Purvis, who today is her final day

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as an employee of the Seattle Reign slash Seattle

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Sounders. She's been 12 or 13 years with the

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club. So over a decade. And Guerrilla FC put

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out a statement yesterday. Saw that. About her

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departure. She really, you know, no matter what

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her position was, she was directly involved.

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She was the liaison with the support groups.

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And she worked really hard to, at all times possible,

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including with the Iron Front stuff, create a

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fair. and transparent process and atmosphere

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and really pushed the league wide at different

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meetings and security head of the league to move

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away from a policing view of this is how we take

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care of supporter groups, especially away travel,

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and move towards a more holistic grassroots approach

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of... We need supporters because they are what

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make us good. So let's figure out how to allow

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them to support the best way possible without

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causing any issues. And one of my favorite Mikayla

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stories is actually right around that indeed,

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where the Champions League run that we had in

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2022, FIFA came in. This is also, mind you, before

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they announced the host cities for the FIFA World

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Cup. So FIFA was in attendance in Seattle. And

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they tried to get ECS to take down the Trans

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Lives Matter banner. And they went to Michaela,

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and Michaela advocated for us, stood up for us,

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and essentially, in a nutshell, politely told

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FIFA where to shove it. So, I love the... The

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time I've gotten to spend with Michaela, she

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has been the main point of contact for us during

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my entire tenure on the Alliance Council. And

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I've been on the Alliance Council since December

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2016. So, you know, just big shout out to her

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being just an absolute legend. And so hopefully

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she will have put in place. the expectations

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for those who come after her. Yeah, absolutely.

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You know, it's interesting seeing Freddie Juarez

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sitting there on the bench for this Seattle versus

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St. Louis match here. Of course, we're recording

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live March 15th at almost 6 p .m. We're not quite,

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well, I guess we're 13 minutes into the match.

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But Freddie, of course, was the head coach of

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Salt Lake. He was the assistant coach 2016 to

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2019, and then caretaker coach 2019, and then

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later got hired full -time in 2020, 2021. That's

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unfortunate. Sorry. Jackson fell on the ball.

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Literally fell on the ball. Yeah. I don't know

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why it's a yellow card. Did he touch it with

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his hands? Yeah. Illegal handing. I hate that,

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but it does happen. I think the other interesting

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thing is Freddie has coached three seasons at

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both Real Monarchs and three seasons at Seattle

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Salt Lake. And in both those, he had 18 wins

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and 14 draws. His Real Monarchs record, 18 wins,

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14 draws, 28 losses. His Real Salt Lake record,

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18 wins, 14 draws, 23 losses. So this is a chance

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for him to get his 19th win in MLS, which would

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be awesome. A little free kick coming up here

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for St. Louis. How are you feeling about this

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match? What did you pick for the score going

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into it? Honestly, I picked 2 -0 Seattle. I feel

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like St. Louis has had problems scoring. And

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I feel like we need a palate cleanser from Mexico.

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And I think I've already blown my prediction

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as St. Louis scores on that free kick directly

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after Jackson Reagan landed on the ball. Yeah,

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it was a dangerous spot. I'd like to see that

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again, the replay, because Fry looked slow in

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his reaction, which is something we've alluded

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to or talked about our Discord. mentioning a

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few times in the past. This is still in line

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with my score. Here we go. I'm going to watch

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this replay real quick. He even moved the right

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way. He just couldn't get to it. It was like

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the perfect shot. Well, Fry was set up. That

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was the side away from, that was right over the

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wall. So Fry was, I don't want to say cheating,

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but Fry trusted that the wall would do what the

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wall needed to do. And it's just a really good

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shot more than a failure on the wall because

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that distance is kind of the ideal distance to

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get it up and over a wall. So that's just really

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good. That was a great shot from, I don't know

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if it's Lowen or Loven. We'll call him Lowen.

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Actually, Loven. We'll call him McLoven. McLoven

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with the goal there for St. Louis, unfortunately.

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But we keep it going. Georgie getting dangerous

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there but couldn't do anything with it. I'd like

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to see us put together some possession now. My

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score prediction was 3 -1, actually. I think

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Ferreira has a chance to show himself. I did

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it before I saw the lineup, though. While I like

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the lineup, I find it interesting that they're

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playing Georgie up on top. Rusnak up on top,

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essentially. They're attacking mids. But then

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you have Rothrock on the left on a wing -type

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position, but he's playing wing -back. Yeah,

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I'm curious to see if the lineup as it's presented

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is a true tactical shape or if it's a different,

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you know, or if the actual field play is going

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to be different from a 3 -4 -3. I mean, they

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often have been shifting in interesting ways.

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Wow, that number six there for knew exactly what

00:18:14.670 --> 00:18:17.750
Georgie was doing for St. Louis and just immediately

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cut it off. So here's that beautiful shot again

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on a replay from McLovin. Yeah, there's nothing

00:18:24.490 --> 00:18:27.349
Fry could have done. He even jumped that way,

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cheating that way, right? So unfortunate, but

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my 3 -1 prediction can still hold. We'll see

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what happens. I think it's mostly hopeful for

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me. because I think the Sounders need to do something

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to get the taste of that game at Mexico City

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out of their mouth, where, of course, Paul Areola

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tore his ACL out for the season, and we have

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Jordan Morris out four to six weeks with a non

00:18:51.329 --> 00:18:54.789
-contact injury. Although, Paul's ACL was non

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-contact too, wasn't it? Yeah, yeah. But I think

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it was... I think it's a little different when

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you're talking about a hamstring versus a knee

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when we're talking about non -contact. Oh, sure,

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sure. But I mean, the hamstring worries me with

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Jordan because he was just running and it went.

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That's going to be an injury that he can't rush

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back from, especially with his injury history.

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So I would be surprised if he was on the four

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-week side of that rather than the six -week.

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I mean, I think you and I had a little bit different

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take out of that game. I think we probably felt

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similarly, but what was your takeaway from the

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game at? at uh mexico city versus blue blue simult

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yeah so so honestly the the easiest way to kind

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of describe it was it was clear from the beginning

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that we are getting overrun in the midfield you

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know we had a good five to ten minutes in the

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beginning but then from then on it was just a

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little rough but i was still positive that we

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were you know we were giving them all the possession

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but they weren't doing much dangerous with it

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and we were still one goal away from a result

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one goal away from a result for most of that

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game yeah and taking a look at what vancouver

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did to monterey i thought that was um potentially

00:20:15.849 --> 00:20:19.369
how that how this game might shape up let's check

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on rustnack real quick right now oh that's uh

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sorry it's alex alex got run you got you got

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stepped on oh that should not be an injury though

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i think it was just his ankle got kicked as he

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was spinning he'll be all right um so yeah we

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were within one goal most of that game sorry

00:20:37.619 --> 00:20:44.579
go ahead yeah and so and so with that we were

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not the better team we did not deserve a result

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yeah but we were I don't look at the scoreline

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as a 4 -1 loss. I don't. It was a 2 -1 loss.

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Those last two goals were when we had to really

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push, and that's going to open things up at the

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very end there. With that in mind, even 2 -1,

00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:16.670
they... should have scored more i just don't

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think that those last two goals uh i think those

00:21:20.230 --> 00:21:24.950
last two goals were game state goals yeah um

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we did enough even though they very easily could

00:21:28.670 --> 00:21:31.490
have been up four to one long before that game

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state the fact remains that they weren't so chances

00:21:36.470 --> 00:21:38.869
weren't being finished or we were bent but don't

00:21:38.869 --> 00:21:45.680
break so it's um You know, it was a bad beat,

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and if that was the result and we didn't lose

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Jordan and Paul to injury, I think it would have

00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:59.599
been a little bit more palatable. Oh, see, I

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think the only—I mean, obviously I don't want

00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:03.920
to lose them to injury, but losing them to injury

00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:05.440
is the only reason the score was that, in my

00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:07.359
opinion. I think we have a chance to win that

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if they're not hurt. Well, I do agree with that,

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but— But the reality is I don't mind losing in

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this tournament. There are no easy outs with

00:22:20.680 --> 00:22:22.960
everyone that was left. I don't mind losing.

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But I don't think 4 -1 was representative of

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even the game with the injuries in there. I think

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2 -1, 3 -1 definitely. Maybe 2 -0 would have

00:22:32.660 --> 00:22:34.079
been a better representation, actually, since

00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:38.480
our goal was kind of bouncing around something

00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:40.380
in front of the goal. It wasn't like it was a

00:22:40.380 --> 00:22:42.480
skilled play that led to that goal. Yeah, and

00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:46.400
let's not forget the fact that the injury that

00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:49.599
Jordan Moore sustained was on a really good opportunity.

00:22:50.180 --> 00:22:54.299
Yeah. Now, who scored that goal for us? Danny

00:22:54.299 --> 00:22:57.539
Mussofsky. And what have you been saying? I've

00:22:57.539 --> 00:22:59.579
been saying if he can get that first goal of

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the season before the third way of the season

00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:04.359
point, that I think he can get five to ten goals

00:23:04.359 --> 00:23:07.279
all competitions this season. Yeah, and take

00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:09.460
advantage of that moment where the ball's there,

00:23:09.539 --> 00:23:13.970
and that's what he does. And I feel like he's

00:23:13.970 --> 00:23:18.210
been putting himself in good positions. Let me

00:23:18.210 --> 00:23:23.369
reset that. All of this is being graded on a

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scale. And the scale I'm talking about is a third

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string center forward. Because of the way we...

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Second string, but yeah. Second string, but yeah.

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He's supposed to be Will Bruin, is who he's supposed

00:23:35.950 --> 00:23:39.009
to be. Yeah, exactly. So I'm not going to...

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I'm not going to criticize him the same way I

00:23:43.190 --> 00:23:46.630
would if that exact same performance was happening

00:23:46.630 --> 00:23:51.910
from Jordan in the number nine. Yeah. And so

00:23:51.910 --> 00:23:55.390
I think that's – you got to understand what we're

00:23:55.390 --> 00:23:57.069
dealing with. Like are you going to criticize

00:23:57.069 --> 00:24:02.559
– Are you going to criticize Stu Hawkins the

00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:06.339
same way you would Jackson Reagan? No. No. You've

00:24:06.339 --> 00:24:10.079
got to – that's not how that works. Yeah. And

00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:12.779
I see a lot of people, not necessarily on our

00:24:12.779 --> 00:24:16.480
Discord, but on the Facebook groups, saying,

00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:18.480
well, why isn't Stu Hawkins playing? Why is –

00:24:19.650 --> 00:24:22.250
Kalani starting over him, even though Kalani

00:24:22.250 --> 00:24:23.970
is a different position, a different position,

00:24:24.009 --> 00:24:26.049
but it's like, why is he getting minutes? And

00:24:26.049 --> 00:24:28.029
basically why is John Bell starting over? I mean,

00:24:28.049 --> 00:24:31.329
John Bell is a great backup and I think Stu,

00:24:31.450 --> 00:24:34.829
you know, he's, he's good, but he's got, he's,

00:24:34.829 --> 00:24:37.890
he's stealing is what's so impressive about him,

00:24:37.950 --> 00:24:41.210
right? He is, he has become what we thought Sam

00:24:41.210 --> 00:24:44.180
Rogers would be. Speaking of which, I believe

00:24:44.180 --> 00:24:46.599
he started in Chicago today. Nice. I know they

00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:49.319
won again, so that would be pretty sweet if he

00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:54.140
did. But, you know, I think Sam was a player

00:24:54.140 --> 00:24:56.940
who there was so much hope for, and I think moving

00:24:56.940 --> 00:25:00.799
to another team really helps that pressure that

00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:05.839
he had on him. So not only did Sam Rogers start

00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:08.920
today, he completed the most passes in the match.

00:25:09.059 --> 00:25:13.940
He was 96 of 102 for 94%. Wow. Played the full

00:25:13.940 --> 00:25:19.559
90, 110 touches. That right center back next

00:25:19.559 --> 00:25:22.380
to... Oh, and it's helpful, I'm sure, that he's

00:25:22.380 --> 00:25:24.519
next to Jack Elliott, one of the best center

00:25:24.519 --> 00:25:27.099
backs in the league. I mean, yeah. You're setting

00:25:27.099 --> 00:25:29.420
up for success there. That's what I mean. I'm

00:25:29.420 --> 00:25:32.210
not putting down... uh what sam did but i mean

00:25:32.210 --> 00:25:35.329
that's that's a great pairing there for him to

00:25:35.329 --> 00:25:38.250
have i mean you we do the same thing uh well

00:25:38.250 --> 00:25:40.150
jackson reagan when he was getting his first

00:25:40.150 --> 00:25:42.150
starts we were putting him with yamar and then

00:25:42.150 --> 00:25:43.910
it turned out you and then jackson was starting

00:25:43.910 --> 00:25:46.930
to show his quality so and and i think we do

00:25:46.930 --> 00:25:49.150
it center center defensive mid as well when we

00:25:49.150 --> 00:25:53.299
see when we were pairing obed with JP at first.

00:25:53.619 --> 00:25:56.859
Yeah, so you're absolutely right. Yeah. Can you

00:25:56.859 --> 00:25:59.200
do me a favor there and kick your mic down to

00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:03.640
about 68, 69? Yeah, my little – nice, nice. Yeah,

00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:06.779
you're just – you're getting excited, which we

00:26:06.779 --> 00:26:09.839
all are, of course. We don't always – that's

00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:12.839
the way we roll here, right? The behind -the

00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:14.619
-scenes commentary, we just do live because,

00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:16.140
you know what, we're watching this game live.

00:26:16.420 --> 00:26:20.500
And, you know, I'm not – Disappointed. Oh, you

00:26:20.500 --> 00:26:22.059
have your daughter asking you a question, so

00:26:22.059 --> 00:26:24.839
if you want to jump on that. I'm not that disappointed

00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:29.339
with what's going on, despite the fact the Sounders

00:26:29.339 --> 00:26:31.619
are down 1 -0. Even though we haven't had great

00:26:31.619 --> 00:26:34.160
possession, we've had a few times now where we're

00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:36.920
pushing the ball. We've seen in the second 15

00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:38.700
minutes, which we're only 10 minutes through,

00:26:38.900 --> 00:26:42.279
the Sounders have actually been able to push

00:26:42.279 --> 00:26:45.500
forward, get a few shots off. Not the most dangerous

00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:49.730
shots, but I'm not... I'm not sweating it right

00:26:49.730 --> 00:26:51.170
now. This is a game the Sounders could still

00:26:51.170 --> 00:26:54.549
easily win. I think this is a new lineup. You've

00:26:54.549 --> 00:26:56.130
got new players on the field playing together.

00:26:57.069 --> 00:27:01.769
You've got a coach who is known for halftime

00:27:01.769 --> 00:27:04.029
adjustments. He's usually the one making those,

00:27:04.170 --> 00:27:06.430
but he's upstairs watching. I wonder if that's

00:27:06.430 --> 00:27:07.569
going to affect this game. I don't know what

00:27:07.569 --> 00:27:09.569
you think, Nick, where he's on the field instead

00:27:09.569 --> 00:27:11.529
of upstairs being able to watch formations and

00:27:11.529 --> 00:27:13.109
the way the players are moving and the flow of

00:27:13.109 --> 00:27:16.900
the game. Well, yeah, I'm curious if there's

00:27:16.900 --> 00:27:19.940
someone in his role up there or if they're just

00:27:19.940 --> 00:27:23.099
kind of shorthanded tonight. Yeah. Ooh, what

00:27:23.099 --> 00:27:25.720
a turn there from Georgie. Nice move by Georgie.

00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:28.900
Knocked off the ball and they didn't call the

00:27:28.900 --> 00:27:30.680
foul. That's ridiculous. At least the ref stopped

00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:38.180
them from breaking away. Interestingly enough.

00:27:38.589 --> 00:27:41.430
I was going to say real quick. St. Louis has

00:27:41.430 --> 00:27:43.750
done this a few times this first 26 minutes.

00:27:44.170 --> 00:27:47.430
They've been really good about being physical.

00:27:48.049 --> 00:27:52.349
And they're going shoulder to shoulder. But they

00:27:52.349 --> 00:27:55.390
shove them too. I usually don't like... Here,

00:27:55.509 --> 00:27:58.910
I don't think that's a foul under the rules,

00:27:59.009 --> 00:28:00.890
but that gets called in the MLS every single

00:28:00.890 --> 00:28:02.730
game. I think that's where I would put that.

00:28:03.170 --> 00:28:09.269
I felt like that was the... The Arriaga -Carlos

00:28:09.269 --> 00:28:12.809
Vela defensive action. Although the Arriaga was

00:28:12.809 --> 00:28:17.369
far worse because he did shove him. But that's

00:28:17.369 --> 00:28:21.410
what that looked like there. But this has been

00:28:21.410 --> 00:28:23.710
a couple times now where Sounders have gone flying.

00:28:23.829 --> 00:28:27.269
Knew who in the first couple minutes right there.

00:28:27.589 --> 00:28:29.509
There's been a few moments where we've gotten

00:28:29.509 --> 00:28:32.230
muscled off the ball. Hopefully it's not a trend.

00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:35.920
But last week, watching St. Louis do this to

00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:39.859
LA Galaxy, they were really controlling some

00:28:39.859 --> 00:28:43.900
aspects of the game, but the reality was they

00:28:43.900 --> 00:28:46.599
were giving up a lot of opportunities, and Berkey

00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:50.359
just had a really good game. I felt like LA Galaxy

00:28:50.359 --> 00:28:54.380
was getting offensive opportunities, but they

00:28:54.380 --> 00:28:56.619
just couldn't finish. So I'm hoping that will

00:28:56.619 --> 00:28:58.460
happen tonight with the Sounders, that we can

00:28:58.460 --> 00:29:00.420
get some offensive opportunities and exploit

00:29:00.420 --> 00:29:04.430
some of this. But we'll find out. I'm not seeing

00:29:04.430 --> 00:29:07.630
much of it yet. No, and we're seeing incredible

00:29:07.630 --> 00:29:09.730
ball movement from St. Louis during the match.

00:29:09.890 --> 00:29:15.809
So it's nice defense there from the Sounders

00:29:15.809 --> 00:29:17.549
to stop what could have been a dangerous chance.

00:29:18.670 --> 00:29:20.569
But something that's frustrated me about the

00:29:20.569 --> 00:29:23.650
Sounders, and I think it's only because I know

00:29:23.650 --> 00:29:25.430
that it's happening, because this is the same

00:29:25.430 --> 00:29:26.869
thing, and it's not the Sounders' fault, it's

00:29:26.869 --> 00:29:28.690
the Seahawks' fault. When Pete Carroll was the

00:29:28.690 --> 00:29:32.190
coach of the Seahawks, the Seahawks made easily,

00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:35.039
the best halftime adjustments of any team in

00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:37.339
the NFL and could play one of the worst halves

00:29:37.339 --> 00:29:38.799
of football you've ever seen and then completely

00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:41.660
dominate in the second half. The problem is the

00:29:41.660 --> 00:29:44.940
question was always how far behind are the Seahawks

00:29:44.940 --> 00:29:48.220
going to fall before they can come back and play

00:29:48.220 --> 00:29:51.619
well. And so I worry about that with the Sounders

00:29:51.619 --> 00:29:53.539
where, you know, we're not going down early a

00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:56.259
ton, but we're keep letting teams hang in it.

00:29:56.339 --> 00:29:58.079
And that's what I worry about where we could

00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:00.779
have been up to nothing. early in a match and

00:30:00.779 --> 00:30:03.839
instead it's still zero zero and so if they get

00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:07.680
a late goal like charlotte did uh they can tie

00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:09.960
the game uh you know i was watching that charlotte

00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:13.319
cincinnati broadcast earlier because they are

00:30:13.319 --> 00:30:16.319
uh they started at 4 30 so they're a little bit

00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:18.859
ahead of us and it was interesting hearing what

00:30:18.859 --> 00:30:23.500
the announcer said because uh their coach uh

00:30:23.500 --> 00:30:27.660
dean smith said that uh They didn't play bad

00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:29.940
against Miami. They just lost. The game where

00:30:29.940 --> 00:30:32.599
they played bad was against Seattle. And despite

00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:35.299
getting a point there, they were still very frustrated

00:30:35.299 --> 00:30:36.920
with only getting a point because they felt like

00:30:36.920 --> 00:30:38.839
they should have come away with a win, where

00:30:38.839 --> 00:30:41.559
I think the reason they played poorly in that

00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:43.460
match is because Seattle was so good in that

00:30:43.460 --> 00:30:45.619
match and just blew it at the end. I don't know

00:30:45.619 --> 00:30:47.299
how you feel about that, but that's my takeaway

00:30:47.299 --> 00:30:50.180
from that first match. Seattle really was able

00:30:50.180 --> 00:30:52.500
to shut them down. How was that not a foul? These

00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:55.380
refs are just letting them completely trample

00:30:55.380 --> 00:30:58.569
over us. And we're lucky that we didn't get scored

00:30:58.569 --> 00:31:01.450
on there as our entire team has their hands out.

00:31:01.450 --> 00:31:04.569
Alex is really upset there. Let's take a look.

00:31:04.609 --> 00:31:07.049
Oh, he got crushed. He got absolutely crushed

00:31:07.049 --> 00:31:13.009
right here from behind. Wow. That's not shoulder

00:31:13.009 --> 00:31:15.670
to shoulder. No, that's a shoulder in his back.

00:31:16.190 --> 00:31:21.769
He didn't get hit hard, but he did get crushed.

00:31:22.089 --> 00:31:27.069
Oh, he turned into it, though. You know, I think

00:31:27.069 --> 00:31:28.730
it's a fact. Where at the last minute, because

00:31:28.730 --> 00:31:32.750
he turned at the last minute, it's almost, uh

00:31:32.750 --> 00:31:36.730
-oh. It's the opposite of what we saw. Oh, man,

00:31:36.849 --> 00:31:38.690
Nuhu. Yeah, they're not going to call that. Nuhu's

00:31:38.690 --> 00:31:41.869
got to be careful here. I know, but yeah. And

00:31:41.869 --> 00:31:43.910
he's arguing with Nuhu. He's not arguing with

00:31:43.910 --> 00:31:46.450
the ref, which is interesting. But obviously

00:31:46.450 --> 00:31:50.609
the ref is talking to either VAR or his side

00:31:50.609 --> 00:31:54.730
assistant. Yeah. Well, Nuhu's getting frustrated.

00:31:57.100 --> 00:32:00.519
St. Louis has three Germans in the attack, and

00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:06.700
they are all doing, you know, they had a good

00:32:06.700 --> 00:32:09.539
game last week. That's the definition of shoulder

00:32:09.539 --> 00:32:13.660
to shoulder. Took us here and he needs to get

00:32:13.660 --> 00:32:16.400
out of the play, get out of there. He didn't

00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:18.339
shove him. He kind of swung his arm like, get

00:32:18.339 --> 00:32:22.500
out of here. To me, that's a very mild new who.

00:32:22.940 --> 00:32:25.180
That's not typical. Oh, now they're hugging.

00:32:26.799 --> 00:32:29.440
Yeah. I got to say though, I like, I like, I

00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:31.880
like a new who's hair there. Yeah. New who's

00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:33.859
hair looks pretty awesome. That's what my hair

00:32:33.859 --> 00:32:36.640
is. Like where, where he's letting it grow out

00:32:36.640 --> 00:32:43.259
just a little bit. Yeah. Oh, they called that

00:32:43.259 --> 00:32:47.259
on us. They said play on. Yeah. This ref has

00:32:47.259 --> 00:32:52.660
clearly lost the plot. And now you can see New

00:32:52.660 --> 00:32:54.359
Who doing it. You can see them doing it. Now

00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:56.700
they're just letting... Like, oh, this is the

00:32:56.700 --> 00:32:59.740
line. Now people are starting to do stupid stuff.

00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:02.180
This game's going to have a red card. Yeah, no

00:33:02.180 --> 00:33:07.319
kidding. Absolutely. Faltas Basakos. I am not

00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:10.019
familiar with Basakos. I recognize the name,

00:33:10.099 --> 00:33:12.960
but I don't know why. I think because it seems

00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:18.500
like such a unique name to me. Faltas. Yeah,

00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:25.269
so... I think that Alex play going back was similar

00:33:25.269 --> 00:33:27.710
to the one where they tried to give the red card

00:33:27.710 --> 00:33:31.329
to Christian in Mexico City. I mean, Christian

00:33:31.329 --> 00:33:33.109
got the ball, went down, and the guy stepped

00:33:33.109 --> 00:33:35.789
over him and stepped into a dangerous play. Yeah,

00:33:36.369 --> 00:33:38.470
he put himself into that position. And I think

00:33:38.470 --> 00:33:41.990
Alex did the same thing. Yes. Essentially. Opposite,

00:33:42.009 --> 00:33:45.990
essentially. But yes. So it bugged me that Stu

00:33:45.990 --> 00:33:48.299
Holden went on and on about how... I don't think

00:33:48.299 --> 00:33:49.740
that's a red card, but they're giving him a red

00:33:49.740 --> 00:33:51.240
card, and then afterwards, no, that wasn't a

00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:54.019
red. Like, shut up, dude. He did that twice.

00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:57.839
He did that twice, where it's like, oh, it's

00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:00.440
definitely this, and then as soon as it's not

00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:04.019
called the way he just told everyone it was absolutely

00:34:04.019 --> 00:34:06.619
100 % going to be called, he's like, yeah, I

00:34:06.619 --> 00:34:11.239
agree with that. Like, fuck you. You know what

00:34:11.239 --> 00:34:14.059
I think is though? I think because Apple TV has

00:34:14.059 --> 00:34:16.500
the rights to MLS, they don't want to talk anything

00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:19.000
bad about the refs. That's what I think it is.

00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:23.920
I know, but then you can't – there are ways to

00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:28.039
not talk bad about the refs than to not basically

00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:29.980
be a flip -flopper. I'm sorry, Fox, not Apple.

00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:32.380
They're not Apple. They're Fox. Because Taylor

00:34:32.380 --> 00:34:34.039
Twelman used to do that when he was at Fox as

00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:36.840
well or was at ESPN, wherever he was. Now that

00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:40.539
Taylor's at Apple – He's a little more free with

00:34:40.539 --> 00:34:43.780
his words, which I like. Because Taylor Twelman,

00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:47.199
people hate him, but his announcing is so much

00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:49.980
different than it used to be. I feel like he

00:34:49.980 --> 00:34:52.679
said a couple, like in the LA Galaxy Western

00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:55.639
Conference Final, people were criticizing him

00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:57.039
for what he said at the end of that game, but

00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:59.539
he spent the entire game just heaping praise

00:34:59.539 --> 00:35:03.000
on the Sounders and saying how good we are and

00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:05.860
how our defense was the best in the league and

00:35:05.860 --> 00:35:09.849
all of these things. I think just because they

00:35:09.849 --> 00:35:12.070
say something that is arguably correct about

00:35:12.070 --> 00:35:15.489
your team that isn't positive doesn't mean that

00:35:15.489 --> 00:35:18.550
they're hating on your team. Come on. Oh, exactly.

00:35:18.730 --> 00:35:22.269
I mean, you can be critical. You can be critical.

00:35:22.409 --> 00:35:24.210
I mean, I'll tell you one example of someone

00:35:24.210 --> 00:35:28.429
who won me over in the soccer world was Sebastian

00:35:28.429 --> 00:35:32.949
Salazar. Oh, interesting. As his career went

00:35:32.949 --> 00:35:36.630
on. Oh, that sounds good. As his career went

00:35:36.630 --> 00:35:40.340
on. I started to look forward to having him as

00:35:40.340 --> 00:35:44.039
a ref. But that's kind of the life you sign up

00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:47.380
for when you're a ref. Coaches are hired to be

00:35:47.380 --> 00:35:51.320
fired. Refs are just disliked by everyone. Ricardo

00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:54.940
Salazar. What did I say? Sebastian Salazar. Yeah,

00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:58.139
Ricardo, thank you. As I was saying, I'm like,

00:35:58.219 --> 00:36:00.019
that doesn't sound right, but I couldn't put

00:36:00.019 --> 00:36:04.440
my – who is Ricardo Salazar? Or, I'm sorry, who

00:36:04.440 --> 00:36:07.320
is Sebastian Salazar? There's Sebastian and then,

00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:09.380
I don't know if his name is Salazar, but it's

00:36:09.380 --> 00:36:11.380
something very, very close. Who is an announcer

00:36:11.380 --> 00:36:15.719
for Apple TV, I believe. Who is a decent announcer?

00:36:16.579 --> 00:36:19.119
Oh, you know what? No, Sebastian Salazar was

00:36:19.119 --> 00:36:22.239
Herc Gomez's co -host for Football Americas.

00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:25.039
Oh, ESPN. Okay, he was ESPN. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:36:25.139 --> 00:36:28.320
Although he's out as he's no longer co -hosting

00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:29.840
Football Americas. Oh, interesting. I wonder

00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:32.309
what happened with that. Yeah, I don't know.

00:36:32.469 --> 00:36:36.230
He was very critical of... Oh, it looks like

00:36:36.230 --> 00:36:39.369
family stuff. Looks like family, sounds like.

00:36:40.429 --> 00:36:42.469
So did he cheat on his wife? I mean, I feel like

00:36:42.469 --> 00:36:44.570
when it's family... This is not always true,

00:36:44.630 --> 00:36:46.489
because I know the Greal C statement said that

00:36:46.489 --> 00:36:48.789
Michaela Purvis was leaving for family reasons,

00:36:48.929 --> 00:36:51.989
and yes, she is leaving for family reasons, because...

00:36:52.269 --> 00:36:54.389
She has family that she's going to spend time

00:36:54.389 --> 00:36:56.309
with. It has nothing to do with anything nefarious.

00:36:56.429 --> 00:36:59.150
But politicians always say, oh, I'm going to

00:36:59.150 --> 00:37:01.190
step back to spend time with my family when they've

00:37:01.190 --> 00:37:03.489
cheated on their spouse. No, no. What I mean

00:37:03.489 --> 00:37:06.389
by that is ESPN has been trying to get them to

00:37:06.389 --> 00:37:09.449
studio instead of having it be kind of web stuff.

00:37:09.710 --> 00:37:12.570
And he's based out of D .C., not Bristol, Connecticut.

00:37:12.929 --> 00:37:17.949
So it was so truly, in this case, family. Although

00:37:17.949 --> 00:37:21.309
that's not a bad – that's not a terrible – Train

00:37:21.309 --> 00:37:25.150
ride, I bet. Okay. We might have something developing

00:37:25.150 --> 00:37:33.869
here. We might. Let's see. Ooh, Georgie! Georgie,

00:37:33.869 --> 00:37:37.090
great, but I'm very impressed with the physicality

00:37:37.090 --> 00:37:39.750
of St. Louis' defense. I am very impressed with

00:37:39.750 --> 00:37:47.369
that. It's frustrating, but I also... Don't know

00:37:47.369 --> 00:37:51.449
if this game – oh, that was such a power move

00:37:51.449 --> 00:37:58.070
right there. The end of the game in Seattle that

00:37:58.070 --> 00:38:01.590
was so funny. The LAFC? Was it 5 -1 in that game?

00:38:02.289 --> 00:38:08.010
5 -2, LAFC. Oh, LAFC, excuse me, yes. Because

00:38:08.010 --> 00:38:12.320
– Go ahead. Go ahead. I would say, how did you

00:38:12.320 --> 00:38:14.260
feel about that game and then going directly

00:38:14.260 --> 00:38:16.000
into Mexico City? I feel like it's the tale of

00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:21.440
two games in our season. Yeah, but it's two very

00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:27.099
distinct, separate things. You cannot draw inferences

00:38:27.099 --> 00:38:30.420
between the two games. Sure. I just mean going

00:38:30.420 --> 00:38:33.980
from the high of our backups being that much

00:38:33.980 --> 00:38:38.800
better than LAFC's backups to the low of losing.

00:38:39.789 --> 00:38:43.170
uh you know two key players i would argue was

00:38:43.170 --> 00:38:46.670
our team mvp thus far this season and then loved

00:38:46.670 --> 00:38:49.730
watching him play i know and then jordan who

00:38:49.730 --> 00:38:53.670
are only true true number nine so it's it's i

00:38:53.670 --> 00:38:56.050
mean it's very frustrating luckily jordan's injuries

00:38:56.050 --> 00:38:59.610
is shorter term than we uh feared but only four

00:38:59.610 --> 00:39:02.110
to six weeks that did come out this week that

00:39:02.110 --> 00:39:04.090
he's four to six weeks pedro's four to six weeks

00:39:04.090 --> 00:39:06.719
paul of course is the whole season Uh, Yamar

00:39:06.719 --> 00:39:08.880
is only missing this match for family reasons.

00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:11.679
And, uh, we don't know Schmetz is out at least

00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:16.599
for this match. Yeah. I mean, it's just kind

00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:20.579
of, it's an MLS season. It's so MLS. Sure. But

00:39:20.579 --> 00:39:24.139
that loss made it, it, I think it was the injuries

00:39:24.139 --> 00:39:29.139
more than anything made me feel, uh, the high

00:39:29.139 --> 00:39:32.659
of the previous game, which was only what. three

00:39:32.659 --> 00:39:35.539
days four days earlier uh completely crushed

00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:37.900
um you know it's like that was the first time

00:39:37.900 --> 00:39:40.059
this season like winning against antigua was

00:39:40.059 --> 00:39:43.239
fun but uh it we still knew it was antigua that

00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:45.440
was the first time this season they felt really

00:39:45.440 --> 00:39:47.820
excited about the possibility of the season and

00:39:47.820 --> 00:39:50.280
then to have two of our main players taken out

00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:52.739
of the equation real quick just stop for a second

00:39:52.739 --> 00:39:55.179
look at how many numbers are in the box for st

00:39:55.179 --> 00:39:58.260
louis yeah one two three four five six seven

00:39:58.260 --> 00:40:01.559
eight nine ten in the box that is yeah oh and

00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:05.400
georgie gets away okay and wins a corner again

00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:08.860
but yeah so i mean unless we start unless we

00:40:08.860 --> 00:40:13.059
start uh shooting from distance counter -attack

00:40:13.059 --> 00:40:15.650
we're gonna get a counter -attack Well, step

00:40:15.650 --> 00:40:17.550
one, I mean, look at that. Look at that. Look

00:40:17.550 --> 00:40:19.989
at how much red. Nine in the box with one just

00:40:19.989 --> 00:40:25.809
outside. Nine on five because we have five attackers

00:40:25.809 --> 00:40:27.849
in there, and that's going to be a tough numbers

00:40:27.849 --> 00:40:32.269
game. I don't know why that St. Louis player

00:40:32.269 --> 00:40:34.289
is pointing at the ball. Does he think it's not

00:40:34.289 --> 00:40:35.889
placed in the right place? Here's a beautiful

00:40:35.889 --> 00:40:40.969
chance. Oh, okay. Was that Obed? No, I think

00:40:40.969 --> 00:40:45.619
that was Jackson Reagan. Okay. He got it down.

00:40:47.300 --> 00:40:49.719
Good header, but straight to the goalie, unfortunately.

00:40:50.940 --> 00:40:54.059
Yeah. Well, not straight to the goalie. It went

00:40:54.059 --> 00:40:56.219
down. It hit the ground. So you did what you're

00:40:56.219 --> 00:40:58.440
supposed to do. You get that header down. But

00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:01.800
Berkey's a very good goalie. Oh, God. They must

00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:09.159
be way ahead of us on the Discord. Because I

00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:13.650
don't like what I just saw. We'll see. You and

00:41:13.650 --> 00:41:17.789
I can react to this own goal together. Because,

00:41:18.010 --> 00:41:21.670
oof. If this is an own goal, this is trouble.

00:41:21.789 --> 00:41:23.929
What's your time mark right now? I'm at 39 .47.

00:41:24.389 --> 00:41:28.329
I'm at 39 .49. Oh, he's just predicting what

00:41:28.329 --> 00:41:33.389
happened. Okay. Thank goodness. Oh, Jesus. Alex

00:41:33.389 --> 00:41:36.210
Diaz, you're getting a negative shout -out on

00:41:36.210 --> 00:41:42.739
the podcast. I was worried. Like, how did you

00:41:42.739 --> 00:41:44.679
already see an own goal here? Like, they haven't

00:41:44.679 --> 00:42:03.079
even started. Shame. Shame. Oh, man. This is

00:42:03.079 --> 00:42:05.179
going to be one of those games or this podcast

00:42:05.179 --> 00:42:07.440
where it's really good to turn it on during the

00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:11.769
match. Maybe we'll take a little. break at halftime

00:42:11.769 --> 00:42:13.849
and then come back in the second half. So we

00:42:13.849 --> 00:42:15.590
don't go over time -wise since we've got to keep

00:42:15.590 --> 00:42:17.889
it under two hours for that. I agree. I think

00:42:17.889 --> 00:42:20.170
that'll probably be good for all of us. It'll

00:42:20.170 --> 00:42:24.250
probably be good for all of us. So I called that

00:42:24.250 --> 00:42:26.469
game in Mexico city, the most disastrous game

00:42:26.469 --> 00:42:29.210
in Sounders history. I know you have a different,

00:42:29.210 --> 00:42:31.960
I love your hyper. I love your hyperbole. But

00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:35.380
to me – I get it. I'll disagree, but go ahead.

00:42:35.500 --> 00:42:38.119
Go ahead. Make your case. You had two that you

00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:41.340
felt were far worse. Tell me those two. Yeah,

00:42:41.380 --> 00:42:45.420
so your philosophy here, and I don't know why

00:42:45.420 --> 00:42:48.980
he's pointing to his ear right now. Right now

00:42:48.980 --> 00:42:51.199
there's a holdup on the corner. They're looking

00:42:51.199 --> 00:42:53.179
to see if it was a header out of bounds. I mean

00:42:53.179 --> 00:42:55.159
there's no reason you look at that unless it's

00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:58.719
– No, it can't – Yeah, you wouldn't review it.

00:42:59.369 --> 00:43:06.909
He does a lot of shithousery, is what I'm trying

00:43:06.909 --> 00:43:13.269
to say. Yeah. Okay, so state your pitch for why

00:43:13.269 --> 00:43:15.110
you think it was the most disastrous Sounders

00:43:15.110 --> 00:43:19.630
loss. I think losing 4 -1, I mean, the score,

00:43:19.769 --> 00:43:21.269
even though obviously we said it doesn't reflect

00:43:21.269 --> 00:43:23.670
that, but really it's losing Areola for the season

00:43:23.670 --> 00:43:26.090
in a season where we needed to prove to the fans.

00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:29.539
That we can make moves that will make us better

00:43:29.539 --> 00:43:35.159
without breaking the bank. And then also, and

00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:38.480
so losing Areola. And then we obviously didn't

00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:41.679
know the extent of the Jordan injury. So I don't

00:43:41.679 --> 00:43:43.559
know if it's as bad. I thought he would be out

00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:46.699
longer than that. But absolutely, I felt like

00:43:46.699 --> 00:43:48.099
we're early in the season. But in the moment,

00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:50.800
yeah. We crash out in that tournament, which,

00:43:50.840 --> 00:43:53.519
you know. Overall, we had the hardest path, so

00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:55.139
that's not the end of the world. But to lose

00:43:55.139 --> 00:43:58.760
that way, to have those injuries, and the effect

00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:03.579
it would have on our season, the Sounders basically

00:44:03.579 --> 00:44:05.780
have to go out and replace Paul Areola before

00:44:05.780 --> 00:44:10.840
the summer transfer window ends, or they will

00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:15.380
be unable to. Yeah. Now, so to answer your question,

00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:22.090
though, first off, I am going to say no. It's

00:44:22.090 --> 00:44:24.869
definitely not the word. It's definitely hyperbole,

00:44:24.869 --> 00:44:28.789
and it's in the emotional state after a game.

00:44:28.869 --> 00:44:30.590
So I'm going to give you credit there, but I'm

00:44:30.590 --> 00:44:33.409
always trying to talk people down off the cliff.

00:44:34.070 --> 00:44:36.670
But for me, though, the red card wedding is still

00:44:36.670 --> 00:44:40.409
the most disastrous match. I'm curious why. One,

00:44:41.030 --> 00:44:43.550
it's against your rival in the U .S. Open Cup.

00:44:44.380 --> 00:44:47.780
At Starfire, where we have not lost a game at

00:44:47.780 --> 00:44:53.639
that point, we had owned that. We lost – I was

00:44:53.639 --> 00:44:55.460
about to say Obed, then I was about to say Obama.

00:44:56.480 --> 00:45:00.719
We lost Obafemi Martins. We lost Obafemi Martins

00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:04.480
to a major injury in that. We lost Clint Dempsey

00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:09.409
to suspension from that. I didn't feel like that

00:45:09.409 --> 00:45:11.690
had a major impact on our season that year. Huge

00:45:11.690 --> 00:45:15.190
impact. Huge impact. Oba was out for like six

00:45:15.190 --> 00:45:19.309
– I don't want to say six months. He was out

00:45:19.309 --> 00:45:23.630
for quite some time. That was a major injury.

00:45:24.010 --> 00:45:27.110
To me, in retrospect, I view that as one of the

00:45:27.110 --> 00:45:28.889
greatest Sounders games of all time. The fact

00:45:28.889 --> 00:45:31.570
that Dempsey took that dumbass ref's book and

00:45:31.570 --> 00:45:35.519
tore it up is – Number two moment. Oh, I guess

00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:37.739
number three moment all -time in Sounders. No,

00:45:37.780 --> 00:45:39.099
we got to go four now because we've had a few

00:45:39.099 --> 00:45:41.099
things since then. Number four moment all -time

00:45:41.099 --> 00:45:44.519
in Sounders history behind Roman's penalty kick,

00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:52.300
the goal to put away the 2019 MLS Cup, and the

00:45:52.300 --> 00:45:56.119
goal to put away the Champions League. Oh, and

00:45:56.119 --> 00:45:58.659
let's not forget the goal that Oz scored to put

00:45:58.659 --> 00:46:01.250
away the U .S. Open Cup at home. Frankly, that

00:46:01.250 --> 00:46:04.170
was my wife's first ever Sounders game and my

00:46:04.170 --> 00:46:05.369
mom's first ever Sounders game. The one where

00:46:05.369 --> 00:46:08.289
Ozzy scored that? Yeah, the 2010 U .S. Open Cup

00:46:08.289 --> 00:46:11.070
Final. Where were you sitting? I'm sorry, 2011

00:46:11.070 --> 00:46:14.070
U .S. Open Cup Final. Was 2010 the one versus

00:46:14.070 --> 00:46:16.510
Columbus? We also played Columbus at home in

00:46:16.510 --> 00:46:18.849
one of those games. Yes, that was the 2010 because

00:46:18.849 --> 00:46:21.769
29 was D .C. at D .C. That's right. And their

00:46:21.769 --> 00:46:27.369
goalie was Columbus. Yeah, and then 2012. Where

00:46:27.369 --> 00:46:33.869
did you sit that match? I was basically around

00:46:33.869 --> 00:46:43.210
the top of the box on the southwest corner. So

00:46:43.210 --> 00:46:47.210
I guess that would be – hang on. So if you're

00:46:47.210 --> 00:46:49.929
facing east, yes, you're on the right. So about

00:46:49.929 --> 00:46:54.789
section 128 -ish, somewhere around there, 128,

00:46:55.030 --> 00:46:57.739
129, somewhere around there. Hang on. Oh, other

00:46:57.739 --> 00:47:00.179
side. Okay. That east corner, northeast corner.

00:47:01.579 --> 00:47:07.039
I was sitting in Gorilla FC row two or three.

00:47:07.179 --> 00:47:12.519
Now, that's very frustrating right there. To

00:47:12.519 --> 00:47:18.059
allow earlier in the game some of really aggressive

00:47:18.059 --> 00:47:20.179
shoulder -to -shoulder tackles and then a very

00:47:20.179 --> 00:47:21.940
light shoulder -to -shoulder tackle there with

00:47:21.940 --> 00:47:25.380
Ferreira, and they call it on Ferreira. And he

00:47:25.380 --> 00:47:29.059
gets the yellow. Although the yellow may be for

00:47:29.059 --> 00:47:32.800
the descent. But still, I don't think you should

00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:34.239
get a yellow for descent when they're making

00:47:34.239 --> 00:47:36.960
bad calls, when it comes down to it. If you make

00:47:36.960 --> 00:47:40.880
a bad call, that's on you. But yeah, so as we're

00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:42.420
going a little cyclical here, because obviously

00:47:42.420 --> 00:47:44.280
things are happening in the game, and so we're

00:47:44.280 --> 00:47:47.019
going to react to that as it happens. But so

00:47:47.019 --> 00:47:48.719
yeah, red card wedding, that's number one for

00:47:48.719 --> 00:47:52.659
me. The second one for me that I think was definitely

00:47:52.659 --> 00:47:56.409
more disastrous, just at first glance, was the

00:47:56.409 --> 00:48:00.429
2020 MLS Cup against Columbus in Columbus. We

00:48:00.429 --> 00:48:05.130
had just gone through the emotional high of coming

00:48:05.130 --> 00:48:09.849
back against Minnesota with Gustavsson. Yeah.

00:48:09.989 --> 00:48:14.250
Yeah. And now we're in the championship. They're

00:48:14.250 --> 00:48:18.309
missing multiple players and star players. There's

00:48:18.309 --> 00:48:22.130
no reason we should have lost that game on paper,

00:48:22.210 --> 00:48:23.809
but the games aren't played on paper, and we

00:48:23.809 --> 00:48:27.320
shat the bed. That's absolutely more disastrous.

00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:31.039
I would even put the Charlie Joseph game as more

00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:32.820
disastrous, but again, it's because you're playing

00:48:32.820 --> 00:48:37.280
against your rivals. I'll give you Red Card Wedding,

00:48:37.280 --> 00:48:41.320
and I don't necessarily agree on 2020 just because...

00:48:42.400 --> 00:48:44.380
It was the final game of the season, so I didn't

00:48:44.380 --> 00:48:46.559
feel like it gave away. It ruined our whole season,

00:48:46.619 --> 00:48:49.480
which this very well could have. We'll see. But

00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:52.780
the Showery Joseph game sucked. I hated that.

00:48:52.960 --> 00:48:55.860
Absolutely. It was awful. I feel like I should

00:48:55.860 --> 00:48:57.920
have got my money back from having to go. I went

00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:00.519
all the way down to Portland sitting in a seat

00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:02.579
that wasn't even a seat in a van and my legs.

00:49:04.079 --> 00:49:07.260
went numb and I felt claustrophobic. I had a

00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:09.480
terrible, terrible experience. And then to get

00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:11.159
in the stadium and see that lineup, it was awful.

00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:15.000
But we were not affected beyond that game. But

00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:19.300
it also shows where you value... Disaster. What

00:49:19.300 --> 00:49:21.420
I'd consider disaster. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And

00:49:21.420 --> 00:49:25.199
playoffs versus... And US Open Cup versus CONCACAF.

00:49:25.860 --> 00:49:31.840
Oh, well, yes and no. Because the MLS Cup final...

00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:36.360
And I think the difference is that in both of

00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.780
those cases, I think... How is that not a yellow

00:49:40.780 --> 00:49:44.380
card? He absolutely grabbed him and spun him

00:49:44.380 --> 00:49:46.079
around. That's the definition of a professional

00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:49.320
tackle when he was getting away. Body language.

00:49:49.380 --> 00:49:53.420
And not that. I'm a little... And we're watching

00:49:53.420 --> 00:49:57.159
this without sound, so we're not getting certain

00:49:57.159 --> 00:50:00.079
context. Did they call halftime? Yeah, it's halftime,

00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:04.820
thankfully. Okay. Okay, so let's wind down this

00:50:04.820 --> 00:50:08.340
thought, and then we'll take a break. Yeah. And

00:50:08.340 --> 00:50:14.559
Jesus is there talking. Stupid -ass ref. And

00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:18.199
I think he's trying to explain. Yes. And it looks

00:50:18.199 --> 00:50:20.380
like with the numbers and gesticulations, it

00:50:20.380 --> 00:50:23.000
looks like he's saying, I don't understand the

00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:26.340
consistency. The way he's saying it, it looks

00:50:26.340 --> 00:50:29.570
like he's pointing a lot at the field. And like,

00:50:29.650 --> 00:50:32.429
hey, I'm just asking for consistency. That's

00:50:32.429 --> 00:50:36.710
what it looks like. Yeah, no, it looked like

00:50:36.710 --> 00:50:39.769
a healthy conversation. It was animated, but

00:50:39.769 --> 00:50:44.250
that's how I read it. Yeah. Okay, so let's do

00:50:44.250 --> 00:50:47.769
this. Finishing up that discourse on disaster.

00:50:48.570 --> 00:50:52.769
Yeah, I think the opponent and what kind of competition

00:50:52.769 --> 00:50:57.650
matters, given that... The odds were already

00:50:57.650 --> 00:51:01.670
stacked against us in Mexico, given that that

00:51:01.670 --> 00:51:06.829
team clearly outplayed us in Mexico, where I

00:51:06.829 --> 00:51:11.400
just... We weren't expected to win that game.

00:51:11.460 --> 00:51:14.539
I think that matters, and that changes the dynamic

00:51:14.539 --> 00:51:17.219
to me. When you, you know, Red Card Wedding,

00:51:17.260 --> 00:51:20.780
we hadn't lost at Starfire ever. We had Obaduse

00:51:20.780 --> 00:51:24.619
on the field at Starfire. So that changes that.

00:51:24.739 --> 00:51:27.599
The MLS Cup, for the reasons I said before, we

00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:30.079
were expected to win that game. We had a very

00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:33.079
dynamic offense. They were missing players. No,

00:51:33.119 --> 00:51:34.980
we were missing players too, ultimately. That's

00:51:34.980 --> 00:51:39.650
what happened to us. Bob. Why don't we take a

00:51:39.650 --> 00:51:41.670
break here? Let's take that break. Yeah. With

00:51:41.670 --> 00:51:44.429
our audience here, you will hear the Patreon

00:51:44.429 --> 00:51:46.969
ad. And so then we'll come right back. So if

00:51:46.969 --> 00:51:49.250
you're watching along live, a replay of this

00:51:49.250 --> 00:51:51.929
while we are doing this, if you want to do that,

00:51:51.989 --> 00:51:54.289
you can skip to the beginning of the ball being

00:51:54.289 --> 00:51:56.949
dropped in the second half. And Nick, you and

00:51:56.949 --> 00:52:00.550
I will be back. Let's come back as they're coming

00:52:00.550 --> 00:52:02.030
back on the field. I mean, I guess we will still

00:52:02.030 --> 00:52:04.940
see each other. Yeah, obviously. But, yeah, we'll

00:52:04.940 --> 00:52:07.599
do that, and we'll kind of kick back in right

00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:10.420
as they're kind of cutting to the camera to get

00:52:10.420 --> 00:52:12.699
ready to start the second half. Awesome. Let's

00:52:12.699 --> 00:52:33.019
take that break. Hey everybody, this is one of

00:52:33.019 --> 00:52:35.960
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00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:38.900
this time was time for a break, but really, it's

00:52:38.900 --> 00:52:41.239
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00:52:41.239 --> 00:52:43.699
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00:52:44.000 --> 00:52:46.400
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-T -R -E -O -N dot C -O -M. Now back to your

00:53:55.579 --> 00:54:12.460
regularly scheduled programming. And we are back.

00:54:12.539 --> 00:54:14.599
That means the second half is just about to start

00:54:14.599 --> 00:54:16.320
here. And before it goes, I think you have something

00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:19.300
important to do, Nicholas. I do. This is exactly

00:54:19.300 --> 00:54:21.320
where you Terrence and Philip and just fart into

00:54:21.320 --> 00:54:23.039
the microphone. But that's not what I'm going

00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:28.519
to do instead. I'm not your friend, pal. I'm

00:54:28.519 --> 00:54:32.179
not your pal, buddy. I'm not your buddy, friend.

00:54:33.699 --> 00:54:36.000
That was a beautiful opening of your beer here.

00:54:36.179 --> 00:54:38.780
Thank you. As the sounders drop out, I think

00:54:38.780 --> 00:54:41.440
I'm still a couple seconds ahead of you. I'll

00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:43.699
tell you when I'm starting here, and you can

00:54:43.699 --> 00:54:45.619
tell me how much later you are. So for anyone

00:54:45.619 --> 00:54:47.719
listening, kick right now. And kick right now.

00:54:47.800 --> 00:54:50.280
Yeah, so give me a second. Give me a clock. 450

00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:56.960
-234 -567. Just barely ahead of you, and I paused

00:54:56.960 --> 00:54:58.380
it for a couple seconds, so hopefully we're a

00:54:58.380 --> 00:55:01.480
little closer in. If you are watching along...

00:55:02.300 --> 00:55:05.340
obviously not live with the game, but live with

00:55:05.340 --> 00:55:06.860
us, meaning you're listening to this podcast

00:55:06.860 --> 00:55:08.699
and you have the game on the TV, you can kind

00:55:08.699 --> 00:55:10.980
of match it along with that. I know I had to

00:55:10.980 --> 00:55:13.260
do that one time when Jackson Feltz got his first

00:55:13.260 --> 00:55:15.500
ever announcing, like he was the main announcer.

00:55:15.619 --> 00:55:17.280
Oh yeah, where you were listening to the radio.

00:55:18.440 --> 00:55:21.780
Yeah, so I was at my parents' house, so I had

00:55:21.780 --> 00:55:26.039
it on the TV and the TV was ahead of the radio.

00:55:26.719 --> 00:55:29.400
And so I could pause the TV until it lined up

00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:31.239
with the radio and play it. So I had Jackson

00:55:31.239 --> 00:55:33.719
calling the game live, which, you know, Jackson,

00:55:33.800 --> 00:55:36.099
not just a good friend of the show, but good

00:55:36.099 --> 00:55:38.500
friend of mine. Never get to see him enough.

00:55:39.519 --> 00:55:42.119
But yeah, he actually it was pretty cool to see

00:55:42.119 --> 00:55:44.679
him or hear him, I suppose, is the better phrase.

00:55:44.739 --> 00:55:49.460
He's off and on with Softie. doing actual discussions

00:55:49.460 --> 00:55:52.000
now so he's not just a producer as uh that ball

00:55:52.000 --> 00:55:54.840
gets shot over the net by christian christian

00:55:54.840 --> 00:55:57.920
rolled on doing his best jesus ferrara impersonation

00:55:57.920 --> 00:56:03.239
i was gonna go ozzy alonso but we know how ozzy

00:56:03.239 --> 00:56:06.019
loved to kick it over the the goal no but but

00:56:06.019 --> 00:56:09.019
the ozzy bomb was a shot that was like a chip

00:56:09.019 --> 00:56:11.559
that just went wrong that was like a chip that

00:56:11.559 --> 00:56:13.940
just kept going that's true uh so with that in

00:56:13.940 --> 00:56:17.150
mind Real quick, it said the English commentators

00:56:17.150 --> 00:56:19.809
on the screen, Tony Hubbard and Ross Smith. In

00:56:19.809 --> 00:56:22.110
my head, I didn't think English language. Oh,

00:56:22.110 --> 00:56:26.250
good job by Paul keeping that in. Oh! Yep, yep.

00:56:28.889 --> 00:56:33.510
And then it bounced up and hit Jesus' hand. Yeah,

00:56:33.530 --> 00:56:36.650
who is, what's happening in my brain right now?

00:56:36.710 --> 00:56:41.110
Who's number seven? Yeah, not having a great

00:56:41.110 --> 00:56:50.530
week. Exactly. Or were you legitimately having

00:56:50.530 --> 00:56:53.230
a stroke and could not remember? I was legitimately

00:56:53.230 --> 00:56:55.269
having a stroke. I'm not having a great week.

00:56:55.409 --> 00:56:59.369
Right after I thought English language meant

00:56:59.369 --> 00:57:01.449
that we had English people announcing, not English

00:57:01.449 --> 00:57:04.150
language. I was like, why don't we have American

00:57:04.150 --> 00:57:06.769
do it? Ross Fletcher? Or no, not Ross Fletcher.

00:57:07.130 --> 00:57:10.170
Yes, Ross Fletcher. Wait, no, I don't remember.

00:57:10.250 --> 00:57:11.829
Yeah, Ross Fletcher was from England. Yes, okay.

00:57:11.969 --> 00:57:18.010
My brain is breaking. Oh, that does bring up

00:57:18.010 --> 00:57:19.750
an interesting point. We didn't get to talk about

00:57:19.750 --> 00:57:24.210
Trump is heading the FIFA task force now, which

00:57:24.210 --> 00:57:26.050
is very interesting. Did you see the speech he

00:57:26.050 --> 00:57:29.030
gave on it? He was like, my name is Donald Trump

00:57:29.030 --> 00:57:32.210
and I think soccer is great. That's my Donald

00:57:32.210 --> 00:57:35.130
Trump impression for the show now. Was that a

00:57:35.130 --> 00:57:37.690
Bill Cosby? Was that a Fat Albert? What was that?

00:57:37.690 --> 00:57:39.769
Oh my God, it was kind of close to those. No,

00:57:39.809 --> 00:57:44.469
that was Donald Trump. It's huge. He doesn't

00:57:44.469 --> 00:57:50.230
see you that way. And we've just lost anyone

00:57:50.230 --> 00:57:55.250
who was born after 1994. I'm going to have to

00:57:55.250 --> 00:57:57.630
redo. I didn't realize my impression. It was

00:57:57.630 --> 00:57:59.730
a little more guttural than normal. I didn't

00:57:59.730 --> 00:58:03.670
realize my Trump impression sounded like he who

00:58:03.670 --> 00:58:06.530
shall not be named. So I was talking about this.

00:58:06.630 --> 00:58:09.349
Wait, wait, wait, wait. He who shall not be named.

00:58:09.869 --> 00:58:17.070
Voldemort? Yes. So you're okay. Oh, no, no, no,

00:58:17.070 --> 00:58:19.750
no. Was he hurt? I don't think he was hurt. I

00:58:19.750 --> 00:58:21.150
think he just slid into the ball. No, it was

00:58:21.150 --> 00:58:25.909
just a bad pass, a bad giveaway. Yeah. And just

00:58:25.909 --> 00:58:30.070
had trouble written all over it. It's okay. We

00:58:30.070 --> 00:58:32.070
got defense. We got defensive players. They've

00:58:32.070 --> 00:58:33.750
done nothing that makes me think they're going

00:58:33.750 --> 00:58:35.650
to score a goal despite all of their possession

00:58:35.650 --> 00:58:38.510
other than that free kick. Oh, Paul wants to

00:58:38.510 --> 00:58:43.130
go. Oh, and now we have multi ball. Yeah. But,

00:58:43.210 --> 00:58:45.389
uh, but yeah, so I clearly will need to find

00:58:45.389 --> 00:58:48.110
a new Trump impression because that one invokes

00:58:48.110 --> 00:58:51.750
Bill Cosby, which, um, you know, he was one of

00:58:51.750 --> 00:58:54.010
the, my best celebrity interactions I ever had.

00:58:54.130 --> 00:58:55.670
And so it makes me sad that he turned out to

00:58:55.670 --> 00:58:57.829
be such an awful person because he buy you drinks.

00:58:59.289 --> 00:59:03.429
No, uh, I was at the, uh, 90, I think it was

00:59:03.429 --> 00:59:07.469
a 92, uh, Western conference or Western regionals.

00:59:07.650 --> 00:59:11.750
And, uh, It was Chris Webber and the Fab Five

00:59:11.750 --> 00:59:14.070
playing against Georgetown and Vander, I mean,

00:59:14.090 --> 00:59:15.969
George Washington, excuse me, and Vanderbilt

00:59:15.969 --> 00:59:17.829
playing against Temple. So he was there to see

00:59:17.829 --> 00:59:19.949
Temple. Yeah, because he's a Temple, he's a famous

00:59:19.949 --> 00:59:22.210
Temple alum. He went to his seat and he was sitting

00:59:22.210 --> 00:59:24.150
like in the front row on the side and I went

00:59:24.150 --> 00:59:25.690
up to talk to him and the security pushed me

00:59:25.690 --> 00:59:28.010
away and he said no and pushed them away and

00:59:28.010 --> 00:59:29.670
brought me up and I got to have a quick little

00:59:29.670 --> 00:59:32.670
conversation with him. So, you know, he was always

00:59:32.670 --> 00:59:35.880
someone that I looked up to. as a kid so such

00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:39.420
a such a bummer no it is a bummer because i really

00:59:39.420 --> 00:59:43.400
enjoyed those are classic comedy albums and i

00:59:43.400 --> 00:59:45.239
can't listen to them and i won't listen to them

00:59:45.239 --> 00:59:48.099
and and the way they worked them into the cosby

00:59:48.099 --> 00:59:50.840
show was great too but he also worked his off

00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:53.820
on this into the cosby show yeah yeah and i mean

00:59:53.820 --> 00:59:56.340
it's anyways let's not talk about bill cosby

00:59:56.340 --> 00:59:58.739
i'd like to just no i'd like i'd like for him

00:59:58.739 --> 01:00:00.969
to just you're right that is The gutturalness

01:00:00.969 --> 01:00:02.869
of my Trump impression got a little bit too Bill

01:00:02.869 --> 01:00:05.250
Cosby -ish, so I'll work on it. Next episode,

01:00:05.349 --> 01:00:07.630
I'll debut a different one. But yeah, Trump is

01:00:07.630 --> 01:00:12.250
leading the FIFA panel or whatever you want to

01:00:12.250 --> 01:00:14.130
call it, group for the United States government,

01:00:14.469 --> 01:00:17.449
which is surprising because there's no way Biden

01:00:17.449 --> 01:00:19.070
would have done that, right? That's a job for

01:00:19.070 --> 01:00:23.309
someone below the president. Wait, wait, wait,

01:00:23.309 --> 01:00:26.969
wait, wait. What do you mean that's surprising?

01:00:27.369 --> 01:00:31.420
You mean this president? wants to be closer to

01:00:31.420 --> 01:00:35.380
the most corrupt organization in the world yeah

01:00:35.380 --> 01:00:37.760
look at that rothrock shoving totland off of

01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:41.400
him yeah no totally and that's that's exactly

01:00:41.400 --> 01:00:43.760
what it is and we knew from the beginning uh

01:00:43.760 --> 01:00:47.559
anyone who's been in fifa circles uh that they

01:00:47.559 --> 01:00:49.199
were rooting for trump to win that election and

01:00:49.199 --> 01:00:50.920
i'm sure they found ways to funnel money into

01:00:50.920 --> 01:00:54.099
it as well what uh i have no proof of that but

01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:57.960
Yes. Okay. So with that in mind, we are five

01:00:57.960 --> 01:00:59.420
minutes into the second half. We'll give you

01:00:59.420 --> 01:01:01.360
a quick heads up on the end of the first half.

01:01:02.119 --> 01:01:05.780
Sounders had possession about 64 % to 36%. The

01:01:05.780 --> 01:01:07.800
expected goals for both teams were pretty miserable,

01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:13.099
.23 and .1 for the Sounders. Four shots each.

01:01:13.340 --> 01:01:19.340
It was just kind of what you expect from a road

01:01:19.340 --> 01:01:22.280
result where you're just trying to... You're

01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:26.260
just trying to grind out results. So the Sounders

01:01:26.260 --> 01:01:31.659
are doing a good job of stifling them defensively,

01:01:31.659 --> 01:01:34.639
but they're just not doing a good job of creating

01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:37.539
offense right now. So that's what I'm interested

01:01:37.539 --> 01:01:40.460
to see in the second half, if that can change.

01:01:40.619 --> 01:01:43.760
Although the trio of Germans for St. Louis is

01:01:43.760 --> 01:01:48.320
creating moments of... I don't want to say creating...

01:01:49.429 --> 01:01:51.909
because none of it has been happening. Yeah,

01:01:51.909 --> 01:01:55.030
but they're creating moments where they're like,

01:01:55.030 --> 01:02:04.590
oh, they are one pass away. Who knew? Yeah, no,

01:02:04.690 --> 01:02:07.489
who knew? He's no longer on Minnesota, but I

01:02:07.489 --> 01:02:09.289
wish when he left Minnesota he'd come here because

01:02:09.289 --> 01:02:10.969
I would have loved to have knew who and who knew.

01:02:13.670 --> 01:02:16.329
We need to see our midfield step it up here.

01:02:16.409 --> 01:02:18.780
They've been, I feel like, Not non -existent,

01:02:18.780 --> 01:02:20.780
but what a beautiful pass from Russnack. Is that

01:02:20.780 --> 01:02:24.300
going to be outside? Oh, Georgie. It's no matter

01:02:24.300 --> 01:02:28.079
if Georgie can't do anything with the ball. That's

01:02:28.079 --> 01:02:31.400
the one thing. I feel like Russnack this year,

01:02:31.599 --> 01:02:35.079
he's got these moments of brilliance where he

01:02:35.079 --> 01:02:37.400
has these amazing weighted passes through that

01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:41.019
create chances. Just getting in our own way.

01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:46.119
That header may. go in not because of the pace

01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:48.260
of it but because of where it was headed that's

01:02:48.260 --> 01:02:50.679
a bummer but but i feel like there's games where

01:02:50.679 --> 01:02:53.360
rothrock last year when he wasn't on the field

01:02:53.360 --> 01:02:55.039
that was noticeable and this this year there's

01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:56.840
been a few games where he's he's on the field

01:02:56.840 --> 01:02:59.860
and absent a pass here or pass there where you're

01:02:59.860 --> 01:03:01.840
just absolutely stunned at how brilliant it is

01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:05.539
he seems non -existent he's not having an impact

01:03:05.539 --> 01:03:07.340
on the match and i don't know what's going on

01:03:07.340 --> 01:03:15.119
no rust rust snack rust snack has moments of

01:03:15.119 --> 01:03:17.760
like we just saw that brilliant pass but that's

01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:20.219
maybe only the second time i've really felt like

01:03:20.219 --> 01:03:23.940
he's had an impact on this game well yes this

01:03:23.940 --> 01:03:26.219
game is a grind this is a grind game but but

01:03:26.219 --> 01:03:28.199
right now our midfield we're doing what you're

01:03:28.199 --> 01:03:31.320
saying right now these last five minutes we are

01:03:31.320 --> 01:03:34.719
we are controlling the midfield obet and christian

01:03:34.719 --> 01:03:40.659
nice okay okay so so yeah but i just feel like

01:03:41.389 --> 01:03:43.590
I don't know. And it may not be his fault. It

01:03:43.590 --> 01:03:46.090
may be the way possession is happening. It may

01:03:46.090 --> 01:03:48.750
be the way he's being played, but there's been

01:03:48.750 --> 01:03:50.409
times where I've just felt like Russ knock has

01:03:50.409 --> 01:03:52.909
not had the impact that he had last year on games,

01:03:53.150 --> 01:03:57.849
except for in the LA, the LA FC game, of course.

01:03:57.849 --> 01:04:00.050
And, and the, one of those Antigua matches, but,

01:04:00.110 --> 01:04:03.130
but I feel like those were not, those kind of

01:04:03.130 --> 01:04:06.670
don't even feel like real games. So possibly

01:04:06.670 --> 01:04:09.130
because, but, but, but then again, you're, you're,

01:04:09.130 --> 01:04:12.039
you're talking about where, only a handful of

01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:14.420
games into the season, including the CCC games.

01:04:14.659 --> 01:04:17.000
And you mentioned, oh, except for this and except

01:04:17.000 --> 01:04:21.860
for this and except for this. So I don't know.

01:04:21.900 --> 01:04:26.039
I feel like I'll take the positive of, well,

01:04:26.099 --> 01:04:29.780
that's quite a few games where he's doing stuff.

01:04:31.300 --> 01:04:33.440
But I get what you're saying. You want to see

01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:36.840
more consistency. And I can respect that. Oh,

01:04:37.099 --> 01:04:39.630
is he onside? I don't know if we're going to

01:04:39.630 --> 01:04:47.989
find out. Okay. But I think, oh, oh, am I drunk?

01:04:50.949 --> 01:04:53.769
Am I just realizing now that Berkey's not in

01:04:53.769 --> 01:04:57.489
the game? Oh, yeah, it's Lunt is the goalie.

01:04:59.170 --> 01:05:01.349
He looked pretty close to onside there. I don't

01:05:01.349 --> 01:05:04.489
know why they're. Oh, shit. That's who they were

01:05:04.489 --> 01:05:10.480
talking about. Okay, again, we've been watching.

01:05:10.659 --> 01:05:15.599
Okay, so for those listening, we were scrambling

01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:19.139
minutes before the game started to kind of decide.

01:05:19.179 --> 01:05:21.119
We decided we were going to do this experiment.

01:05:21.440 --> 01:05:23.260
We decided we were going to do this experiment

01:05:23.260 --> 01:05:26.699
about 10 minutes before the game started, which

01:05:26.699 --> 01:05:28.500
meant I had to move all my equipment into the

01:05:28.500 --> 01:05:31.619
living room to set up. So there was a big scramble.

01:05:31.679 --> 01:05:34.199
Then we were muted the whole time, so I did not

01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:37.340
realize until right about now I caught someone

01:05:37.340 --> 01:05:39.320
saying, oh, yeah, that St. Louis player has a

01:05:39.320 --> 01:05:43.179
broken hand. I did not realize it's Berkey. Oh,

01:05:43.400 --> 01:05:46.460
interesting. So, yeah, so Berkey is out with

01:05:46.460 --> 01:05:51.679
a broken hand. Yeah, wow. I'm more reacting to

01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:53.539
what's on the screen. I have not been able to

01:05:53.539 --> 01:05:57.340
do a deep dive because we're usually during a

01:05:57.340 --> 01:06:00.099
game. I'm researching and I'm paying attention

01:06:00.099 --> 01:06:02.960
to different things. But here, all that time

01:06:02.960 --> 01:06:06.260
I would be looking at another screen to research

01:06:06.260 --> 01:06:10.679
stuff, I'm talking to you. So this is a unique

01:06:10.679 --> 01:06:14.900
experience. It's a little frustrating to me that

01:06:14.900 --> 01:06:17.800
we aren't putting the ball on goal more when

01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:19.860
they have their backup keeper in there. You should

01:06:19.860 --> 01:06:21.800
be peppering him with as many shots as possible,

01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:24.380
but we haven't been able to get those. We haven't

01:06:24.380 --> 01:06:27.760
had the possession. But you're right with Rusnak.

01:06:28.139 --> 01:06:30.840
Maybe that's unfair. It just feels like his impact

01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:34.280
on the game is lesser than it used to be throughout

01:06:34.280 --> 01:06:40.199
the games. But sometimes that happens. We did

01:06:40.199 --> 01:06:44.639
have a couple of things come in from... but discord

01:06:44.639 --> 01:06:48.619
in the scuttlebuck mailbag. And I think I can

01:06:48.619 --> 01:06:51.480
start by hitting on some of those over under

01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:53.920
a 5 .5 goals until Jordan comes back in six to

01:06:53.920 --> 01:06:55.739
eight weeks. Did we fix that? No one can score,

01:06:55.820 --> 01:06:58.340
but Jordan in the off season, I would assume

01:06:58.340 --> 01:07:01.519
we're going to get over. I mean, we should be

01:07:01.519 --> 01:07:03.119
able to score more than five and a half goals

01:07:03.119 --> 01:07:05.539
throughout. I mean, six to eight weeks is going

01:07:05.539 --> 01:07:07.079
to be, let's say it's eight weeks. That's going

01:07:07.079 --> 01:07:09.659
to be, well, let's go with six because six is

01:07:09.659 --> 01:07:13.349
one goal a game. Yeah, even that. I mean, I think

01:07:13.349 --> 01:07:15.409
we should average more than one goal a game.

01:07:15.489 --> 01:07:19.670
If we can't get one goal a game, the season's

01:07:19.670 --> 01:07:22.750
over. I mean, wait, wait, wait. But again, I

01:07:22.750 --> 01:07:26.210
may, okay, well, let's look at the data analytics

01:07:26.210 --> 01:07:29.929
here. So we have a home game against Houston,

01:07:30.150 --> 01:07:32.849
a road game against San Jose, road against San

01:07:32.849 --> 01:07:36.469
Diego, road against Dallas. Yeah, we should score

01:07:36.469 --> 01:07:38.289
a goal in every one, at least a goal in every

01:07:38.289 --> 01:07:41.739
one of those games. Home against Nashville and

01:07:41.739 --> 01:07:45.280
then road against Colorado. And then again, then

01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:48.079
at home against St. Louis City. So it's going

01:07:48.079 --> 01:07:50.500
to be an interesting run. This is about if I

01:07:50.500 --> 01:07:55.199
had to handpick an area for De La Vegas and Morris's

01:07:55.199 --> 01:07:58.320
injuries to happen, I think when I'm looking

01:07:58.320 --> 01:08:00.480
at the schedule, this is exactly where I'm putting

01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:02.239
it because I don't want it to happen during Club

01:08:02.239 --> 01:08:05.139
World Cup. Oh, go ahead. Oh, yeah. I'm saying

01:08:05.139 --> 01:08:08.710
this is it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the only other

01:08:08.710 --> 01:08:12.369
spot where I would maybe consider it... Oh, Jesus

01:08:12.369 --> 01:08:18.529
Christ. The only other spot I would maybe consider

01:08:18.529 --> 01:08:22.890
it would be the League's Cup time frame when

01:08:22.890 --> 01:08:25.390
we play Cruz Azul again. That's where I said

01:08:25.390 --> 01:08:26.930
Jesus Christ because I realized we're playing

01:08:26.930 --> 01:08:29.890
Cruz Azul. Yeah, let's play our backups in those

01:08:29.890 --> 01:08:32.529
games. I'm not interested in even competing in

01:08:32.529 --> 01:08:36.079
that tournament after what happened in CCC. Well,

01:08:36.159 --> 01:08:39.920
I am because I always want to be in Champions

01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:41.399
League, and that's how you get into Champions

01:08:41.399 --> 01:08:44.020
League. Right, but I don't think we're going

01:08:44.020 --> 01:08:48.840
to win that tournament. Not with considering

01:08:48.840 --> 01:08:53.859
how we, I don't know, with our injuries. I don't

01:08:53.859 --> 01:08:58.560
want to twice give up our MLS season. I think

01:08:58.560 --> 01:09:01.039
that's my problem. I get it. I get it. I mean,

01:09:01.060 --> 01:09:03.699
reality, though, is every team's got injuries.

01:09:05.470 --> 01:09:10.029
Miami just lost one of their players. Obviously,

01:09:10.090 --> 01:09:13.149
Berkey here just broke in hand. So, I mean, every

01:09:13.149 --> 01:09:16.529
team's going to be dealing with injuries. Hopefully,

01:09:16.689 --> 01:09:19.270
it's just ours are going to hit, you know, at

01:09:19.270 --> 01:09:22.170
this time, and hopefully they won't be, you know,

01:09:22.250 --> 01:09:26.109
won't be building up. Suddenly he's not giving

01:09:26.109 --> 01:09:28.710
fouls on shoulder -to -shoulders again like he

01:09:28.710 --> 01:09:30.649
was for St. Louis in the end of the second half.

01:09:30.750 --> 01:09:34.050
Oh, goodness. How shocking. Well, I wonder if

01:09:34.050 --> 01:09:36.930
he – maybe sometimes he's – maybe he's – at halftime

01:09:36.930 --> 01:09:40.590
he kind of considers and who knows. Could be,

01:09:40.670 --> 01:09:42.550
but I think you've got to call the game consistent.

01:09:43.090 --> 01:09:45.470
That's the only thing. If you're making the change,

01:09:45.590 --> 01:09:50.789
just be consistent. That's all I ask. Along with

01:09:50.789 --> 01:09:55.149
the injury talk. Alex Diaz asked us what's the

01:09:55.149 --> 01:09:59.710
over -under on Pedro being out for total weeks

01:09:59.710 --> 01:10:01.810
a season, and he puts it at 10. I'd say under.

01:10:02.050 --> 01:10:05.130
I agree. As long as they don't rush him back,

01:10:05.229 --> 01:10:07.630
I wouldn't expect another injury. In fact, I

01:10:07.630 --> 01:10:10.329
bet you this injury isn't a six - to eight -week

01:10:10.329 --> 01:10:12.750
injury. I think it's let's be as cautious as

01:10:12.750 --> 01:10:14.470
possible so we don't have a repeat last year.

01:10:14.470 --> 01:10:16.890
Especially give it last year, yes. I think you

01:10:16.890 --> 01:10:20.050
might be right. Yeah, and we know the impact

01:10:20.050 --> 01:10:22.899
he has. Oh! That would have been a brilliant

01:10:22.899 --> 01:10:26.140
chance there as their defender maybe tore his

01:10:26.140 --> 01:10:31.140
ACL or injured his knee in some way there. I

01:10:31.140 --> 01:10:33.680
don't know what happened to that defender, but

01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:35.939
when he went down, that left a brilliant chance

01:10:35.939 --> 01:10:39.340
open. What a save from Fry on that previous play.

01:10:41.159 --> 01:10:45.949
I mean... It kind of would have been funny as

01:10:45.949 --> 01:10:48.449
he turned if he just pushed the ball in the net.

01:10:52.670 --> 01:10:56.770
No, thank you. We don't need another own goal.

01:10:57.029 --> 01:11:12.590
No, no. This is not something Nicholas will know

01:11:12.590 --> 01:11:14.470
anything about, but I watched qualifying today,

01:11:14.770 --> 01:11:20.229
or was that yesterday? Late yesterday. It's got

01:11:20.229 --> 01:11:23.689
to be the McLaren. I mean, finishing 1 -2, having

01:11:23.689 --> 01:11:28.810
Piastri, the Australian, be on the second place

01:11:28.810 --> 01:11:32.390
spot in Australia is pretty sweet. That race

01:11:32.390 --> 01:11:34.930
is tonight at 9 p .m. Seattle time. So kind of

01:11:34.930 --> 01:11:37.569
exciting for the F1 season to start. And it's

01:11:37.569 --> 01:11:39.590
too bad Aaron's not here to talk about it. But

01:11:39.590 --> 01:11:42.829
Aaron will be back soon. He will. He will. One

01:11:42.829 --> 01:11:46.270
day. He's settling into his new life in San Diego.

01:11:47.649 --> 01:11:50.409
We promise he's not becoming a San Diego FC fan,

01:11:50.569 --> 01:11:53.189
we think. I think he's still a Sounders fan.

01:11:53.350 --> 01:11:55.229
But he is a Lakers fan, so you can hold that

01:11:55.229 --> 01:11:58.050
against him. Indeed. But shout out to Bryce.

01:11:58.189 --> 01:12:02.470
Bryce to Jeff. Bryce, I do have a question for

01:12:02.470 --> 01:12:04.010
you. You'll have to get back to me on this one,

01:12:04.069 --> 01:12:08.350
though. Now, Bryce DeJeff, how did you come up

01:12:08.350 --> 01:12:12.350
with that name? I know you work in the restaurant

01:12:12.350 --> 01:12:15.850
industry, so I keep seeing DeJeff, and I keep

01:12:15.850 --> 01:12:19.130
wanting to call it DeHefe. I keep wanting to

01:12:19.130 --> 01:12:21.810
go. So I am curious about that. You're going

01:12:21.810 --> 01:12:25.449
to have to let me know on that. A couple of subs

01:12:25.449 --> 01:12:27.569
in there for St. Louis as they're changing up.

01:12:27.800 --> 01:12:30.659
A little bit left. Sounders only have about 30

01:12:30.659 --> 01:12:34.500
minutes left to come back in this game. A little

01:12:34.500 --> 01:12:39.239
heat check. It is 62 -48, 49 -62 -50. If you're

01:12:39.239 --> 01:12:43.439
paying attention to the clock. And it's still

01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:47.859
1 -0 St. Louis. I think at this point, the Sounders

01:12:47.859 --> 01:12:50.300
have looked like the better team in the second

01:12:50.300 --> 01:12:55.130
half so far. That's the way I've been seeing

01:12:55.130 --> 01:12:57.989
it. You know, the momentum meter is certainly

01:12:57.989 --> 01:13:02.170
also showing all rave green right now. Yeah,

01:13:02.170 --> 01:13:05.069
look at that. So the momentum meter certainly

01:13:05.069 --> 01:13:09.109
kind of plays off with that. They're conceding

01:13:09.109 --> 01:13:10.970
possession to us. Current live possession is

01:13:10.970 --> 01:13:15.260
64 % to 36%. We did get a few more expected goals

01:13:15.260 --> 01:13:20.020
on there, but let's get some more opportunities.

01:13:20.659 --> 01:13:22.800
So let's see what happens. Looks like we just

01:13:22.800 --> 01:13:28.939
got a yellow card to Obed. I don't, again, don't

01:13:28.939 --> 01:13:30.760
understand why yellows are going our way for

01:13:30.760 --> 01:13:33.420
stuff like that when more egregious fouls are

01:13:33.420 --> 01:13:36.600
not getting called the other direction. Yeah,

01:13:36.619 --> 01:13:40.310
I think it'd be one thing. But still. And Jesus.

01:13:40.970 --> 01:13:46.810
Yep. They subbed off Jesus. Who's Mazovsky. Who's

01:13:46.810 --> 01:13:51.069
number nine now. Yeah. It looks like Danny. Yep.

01:13:51.250 --> 01:13:55.010
Okay. Well, I mean, this, this to me shows where

01:13:55.010 --> 01:13:57.130
we might have some issues with Jordan being out

01:13:57.130 --> 01:13:58.770
and not addressing the number nine position.

01:13:58.869 --> 01:14:00.909
I mean, if we weren't going to sign a new number

01:14:00.909 --> 01:14:04.390
nine, we, uh, I think had to go out and get a.

01:14:05.239 --> 01:14:07.659
uh will bruin style number nine someone who's

01:14:07.659 --> 01:14:10.659
a quadruple a can start when needed type player

01:14:10.659 --> 01:14:12.239
except for that one year will bruin had an awesome

01:14:12.239 --> 01:14:17.199
year for us but uh i think ferreira was great

01:14:17.199 --> 01:14:19.079
at the nine for a while and then he just hasn't

01:14:19.079 --> 01:14:20.960
played it in several years so maybe he just needs

01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:23.000
some warming up but we've seen his game this

01:14:23.000 --> 01:14:25.340
season and even in this match you saw that he

01:14:25.340 --> 01:14:27.279
wasn't making himself dangerous at the nine he

01:14:27.279 --> 01:14:30.449
was making himself dangerous by uh getting open,

01:14:30.510 --> 01:14:32.590
but the ball wasn't getting to him. And usually

01:14:32.590 --> 01:14:33.930
it's the other way around. He's the one getting

01:14:33.930 --> 01:14:36.369
the ball to people to score. So a question for

01:14:36.369 --> 01:14:41.109
you. Last season, LAFC had as their center forward

01:14:41.109 --> 01:14:45.090
for $89 ,716. So it looks like the veteran's

01:14:45.090 --> 01:14:48.170
salary minimum. Kai Kamara, would you sign Kai

01:14:48.170 --> 01:14:51.649
Kamara at this point? Absolutely, yes. I mean,

01:14:51.670 --> 01:14:54.189
we should have signed him. I don't know. I mean,

01:14:54.229 --> 01:14:58.640
I think I'm throwing it out there. to advocate

01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:01.220
for it, but more to discuss because I feel like

01:15:01.220 --> 01:15:06.220
that could be like a Raul situation where, you

01:15:06.220 --> 01:15:10.279
know, he's, he's the kind of striker that is

01:15:10.279 --> 01:15:12.800
going to want to get playing time. And will that

01:15:12.800 --> 01:15:16.260
be a problem in the cohesion of the locker room?

01:15:16.319 --> 01:15:20.079
I don't, I don't know. All I do know is the fact

01:15:20.079 --> 01:15:27.000
that all I do know is he's a player who has played

01:15:27.000 --> 01:15:32.640
for, I think, 13 teams in the league. But he

01:15:32.640 --> 01:15:36.260
also is 40 years old now, so... Yeah. I mean,

01:15:36.279 --> 01:15:38.199
I think we've seen him, and that's probably why

01:15:38.199 --> 01:15:41.039
he goes, but Montreal, I think the year in Montreal,

01:15:41.079 --> 01:15:42.760
the year in Chicago, in Montreal he had nine

01:15:42.760 --> 01:15:45.560
goals, but five for Chicago and three for LAFC.

01:15:45.899 --> 01:15:48.039
Obviously, I wouldn't have wanted him when he

01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:52.039
was younger, but I think now we've seen just

01:15:52.039 --> 01:15:54.439
a little bit more out of him, and maybe it's

01:15:54.439 --> 01:15:56.140
just because... all of his goals come against

01:15:56.140 --> 01:15:58.239
the Sounders. That may just be it. Now, with

01:15:58.239 --> 01:16:00.739
that said, I actually like Kai Kamara. I just

01:16:00.739 --> 01:16:05.159
don't know if – anyways, just throwing it out

01:16:05.159 --> 01:16:09.560
there. No, I think I would have taken any actual

01:16:09.560 --> 01:16:12.779
number nine in this offseason because even Danny

01:16:12.779 --> 01:16:14.840
last year wasn't playing the nine. He scored

01:16:14.840 --> 01:16:18.960
as a right winger against LA – I mean against

01:16:18.960 --> 01:16:20.920
San Jose when I was down there. One of his –

01:16:20.920 --> 01:16:24.239
he had two goals last year. Yeah. So, I mean,

01:16:24.260 --> 01:16:29.000
let's look at last year for Kai Kamara. This

01:16:29.000 --> 01:16:33.680
is his full career. I only want one season. Here

01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:47.340
we go. Not 24, 25. 23, 24? 24. Boom. So last

01:16:47.340 --> 01:16:49.979
season, he had 27 matches. I was hoping it would

01:16:49.979 --> 01:16:52.020
tell me how many he started. Maybe if I go to

01:16:52.020 --> 01:16:57.239
detailed here. Here we go. Three goals, five

01:16:57.239 --> 01:17:01.500
assists. He subbed in 17 times. So that means

01:17:01.500 --> 01:17:06.199
he started 10 in MLS. He also had three goals

01:17:06.199 --> 01:17:08.380
in League's Cup and two goals in the U .S. Open

01:17:08.380 --> 01:17:11.020
Cup. So in 40 appearances last year, eight goals,

01:17:11.119 --> 01:17:13.699
five assists, subbing on 24 times. So he subbed

01:17:13.699 --> 01:17:17.890
on over half the time. 187 total minutes over

01:17:17.890 --> 01:17:23.430
40 games. So that totals out, what, 187? Good

01:17:23.430 --> 01:17:28.229
ball by Musafsky there. Goodbye by 40. And they

01:17:28.229 --> 01:17:30.850
gave it as a corner. Okay, hang on one second.

01:17:30.869 --> 01:17:36.770
We got a corner. Okay. It's cleared out, sadly.

01:17:37.029 --> 01:17:41.430
All right. Oh, that's average per competition.

01:17:41.729 --> 01:17:45.119
I see. I see what happened there. So, uh, I don't,

01:17:45.119 --> 01:17:47.319
I don't have the math to figure out. So he scored,

01:17:47.500 --> 01:17:52.979
uh, looks like one point. He, he played 1500

01:17:52.979 --> 01:17:57.000
minutes. Okay. Total last season, basically.

01:17:57.880 --> 01:18:01.939
Um, so, uh, but I also think, I also think the

01:18:01.939 --> 01:18:08.220
Sounders MO is to try and, I, I feel like. I

01:18:08.220 --> 01:18:10.340
feel like if they're going to make another signing

01:18:10.340 --> 01:18:12.739
that they're going to try and use like a U22

01:18:12.739 --> 01:18:18.880
slot for a player like that. The problem is that

01:18:18.880 --> 01:18:23.380
any kind of attacking striker, you're going to

01:18:23.380 --> 01:18:26.100
be getting a project. I mean, a Leo Chu. Oh,

01:18:26.800 --> 01:18:30.340
we spilled that one out. I mean, I think we just

01:18:30.340 --> 01:18:32.680
don't have that is the issue. We don't have a

01:18:32.680 --> 01:18:34.979
number nine that can come up from defiance. And

01:18:34.979 --> 01:18:37.199
I mean, I think Dan the Bastard was talking about

01:18:37.199 --> 01:18:40.220
it. I haven't seen anyone being ready to do that.

01:18:40.520 --> 01:18:45.220
No, Rosario is not there. He's, I get, I get

01:18:45.220 --> 01:18:50.000
the pedigree. Yeah. You know, even last year

01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:52.239
he was okay for defiance. He wasn't great. And

01:18:52.239 --> 01:18:54.619
it's because he's coming in from the Canadian

01:18:54.619 --> 01:18:56.420
Premier League, right? He was good there, but

01:18:56.420 --> 01:18:58.600
the Canadian Premier League. is largely on par

01:18:58.600 --> 01:19:00.880
with MLX and X -Pro, I would say. Might be a

01:19:00.880 --> 01:19:05.500
little better for Alvarez. It's USL. It might

01:19:05.500 --> 01:19:09.279
be USL championship level. Yeah, they're tough

01:19:09.279 --> 01:19:12.560
teams, but not their... A little deflection,

01:19:12.779 --> 01:19:16.520
and okay. So Zander, they're showing much better

01:19:16.520 --> 01:19:21.739
life right now. Yeah. But yeah, sorry to finish

01:19:21.739 --> 01:19:24.220
you. This is kind of an interesting challenge.

01:19:25.450 --> 01:19:27.550
commenting on the game while having side conversations.

01:19:28.510 --> 01:19:31.489
But Kamara, yeah, I'm not, unless we have an

01:19:31.489 --> 01:19:33.750
actual something dangerous, I'm not, I'm just,

01:19:33.789 --> 01:19:35.069
the game's just kind of on in the background

01:19:35.069 --> 01:19:38.489
for me. But yeah, I mean, Kamara averaged 37

01:19:38.489 --> 01:19:41.109
and a half minutes last season. And I think having

01:19:41.109 --> 01:19:43.770
a forward that could come on and do that, now

01:19:43.770 --> 01:19:46.010
will he be able to do the same this season? You

01:19:46.010 --> 01:19:47.590
know, he's a year older, so obviously I think

01:19:47.590 --> 01:19:49.989
that'd be hard. So, I mean, I don't even know

01:19:49.989 --> 01:19:52.510
where he is right now, if he's playing for anyone.

01:19:53.610 --> 01:19:57.149
but I would like to see a player like that come

01:19:57.149 --> 01:19:59.270
in right now. I think we have to do something.

01:19:59.550 --> 01:20:01.609
Our roster's not full, is it? I know we have

01:20:01.609 --> 01:20:03.329
at least one spot open, but if we have more than

01:20:03.329 --> 01:20:06.970
one, bring in a veteran who could fill that spot.

01:20:07.649 --> 01:20:10.329
But I just don't know if the forward position

01:20:10.329 --> 01:20:12.789
is where you want it to be. I almost feel like

01:20:12.789 --> 01:20:16.189
the winger position. I just don't know. Who's

01:20:16.189 --> 01:20:18.090
going to score our goals? We have no number nine

01:20:18.090 --> 01:20:20.939
now. We have no one to score a goal. That's the

01:20:20.939 --> 01:20:24.079
thing is I don't see us scoring. I mean, I think

01:20:24.079 --> 01:20:28.880
realistically, no, it's not just a yellow card.

01:20:29.739 --> 01:20:33.800
That's a good free kick. I know. He took them

01:20:33.800 --> 01:20:37.319
down from behind. What is it about Christian

01:20:37.319 --> 01:20:41.399
that gets the WWF takedowns? Yeah, let's see

01:20:41.399 --> 01:20:44.579
this again because to me, when did takedowns

01:20:44.579 --> 01:20:49.630
from behind stop being red cards? That's a more

01:20:49.630 --> 01:20:53.050
egregious version of, yeah, that's a yellow.

01:20:53.270 --> 01:20:56.069
That's definitely a yellow. I'm okay with no

01:20:56.069 --> 01:20:57.710
red because he fell and he didn't actually pull

01:20:57.710 --> 01:20:59.489
him once he fell. Christian just fell backwards.

01:20:59.609 --> 01:21:06.729
But still, yeah. So, I mean, I think in the Sounders

01:21:06.729 --> 01:21:08.689
match day here on our Discord, which you can,

01:21:08.770 --> 01:21:11.260
of course, join, they say. We don't have a starting

01:21:11.260 --> 01:21:14.180
or backup level nine if you're not playing Ferreira

01:21:14.180 --> 01:21:16.560
as the nine. And, you know, this is one sample

01:21:16.560 --> 01:21:18.939
size on the road. I would like to see Ferreira

01:21:18.939 --> 01:21:20.979
actually get some minutes at the nine and see

01:21:20.979 --> 01:21:23.640
what he does. I don't like that Christian is

01:21:23.640 --> 01:21:27.239
down right now, though, off the ball after. I

01:21:27.239 --> 01:21:33.720
mean, he obviously got twisted. Yeah, so. Hopefully

01:21:33.720 --> 01:21:35.760
he's okay here and it's not a knee injury for

01:21:35.760 --> 01:21:37.720
Christian. Luckily, the one position where the

01:21:37.720 --> 01:21:39.960
Sounders do have depth is center defensive mid.

01:21:41.180 --> 01:21:44.520
I'd sub him off regardless right now. Might not

01:21:44.520 --> 01:21:47.199
be a bad idea, but we'll see what the trainers

01:21:47.199 --> 01:21:49.420
are saying and what they find out. While we're

01:21:49.420 --> 01:21:50.939
doing that, why don't we take a quick look at

01:21:50.939 --> 01:21:52.979
the live standings of the prediction standings.

01:21:53.460 --> 01:21:58.460
Alex Diaz is leading with 13 total points. Paul

01:21:58.460 --> 01:22:03.390
is in second with 12. Eric, 13, with 11, along

01:22:03.390 --> 01:22:08.949
with myself. Jeff Ram is also tied for third

01:22:08.949 --> 01:22:12.270
with 11. You're right behind with 10, and Daniel's

01:22:12.270 --> 01:22:16.810
right there with 10. Cedar with 9. Aaron with

01:22:16.810 --> 01:22:21.149
7. Asianman1974 with 7. And that rounds out the

01:22:21.149 --> 01:22:24.270
top 10. We have more, obviously, more below that,

01:22:24.369 --> 01:22:27.869
but we'll just kind of rack out the top 10. I

01:22:27.869 --> 01:22:30.869
was surprised that I was that high considering

01:22:30.869 --> 01:22:32.810
I've had two games where I got an email that

01:22:32.810 --> 01:22:34.449
said I only got one point, and that was pretty

01:22:34.449 --> 01:22:36.130
frustrating to get an email that showed that.

01:22:36.329 --> 01:22:39.810
Well, there's only five questions. There's only

01:22:39.810 --> 01:22:42.689
five points available, and none of them are gimmies.

01:22:42.689 --> 01:22:46.609
So it's an interesting game. I'm getting zero

01:22:46.609 --> 01:22:50.130
today. So this is what I think we're going to

01:22:50.130 --> 01:22:53.409
do. For this, I think we're going to definitely

01:22:53.409 --> 01:22:56.739
give a prize to the winner. the overall of the

01:22:56.739 --> 01:22:58.760
season, the winner is going to get some sort

01:22:58.760 --> 01:23:02.199
of a prize. It might be a top three that I'm

01:23:02.199 --> 01:23:04.819
not going to commit to right now, but I am going

01:23:04.819 --> 01:23:09.680
to commit to the winner getting something. But

01:23:09.680 --> 01:23:12.680
then I also, because I always want to encourage

01:23:12.680 --> 01:23:17.000
people to continue participating. that what I'll

01:23:17.000 --> 01:23:19.840
do is at the end of the season, for every game

01:23:19.840 --> 01:23:24.260
that you submit a pick in, you will get entered

01:23:24.260 --> 01:23:28.039
into a random drawing. So there will be a winner

01:23:28.039 --> 01:23:29.800
for whoever does the best, and then there will

01:23:29.800 --> 01:23:32.119
be a random winner for everyone that's participated.

01:23:33.319 --> 01:23:35.100
So that's kind of how we're going to do that.

01:23:35.479 --> 01:23:39.300
And what those prizes are, not important. But

01:23:39.300 --> 01:23:41.840
I promise they'll be cool. I got enough cool

01:23:41.840 --> 01:23:44.880
stuff that I'd be willing to donate to a fun

01:23:44.880 --> 01:23:48.479
cause. But I just don't know what that will be.

01:23:48.539 --> 01:23:52.260
It may even be reaching out to whoever the winners

01:23:52.260 --> 01:23:53.840
are and see if we can come up with something

01:23:53.840 --> 01:23:57.699
that works well for them. So keep participating

01:23:57.699 --> 01:23:59.680
in that. Keep playing with that. I think we're

01:23:59.680 --> 01:24:02.220
having a lot of fun with that. I hope you're

01:24:02.220 --> 01:24:09.500
having fun with it as well. And, yeah, so we'll

01:24:09.500 --> 01:24:11.119
keep going there. Uh -oh, we're getting more

01:24:11.119 --> 01:24:15.659
drink comments on Sounders Match Day. So that

01:24:15.659 --> 01:24:19.640
must be something that's being said by the announcers.

01:24:19.680 --> 01:24:23.539
There must be something going on. So I want to

01:24:23.539 --> 01:24:27.279
go back to this number nine talk because we have

01:24:27.279 --> 01:24:31.779
a list of... MLS free agents. So we're just talking

01:24:31.779 --> 01:24:35.840
MLS level players that can play forward. Where

01:24:35.840 --> 01:24:37.939
are you pulling this list from? Some of their

01:24:37.939 --> 01:24:39.619
winners transfer market. So it's all the players

01:24:39.619 --> 01:24:41.779
without a club that were in the league last year.

01:24:41.859 --> 01:24:44.020
Can you share that into the chat or share your

01:24:44.020 --> 01:24:45.960
screen so I can see with you? I'm just going

01:24:45.960 --> 01:24:47.159
to read it. I'm just going to read it to you.

01:24:47.220 --> 01:24:50.279
Okay. Ask you players. So first off, and this

01:24:50.279 --> 01:24:52.060
is of course not going to happen, but Carlos

01:24:52.060 --> 01:24:57.369
Vela. Yeah, no. I mean, I would take him, absolutely,

01:24:57.489 --> 01:25:00.850
if he were available as a short -term stick.

01:25:01.270 --> 01:25:05.510
Someone, anyone. Okay. Kai Kamara, obviously

01:25:05.510 --> 01:25:11.850
we talked about. Johnny Russell. No. Ilarra Mendy

01:25:11.850 --> 01:25:15.789
out of Dallas, who only had two goals last year.

01:25:16.409 --> 01:25:19.689
All the Dallas players. Yeah, basically. Here's

01:25:19.689 --> 01:25:21.109
one that's more interesting, though. Bobby Wood.

01:25:22.670 --> 01:25:26.500
Didn't he have a major injury? Yeah, he hasn't

01:25:26.500 --> 01:25:30.739
been the same. Victor Wanyama, who had 12 games

01:25:30.739 --> 01:25:32.840
last year and no goals. So these are not a lot

01:25:32.840 --> 01:25:35.760
of goals. You know who did have eight goals last

01:25:35.760 --> 01:25:38.060
year in 24 appearances? It was Raul Ruiz Diaz.

01:25:40.460 --> 01:25:42.479
Would you take him back at the number nine right

01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:46.520
now for a league minimum? No, and it's the same

01:25:46.520 --> 01:25:49.060
reason why they didn't show interest in bringing

01:25:49.060 --> 01:25:53.579
back Lodero. it's not the right time right now.

01:25:53.640 --> 01:25:58.140
You're trying to move on from someone, and you

01:25:58.140 --> 01:26:03.380
can't. It's not a good fit, I don't think. Did

01:26:03.380 --> 01:26:09.000
that hit his arm? Hang on a second. He's down

01:26:09.000 --> 01:26:14.539
on the ground. No, I think it hit off his chest.

01:26:14.880 --> 01:26:19.220
Okay. And another player that's interesting is

01:26:19.220 --> 01:26:22.369
a Canadian center forward. who doesn't have a

01:26:22.369 --> 01:26:25.729
team right now um but he was on toronto as a

01:26:25.729 --> 01:26:30.329
youth player uh not uh oh wait did he and then

01:26:30.329 --> 01:26:34.289
he got sent to real monarchs in st louis so i

01:26:34.289 --> 01:26:38.329
mean uh sl no that's uh real spotlight uh but

01:26:38.329 --> 01:26:40.869
you could take a flyer on a young player coming

01:26:40.869 --> 01:26:43.170
out of some of these these other i just i feel

01:26:43.170 --> 01:26:44.510
like there's something we need to do at this

01:26:44.510 --> 01:26:48.079
point uh obviously we're not ready To replace

01:26:48.079 --> 01:26:50.420
Ferreira as a nine, he's going to be that for

01:26:50.420 --> 01:26:54.359
the next six to eight weeks. But I just feel

01:26:54.359 --> 01:26:56.539
like this shows the lack of depth we have at

01:26:56.539 --> 01:26:58.220
forward and that it actually was not addressed

01:26:58.220 --> 01:27:03.800
in a way that it should have been. I mean, I

01:27:03.800 --> 01:27:07.359
think that could be potentially fair. But we

01:27:07.359 --> 01:27:12.739
are 77 minutes into these four to six weeks.

01:27:13.399 --> 01:27:15.819
against a team that is not allowed a single goal

01:27:15.819 --> 01:27:18.699
all season long where we mentioned earlier they

01:27:18.699 --> 01:27:21.560
had nine ten people in the box so that is their

01:27:21.560 --> 01:27:24.260
their park the bus strategy it's not glamorous

01:27:24.260 --> 01:27:26.220
they haven't been playing that way in the second

01:27:26.220 --> 01:27:28.659
half though i mean that we've we've had several

01:27:28.659 --> 01:27:32.439
opportunities to move the ball closer and have

01:27:32.439 --> 01:27:35.979
chances and we're just we're not we've had moments

01:27:35.979 --> 01:27:38.680
but we're not being creative with the ball we're

01:27:38.680 --> 01:27:42.319
chasing them around the field largely It seems

01:27:42.319 --> 01:27:45.300
like we look like an aging team right now, which

01:27:45.300 --> 01:27:47.579
is funny because we don't have a lot of old players

01:27:47.579 --> 01:27:49.039
on the field at the moment. We have a lot of

01:27:49.039 --> 01:27:53.460
young players. Well, I don't know if that's entirely

01:27:53.460 --> 01:28:00.220
correct. Like right now, we are absolutely outpossessing

01:28:00.220 --> 01:28:06.699
them. They're just parking the bus. I mean, just

01:28:06.699 --> 01:28:08.279
that whole last possession. They had the ball.

01:28:08.380 --> 01:28:10.140
They're running around, and we can't keep up

01:28:10.140 --> 01:28:12.989
with it. versus when we have the ball, it doesn't

01:28:12.989 --> 01:28:14.869
feel like we're moving. Yeah, I mean, they probably

01:28:14.869 --> 01:28:17.109
should have pulled them off a few minutes earlier.

01:28:17.649 --> 01:28:20.970
I think Freddie probably doesn't want to rock

01:28:20.970 --> 01:28:22.970
the boat with some of the late, you know, Jordan.

01:28:23.069 --> 01:28:25.250
I mean, Brian usually makes the late subs. Danny

01:28:25.250 --> 01:28:26.250
Leyva could have a huge impact here, of course.

01:28:26.250 --> 01:28:28.409
Oh, good, Kosarienzi. But Kosarienzi. Kosarienzi

01:28:28.409 --> 01:28:33.090
coming on. Like, he might be, you know, he might

01:28:33.090 --> 01:28:36.750
be a little more willing to take on some players

01:28:36.750 --> 01:28:39.989
right now. By the way. Did you see the picture

01:28:39.989 --> 01:28:42.090
of him in the locker room with his shirt off?

01:28:42.210 --> 01:28:48.550
He is ripped. Holy hell. It suddenly makes sense

01:28:48.550 --> 01:28:52.189
to me how he was able to out -muscle that LAFC

01:28:52.189 --> 01:28:57.109
defender for his first goal because he is absolutely

01:28:57.109 --> 01:29:03.430
ripped. Young dude, easy to get ripped. Let's

01:29:03.430 --> 01:29:10.640
see him do it at 40. Hmm. So as this game winds

01:29:10.640 --> 01:29:13.079
down, what do you think the Sounders can take

01:29:13.079 --> 01:29:15.000
away from a game like this, which is the first

01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:18.579
back from a really rough game down in Mexico

01:29:18.579 --> 01:29:21.239
City where we saw significant injuries on the

01:29:21.239 --> 01:29:24.319
road, although against a backup keeper that they

01:29:24.319 --> 01:29:28.279
should be trying to challenge? What's your takeaway

01:29:28.279 --> 01:29:31.140
from this game? Well, right now, I still think

01:29:31.140 --> 01:29:34.439
we can get a goal. But let's just say this result

01:29:34.439 --> 01:29:38.640
holds. We are in the middle, we are at the end

01:29:38.640 --> 01:29:42.920
of so many games in such a short period of time.

01:29:43.439 --> 01:29:46.239
We're on the road against the best defensive

01:29:46.239 --> 01:29:52.819
team so far this season. So, you know, it's frustrating,

01:29:53.039 --> 01:29:58.619
but we're, you know, we're doing, sorry, Roma's

01:29:58.619 --> 01:30:03.079
very much running in the background. But it's

01:30:03.079 --> 01:30:07.500
very much what I expect to see. from this game,

01:30:07.680 --> 01:30:11.659
and I'm not disappointed. It's a grind. This

01:30:11.659 --> 01:30:15.520
is never going to be super easy, but I still

01:30:15.520 --> 01:30:17.479
think we can get a result. It bothers me that

01:30:17.479 --> 01:30:20.000
road games are such a grind for us because they're

01:30:20.000 --> 01:30:21.960
always a bit of a grind, but it always seems

01:30:21.960 --> 01:30:24.000
like the Sounders are struggling to get points

01:30:24.000 --> 01:30:27.300
on the road lately, and that is frustrating to

01:30:27.300 --> 01:30:30.560
me. I mean, this team used to dominate some games,

01:30:30.680 --> 01:30:33.500
and I don't, outside that LA Galaxy game, LA

01:30:33.500 --> 01:30:36.800
FC game, I haven't felt like we've dominated

01:30:36.800 --> 01:30:39.260
maybe the second Antigua game. Those are the

01:30:39.260 --> 01:30:40.899
only two games I felt like we've dominated in

01:30:40.899 --> 01:30:43.140
the last few years. And maybe that's a little

01:30:43.140 --> 01:30:46.359
bit of the muffin top model talking. Cause I

01:30:46.359 --> 01:30:48.979
know he, he wants goals and maybe he's rubbed

01:30:48.979 --> 01:30:51.579
off on me because obviously our defense is impressive.

01:30:51.699 --> 01:30:54.079
Only allowing one goal when that wasn't even

01:30:54.079 --> 01:30:57.239
really, I mean, it was a free kick on a freak

01:30:57.239 --> 01:30:59.340
play where Reagan fell. It wasn't, they have

01:30:59.340 --> 01:31:01.819
not looked dangerous. Otherwise, you know, like

01:31:01.819 --> 01:31:03.439
we've talked about their goal against average.

01:31:04.029 --> 01:31:05.890
I just, there's nothing that makes me look at

01:31:05.890 --> 01:31:09.210
this team and go, yeah, this team is making the

01:31:09.210 --> 01:31:12.010
playoffs. Other than the amount of talent that

01:31:12.010 --> 01:31:15.710
we have and having seen them play together, it's

01:31:15.710 --> 01:31:18.130
just not turning into goals. And if we're not

01:31:18.130 --> 01:31:19.470
scoring goals, I mean, you and I talked about

01:31:19.470 --> 01:31:24.489
for the season, we expect 30 to 40 more goals.

01:31:24.510 --> 01:31:28.829
No, no, no, no, no, no. Like 12 to 16. Yeah,

01:31:28.850 --> 01:31:32.550
30 to 30 more. That includes assists. But, you

01:31:32.550 --> 01:31:36.189
know, like 30 to 40 more goals and assists than

01:31:36.189 --> 01:31:38.850
last season because we have more talent coming.

01:31:38.949 --> 01:31:43.970
But those included Ferreira and Areola at the

01:31:43.970 --> 01:31:46.090
wing. And that's not happening right now, obviously,

01:31:46.109 --> 01:31:49.329
because neither are in on those positions. So

01:31:49.329 --> 01:31:51.409
Ferreira needs to step it up and score or we

01:31:51.409 --> 01:31:53.829
need to make some signings. Obviously, you don't

01:31:53.829 --> 01:31:58.789
want to make a, what do you call it? Like emergency

01:31:58.789 --> 01:32:01.229
signing, you don't want to go and act rashly.

01:32:01.329 --> 01:32:03.630
No, you don't want to go 2015. We did that in

01:32:03.630 --> 01:32:07.189
2015, and that's how we – as a matter of fact,

01:32:07.289 --> 01:32:10.829
that was all – you mentioned you couldn't remember

01:32:10.829 --> 01:32:14.890
the aftermath of the red card wedding. Well,

01:32:14.930 --> 01:32:16.810
let me kind of remind you. The red card wedding,

01:32:17.010 --> 01:32:21.189
Oba went down, so we made four emergency signings,

01:32:21.189 --> 01:32:26.369
panic signings. We brought in – we brought in

01:32:26.369 --> 01:32:34.260
– Roman Torres. We brought in Flacco. Great signing.

01:32:34.460 --> 01:32:37.300
We brought in the second time. I don't know about

01:32:37.300 --> 01:32:39.600
great, but... Oh, the second time. No, fine signing.

01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:42.079
Oh, no, I'm sorry. No, we brought not Flacco,

01:32:42.180 --> 01:32:44.560
Freeberg. We brought in Freeberg for his second

01:32:44.560 --> 01:32:47.539
stint with us. Yeah, I mean, that was on... Nelson

01:32:47.539 --> 01:32:52.760
Valdez. Nelson Valdez and Andreas Ivancic. Ivancic,

01:32:52.840 --> 01:32:54.659
you know, whatever. But the rest of those...

01:32:55.069 --> 01:32:57.689
I mean, that's four signings, but three of those

01:32:57.689 --> 01:33:00.609
were fine. Even Schitt's, not going to hit on

01:33:00.609 --> 01:33:03.289
all of them, sadly. Also, that's pre -Garth,

01:33:03.430 --> 01:33:05.329
right? Or that's the first beginning of Garth?

01:33:05.329 --> 01:33:07.489
That was the transition to Garth. Those were

01:33:07.489 --> 01:33:11.170
signings that technically were under Garth's

01:33:11.170 --> 01:33:14.250
radar, but they were already being signed as

01:33:14.250 --> 01:33:17.510
Garth was coming in. So it kind of hampered Garth

01:33:17.510 --> 01:33:22.300
the next year or two. Craig is much more... In

01:33:22.300 --> 01:33:25.920
line with the way that Garth thought, which isn't

01:33:25.920 --> 01:33:29.739
surprising because Craig worked under Garth at

01:33:29.739 --> 01:33:33.319
RSL. And so bringing him in here is more of a

01:33:33.319 --> 01:33:35.239
continuation of the winning philosophy that we've

01:33:35.239 --> 01:33:38.399
had. To me, the one thing that's held in common

01:33:38.399 --> 01:33:41.020
between the end of Garth's run and the current

01:33:41.020 --> 01:33:44.340
run is that we have an ownership that is unwilling

01:33:44.340 --> 01:33:50.890
to spend. And I think both Garth and... Craig

01:33:50.890 --> 01:33:53.649
deserve amazing credit, especially guard for

01:33:53.649 --> 01:33:56.489
what they've been able to do with so little money.

01:33:56.710 --> 01:34:01.609
I hate this so much. I hate this so much. To

01:34:01.609 --> 01:34:05.409
me, this is obvious. I mean, we don't spend for

01:34:05.409 --> 01:34:08.130
good players. You could easily sign a DP that.

01:34:08.399 --> 01:34:10.720
that costs millions of more dollars. Good block,

01:34:11.100 --> 01:34:15.899
good save. Okay. I get what you're saying. That's

01:34:15.899 --> 01:34:18.279
not a cap issue. That's why I hate that we get

01:34:18.279 --> 01:34:20.319
Brock back to the cap all the time. There are

01:34:20.319 --> 01:34:27.760
cap discussions we have. Non -TAM, non -DP players,

01:34:28.060 --> 01:34:30.840
yes. But when you have a DP that you're bringing

01:34:30.840 --> 01:34:34.180
in, you could pay them a billion dollars and

01:34:34.180 --> 01:34:36.920
it won't matter. Because they only hit the cap

01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:39.560
at that smaller number, which is much less, right?

01:34:39.619 --> 01:34:40.939
Obviously, no one's spending a billion dollars.

01:34:40.960 --> 01:34:47.119
I get that. Right now, we have one DP quality

01:34:47.119 --> 01:34:50.760
starter on our team, I think. Jordan is close

01:34:50.760 --> 01:34:53.880
to proving it, but then he got hurt. You can't

01:34:53.880 --> 01:34:56.300
have DPs getting hurt like that. He has a history

01:34:56.300 --> 01:34:59.119
of injuries. So to me, he must immediately be

01:34:59.119 --> 01:35:01.439
restructured contact and no longer be a DP. I

01:35:01.439 --> 01:35:04.560
don't see how we have any chance of success with...

01:35:04.810 --> 01:35:07.470
our three dps that we have rust snack i love

01:35:07.470 --> 01:35:10.789
um but he's one and done in this dp unfortunately

01:35:10.789 --> 01:35:13.750
unless unless he blows up at the end of the year

01:35:13.750 --> 01:35:16.390
because he is not i mean look at today's impact

01:35:16.390 --> 01:35:20.390
has been nil he had one good pass we'll see over

01:35:20.390 --> 01:35:24.649
time but how can we put out dps that are okay

01:35:24.649 --> 01:35:27.909
instead of dps that are world beaters we're never

01:35:27.909 --> 01:35:30.810
i mean people want Dempsey -level DPs. We're

01:35:30.810 --> 01:35:32.869
not going to sign people that big. We can sign

01:35:32.869 --> 01:35:35.069
people better than the DPs we have under the

01:35:35.069 --> 01:35:36.470
way we have everything structured, and we're

01:35:36.470 --> 01:35:39.710
not doing it. We're getting production. Like,

01:35:39.710 --> 01:35:44.289
I think... Against Antigua, against a team that

01:35:44.289 --> 01:35:46.289
would be equivalent with our minor league squad,

01:35:46.550 --> 01:35:50.350
we've had one good game this season outside of,

01:35:50.409 --> 01:35:54.810
I mean, in the MLS and in Champions League in

01:35:54.810 --> 01:35:58.130
terms of being able to score and actually win.

01:35:59.050 --> 01:36:03.569
So, to me, like, these injuries have shown the

01:36:03.569 --> 01:36:09.210
absolute failure to address needs. When they

01:36:09.210 --> 01:36:11.029
couldn't find a starting number nine to move

01:36:11.029 --> 01:36:13.109
Jordan back to the wing, they just didn't address

01:36:13.109 --> 01:36:14.649
the position because they said, oh, we have Jordan.

01:36:14.829 --> 01:36:16.470
I disagree. Well, clearly we're not deep enough.

01:36:17.250 --> 01:36:18.789
I so disagree. I know you do, but I think you're

01:36:18.789 --> 01:36:22.010
wrong. No, I mean, everyone is so quick to be

01:36:22.010 --> 01:36:26.750
reactionary. And, yeah, I just think that people

01:36:26.750 --> 01:36:31.510
– Until the end here. Yeah. Yeah, by the way,

01:36:31.529 --> 01:36:34.170
I got to say I really appreciated that one -time

01:36:34.170 --> 01:36:36.970
hit from Danny Leyva, even though the whistle

01:36:36.970 --> 01:36:43.310
had blown. Oh, Jesus. Oof. To me, this is a road

01:36:43.310 --> 01:36:45.890
game, but we had to play better coming out of

01:36:45.890 --> 01:36:49.369
that last game. Great save by Fry, but I think

01:36:49.369 --> 01:36:50.949
they're going to – oh, knew who saves the day.

01:36:52.609 --> 01:36:56.250
If that forward for St. Louis had actually hit

01:36:56.250 --> 01:36:58.670
that well on goal. That's an easy goal for St.

01:36:58.869 --> 01:37:01.229
Louis. Oh, it was a tap -in. It was a tap -in.

01:37:01.310 --> 01:37:03.649
Yeah, I'd much rather have the 1 -0 loss than

01:37:03.649 --> 01:37:07.010
2, obviously. Save our defense there. Awesome

01:37:07.010 --> 01:37:09.329
play from Nuhu getting back. Also, great save

01:37:09.329 --> 01:37:11.590
by Fry. Yeah, for me, it's just... Yeah. Oh,

01:37:11.649 --> 01:37:17.229
yeah. For me, it's just... We need to... We're

01:37:17.229 --> 01:37:23.159
never going to outspend... The New Yorks, Miami,

01:37:23.539 --> 01:37:25.939
Atlanta. But we should be the next team below

01:37:25.939 --> 01:37:28.319
those teams. And I don't think we're even close.

01:37:28.500 --> 01:37:31.180
We're usually 10th, 11th, 12th. It's apples and

01:37:31.180 --> 01:37:34.140
oranges. There are different ways to build squads.

01:37:34.300 --> 01:37:37.779
And we are building it with our development.

01:37:38.380 --> 01:37:43.640
We are building it with the consistency of rosters.

01:37:44.619 --> 01:37:48.880
But I think you need to put stars in. Sure, Rothrock's

01:37:48.880 --> 01:37:51.029
great. We've seen him play great. but put a superstar

01:37:51.029 --> 01:37:54.149
next to him so he can develop into one. I love

01:37:54.149 --> 01:37:58.550
Russ Knack. He's probably top two or three player

01:37:58.550 --> 01:38:00.369
on the team for me, but he is not a superstar

01:38:00.369 --> 01:38:05.489
right now. Jordan Morris is a star. He can be

01:38:05.489 --> 01:38:07.810
a superstar, but not if he keeps getting hurt.

01:38:07.970 --> 01:38:09.829
Pedro La Vega, same thing. Wait, wait, wait.

01:38:09.829 --> 01:38:12.770
Stop on the Jordan Morris. He played every game

01:38:12.770 --> 01:38:16.550
last season. So, I mean, let's – I told you he

01:38:16.550 --> 01:38:18.590
did not deserve that DP contract last season.

01:38:18.729 --> 01:38:21.470
The fact that he's a DP is why we're in this

01:38:21.470 --> 01:38:24.909
problem right now. Like I said, we've been over

01:38:24.909 --> 01:38:26.390
this time and time again. He scored all those

01:38:26.390 --> 01:38:28.170
goals from the wing. He did not score them at

01:38:28.170 --> 01:38:30.869
forward. He is not a number nine. The fact that

01:38:30.869 --> 01:38:33.109
we – the only reason he's still at a number nine

01:38:33.109 --> 01:38:34.529
is because we couldn't sign a number nine in

01:38:34.529 --> 01:38:38.149
the offseason. I do not – I do not think this

01:38:38.149 --> 01:38:41.829
team is a problem. I think this is a very, very

01:38:41.829 --> 01:38:44.470
good team that is having – I don't disagree.

01:38:44.789 --> 01:38:46.989
I don't want a very good team. I want a championship

01:38:46.989 --> 01:38:50.189
team. This is a team that in the end of the season

01:38:50.189 --> 01:38:52.350
can be a top four team that can be running for

01:38:52.350 --> 01:38:54.949
a championship. Now, will they win the Shield?

01:38:55.250 --> 01:38:57.869
I don't know because things like this happen.

01:38:57.869 --> 01:38:59.229
Oh, I don't expect us ever to win the Shield.

01:38:59.390 --> 01:39:00.850
Yeah, I don't expect us ever to win the Shield.

01:39:01.029 --> 01:39:05.479
But we can. With this squad, we can. I do believe

01:39:05.479 --> 01:39:08.579
this squad can win the show this year. And I

01:39:08.579 --> 01:39:10.939
don't think we can for practical reasons. We

01:39:10.939 --> 01:39:13.779
have too many other tournaments. Well, not anymore.

01:39:15.159 --> 01:39:18.600
I mean, we've not got one of the season. Yeah,

01:39:18.659 --> 01:39:20.899
but we've already, I mean, we've played four

01:39:20.899 --> 01:39:22.819
more games than everyone else already. By the

01:39:22.819 --> 01:39:24.359
end of the season, that starts to take its toll,

01:39:24.479 --> 01:39:26.979
right? It's not – and then we have League's Cup,

01:39:27.100 --> 01:39:29.600
and then we have CONCACAF Champions League. Like

01:39:29.600 --> 01:39:32.180
these are things – Oh, he called the penalty.

01:39:32.260 --> 01:39:35.899
He called the penalty. Kalani Rossi. Kalani Rossi

01:39:35.899 --> 01:39:42.500
draws the penalty. He spun around. Sorry, sorry.

01:39:42.579 --> 01:39:45.699
Obed. Obed. That was a beautiful spin there.

01:39:45.739 --> 01:39:47.520
I don't know – I'd like to see it again because

01:39:47.520 --> 01:39:49.039
I don't know if it deserved it, but I thought

01:39:49.039 --> 01:39:52.939
it was at first. As we see a beautiful pass in.

01:39:53.159 --> 01:39:55.699
No, it was to Kalani, and then Obe got it and

01:39:55.699 --> 01:39:58.600
spun around and still can't see right there if

01:39:58.600 --> 01:40:01.579
he was taken down. Uh -oh, did he touch that?

01:40:03.420 --> 01:40:05.420
It was a penalty, but it may have been a handball

01:40:05.420 --> 01:40:08.560
prior to the penalty. Did it touch his hand?

01:40:09.000 --> 01:40:11.239
But if you don't score, they don't always go

01:40:11.239 --> 01:40:14.939
back to that, do they? The handball? What's that

01:40:14.939 --> 01:40:18.340
rule? Paul Cox talked about that, where if it

01:40:18.340 --> 01:40:20.810
touches your hand and goes back down. If you

01:40:20.810 --> 01:40:22.529
don't shoot it, it doesn't always get called.

01:40:22.989 --> 01:40:25.770
Oh, no. In this particular case, they would wave

01:40:25.770 --> 01:40:30.350
it off. The handball? I believe. Or they would

01:40:30.350 --> 01:40:33.010
say no penalty. Wait. If it touches his hand,

01:40:33.090 --> 01:40:37.010
I do not think this is a penalty. Oh, yeah. That's

01:40:37.010 --> 01:40:38.829
what I'm asking. It absolutely touches his hand.

01:40:40.869 --> 01:40:43.829
That's too bad. Yeah. That is probably going

01:40:43.829 --> 01:40:47.550
to get waved off. Let's see. Yeah. That's going

01:40:47.550 --> 01:40:52.590
to get waved off. Too bad. Well, there was our

01:40:52.590 --> 01:40:54.970
chance to tie it. There's still plenty of time.

01:40:57.930 --> 01:41:02.470
There's two minutes. Yeah. We're in the 94th

01:41:02.470 --> 01:41:07.449
of 96. Yeah, plenty of time. I mean, yes, that

01:41:07.449 --> 01:41:10.609
is enough time. That absolutely looks like the

01:41:10.609 --> 01:41:14.409
coach of a team that's got three forward Germans.

01:41:16.290 --> 01:41:18.569
That's true. That's true. I think they should

01:41:18.569 --> 01:41:20.949
not put the VAR right next to players like that.

01:41:21.229 --> 01:41:24.970
You mean next to Bert Kreischer? Yeah, next to

01:41:24.970 --> 01:41:27.390
fans like that. To me, that's totally inappropriate.

01:41:27.890 --> 01:41:32.109
With the exception of that little kid in Germany,

01:41:32.189 --> 01:41:34.069
I think it was a second division game or maybe

01:41:34.069 --> 01:41:35.689
a third division game where the little kid bit

01:41:35.689 --> 01:41:37.670
the referee's testicles while he was looking

01:41:37.670 --> 01:41:44.069
at the VAR. I'm sorry. What? It was incredible.

01:41:45.500 --> 01:41:49.819
It was incredible. So, but yeah, why is it there

01:41:49.819 --> 01:41:51.720
and not somewhere where the refs can't, I mean,

01:41:51.739 --> 01:41:53.300
the refs not going to get influenced by the fan,

01:41:53.420 --> 01:41:55.460
but it just seems inappropriate. Like in Seattle,

01:41:55.539 --> 01:41:57.840
it's all the way up at the line. Like if you're

01:41:57.840 --> 01:42:01.420
building a soccer specific stadium, that's, I

01:42:01.420 --> 01:42:03.899
get why the Sounders have talked publicly about

01:42:03.899 --> 01:42:05.819
wanting a soccer specific stadium. But to me,

01:42:05.859 --> 01:42:08.680
this is an example of why it's a bad idea. Like

01:42:08.680 --> 01:42:11.800
why you should not have, first off they're small.

01:42:12.500 --> 01:42:14.460
Secondly, you should not have fans that close

01:42:14.460 --> 01:42:19.909
to, The referee. Here we go. After review...

01:42:19.909 --> 01:42:26.609
Oh, we won't be able to hear it. But everyone's

01:42:26.609 --> 01:42:29.649
laughing, so it must be a handball. And they're

01:42:29.649 --> 01:42:35.909
all clapping. Yep. So, oh well. It's fair. But...

01:42:35.909 --> 01:42:44.699
Game's not over. I mean, he could blow it. within

01:42:44.699 --> 01:42:47.239
the next 45 seconds he doesn't need to add extra

01:42:47.239 --> 01:42:50.939
time on here hopefully he will he doesn't they

01:42:50.939 --> 01:42:54.000
don't they often don't the number of injuries

01:42:54.000 --> 01:42:58.779
in the second half they should though um i'm

01:42:58.779 --> 01:43:02.439
always surprised when not fans but when coaches

01:43:02.439 --> 01:43:04.640
like that not that it was a huge reaction but

01:43:04.640 --> 01:43:09.699
their coach got pretty excited for coach um what

01:43:10.239 --> 01:43:12.079
It asked me if I was still here. That's very

01:43:12.079 --> 01:43:14.340
strange. I don't know if you got that, but if

01:43:14.340 --> 01:43:15.520
you have it on your screen, make sure to say

01:43:15.520 --> 01:43:23.659
you are. No, I'm not. That worries me, but oh

01:43:23.659 --> 01:43:28.319
well. But yeah, so what do you take away from

01:43:28.319 --> 01:43:31.520
this heading into next week for Houston? Honestly,

01:43:31.680 --> 01:43:36.479
not much. Not much. It's, again, a three -match

01:43:36.479 --> 01:43:39.630
week. A three -match week just coming back. from

01:43:39.630 --> 01:43:43.750
international. Obviously, the injuries, yeah,

01:43:43.770 --> 01:43:48.970
that also does not help. But we're playing against

01:43:48.970 --> 01:43:52.750
the best team in the league defensively, and

01:43:52.750 --> 01:43:56.949
they gave us plenty of possession. We got 66

01:43:56.949 --> 01:44:00.970
% possession, 13 shots, only one on target. That

01:44:00.970 --> 01:44:03.369
part's a big bummer, but seeing how they were

01:44:03.369 --> 01:44:07.789
blocking. In the whole game? Yeah. That is wild.

01:44:08.659 --> 01:44:10.840
Because usually we don't get that. To have that

01:44:10.840 --> 01:44:14.119
and not challenge their keeper, who's a backup

01:44:14.119 --> 01:44:17.319
at all, is very frustrating. Well, I mean, again,

01:44:17.460 --> 01:44:22.000
that's the whole thing, is that they are absolutely...

01:44:22.000 --> 01:44:27.380
Just shoot it. Stop trying to be fancy and dribble

01:44:27.380 --> 01:44:29.960
around and pull a Georgie and shoot the damn

01:44:29.960 --> 01:44:33.239
ball. Just shoot it at the keeper. We had eight

01:44:33.239 --> 01:44:38.840
shots inside the box. They blocked five. uh yeah

01:44:38.840 --> 01:44:44.579
we're just we're just not uh they had they had

01:44:44.579 --> 01:44:50.079
314 passes we had 595 passes it's just they they

01:44:50.079 --> 01:44:52.779
they second half we absolutely dominated them

01:44:52.779 --> 01:44:55.260
in terms of uh in the last part of the first

01:44:55.260 --> 01:44:56.979
half and the second half we dominated possession

01:44:56.979 --> 01:45:00.539
yeah i ultimately they are just absolutely packing

01:45:00.539 --> 01:45:03.279
those boxes that that's what they were doing

01:45:04.240 --> 01:45:06.020
So, uh -oh. But to me, that means you're going

01:45:06.020 --> 01:45:09.060
to start taking those shots from outside. Coach

01:45:09.060 --> 01:45:13.119
getting yellow? Yeah. They're complaining about

01:45:13.119 --> 01:45:14.899
the throw -in and threw the ball back. I don't

01:45:14.899 --> 01:45:16.619
even really know what's happening. Or maybe that

01:45:16.619 --> 01:45:20.960
player did who subbed out. I mean, to me, this

01:45:20.960 --> 01:45:24.460
is like you've got to come into Seattle firing

01:45:24.460 --> 01:45:26.899
at all cylinders and score some goals or fans

01:45:26.899 --> 01:45:30.279
are going to start turning pretty quick based

01:45:30.279 --> 01:45:33.319
on what happened last season. season and their

01:45:33.319 --> 01:45:35.560
perception of what's happened in this offseason.

01:45:35.619 --> 01:45:36.920
I don't think their perception is necessarily

01:45:36.920 --> 01:45:40.760
correct. I think my critiques aside, that's a

01:45:40.760 --> 01:45:43.119
critique of ownership. I think the players we've

01:45:43.119 --> 01:45:45.899
signed are good enough to win this league. Shut

01:45:45.899 --> 01:45:49.579
up, you stupid asshole. Sorry, I'm yelling at

01:45:49.579 --> 01:45:51.279
one of their fans who's complaining about time.

01:45:51.399 --> 01:45:53.779
They went to VAR for longer than that amount

01:45:53.779 --> 01:45:57.979
of time. No, not you. Of course not. That should

01:45:57.979 --> 01:45:59.460
be the end of the game. That should be the end

01:45:59.460 --> 01:46:06.600
of the game. So with this game, honestly, this

01:46:06.600 --> 01:46:11.579
is kind of a big nothing burger for me. This

01:46:11.579 --> 01:46:17.640
is just a tough one. I don't have much to think

01:46:17.640 --> 01:46:20.460
about this one. It's just kind of a, okay, we

01:46:20.460 --> 01:46:26.619
lost on the road to St. Louis. I'm not really

01:46:26.619 --> 01:46:30.319
too upset. We're coming off of high altitude.

01:46:33.210 --> 01:46:36.529
Well, that's not good. They just had a bad giveaway,

01:46:36.630 --> 01:46:38.609
but thankfully they went to the corner instead

01:46:38.609 --> 01:46:42.390
of trying to score. But yeah, I mean, you're

01:46:42.390 --> 01:46:45.569
probably right. But for me, I think in my head,

01:46:45.590 --> 01:46:48.689
despite the fact that we've had such a busy schedule,

01:46:48.770 --> 01:46:50.869
this was a chance to reset and we didn't take

01:46:50.869 --> 01:46:55.770
it. Their only goal was on a freak accident on

01:46:55.770 --> 01:47:00.649
defense that... Yeah. that this game should be

01:47:00.649 --> 01:47:04.369
0 -0, it should not be 1 -0, like if the soccer

01:47:04.369 --> 01:47:07.010
gods weren't against us today. I think my frustration

01:47:07.010 --> 01:47:09.750
is how many games over the last several years

01:47:09.750 --> 01:47:14.390
have we been out there, shot 13, 15, 18, 20 times,

01:47:14.409 --> 01:47:17.289
and not scored a goal. I think that's where my

01:47:17.289 --> 01:47:20.109
frustration lies. No, I don't care. I get it.

01:47:20.149 --> 01:47:21.890
You've got to figure out how to stretch the defense.

01:47:22.050 --> 01:47:26.819
Just put it on frame. That last shot that we

01:47:26.819 --> 01:47:28.680
had that was way offside was just at least get

01:47:28.680 --> 01:47:30.779
it on frame. If you're going to take a chance,

01:47:30.939 --> 01:47:33.800
shoot it at the goalie. Maybe he'll drop it.

01:47:33.880 --> 01:47:35.880
Maybe it'll bounce off, ricochet to one of our

01:47:35.880 --> 01:47:39.119
players. Because the idea of rolling down the

01:47:39.119 --> 01:47:41.920
side and passing it in isn't working because

01:47:41.920 --> 01:47:43.939
of the way they have so many players in the box.

01:47:44.199 --> 01:47:48.319
So we had no ability to overcome that. And that

01:47:48.319 --> 01:47:50.859
lack of creativity is what bugged me because

01:47:50.859 --> 01:47:52.699
now we're missing our most creative players.

01:47:53.479 --> 01:47:55.579
I think if you have a Pedro de la Vega out there

01:47:55.579 --> 01:47:57.739
today, he can make a difference in the pulling

01:47:57.739 --> 01:47:59.460
those some of those players away. I think you've

01:47:59.460 --> 01:48:01.300
had Jordan Morris and he actually runs at them.

01:48:01.500 --> 01:48:04.539
I think you see that pull players away. We're

01:48:04.539 --> 01:48:06.699
not we're not seeing that, though. Well, again,

01:48:06.840 --> 01:48:10.180
again, short rest. We're missing two of our three

01:48:10.180 --> 01:48:13.000
designated players. What what does everyone say

01:48:13.000 --> 01:48:15.439
when you're missing when you don't have two of

01:48:15.439 --> 01:48:17.600
your three designated players? I'm not making

01:48:17.600 --> 01:48:19.899
excuses. It's just making, you know, understanding

01:48:19.899 --> 01:48:24.430
how we get to this point. And full credit to

01:48:24.430 --> 01:48:29.069
their free kick. It's exactly the spot you want

01:48:29.069 --> 01:48:33.810
your free kick to be taken from. Yeah. Because

01:48:33.810 --> 01:48:36.550
if you can get up and over that wall, you're

01:48:36.550 --> 01:48:41.869
in a really good spot. Absolutely. I thought

01:48:41.869 --> 01:48:50.359
defensively we did the job defensively. I'm okay

01:48:50.359 --> 01:48:55.039
with this game and just calling it, okay, a move

01:48:55.039 --> 01:48:58.579
on game. Looking forward to Houston next week.

01:48:59.239 --> 01:49:01.699
I think Houston is going to be a big one. They've

01:49:01.699 --> 01:49:05.359
played four games. They have one draw, three

01:49:05.359 --> 01:49:10.520
losses, negative five goal differential. If we

01:49:10.520 --> 01:49:12.380
can't put up goals against Houston, I'm going

01:49:12.380 --> 01:49:17.060
to start being quite concerned. But, you know,

01:49:17.100 --> 01:49:21.210
like you said, this is a good defense. We're

01:49:21.210 --> 01:49:23.949
hampered by the injuries. They just set a record,

01:49:24.090 --> 01:49:25.970
I think. I think they just set a record four

01:49:25.970 --> 01:49:28.069
straight games to start a season without a goal.

01:49:28.449 --> 01:49:32.250
Let's do one final quick – I think to me it could

01:49:32.250 --> 01:49:35.090
be the beginning of an alarming trend, so let's

01:49:35.090 --> 01:49:37.630
follow it. But I'm not going to call it that

01:49:37.630 --> 01:49:42.390
until yet. One final thing, Paul, in the Scuttlebutt

01:49:42.390 --> 01:49:44.390
Metal Bag asked, did you notice any difference

01:49:44.390 --> 01:49:46.949
in strategy attributable to our backup coach?

01:49:48.450 --> 01:49:50.130
That's a good question. And I'm going to say,

01:49:50.170 --> 01:49:52.470
I don't think I did. I think he kept it largely

01:49:52.470 --> 01:49:56.569
Schmetzer -esque and maybe didn't. I mean, I

01:49:56.569 --> 01:49:59.050
don't know how he was when he was the coach of

01:49:59.050 --> 01:50:01.010
RSL because I was not following him that closely,

01:50:01.130 --> 01:50:03.489
but I saw nothing that seemed different. Maybe

01:50:03.489 --> 01:50:05.890
the subs were a little bit different, but I feel

01:50:05.890 --> 01:50:08.170
like some of the subs were injury necessities.

01:50:09.430 --> 01:50:11.649
Ferreira coming off early, I don't know. That'll

01:50:11.649 --> 01:50:15.760
be interesting to see. information on that is

01:50:15.760 --> 01:50:18.720
he not 90 fit did they feel like he wasn't working

01:50:18.720 --> 01:50:21.300
at the nine or maybe he wasn't getting the service

01:50:21.300 --> 01:50:23.720
they expected a lot of those passes the question

01:50:23.720 --> 01:50:26.020
is were those passes to him that he didn't get

01:50:26.020 --> 01:50:28.479
on the end of were they his fault for over running

01:50:28.479 --> 01:50:30.399
under running not going was players expected

01:50:30.399 --> 01:50:34.199
or were they our uh midfielders faults for not

01:50:34.199 --> 01:50:36.800
getting him to the ball uh to where he was going

01:50:36.800 --> 01:50:38.600
and and i don't know the answer to that because

01:50:38.600 --> 01:50:40.359
we don't know enough about those players yet

01:50:40.359 --> 01:50:42.920
and how much time he's played at the nine in

01:50:42.920 --> 01:50:46.270
practice Yeah, I mean, I think the only question

01:50:46.270 --> 01:50:49.109
I have on that, the only suggestion I have is,

01:50:49.369 --> 01:50:55.829
you know, right now it could be, I think the

01:50:55.829 --> 01:50:59.909
club is being much smarter and much more deliberate

01:50:59.909 --> 01:51:03.609
about listening to the sports data when they're

01:51:03.609 --> 01:51:06.310
making subs. And that, you know, they have that

01:51:06.310 --> 01:51:08.449
data analytics. They can see how much people

01:51:08.449 --> 01:51:11.449
are exerting themselves. They can see these things.

01:51:13.930 --> 01:51:18.550
right now in particular, you can't afford to

01:51:18.550 --> 01:51:22.329
also lose a Jesus Ferreira after losing Jordan

01:51:22.329 --> 01:51:25.789
and Pedro in back -to -back games. Sure. Oh,

01:51:25.909 --> 01:51:30.689
that would be a nightmare. And I think losing

01:51:30.689 --> 01:51:32.569
Christian would be a nightmare too, despite the

01:51:32.569 --> 01:51:36.510
fact that I wonder... Alex has played so much

01:51:36.510 --> 01:51:38.670
better lately. I think preseason, obviously,

01:51:38.689 --> 01:51:41.090
I thought Christian should be in that position

01:51:41.090 --> 01:51:45.510
and we should be playing JP. or Danny. But I

01:51:45.510 --> 01:51:50.670
do wonder what we lose if Christian, if that

01:51:50.670 --> 01:51:52.770
knee injury is more severe than it looked like.

01:51:53.430 --> 01:51:56.729
Yeah. I mean, hopefully, hopefully just, yeah.

01:51:59.439 --> 01:52:02.600
Kind of see how it goes. In the meantime, a big

01:52:02.600 --> 01:52:05.699
shout out to all the people on the Discord. Really

01:52:05.699 --> 01:52:11.140
enjoying just kind of the daily people chatting

01:52:11.140 --> 01:52:15.600
and talking about things. There's an ungodly

01:52:15.600 --> 01:52:18.579
number of you that are awake at 2, 3 in the morning

01:52:18.579 --> 01:52:25.720
when I'm up. So, yeah, like I'm like, OK, well,

01:52:25.859 --> 01:52:28.340
I guess I'll post here on the Discord. And all

01:52:28.340 --> 01:52:30.079
of a sudden, like four people respond. I'm like,

01:52:30.180 --> 01:52:33.680
what the hell is happening? So shout out to you,

01:52:33.699 --> 01:52:36.560
Night Owls. If you're not in the Discord yet,

01:52:36.779 --> 01:52:41.779
Link is in the show notes or go to Sounder Scuttlebutt

01:52:41.779 --> 01:52:44.500
on Discord and join. Yeah, come join us. Join

01:52:44.500 --> 01:52:46.920
the community. It's been super fun. We've had

01:52:46.920 --> 01:52:48.399
a chance to get to know some of the people in

01:52:48.399 --> 01:52:50.159
person or we've already known some in person

01:52:50.159 --> 01:52:51.800
and then had them come in and be a part of the

01:52:51.800 --> 01:52:54.210
community. Let's keep growing. Let's keep getting

01:52:54.210 --> 01:52:56.310
more people there. Don't forget to give us reviews.

01:52:56.529 --> 01:52:58.590
Those reviews are the best way for us to get

01:52:58.590 --> 01:53:02.529
noticed and definitely a good way to continue

01:53:02.529 --> 01:53:04.630
to have this podcast grow so our influence can

01:53:04.630 --> 01:53:09.770
grow. We have insider information that's very

01:53:09.770 --> 01:53:11.970
different from other people and probably better

01:53:11.970 --> 01:53:15.029
than other people and other podcasts, but we

01:53:15.029 --> 01:53:17.050
can't talk about it publicly all the time. So

01:53:17.050 --> 01:53:19.810
if you still want a little look inside the club,

01:53:20.170 --> 01:53:24.039
give us some love. Keep those reviews coming

01:53:24.039 --> 01:53:28.239
in. Offset that one one -star review that was

01:53:28.239 --> 01:53:32.300
just a major New Who fan and obviously didn't

01:53:32.300 --> 01:53:34.100
listen to our episodes where we talk about why

01:53:34.100 --> 01:53:37.739
we were critical of New Who, which had more to

01:53:37.739 --> 01:53:39.779
be a Brian Schmetzer problem than a New Who.

01:53:40.079 --> 01:53:45.680
Junior, let it go. No, we need all the five -star

01:53:45.680 --> 01:53:53.449
reviews ever. Indiana, Indiana, let it go. Go

01:53:53.449 --> 01:53:58.970
give us reviews. Go give Aaron some love on the

01:53:58.970 --> 01:54:01.970
Discord. Is he just at Scuttlebutt? Yeah, he

01:54:01.970 --> 01:54:05.770
is. He is the at Scuttlebutt. Tell him to get

01:54:05.770 --> 01:54:07.909
his butt back on the podcast because we miss

01:54:07.909 --> 01:54:12.069
him, and we want to hear the things he has to

01:54:12.069 --> 01:54:18.449
say. By the way, did you watch – have you watched

01:54:18.449 --> 01:54:22.819
any of that Onside show? By the same producers

01:54:22.819 --> 01:54:26.520
as the F1 show that you like. I heard it's great,

01:54:26.600 --> 01:54:31.619
but I have not yet. But I will someday, for sure.

01:54:32.319 --> 01:54:35.859
All right. But yeah, so let's get out of here.

01:54:35.939 --> 01:54:38.460
Let's pull it into port and let James take it

01:54:38.460 --> 01:54:40.420
away. Where can they find you on the internet?

01:54:40.840 --> 01:54:45.840
Yeah, you can find me at Instagram at Cascades2C.

01:54:47.190 --> 01:54:49.310
That's probably the best place where I post most

01:54:49.310 --> 01:54:52.329
frequently. So come join me on Instagram, Cascades2C,

01:54:52.510 --> 01:54:55.289
or come join us on the Discord, where I am Nicholas.

01:54:56.750 --> 01:55:01.590
Yeah, and spelled the Santa Claus way. Well,

01:55:01.710 --> 01:55:05.289
I was born in Germany. You are kind of Santa

01:55:05.289 --> 01:55:12.010
Clausian. I do like to... Give gifts. You know,

01:55:12.069 --> 01:55:15.810
I was going to say I do have a big sack and muted.

01:55:17.130 --> 01:55:19.810
Yeah, I was once told that mine was the largest

01:55:19.810 --> 01:55:21.850
she'd ever seen by a doctor I was dating. And

01:55:21.850 --> 01:55:25.149
we're going to move on. Of course, you can get

01:55:25.149 --> 01:55:27.029
me, Cameron Collins, anywhere on the Internet

01:55:27.029 --> 01:55:29.229
or social media exists at Legal Minded Punk.

01:55:29.350 --> 01:55:33.189
And I have been posting on Blue Sky. I think

01:55:33.189 --> 01:55:35.090
I put a post there this week, so you can find

01:55:35.090 --> 01:55:38.250
me there. Usually, I think I posted about a podcast

01:55:38.250 --> 01:55:42.840
I like on there. We'll let James take it away,

01:55:42.979 --> 01:55:44.579
and I think it's really important, Nicholas,

01:55:44.739 --> 01:55:47.319
that you take very good boy Dempsey there to

01:55:47.319 --> 01:55:49.579
get some cheese. Oh, that's a good idea. The

01:55:49.579 --> 01:55:52.939
cheese tax is a real thing. Yeah, I mean, I was

01:55:52.939 --> 01:55:54.319
telling him earlier when you were in the other

01:55:54.319 --> 01:55:56.359
room, I kept saying, Dempsey, want some cheese?

01:55:56.560 --> 01:56:00.000
And I heard his collar go... So he heard me earlier,

01:56:00.119 --> 01:56:03.520
so I think he's ready for that cheese. You bastard.

01:56:04.000 --> 01:56:08.079
Because now I gotta pay the cheese tax. Pay the

01:56:08.079 --> 01:56:10.850
cheese tax to the dog man. Gotta give that boy

01:56:10.850 --> 01:56:16.149
some cheese. We'll see everybody next time. Have

01:56:16.149 --> 01:56:18.229
a good week. We'll see you in the Discords, right?

01:56:18.430 --> 01:56:24.829
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