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

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I can't say is CHEAT! Welcome to Sounders Scuttlebutt.

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I am Aaron Lingley, and even though we recorded,

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what, a week and a half ago with me on it, that

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one didn't make it. So this is going to be the

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first time I have been on the airwaves in months.

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Hey, our patrons, what do you call someone who

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subscribes? Patrons? I don't know what you call

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them. Patreon patrons. They heard it. They heard

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you and me talking, and then large pauses as

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we listened to nothing in between, and they had

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to... think about what nicholas might have been

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saying well i thought it was a choose your own

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adventure kind of episode where they could they

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could speak in themselves exactly to feel like

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one of us i mean that's the whole point of this

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is sitting around having beer talking talking

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sounders we wanted you to be interactive the

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craziest part was when you said and i i really

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was shocked absolutely shocked that you said

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this don't do it don't do it Oh, thanks, Alexa.

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Alexa decided to yell at me in the middle of

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my joke. You said that Nkufo was better than

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Clint Dempsey. I just couldn't believe it. What

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a take. What a huge take for this podcast. Yeah.

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I mean, this podcast is nothing except hot takes.

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All hot takes all the time. You might have had

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more hat tricks. Did Clint Dempsey ever get a

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hat trick for the Sounders? I believe so. I believe

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so. Yeah, I don't know. I don't remember anymore.

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The Portland 4 -4 game? Yeah, I think he did

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have one that game. You're correct. That was

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awesome. I was in Canada with that one. Who are

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you, by the way? Oh. Let me finish. Yeah, I got

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so excited that you were here. Do you want to

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say who I am? I do. I do. I know. Alliance Council

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Secretary Cameron Collins. And that sleepy bear

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over there is your Alliance Council extraordinaire,

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Nicholas Biela. What's up, gentlemen? I totally

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was going to come on here and complain about

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the fact that I had to get up at 7 .30 a .m.

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this morning for a doctor's appointment and how

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that was just way too early and that no human

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should be awake at 7 .30 in the morning. And

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then I got a shot in my knee because Pub League

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has been injuring me and I want to keep playing.

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So I got steroids put in my knee and I have to

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go to physical therapy now and I might get, after

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the season, get... blood, like platelet plasma

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shot into my knees. Are you sure you're not playing

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for the actual Sounders? You sound like a Sounders

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player. That's the thing is all the leaders always

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say, Hey, this is just public. There's no Sounders

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scouts here, but I guarantee you if Nicholas

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and I are there, either one of us can pick up

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the phone and call Craig Weibel at any time and

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be like, yo, you need to come check this person

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out. I mean, technically, I mean, let's be clear

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here. I am a public leader and I've never said

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that to you. That's true. You have. With that

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said, yeah, I would have loved to have been up

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at 7 o 'clock this morning. You were, weren't

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you? Well, I was, but I've been up since 6 o

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'clock yesterday morning. Long work hours there,

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Nick. Is that why you were not at Pub League

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when I showed up for the second game? Yeah. So

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I had Pub League in the morning, then went immediately

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to Smash Putt. Because yesterday was All Ages

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Day, the one day they do All Ages. So I took

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Rome at a smash putt. Then Pub League alum and

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godfather to my daughter, Alex Davis, had his

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birthday yesterday. Happy birthday, Alex. So

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went to celebrate that. Then I had to work a

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shift for Bernadette's company. Followed immediately

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by my normal shift with my company. So I've been...

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That's worse than me having to go to the doctor

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and getting a shot and then having to teach and

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then having to do a radio show. I've been working

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on the run. Yeah, and then having to do the podcast.

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That's why my voice is a little scratchy today.

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Too much talking for me. But you know what? How

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about this? Less talky, more cracking. How about

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we do that? Okay. Cracking, not cracking. You

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look confused, Cameron. They didn't make the

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playoffs. Cracking. I'm waiting for it to crack.

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Yeah, we're waiting for you. Go ahead. Oh, you

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want me to do it at the same time? No, okay,

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that's great. That's wonderful. Oh, here, I'll

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do mine. Because you have a popper. Ooh. That

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had a little tease, a little foreplay before

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it really snapped. Not as dramatic. It sounded

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almost like a golf shot there. There's the ones

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that you can put on there and then you hit it

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down and it pops it off into the sky and makes

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a that one sounds amazing. You know what it is?

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We're not in practice. We haven't had all three

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of us here in a little bit. Have you guys seen

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the Netflix show called Three Body Problem? I've

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heard of it. I have not yet seen it. It's been

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recommended, though. What about you, Nicholas?

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No, just finished about 30 minutes ago, the last

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episode of season three of White Lotus on Max.

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That's a good show. But let me finish my thought.

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I'm really bummed you both haven't seen the show.

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Essentially, they're trying to find a solution

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to the three body problem where three suns are

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kind of rotating, orbiting around each other.

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And so this planet. The Father, Son, and Holy

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Ghost? Sure. Anyway, I feel like we are a three

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-body problem. Even when we do get all together

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and we get our schedules aligned, which are all

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completely different, right? Nicholas' schedule,

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my schedule, and your schedule are completely

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different. It's always a struggle to get us in

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line. Yeah. You work days. I work afternoon and

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evenings and he works overnight. Yeah. And then

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when we finally get together, the episode doesn't

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work. So it's like, we can't find a solution

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to this three body problem. Well, hopefully today

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we're all trying to find the guy who did this.

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Yeah. And you know what? I think this episode

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is going to alleviate so much pain in one of

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the most painful sports weekends that I can remember

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in Seattle sports history. uh mediocre ass mariners

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mediocre ass sounders uh super hawks lost two

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games at home on a weekend for the first time

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ever uh one game the the point guard went one

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for 13 from the three -point line and uh i think

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he was like three for 20 overall or something

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like that like it was not good bob no no so he

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uh just gotta hopefully the sounders pick it

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up or the storm come back sooner Wow. Yeah, and

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Max Verstappen won. Yeah, that was painful. Yeah.

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Did you watch it live? No. I mean, I will say

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that things got a little dark after that Sounders

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game. The two of you were hoping for some results

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in that race. You were hoping for some dark,

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dark results. I mean, having a butthole get seared

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shut by fire is not that dark. It also wasn't

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that far off from what was happening to, who's

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the new young driver from Haas who during, I

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think it was Haas, maybe not. Phil McCracken.

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It wasn't Bearman. It was Hajar. I forget which

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team he races for, but his belt was on so tight,

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it was crushing his balls. And he had to keep

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stopping to redo it. And he still got, I think

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he's got to the third Q3, despite the fact that

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he was in so much pain. I mean, some people pay

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extra for that. That's true, but they're also

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not driving a car at 150 miles an hour. I don't

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know. Have you ever seen the movie Crash? Good

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movie. There's two. Yes, I know which one you're

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talking about. So a little bit loopy, but hey,

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we're going to have a fun episode despite the

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Sounders results. We don't need to be angry.

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We can have fun in our misery. Hey, yes. The

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number two team in the conference, right? You

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know, it's been interesting. It's been interesting.

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Trying to go get a handle of what we're seeing.

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And I don't really have an answer, so I'm just

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kind of letting it ride right now. I believe

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in the talent of this team, but boy, these last

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few... Not even these last few games. It's the

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whole season. Two games. We've had two. Antigua

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match. I guess maybe both Antigua matches. But

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the Antigua match and the LAFC match, every other

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match has been very painful. I don't know if

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I'd necessarily say that, but it's just been

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really frustrating because we see the individual

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moments of brilliance. You see the potential

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and trying to get it all on the same page and

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trying to keep people healthy and that. think

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that we will be happy come the end of the season

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but right now this this is a little rough and

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and i kind of had a breaking point in this last

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game and it was a little a little rough we scored

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one goal since lafc yeah st louis houston san

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jose san diego on uh yeah that's painful on a

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brighter note without me mentioning the score

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or anything about the mariners game with the

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play on the field. I just want to say today was

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bark at the park night at T -Mobile park. And

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that alone makes me happy seeing all the pictures

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coming out of T -Mobile park. There's a glimmer.

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All the good boys and girls who are now going

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to get to run around the bases. Once the game's

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over. Those are always fun. I've never been to

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one. It's fun to watch. I've watched. Yeah. Dempsey.

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We were talking about that. Dempsey cannot go.

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No, Dempsey's not allowed to go. He's a herding

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dog. It would not, no. Maybe the Mariners need

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a herding dog to herd them into better hitting.

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I mean, the interesting part would be to see

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an entire stadium somehow corralled into left

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center. By the end of the game, everyone's just

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kind of in a group going, wait, how did this

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happen? Good boy. Good boy. Do we have any scuttlebutt

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that's not specifically related to sound? I guess

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Florida. Can I talk about this? Florida -Houston

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played tonight? I didn't watch it. I didn't watch

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it either, so go ahead and tell me. Is that something

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you're going to watch, Aaron? Oh, Aaron? Me?

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No. Yeah. Okay, Florida are your college national

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champions. Apparently Houston had a shot to win

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it at the end and didn't even take the shot.

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I don't know what happened. I honestly, A, have

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lost complete interest in college basketball,

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except for my teams, my three teams for the three

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colleges that I've either gone to. I guess I

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have credits from all of them or worked at. But

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also no team west of Texas has won the national

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championship in like 23 years or something like

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that. Who would have been the last? Was it UCLA?

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Or Arizona? 2000 or 2001 I think was the last

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time. Might have been Arizona. They had some

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good teams back then. Let's give a tip to the

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cap of one of my favorite. One of my favorite

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sports. Hockey. Alexander Ovechkin passing Wayne

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Gretzky. All -time goal scorer. Was that tonight?

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That was yesterday afternoon. You know, he tied

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it in one game, but I didn't see the one where

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he passed it. Yeah, and funny enough, he did

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it. He beat Gretzky's record in the exact same

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number of games that Gretzky set the record in.

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Oh, wow. Which is really crazy. Now, with all

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that said. Yes, Gretzky had the record for 30

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-some years. He was great. But I cannot impart

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this upon people enough when I say Wayne Gretzky

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dominated his sport in a way that no other athlete

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in the 20th century has. I'd argue LeBron James.

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No, no, it's not even close. And here, allow

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me to give you my 30 -second elevator pitch.

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Wayne Gretzky has more assists. in his career

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than any other nhl player has goals and assists

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combined i actually saw a stat of his for like

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all all the years he led the league in points

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yeah the gap to the next player was like 75 points

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yeah he played for edmonton so none of those

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count because oh yeah well the exchange rate

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Canadian exchange to dollar exchange rate. The

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assist exchange rate. Only one for the LA Kings

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count. Right now, Sidney Crosby, I believe, is

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the closest to him in assists. Sidney Crosby,

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who's already almost 40, would have to be playing

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another decade plus, like 12 years at his average.

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to get near Gretzky's record on assists. And

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it's just absolutely mind -blowingly crazy the

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way that he dominated a game unlike anyone else.

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LeBron, yes, is great. But the gap between LeBron

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and the Jordans of the world, the LeBron and

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Kobe, the LeBron and whoever, is much closer

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than Gretzky and anyone else. I won't say you're

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wrong. You know, it's just an amazing stat. That's

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all it is. It's untouchable. Absolutely untouchable.

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But also, the whole time Gretzik played, wasn't

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there only like two black players? Was he really

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playing against the best athletes? Have you looked

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at the NHL recently? Maybe there's only two.

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There might be four now. But no. Yeah, it's just...

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Just crazy. Shout out to the Thunderbirds. Thunderbirds

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are playing tonight in game six of their playoff

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series against Everett, down three games to two.

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If they win, they will push it to a game to side

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in game seven. Crazy. Of course, we're always

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rooting for the Thunder. I mean, I know you're

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a Thunderbirds fan, Nick. Do you root for Everett

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as well? Yeah, yeah. I love going to the games.

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The juniors are great. Great atmosphere. Here's

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the reality is I think, I mean, I absolutely

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love the Thunderbirds jerseys. more than ever

00:16:01.940 --> 00:16:04.779
and ever it's not bad but thunderbirds that i

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wish the kraken up until the kraken actually

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released their jersey design i wish they would

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take the thunderbirds logo and colors and that's

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that was the whaler i mean it was the whalers

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right that's that's what they were rocking not

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exactly the whalers were definitely a different

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color green but not not dissimilar um but uh

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so so the thunderbirds i think are my my preferred

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team, but Everett has the better fans. Oh, I

00:16:36.460 --> 00:16:40.279
disagree. In stadium atmosphere, I should say.

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In stadium atmosphere. Everett fans are like

00:16:42.620 --> 00:16:45.759
Oregon Duck fans. They're fucking terrible. They

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just... They're miserable to be around. I cannot

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stand them. I didn't know there was this vitriol

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for my former fans. Everyone sings Portland Sucks

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whenever you're playing Portland. In fact, unless

00:16:58.970 --> 00:17:01.970
they're playing Everett or Spokane, Seattle fans

00:17:01.970 --> 00:17:05.589
say Portland Sucks during the hockey song. Don't

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we all? Rightfully so. You know what's funny?

00:17:11.049 --> 00:17:12.990
Right before we started the show, I ran to get

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beer, right? which I'm drinking a Aurora, Aurora

00:17:17.650 --> 00:17:21.470
Hoppy Alice. Yeah. And it's a local beer here.

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Carl Stroud's Brewing Company, Aurora Hoppy Alice.

00:17:25.130 --> 00:17:28.990
Since we were mentioning Aurora in the show that

00:17:28.990 --> 00:17:31.569
didn't make it. But anyway, I was. Yeah, we're

00:17:31.569 --> 00:17:36.130
giving tips on which cross streets on Aurora.

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You can score. Yeah. Maybe send Jordan out there

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and he can get some goals. Yeah, that's cool.

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I don't know what that is. Is that a beer koozie?

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This is a Patrick Marlowe beer koozie. Cameron,

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you were there that night, weren't you? I was.

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Patrick Marlowe, who was a year ahead of me in

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high school, not at my school, so I went to see

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him play at the Thunderbirds and then drafted

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by the San Jose Sharks, and I followed him a

00:18:04.009 --> 00:18:06.089
year later when I went to Santa Clara and became

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a Sharks season ticket holder the year after

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that, I believe. So I love me some Patrick Marlowe.

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Most games played of any player in NHL history?

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Most consecutive games played. Most consecutive

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games played. He didn't miss a game for years.

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He was a rock and super fast. Won a gold medal

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with Canada. Patty Marlowe, one of my favorite

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players of all time. Yep, yep. So I will say

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welcome to... Hockey Scuttlebutt, where we only

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talk about hockey. But I will say one more thing.

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On Sunday, April, oh, no, that's at Coachella

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Valley. On Saturday, April 9th, the Coachella

00:18:51.019 --> 00:18:55.160
Valley Firebirds, a .k .a. the Kraken minor league

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team that has some of our future superstars,

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will be playing at the San Diego Gulls. So if

00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:03.460
you want to go see a hockey game, Aaron, that's

00:19:03.460 --> 00:19:05.579
the one to go to. Go see some young Kraken players

00:19:05.579 --> 00:19:09.000
playing in San Diego. You know, I would be opposed

00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:13.019
to it. Hey, you know, we talked about this last

00:19:13.019 --> 00:19:17.240
time, unfortunately lost in the ether. Give us

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a little rundown on how things are going for

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you in San Diego. It's pretty awesome having

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a pool and a margarita to hang out in every weekend.

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That's not going to lie. Coronado Island overlooks

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like it's across from the skyline of the city

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and there's a wonderful park. that has like no

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one ever in it that we've picnicked at a few

00:19:43.430 --> 00:19:46.309
times called Centennial Park. And I feel like

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there's so many places people can go just relax

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and be in the sun. And like, we only have a few

00:19:54.170 --> 00:19:55.769
spots, right? Like if you want to go to the beach

00:19:55.769 --> 00:20:00.289
and it's sunny, it's Alki or Ballard. right yeah

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golden gardens and they're packed here there's

00:20:02.970 --> 00:20:04.670
just like i go to this park and i'm like this

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is the best view of the city in town and it's

00:20:06.529 --> 00:20:09.069
75 degrees and there's no one on this grassy

00:20:09.069 --> 00:20:11.890
knoll except us like this is awesome you ever

00:20:11.890 --> 00:20:14.950
you ever you know ride a motorcycle alongside

00:20:14.950 --> 00:20:20.069
a airplane runway the top speed wind in your

00:20:20.069 --> 00:20:24.750
hair i drive by miramar uh every day actually

00:20:24.750 --> 00:20:29.829
and i see like um navy aircraft like taking off

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and landing a lot actually when i go to work

00:20:32.150 --> 00:20:34.049
it's pretty trippy so are you playing are you

00:20:34.049 --> 00:20:36.789
playing danger zone or i can't believe i have

00:20:36.789 --> 00:20:40.109
not done that yet either of them honestly oh

00:20:40.109 --> 00:20:43.009
you know next time next time next time you and

00:20:43.009 --> 00:20:46.029
randy are are you know having having some moments

00:20:46.029 --> 00:20:49.849
put on put on some berlin and just just make

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it happen And I'll let her know that it was Nick's

00:20:52.869 --> 00:20:55.750
idea, and she'll love that. Tell her afterward,

00:20:55.829 --> 00:20:57.630
don't make her think of me while you two are.

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No, Jerry. Don't do that. No, so anyway, it's

00:21:01.190 --> 00:21:04.349
been great. And a bonus was I was able to go

00:21:04.349 --> 00:21:06.910
to the game, the San Diego game. Was that a bonus?

00:21:07.130 --> 00:21:09.329
Yeah, was that really a bonus? Well, I went with

00:21:09.329 --> 00:21:11.869
Gracie, right? So that was about her, and that

00:21:11.869 --> 00:21:16.609
was fun. And we went and met up with ECS at Augie's.

00:21:18.599 --> 00:21:20.920
marched to the stadium so she got to experience

00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:23.680
all that for the first time which wasn't in seattle

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so that's was that your first away match ever

00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:33.160
yeah no okay no back when we had a life um i

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mean i would go to portland before you had children

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consistently yes exactly um and i've done salt

00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:42.859
lake away but that's gracie's first away game

00:21:42.859 --> 00:21:48.049
it's her first yeah definitely cool awesome Yeah,

00:21:48.089 --> 00:21:50.569
so we had a hoot. Had some fun photos. That's

00:21:50.569 --> 00:21:54.609
great. I like the photos. It was super fun. And

00:21:54.609 --> 00:21:57.029
I like how you posted some of them on the Discord

00:21:57.029 --> 00:22:00.670
for our listeners to show everyone what you guys

00:22:00.670 --> 00:22:04.210
were up to. Quickly, before we get into stuff,

00:22:04.369 --> 00:22:06.190
I just want to give a shout out to Clem Burke,

00:22:06.390 --> 00:22:09.549
drummer for Blondie. Also played with Ramones

00:22:09.549 --> 00:22:14.480
occasionally. Passed away of cancer today. super

00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:16.920
bummer and dave allen who played in gang of four

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and glass job passed away a couple days ago so

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um the i mean i'm sure there was others too but

00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:27.259
the the list of musicians and famous people dying

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continues on our show every single time i mean

00:22:30.259 --> 00:22:33.880
it might as well be a segment at this point yeah

00:22:33.880 --> 00:22:35.940
did we lose i think we lost the george foreman

00:22:35.940 --> 00:22:38.319
episode but we did a whole thing to george foreman

00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:41.079
yeah for george foreman yeah and his amazing

00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:45.859
grills uh and yesterday i think yes yesterday

00:22:45.859 --> 00:22:47.900
was the 31 year anniversary of kurt cobain's

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death they found him 31 years ago tomorrow and

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i met him 31 years ago three days ago three days

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ago 31 you met him like a week before he died

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Two days before he died. It was the last day

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out in the city of Seattle. We were driving past

00:23:01.369 --> 00:23:03.410
him. I was on my way to the comic book shop below

00:23:03.410 --> 00:23:06.569
Godfather's on Denny at Broadway. And my sister

00:23:06.569 --> 00:23:08.349
goes, there's Kurt Cobain. And I was like, shut

00:23:08.349 --> 00:23:09.910
up. You don't know what Kurt Cobain looks like.

00:23:09.990 --> 00:23:12.630
I was 14. She was 11. I get out. It's Kurt Cobain.

00:23:13.190 --> 00:23:15.049
And I'm sitting there with my jaw dropped like,

00:23:15.109 --> 00:23:19.170
oh, what? And he stopped and talked to me, which

00:23:19.170 --> 00:23:20.630
was really cool because he didn't have to do

00:23:20.630 --> 00:23:23.529
that. I was just a kid. But, you know, he was

00:23:23.529 --> 00:23:25.779
like, hey. How you doing, man? You know, we had

00:23:25.779 --> 00:23:28.339
a quick conversation. It wasn't long, but I did

00:23:28.339 --> 00:23:29.880
get to meet him. And then two days later, he

00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:33.680
died. So hopefully I didn't, you know. Put him

00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:36.299
into a. Yeah, put him into a foul mood. Fuck

00:23:36.299 --> 00:23:43.440
that kid. It's ruined the world for me. No, I'm

00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:45.039
not Courtney Love. I didn't. I was not involved

00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:49.599
with that. Allegedly. Allegedly. There is a documentary

00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:52.019
on that called Curt and Courtney. Check it out.

00:23:54.220 --> 00:23:57.160
what other scuttlebutt we got well i actually

00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:00.319
i was just skimming through our discord which

00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:02.420
you've mentioned so please please join it because

00:24:02.420 --> 00:24:06.440
this is where we fish for some fun um scuttlebutt

00:24:06.440 --> 00:24:10.000
there is where to go my app i finally got the

00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:13.660
app for discord on my desktop which i can't believe

00:24:13.660 --> 00:24:17.660
it alex diaz Oh, no, no. Sorry. I like that one

00:24:17.660 --> 00:24:19.819
for a Patreon. US men's national team draft,

00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:22.480
11 picks. Yeah. Three of us against each other,

00:24:22.519 --> 00:24:24.400
no duplicates. We should do that for Patreon.

00:24:24.819 --> 00:24:26.380
Yeah, let's do that. Oh, you know what? I do

00:24:26.380 --> 00:24:27.559
actually have... But he also had another one,

00:24:27.680 --> 00:24:32.220
rank our strikers all -time MLS era. I think

00:24:32.220 --> 00:24:35.819
that'd be kind of fun. Yeah. I do have a bit

00:24:35.819 --> 00:24:38.039
of scuttlebutt, though. One thing that I do want

00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:40.380
to kind of just bring to people's attention,

00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:43.940
just because it's a potential good opportunity.

00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:48.299
This is not sponsored content, but I do care

00:24:48.299 --> 00:24:50.380
about our listeners, and I know a lot of listeners

00:24:50.380 --> 00:24:53.779
are very eager. Do they want to sponsor it? This

00:24:53.779 --> 00:24:57.599
is important. A lot of listeners are very eager

00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:03.380
to try and get World Cup tickets. FIFA this week

00:25:03.380 --> 00:25:07.160
has announced that because Club World Cup tickets

00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:11.740
are struggling to meet sales goals, that they

00:25:11.740 --> 00:25:14.440
are doing a special where if you buy a ticket

00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:19.140
package, you will get guaranteed access to a

00:25:19.140 --> 00:25:24.880
World Cup game. of your choice based on how many

00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:28.099
ticket packages you buy. Now we're going to disregard

00:25:28.099 --> 00:25:31.059
the super ticket package because that's 20 tickets

00:25:31.059 --> 00:25:33.599
and you have to use all 20 tickets, but there's

00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:37.420
only 23 unique match days. So that's almost impossible

00:25:37.420 --> 00:25:40.119
to do. But if you were able to do that, you would

00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:42.859
get guaranteed access to the world cup final.

00:25:43.359 --> 00:25:45.279
We're not going to talk about that. That's just,

00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:48.730
that's, that's. If you can afford to do that,

00:25:48.789 --> 00:25:50.869
you were already going to be able to get tickets

00:25:50.869 --> 00:25:55.589
to the final anyways. But more importantly, you

00:25:55.589 --> 00:25:58.690
can get a two -pack of tickets for Seattle games.

00:25:59.549 --> 00:26:04.470
Or Rose Bowl games. Or Rose Bowl games. For example,

00:26:04.730 --> 00:26:07.250
I had already gotten my tickets for all the Seattle

00:26:07.250 --> 00:26:12.160
games, the Sounders games. I got a ticket for

00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:17.539
River versus Inter Milan and a ticket for River

00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:22.160
versus Red Diamonds. And it came out to $130

00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:26.619
for the two tickets, $130. And that gets me guaranteed

00:26:26.619 --> 00:26:31.140
access to a game in the World Cup next year.

00:26:31.220 --> 00:26:33.519
Did you only buy one for that? No, I did buy

00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:36.099
two. I did buy two. I did as well. To the same

00:26:36.099 --> 00:26:38.819
games. Now, the caveat to that, there's always

00:26:38.819 --> 00:26:44.670
a caveat. is you do have to actually attend and

00:26:44.670 --> 00:26:47.569
use the tickets. And this is my going back in

00:26:47.569 --> 00:26:50.809
time situation, whoever's back to the future

00:26:50.809 --> 00:26:55.710
alarm that was. That was Aaron sending you a

00:26:55.710 --> 00:26:59.390
message to back up. I didn't have the balls to

00:26:59.390 --> 00:27:04.529
say it. Okay, there we go. So, yeah. Your ringer

00:27:04.529 --> 00:27:08.930
is now off. Okay. So you do have to actually

00:27:08.930 --> 00:27:12.690
use the tickets and you cannot resell the tickets.

00:27:12.769 --> 00:27:15.170
Right. So you have to go on those tickets because

00:27:15.170 --> 00:27:17.930
they'll be in your name. So now if you had already

00:27:17.930 --> 00:27:19.950
bought tickets to one of those games before,

00:27:20.049 --> 00:27:24.730
you can get rid of those tickets. And transfer

00:27:24.730 --> 00:27:28.049
them, but you cannot transfer these ones. So,

00:27:28.069 --> 00:27:31.109
yeah, I wonder because they're still through

00:27:31.109 --> 00:27:32.750
FIFA on those like the ones we bought through

00:27:32.750 --> 00:27:37.900
the. the club section. Yes. Yes. I've got tickets.

00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:42.900
The Sounders games. I bought through the, uh,

00:27:42.980 --> 00:27:47.099
Sounders allotment, the fan allotment. So I will

00:27:47.099 --> 00:27:49.859
be with all those Sounders fans. I did too, but

00:27:49.859 --> 00:27:55.079
I also have one ticket for, uh, Botafogo. Uh,

00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:58.680
I think, or no PSG that is separate that I bought

00:27:58.680 --> 00:28:02.220
in advance. Okay. Cause I also bought. the Inter

00:28:02.220 --> 00:28:06.380
Milan versus River Plate game through Ticketmaster

00:28:06.380 --> 00:28:12.240
and the general sale. So basically, Aaron, you

00:28:12.240 --> 00:28:15.779
could buy two tickets to the PSG or Inter Milan,

00:28:16.059 --> 00:28:17.700
I believe they both played the Rose Bowl in different

00:28:17.700 --> 00:28:20.880
matches, at the Rose Bowl, and that would guarantee

00:28:20.880 --> 00:28:25.359
you a chance to buy two tickets to a World Cup

00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:32.710
match. Any game except, it says any game, Excluding

00:28:32.710 --> 00:28:35.130
the final. Yeah. So obviously you'd have to be

00:28:35.130 --> 00:28:37.069
first come first serve, all that kind of stuff.

00:28:37.250 --> 00:28:39.690
But you could go see the USA play down there.

00:28:39.750 --> 00:28:41.750
You could fly up home to Seattle and come see

00:28:41.750 --> 00:28:45.190
them play up here on June 19th. Celebrate Juneteenth

00:28:45.190 --> 00:28:50.089
with us. But it could be a chance for you and

00:28:50.089 --> 00:28:52.369
Gracie to have a very special daddy -daughter

00:28:52.369 --> 00:28:55.690
date to an event that she will remember for the

00:28:55.690 --> 00:28:58.049
rest of her life. There are some terms and conditions

00:28:58.049 --> 00:29:03.619
where it does state that FIFA. could um restrict

00:29:03.619 --> 00:29:07.319
which games are available to choose from yeah

00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:11.519
always a threat with that in mind i just can't

00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:14.359
see that happening because it doesn't change

00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:18.799
the needle for fifa you know if if they sell

00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:20.880
it through the general on sale or if they sell

00:29:20.880 --> 00:29:23.660
it to the people who took advantage of this promo

00:29:23.660 --> 00:29:26.140
it's still being sold at the price that they

00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:30.410
set so i'm going to I optimistically believe

00:29:30.410 --> 00:29:32.910
they will operate in good faith for the spirit

00:29:32.910 --> 00:29:35.829
of this because the reality is they're probably

00:29:35.829 --> 00:29:40.730
only going to sell maybe 2 ,000 to 5 ,000 of

00:29:40.730 --> 00:29:44.109
these tickets is my guess because it's only really

00:29:44.109 --> 00:29:47.150
going to be people in those given markets that

00:29:47.150 --> 00:29:48.529
are going to be able to take advantage of that,

00:29:48.650 --> 00:29:52.430
I think. That's just me suspecting. Yeah, I don't

00:29:52.430 --> 00:29:53.750
think people are going to travel for the Club

00:29:53.750 --> 00:29:57.420
World Cup very much. There's not a second site

00:29:57.420 --> 00:30:00.039
in California, right? They're not playing in

00:30:00.039 --> 00:30:01.220
San Francisco. No, because there wasn't even

00:30:01.220 --> 00:30:03.200
supposed to be any West Coast states at all.

00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:07.059
But once Seattle lobbied for a spot, then they

00:30:07.059 --> 00:30:10.839
put the Rose Bowl in to give kind of a pod, which

00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:13.700
is why PSG, River, all of them are playing Bolts.

00:30:13.859 --> 00:30:16.900
Unless you're a super fan of one of the big European

00:30:16.900 --> 00:30:20.720
clubs, I cannot see traveling. But on the East

00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:22.980
Coast, it's much, much easier. If I was back

00:30:22.980 --> 00:30:26.319
home in Buffalo. The world's my oyster. I could

00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:29.259
go to multiple. That's what they say here in

00:30:29.259 --> 00:30:32.700
Buffalo. The world's your oyster. The world's

00:30:32.700 --> 00:30:34.500
your oyster and you're not going to win the Super

00:30:34.500 --> 00:30:36.720
Bowl. Those are the two things they always say.

00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:40.880
Wow. I walked right into that one too and I really

00:30:40.880 --> 00:30:43.700
should know better. Here's one that I'm going

00:30:43.700 --> 00:30:46.440
to give as a shout out to a kicker whose last

00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:50.420
name is Norwood. Mr. Scott Norwood. Won me 20

00:30:50.420 --> 00:30:54.559
bucks when I was 13 years old. He cried on TV.

00:30:54.779 --> 00:30:56.559
That would have been his career -longest field

00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:01.960
goal on grass, not turf. It was not an NBA kick,

00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:04.460
so fuck you. We're dating ourselves now. Most

00:31:04.460 --> 00:31:06.799
of our listeners are like, the Buffalo Bills

00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:12.799
almost won a Super Bowl? Let's get into the scuttlebutt

00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:13.960
of it all. I mean, they're not wrong because

00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:15.859
even though they went to four straight, they

00:31:15.859 --> 00:31:19.700
almost won one Super Bowl. There is an entire

00:31:19.700 --> 00:31:21.819
generation because back then they always sent

00:31:21.819 --> 00:31:23.799
the shirts for the losing team that said they

00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:25.900
won it to Africa. There literally is an entire

00:31:25.900 --> 00:31:28.460
generation of African kids. It's not a joke that

00:31:28.460 --> 00:31:30.259
I've seen the Seahawks ones that were sent away

00:31:30.259 --> 00:31:33.759
when they didn't win the second one. I have a

00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:35.900
2005 Super Bowl champion shirt, even though the

00:31:35.900 --> 00:31:38.559
Seahawks lost that one. There is an entire generation

00:31:38.559 --> 00:31:42.039
of African kids who believe that the Bills were

00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:46.279
a four -peat. Our dynasty. That Seattle Super

00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:50.079
Bowl was Bernie's 21st birthday. Oh, wow. I was

00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:53.440
also very drunk. Hey, I think I was just reading

00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:55.779
that we should, let's knock out a few of these.

00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:59.279
Yeah, let's do it. There's some great ones. Are

00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:01.140
we feeling like we don't really need to talk

00:32:01.140 --> 00:32:03.200
too much about that shit show, that San Diego

00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:04.940
who looked really legit? We mentioned it very

00:32:04.940 --> 00:32:06.859
quickly, but yeah, I think... Well, why don't

00:32:06.859 --> 00:32:11.079
we... I mean, a lot of these relate to that match.

00:32:11.220 --> 00:32:13.880
I don't think anyone wants to hear about how...

00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:15.819
And maybe we want to hear your experience as

00:32:15.819 --> 00:32:18.319
a traveling supporter for the first time going

00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:21.259
to San Diego. No other Sounders supporter before

00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:23.480
you and the people who are with you have done

00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:25.400
that before. That's true. I never thought about

00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:30.140
it that way. Yeah. Okay. Should we go with that?

00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:34.880
Let's wait until a little bit later and start

00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:36.319
with the scuttlebutt just so we make sure we

00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:39.740
get that in. Sounds good. All right, let's each

00:32:39.740 --> 00:32:42.240
pick one. Yeah, let's start with that rank our

00:32:42.240 --> 00:32:43.740
strikers, the amount of sounder strikers all

00:32:43.740 --> 00:32:45.180
the time that you brought. Oh, you want to do

00:32:45.180 --> 00:32:47.819
that? Yeah, I think that's a good one to do here.

00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:52.200
Okay. So what should we rank them to? Like, we

00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.299
can't, I mean, we can't do all of them. Top five

00:32:55.299 --> 00:32:59.940
each? Top five. Let's do top five as far as...

00:32:59.940 --> 00:33:04.980
And let's keep it to MLS era. Yeah. We know that

00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:07.259
there's other people before that. I mean, I have

00:33:07.259 --> 00:33:11.319
a Chance Fry jersey from when he was an awesome

00:33:11.319 --> 00:33:14.920
striker, but we're going to stick it to... You

00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.960
want to do top five for each of us? Yeah. We

00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:20.480
got that kind of time? I think so. We're going

00:33:20.480 --> 00:33:23.519
to have to explain ourselves. There'll be debate.

00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:26.700
I think there'll be very little debate. I think

00:33:26.700 --> 00:33:28.420
it'll be one or two players where you get actual

00:33:28.420 --> 00:33:33.519
debate. Chad Barrett, number one. Justin Dillon.

00:33:34.099 --> 00:33:38.119
All right. Sure. Cameron, why don't you kick

00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:40.500
us off? I'll kick it off. I said it first. Yeah,

00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:43.180
you did. Who's your number one? Why don't we

00:33:43.180 --> 00:33:45.079
start with who's your number one? Should we do

00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:48.210
one or we should start at five? I think we're

00:33:48.210 --> 00:33:50.309
going to have a lot of similarities in the top.

00:33:50.349 --> 00:33:51.809
Let's start at one because I have to go down.

00:33:51.930 --> 00:33:54.730
I wouldn't know where to put people until I'm

00:33:54.730 --> 00:33:58.549
lowering. But number one is Ruidius for me, hands

00:33:58.549 --> 00:34:04.930
down. I agree. He did it in fewer games. Yeah,

00:34:06.690 --> 00:34:12.349
he was amazing. When he was in his prime, just

00:34:12.349 --> 00:34:20.659
the things he could do were just amazing. I'm

00:34:20.659 --> 00:34:23.179
going to be a little different. I am going to

00:34:23.179 --> 00:34:27.239
say, I'm going to go ahead and say Freddie. Yeah,

00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:30.579
interesting. Not all four statistics, but because

00:34:30.579 --> 00:34:34.619
he was the first. Because he was the first goal.

00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:40.980
Because it was our first season. He set the record,

00:34:41.260 --> 00:34:43.219
you know, clearly. Obviously, someone's going

00:34:43.219 --> 00:34:45.539
to be the first to do that. But it stood for

00:34:45.539 --> 00:34:48.719
nothing. Not like we're 100 years old, but until

00:34:48.719 --> 00:34:51.280
fairly recently did that not get broken. He had

00:34:51.280 --> 00:34:55.780
two. Yeah. And we were an expansion franchise.

00:34:56.800 --> 00:35:00.159
He helped us. He also had 43 assists compared

00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:04.960
to only 14 from Raul and 30 from Jordan. So he

00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:08.400
had more goal contributions than Jordan has in

00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:11.820
his career. In less games. Yeah. And that was

00:35:11.820 --> 00:35:16.030
three seasons. Yeah. Like, obviously, he scored

00:35:16.030 --> 00:35:19.349
more in the two he was with us, but in those

00:35:19.349 --> 00:35:22.110
three seasons, that was pivotal for us to be

00:35:22.110 --> 00:35:26.570
the club that we strive to be now, but that we

00:35:26.570 --> 00:35:28.869
expect our club to be, you know, just perennial

00:35:28.869 --> 00:35:32.250
winners. Yeah. He was crucial for that, so that's

00:35:32.250 --> 00:35:34.869
why he's my one. Okay. Yeah, I'm there because

00:35:34.869 --> 00:35:37.090
he's my number two, so I'm right there with you.

00:35:37.170 --> 00:35:41.409
Okay. Wow. I actually have him as number four.

00:35:42.110 --> 00:35:46.860
Interesting. have him number four um but but

00:35:46.860 --> 00:35:51.000
we'll we'll get back to that um who's your number

00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:58.239
two aaron i'm gonna go with um clint debsey he's

00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:00.159
i don't know if i count him as a yeah that was

00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:03.340
the other attacking midfielder false nine that's

00:36:03.340 --> 00:36:05.619
why he's not up there he would be he would probably

00:36:05.619 --> 00:36:08.659
be my number two otherwise okay then raul okay

00:36:08.659 --> 00:36:13.980
i put jordan as my number two um um longevity

00:36:13.980 --> 00:36:17.500
homegrown he's got our goal scoring record uh

00:36:17.500 --> 00:36:20.639
that i feel like the reason i'm choosing jordan

00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:23.659
number two have to do with why you chose freddie

00:36:23.659 --> 00:36:28.300
number one that's just the way i see it i can

00:36:28.300 --> 00:36:31.239
see that okay do you have jordan do either of

00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:33.800
you have jordan in your top five yeah of course

00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:36.480
okay so where do you have him i'd say number

00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:39.179
probably number three i mean it was tough yeah

00:36:39.179 --> 00:36:43.179
just uh because the Oba was far more impactful

00:36:43.179 --> 00:36:47.539
in terms of goals and assists per game. But Oba

00:36:47.539 --> 00:36:50.099
also never scored in the playoffs. And Jordan

00:36:50.099 --> 00:36:52.619
has scored some goals, including one against

00:36:52.619 --> 00:36:56.539
Colorado to put us through to a final. So definitely

00:36:56.539 --> 00:36:59.380
I have Jordan right now as my number three. I

00:36:59.380 --> 00:37:02.940
think by the end of this season, he probably

00:37:02.940 --> 00:37:05.619
could get to number one if he comes back and

00:37:05.619 --> 00:37:09.900
is healthy. But it's going to take some convincing

00:37:09.900 --> 00:37:13.940
for me. I get that. What about you, Aaron? Three

00:37:13.940 --> 00:37:16.139
for me for Jordan. Is that the question still?

00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:20.019
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Three. He's three for me. So

00:37:20.019 --> 00:37:25.000
you had, he had, so Nick, you had number four

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:29.500
was, uh, Freddie. Yeah. Yeah. So who's your four

00:37:29.500 --> 00:37:34.019
Aaron? That'd be Oba. Yeah. That's I'm going

00:37:34.019 --> 00:37:35.760
to do stay over as well. That's my number three.

00:37:36.219 --> 00:37:41.349
Yep. Fair. Yeah. So I guess we've all in our

00:37:41.349 --> 00:37:45.050
four have unanimously Raul, Jordan, Oba, and

00:37:45.050 --> 00:37:49.070
Freddie in different orders. Now I see why you

00:37:49.070 --> 00:37:50.670
said we should go five. You're such a forward

00:37:50.670 --> 00:37:53.110
thinker. Yeah, five is going to be the interesting

00:37:53.110 --> 00:37:56.489
one, though, because I think there are a few

00:37:56.489 --> 00:37:58.989
candidates. There are multiple candidates whose

00:37:58.989 --> 00:38:01.610
stats are roughly the same. I would argue that

00:38:01.610 --> 00:38:03.650
one of them wasn't actually forward a lot of

00:38:03.650 --> 00:38:06.659
the time. I wonder if we're thinking the same

00:38:06.659 --> 00:38:11.059
person, but I know who I have. But I'll save

00:38:11.059 --> 00:38:15.340
mine for last. Yeah, it's fine. You can tell

00:38:15.340 --> 00:38:20.219
us it was Nate Jekyll later. You know, there's

00:38:20.219 --> 00:38:23.059
some interesting options. A -Bear, you know,

00:38:23.059 --> 00:38:26.440
of course, brilliant for one game. Hey, I'll

00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:31.519
be honest. I consider Sebastian Latu. One year,

00:38:31.699 --> 00:38:35.699
but kind of bridging that. Yeah, incredible for

00:38:35.699 --> 00:38:38.380
that year. And he went on to have a legendary

00:38:38.380 --> 00:38:41.400
status with Philly, but we just couldn't keep

00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:46.800
him. What about Showery Joseph for his one game

00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:51.820
in the playoffs? You magnificent bastard. But

00:38:51.820 --> 00:38:57.880
Aaron, who's your number five? I think the answer

00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:02.519
I should have is Will Bruin, but it is actually

00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:05.809
Roger Levesque. Interesting. Okay, so kind of

00:39:05.809 --> 00:39:10.630
in the same Latu type of answer. Not who my debate

00:39:10.630 --> 00:39:12.429
was between. I think my debate might be similar

00:39:12.429 --> 00:39:14.909
to you, Nick, if we're on the same page. Mine

00:39:14.909 --> 00:39:19.349
is Will Bruin, but Lamar Nagel is the one who

00:39:19.349 --> 00:39:23.230
just misses out. Lamar had more goals and maybe

00:39:23.230 --> 00:39:27.070
more assists as well, if we look at it. I can

00:39:27.070 --> 00:39:30.769
double check that. But yeah, Lamar Nagel had

00:39:30.769 --> 00:39:33.800
one more goal. and four more assists in two less

00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:37.539
games. This is a Ford. I feel like he played

00:39:37.539 --> 00:39:42.260
on the wing. Exclusively. I don't have either

00:39:42.260 --> 00:39:47.219
of those. Number five for the win. Chad Berry?

00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:51.599
Save me for last. I actually had to go with someone

00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:58.760
who I loved. Part of the reason why I think that

00:40:00.829 --> 00:40:03.949
It's part of the reason why Clint Dempsey came

00:40:03.949 --> 00:40:08.289
here. Eddie Johnson. Eddie Johnson. He didn't

00:40:08.289 --> 00:40:11.829
have the numbers overall, but he was extremely

00:40:11.829 --> 00:40:13.849
impactful. Well, he had the heart issue, but

00:40:13.849 --> 00:40:21.760
he did have 29 goals. in something like, I think,

00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:25.300
40 -some appearances. Total 49 appearances. 23

00:40:25.300 --> 00:40:28.500
goals and 49 assists. Well, that was 23 league

00:40:28.500 --> 00:40:31.659
play goals, 29 total goals. Total goals. So in

00:40:31.659 --> 00:40:37.860
not, like, what, a season and a half, season

00:40:37.860 --> 00:40:41.820
and a quarter? Yeah, yeah, 2012, 2013, that Amoeba.

00:40:43.659 --> 00:40:46.179
And it was in that era where we kept getting

00:40:46.179 --> 00:40:49.039
so many of our players called up to internationals.

00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:53.539
So we just kept losing Clinton and Oba and, and

00:40:53.539 --> 00:40:56.900
him and it just, and Brad Evans at that time.

00:40:56.900 --> 00:40:59.539
I'm not mad at that at all. I think that he,

00:40:59.599 --> 00:41:01.780
I mean, he's the only reason he didn't make it

00:41:01.780 --> 00:41:04.000
was because for me is because he was short on

00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.860
the short career here, but he definitely would

00:41:06.860 --> 00:41:10.260
be. I think he was six foot. So, I mean, he wasn't

00:41:10.260 --> 00:41:13.559
that short. Yeah, that's the funny thing. Clint

00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:16.139
Dempsey always looked really tall until he walked

00:41:16.139 --> 00:41:17.840
past me one time, and I'm like, I'm taller than

00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:22.260
him. Well, I mean, and I really love... Kenny

00:41:22.260 --> 00:41:25.280
Cooper was like 6 '4". I love that Eddie just...

00:41:25.280 --> 00:41:27.599
Beautiful pecs. He was able to score in different

00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:31.460
ways. Great getting on the balls from... Well,

00:41:31.519 --> 00:41:35.119
he gave us some of that forward flair and attitude

00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:38.579
that Clint did better. remember that one time

00:41:38.579 --> 00:41:41.039
he ran on the field and just kept running and

00:41:41.039 --> 00:41:42.619
then the play started and it was kicked in and

00:41:42.619 --> 00:41:44.099
then he just headed it into the goal he never

00:41:44.099 --> 00:41:46.280
stopped running yeah the moment he ran off the

00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:48.460
sideline i feel like that was was that the electric

00:41:48.460 --> 00:41:51.420
yellows or it might have been it was that era

00:41:51.420 --> 00:41:55.119
for sure yeah uh you know that's uh i will i

00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:58.639
have to give honorable mention though to uh nong

00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:01.809
league game but Marshawn Lynch, who played forward

00:42:01.809 --> 00:42:04.849
at the Steve Zaccowani charity match one time.

00:42:04.909 --> 00:42:09.230
In flip -flops. Then he got a red card for tackling

00:42:09.230 --> 00:42:12.690
someone. Was it that or for handling the ball?

00:42:12.690 --> 00:42:14.670
He handled the ball, but he did tackle someone

00:42:14.670 --> 00:42:18.829
as well. That was a fun question. I do like that

00:42:18.829 --> 00:42:22.349
one. I feel like we had everyone's five. I feel

00:42:22.349 --> 00:42:24.429
like if there was a vote for the fifth striker,

00:42:24.590 --> 00:42:27.750
our listeners would probably mostly pick a third.

00:42:28.740 --> 00:42:31.340
between there's not a lot of players that are

00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:35.880
sentimental there's impactful there's legit chad

00:42:35.880 --> 00:42:38.079
barrett had some great ones off the bench pickle

00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:42.179
juice chad barrett you know uh but outside of

00:42:42.179 --> 00:42:44.800
that a decade ago weird i mean blaze kufo in

00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:47.559
one season had 11 goals in five uh and five assists

00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:50.199
so Oh, no, he had five goals. Five goals in 11.

00:42:50.420 --> 00:42:52.800
No assists. Geez. He had three goals in one game.

00:42:52.900 --> 00:42:56.159
Yeah, that's pretty impactful. Estrada, David

00:42:56.159 --> 00:42:58.960
Estrada, but no. Another hat -tricker. Yeah.

00:42:59.860 --> 00:43:02.900
Pat Noonan. Cordell Cato. I mean, what other

00:43:02.900 --> 00:43:06.420
options? Noonan was midfield, wasn't he? The

00:43:06.420 --> 00:43:09.519
one hope that I really had was Miguel Ibarra

00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:11.739
was going to come in and score, and he had no

00:43:11.739 --> 00:43:15.159
goals in 12 games. We never talked about Hercules.

00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:18.820
We didn't talk about Hercules Gomez. Yep, no

00:43:18.820 --> 00:43:22.659
goals in 21 appearances. Darwin Jones, no goals

00:43:22.659 --> 00:43:24.860
in 11 appearances. He was a guy that I watched

00:43:24.860 --> 00:43:28.159
at UW dominate. Granted, it was the backup sounders,

00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:31.079
but still, pro players absolutely dominate. Didn't

00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:34.869
he win MVP in USL? I think he did after he left.

00:43:34.969 --> 00:43:37.769
Yeah. I mean, he went, he, he, but he never made

00:43:37.769 --> 00:43:40.110
it above the USL level. Like he was a guy who

00:43:40.110 --> 00:43:41.989
just couldn't put it together. And let's, let's

00:43:41.989 --> 00:43:44.110
keep that in our back pocket because I want to

00:43:44.110 --> 00:43:46.610
reference that a little bit later with the scuttlebutt

00:43:46.610 --> 00:43:50.210
question that comes up because. Yeah. Well, let's

00:43:50.210 --> 00:43:52.070
keep it going. Yeah, what scuttlebutt question?

00:43:52.409 --> 00:43:55.030
Yeah, you go ahead and throw that in while I'm

00:43:55.030 --> 00:43:56.730
thinking about Shauna Coley not scoring any points.

00:43:56.730 --> 00:44:00.210
Yeah, so, I mean, Patrick GC, should the team

00:44:00.210 --> 00:44:03.610
add De Rosario to Sakonome or both to the first

00:44:03.610 --> 00:44:05.449
team to help the offense in lieu of the ineffective

00:44:05.449 --> 00:44:08.690
non -more striker play? Well, this is the thing

00:44:08.690 --> 00:44:10.230
I got to tell you. I'm telling you straight up,

00:44:10.250 --> 00:44:12.730
Moose is better than both of those by a large

00:44:12.730 --> 00:44:18.340
margin. The gap between your... Your Moose -level

00:44:18.340 --> 00:44:23.760
MLS player and these MLS Next Pro players, it's

00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:28.280
night and day. I mean, and it's not a knock on

00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:31.619
those players. Who the hell is Moose? Danny Mussofsky.

00:44:31.980 --> 00:44:36.949
Oh. Sorry. That's his nickname. Mariner Moose

00:44:36.949 --> 00:44:39.110
is just sick of the Mariners. Oh, God, that would

00:44:39.110 --> 00:44:41.809
be amazing. Think about those big antlers. He

00:44:41.809 --> 00:44:46.130
can head all sorts of things. If we need offense,

00:44:46.329 --> 00:44:47.309
we're not going to get it from the Mariners.

00:44:48.469 --> 00:44:51.070
It's one thing to say, oh, yeah, look at this

00:44:51.070 --> 00:44:54.269
guy. He got a hat trick in MLS Next Pro. Yeah,

00:44:54.289 --> 00:44:58.590
well, who were the defenders? You have to realize

00:44:58.590 --> 00:45:03.320
that it's Division III soccer, maybe. That's

00:45:03.320 --> 00:45:06.199
where they are, but it's a developmental league.

00:45:06.380 --> 00:45:09.440
Yeah, and I'm not trying to shit on it because

00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:11.519
I know it's frustrating when we just can't seem

00:45:11.519 --> 00:45:13.820
to get the offense going. And it's not even that.

00:45:13.860 --> 00:45:15.420
You're just talking about their ability level.

00:45:15.539 --> 00:45:19.219
They're also younger, and there's also a completely

00:45:19.219 --> 00:45:21.940
different mental shift to come to this stage.

00:45:22.059 --> 00:45:24.360
Can you imagine your first game ever? Against

00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:28.840
MLS defenders. We expect you to make an impact.

00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:31.619
This is the first time you've been here. Atacoya

00:45:31.619 --> 00:45:35.239
is not on the team. There's a reason Adeneron

00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:39.500
couldn't last. And Adeneron was lighting up Tacoma.

00:45:39.739 --> 00:45:44.039
Had a... Bradelio Rodriguez. Bradelio Rodriguez.

00:45:44.260 --> 00:45:47.059
One of the best forwards Defiance ever had. Cannot

00:45:47.059 --> 00:45:53.059
catch on to a team. Andy Craven. This is actually...

00:45:53.059 --> 00:45:57.559
He was lighting up S2. We brought him out in

00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:01.199
MLS play against Colorado and just... crickets.

00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:08.900
I get it, but the talent gap between these is...

00:46:08.900 --> 00:46:13.719
That's why they brought in Ryan Kent. Yeah, and

00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:16.039
I'm excited about that. That's my problem. He's

00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:18.880
not a 9. We need a 9. He might not be available

00:46:18.880 --> 00:46:23.139
right now. When you watch Ryan Kent's highlight

00:46:23.139 --> 00:46:27.260
packages... you will see two separate things

00:46:27.260 --> 00:46:30.420
happening. One, a lot of work very wide on the

00:46:30.420 --> 00:46:34.420
touchlines working his way in. And two, a lot

00:46:34.420 --> 00:46:37.900
of times he's dead center of the field within

00:46:37.900 --> 00:46:40.559
it. So he's making those runs in those forward

00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:46.559
positions from, you know, I don't know if he

00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:48.760
was playing wing or where he was playing in those

00:46:48.760 --> 00:46:55.710
moments, but he's central. I don't want to get

00:46:55.710 --> 00:46:58.230
on the hype train too much for him. We got to

00:46:58.230 --> 00:47:00.010
see him play. He's got to see how he gels with

00:47:00.010 --> 00:47:08.010
teams because, frankly, Jesus Ferreira has a

00:47:08.010 --> 00:47:13.570
lot of really good skill sets and talents, but

00:47:13.570 --> 00:47:15.829
trying to gel with the team, and that's where

00:47:15.829 --> 00:47:17.369
we're at right now. That's been the problem,

00:47:17.409 --> 00:47:19.369
right? We know that he can score as a nine. He

00:47:19.369 --> 00:47:21.340
just can't. hasn't been able to connect with

00:47:21.340 --> 00:47:23.380
our players. And unfortunately, the first few,

00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:25.840
you know, the first, you know, four or five games

00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:29.000
of the season and all of preseason, if you look

00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:31.980
back at it, a lot of his success was coming when

00:47:31.980 --> 00:47:35.139
he was connecting with Areola on goals and assists.

00:47:35.380 --> 00:47:38.440
And they had so much familiarity with each other.

00:47:38.500 --> 00:47:41.019
And that's another reason why that Paul Areola

00:47:41.019 --> 00:47:44.980
hurts. It hurts. That was, I mean, that was,

00:47:44.980 --> 00:47:49.440
that was the gut punch. That was equivalent to

00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:52.260
JP going down in 2022. That's what that felt

00:47:52.260 --> 00:47:54.619
like. Yeah. And actually, that kind of goes up

00:47:54.619 --> 00:47:58.539
to Eric 13's Scuttlebutt, where what's something

00:47:58.539 --> 00:48:00.280
positive that you can take away from the whole

00:48:00.280 --> 00:48:04.539
organization this season? You know, three hints.

00:48:04.619 --> 00:48:08.039
Getting Ryan Kent in already, which he says,

00:48:08.159 --> 00:48:13.000
which is growth from JP's injury in 2022. Side

00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:19.420
note. I haven't even read that. JP's injury came

00:48:19.420 --> 00:48:24.260
one day after the deadline to put someone on

00:48:24.260 --> 00:48:27.199
the season -ending performance thing. So we did

00:48:27.199 --> 00:48:31.599
not even have an opportunity to do what we did.

00:48:32.090 --> 00:48:33.750
Yeah, we couldn't have brought in another player.

00:48:33.769 --> 00:48:37.090
If the game happened the day before, it could

00:48:37.090 --> 00:48:40.230
have happened. You would have had to make an

00:48:40.230 --> 00:48:44.949
agreement during the game. Literally, yeah. Defiance

00:48:44.949 --> 00:48:47.010
doing good and Academy players engaging with

00:48:47.010 --> 00:48:49.510
ECS at Defiance Open Cup match versus Spokane.

00:48:51.170 --> 00:48:54.670
One thing I will always say is I think the organization

00:48:54.670 --> 00:48:59.639
has it right with establishing the culture. what's

00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:03.039
expected and i think the um academy players engaging

00:49:03.039 --> 00:49:06.159
with ecs at defiant open defiance open cup match

00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:08.760
in spokane i think that's a big part of it um

00:49:08.760 --> 00:49:12.039
side note when we were in champions league final

00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.900
in mexico city right behind the 120 of us in

00:49:15.900 --> 00:49:19.360
ecs were everyone that did not make the game

00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:27.110
day 18 so they flew the entire um roster to Mexico

00:49:27.110 --> 00:49:29.889
city for that final. And they were all behind

00:49:29.889 --> 00:49:32.550
us. And just like, they wanted to be a part of,

00:49:32.670 --> 00:49:34.510
they could have watched it from the bench. They

00:49:34.510 --> 00:49:36.190
could have watched it from the suites. Instead.

00:49:36.369 --> 00:49:40.010
They wanted to watch half of the game with us.

00:49:40.409 --> 00:49:42.750
And, and it was just, it was really cool. It

00:49:42.750 --> 00:49:45.110
was, I will say watching that game though, the

00:49:45.110 --> 00:49:49.769
Spokane match at, at Tacoma defiance. Yeah. Not,

00:49:49.909 --> 00:49:53.429
not ECS because they have coordinated chance.

00:49:54.110 --> 00:49:58.170
But the yelling that some of the general fans

00:49:58.170 --> 00:50:02.269
were doing, including former guests of the show

00:50:02.269 --> 00:50:03.809
who were on Alliance Council with us that you

00:50:03.809 --> 00:50:07.829
could hear yelling, was so annoying and obnoxious

00:50:07.829 --> 00:50:10.690
that I could barely watch. I had to turn off

00:50:10.690 --> 00:50:12.989
the sound. It was driving me insane because all

00:50:12.989 --> 00:50:17.969
you could hear was... But, you know, that is

00:50:17.969 --> 00:50:22.150
what it is. It was their group. And you could

00:50:22.150 --> 00:50:23.929
hear Spokane fans who were really obnoxious as

00:50:23.929 --> 00:50:29.449
well. I mean, it's not going to top those SKC2

00:50:29.449 --> 00:50:36.510
fans that were for the Des Moines Menace game

00:50:36.510 --> 00:50:38.610
against the former MLS players. Oh, I didn't

00:50:38.610 --> 00:50:40.650
watch that one because I was so annoyed by that

00:50:40.650 --> 00:50:42.820
movie. It was great because they would... The

00:50:42.820 --> 00:50:46.900
30 of them would get chants of AARP and we can

00:50:46.900 --> 00:50:51.219
see your bald spot. I like that. I like that.

00:50:51.699 --> 00:50:58.199
And those cameras for the MLS or for the U .S.

00:50:58.219 --> 00:51:00.639
Open Cup games, it's basically picking up the

00:51:00.639 --> 00:51:03.739
microphone on the camera. So you can hear everything.

00:51:03.940 --> 00:51:07.349
And it was going over. the announcers calling

00:51:07.349 --> 00:51:10.730
the game. So the announcers were laughing. It

00:51:10.730 --> 00:51:13.289
was highly entertaining. What was being saying

00:51:13.289 --> 00:51:15.809
wasn't as clever. It was just like loud. Fair

00:51:15.809 --> 00:51:17.710
enough. Well, let's keep it going because I know

00:51:17.710 --> 00:51:21.449
you haven't slept in three years. Well, real

00:51:21.449 --> 00:51:23.889
quick, let's answer Eric's question from your

00:51:23.889 --> 00:51:26.070
side. What is something positive you could take

00:51:26.070 --> 00:51:28.369
away from the whole organization this season

00:51:28.369 --> 00:51:36.159
so far? I honestly think... 5 -2, I guess. The

00:51:36.159 --> 00:51:39.000
criticism of Craig Weibel, what he's been able

00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:41.239
to do, despite the fact that it hasn't worked

00:51:41.239 --> 00:51:42.659
out because of injuries, what he's been able

00:51:42.659 --> 00:51:44.219
to do with the amount of money he's been given

00:51:44.219 --> 00:51:47.579
has been pretty incredible. I love the roster

00:51:47.579 --> 00:51:51.820
he's built. I do, and I think we have a lot of

00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:55.940
depth. The one area where we have missed is I

00:51:55.940 --> 00:52:00.500
think we thought Jesus Ferreira could slot in

00:52:00.500 --> 00:52:03.219
the number nine position if needed, and it looks

00:52:03.219 --> 00:52:07.530
like that was wrong. I love the Jesus. He's still

00:52:07.530 --> 00:52:12.250
better at the nine than Georgie. But I love the

00:52:12.250 --> 00:52:15.389
Jesus signing because he's got the skill. I mean,

00:52:15.409 --> 00:52:17.489
you're seeing that. Where would we be? I mean,

00:52:17.510 --> 00:52:20.449
well, we would have lost our draws probably.

00:52:22.489 --> 00:52:28.190
So anyway. And I love that we identified the

00:52:28.190 --> 00:52:31.150
need and got a player of Ryan Kent's caliber

00:52:31.150 --> 00:52:34.670
in. Is it going to work? It could. It could also

00:52:34.670 --> 00:52:39.889
be late -stage Eddie Johnson -type deal, where

00:52:39.889 --> 00:52:43.090
it could be we don't know what we're getting.

00:52:43.289 --> 00:52:46.329
We don't know. But according to EAFC, and I think

00:52:46.329 --> 00:52:49.050
we talked about this maybe on the Lost episode,

00:52:49.269 --> 00:52:54.690
but he is the highest -rated player on the Sounders

00:52:54.690 --> 00:53:00.610
now on EAFC. Really? Yeah. Well, his pace, he

00:53:00.610 --> 00:53:03.820
was a... He was a kind of player that you could

00:53:03.820 --> 00:53:07.719
basically spam his pace. And if you were playing

00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:10.199
online against other people, he would be one

00:53:10.199 --> 00:53:14.320
of those Bo Jackson Tecmo Super Bowl dating myself

00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:17.519
here. But one of those players that you could

00:53:17.519 --> 00:53:24.940
really spam or Jeremy Roenick in NHL 94. Make

00:53:24.940 --> 00:53:29.659
Gretzky's head bleed. Yeah, I love it. You got

00:53:29.659 --> 00:53:34.139
it. But yeah, so that's... NBA Jam. Good question

00:53:34.139 --> 00:53:51.440
there. Hey, everybody. This is one of your hosts,

00:53:51.539 --> 00:53:54.480
Cameron Collins. Now, I know we said this time's

00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:57.360
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-T -R -E -O -N dot C -O -M. Now back to your

00:55:13.550 --> 00:55:22.869
regularly scheduled program. Let's go up to Alex

00:55:22.869 --> 00:55:25.150
Diaz's question. Yeah, I mean, I think there's

00:55:25.150 --> 00:55:28.510
a double that we should hit from him, which is

00:55:28.510 --> 00:55:30.449
if we can't win a trophy, should we be looking

00:55:30.449 --> 00:55:33.010
at SKC did with Peter Vermees and Fire Schmetzer

00:55:33.010 --> 00:55:36.329
slash? I think it's time we bring back the Siggy

00:55:36.329 --> 00:55:38.710
line and put Brian Schmetzer on the, he says

00:55:38.710 --> 00:55:40.960
chopping block, but hot seat. Is essentially,

00:55:41.139 --> 00:55:43.639
should Brian Schmetzer be on the hot seat and

00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:48.980
is his path similar to Peter Vermees? I immediately

00:55:48.980 --> 00:55:52.380
would say it. Well, yes, you obviously think

00:55:52.380 --> 00:55:54.300
I, you know, I think he should be on the hot

00:55:54.300 --> 00:55:55.539
seat. I don't think he should be fired right

00:55:55.539 --> 00:55:58.360
now, but I think it needs to be a question. But

00:55:58.360 --> 00:56:01.199
more importantly, you know that I despise Peter

00:56:01.199 --> 00:56:03.559
Vermees' style of play and I would never put

00:56:03.559 --> 00:56:05.880
Brian Schmetzer in the same boat. Peter Vermees

00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:08.199
is everything that is wrong with the MLS and

00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:10.789
the fact that he's gone. will make the MLS a

00:56:10.789 --> 00:56:14.889
better, more skillful league. Peter Vermees'

00:56:15.030 --> 00:56:18.309
teams went over 200 days without winning a game.

00:56:18.889 --> 00:56:25.650
They lost 13 of 14 games, and their 14th game

00:56:25.650 --> 00:56:30.010
was a draw. So let's just stop right there. Is

00:56:30.010 --> 00:56:31.880
he the coach that killed Siggy? I mean, oh, my

00:56:31.880 --> 00:56:37.039
God. I did not mean Ziggy. He was. He was. He

00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:40.019
snuck into his house on Christmas. Jesus Christ.

00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:43.019
I didn't even put two in there. Knocked on the

00:56:43.019 --> 00:56:46.059
door. It was like, hey, Ziggy was like, hey,

00:56:46.079 --> 00:56:49.579
Peter, how you doing? Merry Christmas. And I'm

00:56:49.579 --> 00:56:52.500
just going to stop right there. Yeah. He was

00:56:52.500 --> 00:56:56.940
still coach. He was. What do you mean still coach?

00:56:57.219 --> 00:57:01.369
Peter Vermees has coached. SKC for the entire

00:57:01.369 --> 00:57:07.250
Sounders MLS existence. It's so weird. Okay,

00:57:07.329 --> 00:57:10.349
so all kidding aside, first off, I love Ziggy.

00:57:10.550 --> 00:57:15.409
I hate Peter Vermees. His brand of soccer was

00:57:15.409 --> 00:57:21.869
just so... It was worse. It was... It was...

00:57:21.869 --> 00:57:27.610
It was trash TV. It was trash TV. So with that

00:57:27.610 --> 00:57:32.400
in mind, The thing is, I really hate this Ziggy

00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:37.079
line. I know you do. I really, really hate this.

00:57:37.559 --> 00:57:42.320
Yes, I see the results. Yes, I see where we are

00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:45.239
on the points. What that does not take into consideration

00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:48.019
is the way we look while playing these games.

00:57:48.420 --> 00:57:50.500
Now, granted. Oh, I think we look worse this

00:57:50.500 --> 00:57:55.340
year than we did. I do not think. No. We had

00:57:55.340 --> 00:57:56.900
two wins in that year, even though we're even

00:57:56.900 --> 00:57:59.170
on the Ziggy line. We had two wins. That year,

00:57:59.250 --> 00:58:03.150
right now. We only won right now. Which is a

00:58:03.150 --> 00:58:05.590
complete anomaly compared to the rest of the

00:58:05.590 --> 00:58:10.070
games. All our games. Antigua wasn't even that

00:58:10.070 --> 00:58:12.949
impressive. To me, I'm not saying fire him. I'm

00:58:12.949 --> 00:58:14.610
just saying, for me, he's on the hot seat because

00:58:14.610 --> 00:58:17.030
he never missed the playoffs once. He was only

00:58:17.030 --> 00:58:19.030
going to miss it the year he got fired. Brian,

00:58:19.230 --> 00:58:20.469
I don't think we're going to miss the playoffs.

00:58:20.610 --> 00:58:22.550
I actually agree with you on this, but I think

00:58:22.550 --> 00:58:25.730
he has to be in the hot seat pending whether

00:58:25.730 --> 00:58:29.969
or not we make the playoffs. I think it's too

00:58:29.969 --> 00:58:33.309
early to have that conversation being a huge

00:58:33.309 --> 00:58:37.010
talking point at this moment. I agree. We've

00:58:37.010 --> 00:58:41.309
got to get the injured players back. Let's get

00:58:41.309 --> 00:58:43.010
the injured players back. We've got De La Vega

00:58:43.010 --> 00:58:49.090
playing. I expect Jordan's going to do what De

00:58:49.090 --> 00:58:51.489
La Vega did this week, which is get 10 minutes

00:58:51.489 --> 00:58:56.079
at the end of the game. I think Ryan Kent is

00:58:56.079 --> 00:59:00.739
probably, my guess is, if the visa situation

00:59:00.739 --> 00:59:04.300
gets sorted out, let's pretend he's got his visa

00:59:04.300 --> 00:59:07.699
right now, I would say he's probably three to

00:59:07.699 --> 00:59:11.619
four weeks out is my suspicion. I think by the

00:59:11.619 --> 00:59:17.820
beginning of May, he would be in game day 18s,

00:59:17.820 --> 00:59:20.079
kind of in the Kim Kihee time frame. I think

00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:22.710
he could be in the 18s faster. He just wants

00:59:22.710 --> 00:59:24.610
to be starting or anything. He could come on

00:59:24.610 --> 00:59:26.230
for 10 minutes at the end, the way De La Vega

00:59:26.230 --> 00:59:29.230
did, start to get him into MLS play before that.

00:59:29.309 --> 00:59:32.110
When was the last time he played a match? Six

00:59:32.110 --> 00:59:37.010
months. I think July to October of last year,

00:59:37.050 --> 00:59:40.190
somewhere in that range. Yeah, so he didn't play.

00:59:40.409 --> 00:59:44.210
He had a falling out with Jose Moreno. And so

00:59:44.210 --> 00:59:47.750
he hadn't played in five months before we were

00:59:47.750 --> 00:59:51.489
getting ready to sign him. So I will say that,

00:59:52.829 --> 00:59:55.869
Not to get political, it's always tougher for

00:59:55.869 --> 01:00:00.130
visas when the Trump administration is in office.

01:00:00.869 --> 01:00:03.550
Because he's from England, maybe not as much.

01:00:03.889 --> 01:00:06.429
Yes, that's something he's got going for him,

01:00:06.489 --> 01:00:11.650
for sure. Dan the Bastard. By the way, shout

01:00:11.650 --> 01:00:15.889
out to Dan the Bastard. Third straight week leading.

01:00:16.050 --> 01:00:21.289
Wow. Winning the prediction challenge. You picked

01:00:21.289 --> 01:00:27.739
San Diego? He got all five, right? So he picked

01:00:27.739 --> 01:00:31.739
three, nothing San Diego. Oh my goodness. So,

01:00:31.739 --> 01:00:36.139
well, I mean, Dan, the bastard in his defense

01:00:36.139 --> 01:00:42.159
has, has been right. He's called out from the

01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:45.480
start of this without Jordan Morris. He's been

01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:49.900
very bullish on our struggles offensively. Yeah.

01:00:49.980 --> 01:00:53.639
And he's been right. So, Dan, cheers to you.

01:00:53.679 --> 01:00:55.579
I want to be the optimist. You're the realist

01:00:55.579 --> 01:00:57.980
in this situation. You've nailed it. You've nailed

01:00:57.980 --> 01:01:00.639
it. Three straight weeks. You're the Cameron

01:01:00.639 --> 01:01:05.119
in this situation. I often. OK. No, no. But like

01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:07.159
I often went against the sounders. Right. And

01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:09.099
I kept doing it because I was like, realistically,

01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:12.340
they're not going to win. And and then it became

01:01:12.340 --> 01:01:13.699
a joke because then they started winning and

01:01:13.699 --> 01:01:16.570
I had to keep doing it. Narrator. Cameron got

01:01:16.570 --> 01:01:19.429
zero correct this week. I did because I picked

01:01:19.429 --> 01:01:24.309
one nothing Sounders. I went three nothing Sounders

01:01:24.309 --> 01:01:26.070
because I was going with my daughter and I wanted

01:01:26.070 --> 01:01:28.690
all positivity. I did not have that much confidence.

01:01:28.929 --> 01:01:31.369
Don't judge me. You and I got a point and I think

01:01:31.369 --> 01:01:33.650
it was probably the over because I think we both

01:01:33.650 --> 01:01:36.710
took the over. Three. Okay, so you went there.

01:01:36.750 --> 01:01:38.130
You went to Augie's and then you went to the

01:01:38.130 --> 01:01:40.110
match. You were in the supporter section. First

01:01:40.110 --> 01:01:42.349
group of Sounders fans to do that for a San Diego

01:01:42.349 --> 01:01:45.429
match. How were the first six minutes of the

01:01:45.429 --> 01:01:50.650
match? How much fun did you and Gracie have for

01:01:50.650 --> 01:01:54.630
that first six minutes? Gracie was having fun

01:01:54.630 --> 01:01:57.449
initially because she thought just this is a

01:01:57.449 --> 01:02:03.130
fun. So that was what, 90 seconds in? Yeah. She

01:02:03.130 --> 01:02:06.250
just thought this is what it's like. Just the

01:02:06.250 --> 01:02:08.050
lights are flashing and people are cheering.

01:02:08.289 --> 01:02:12.670
And I was like, no, no. Here we go. This is going

01:02:12.670 --> 01:02:15.789
to be a night. As soon as that happened, as soon,

01:02:15.789 --> 01:02:18.150
and I watched the whole sequence of like, they're

01:02:18.150 --> 01:02:21.570
breaking us down right there in the box, right

01:02:21.570 --> 01:02:23.989
off of a, was it a corner kick, right? They just

01:02:23.989 --> 01:02:26.710
played it short of corner. Yep. When they played

01:02:26.710 --> 01:02:28.650
it short and there wasn't anyone within 30 yards

01:02:28.650 --> 01:02:32.650
of them, I was just like, we're fucked. And sure

01:02:32.650 --> 01:02:34.949
enough, they just passed it right in there. But

01:02:34.949 --> 01:02:38.920
Gracie had fun. In terms of proximity to other

01:02:38.920 --> 01:02:43.139
fans, it was kind of like they're pretty loose.

01:02:43.239 --> 01:02:45.840
I think they weren't concerned about us because

01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:47.980
I think I hadn't read any articles, but just

01:02:47.980 --> 01:02:49.860
for people talking, there was like stabbings

01:02:49.860 --> 01:02:53.079
and shit after the LAFC match or at least just

01:02:53.079 --> 01:02:57.460
violence. Wow. Can I just point something out

01:02:57.460 --> 01:03:01.739
real quick? I mean, just I did not have San Diego

01:03:01.739 --> 01:03:06.349
making the playoffs at all. In their first seven

01:03:06.349 --> 01:03:10.349
games, they've beaten the defending MLS Cup champions.

01:03:10.590 --> 01:03:14.369
Then again, so has everyone else. They've beaten

01:03:14.369 --> 01:03:20.150
LAFC. They've beaten LA Galaxy. They've tied

01:03:20.150 --> 01:03:27.630
Columbus. They've beaten us. They are doing it.

01:03:27.650 --> 01:03:30.110
It's not like they're playing against Chicago

01:03:30.110 --> 01:03:35.119
Fire every week. They're playing. teams that

01:03:35.119 --> 01:03:37.900
were expected to do really well and watching

01:03:37.900 --> 01:03:40.239
the way they were dictating how the game was

01:03:40.239 --> 01:03:43.900
played. I got to give them some hats off because

01:03:43.900 --> 01:03:47.400
that first half was a boat race up and down both

01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:49.679
ways. Everyone, both teams were just trying to

01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:52.460
do it and they were connecting on their passes

01:03:52.460 --> 01:03:55.639
really well and exposing us, especially in those

01:03:55.639 --> 01:03:58.280
pockets, the first five minutes of the game and

01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:00.780
the first last five minutes of the first half.

01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:06.260
Yeah. And just to correct you, there was not

01:04:06.260 --> 01:04:08.639
a stabbing, but there was a brawl that broke

01:04:08.639 --> 01:04:11.960
out. I was like, I feel like I might have been.

01:04:11.960 --> 01:04:16.900
Well, an LAFC fan sucker punched. There was a

01:04:16.900 --> 01:04:19.780
verbal altercation going on between an LAFC fan

01:04:19.780 --> 01:04:22.480
and a San Diego FC fan. And another fan walked

01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:24.659
up and sucker punched him in a blindsided punch.

01:04:24.900 --> 01:04:27.500
And then a brawl broke out. And then a brawl

01:04:27.500 --> 01:04:30.300
broke out. So ugly scenes. You don't want violence

01:04:30.300 --> 01:04:35.920
after matches. That's how you end up with the

01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:37.599
sport not being able to continue in the United

01:04:37.599 --> 01:04:40.679
States. Supporter culture will get crushed. The

01:04:40.679 --> 01:04:44.039
chanting issues that happened at the beginning

01:04:44.039 --> 01:04:46.400
of the season. It didn't seem, when I was there,

01:04:46.500 --> 01:04:49.340
everyone seemed really nice. It's not their supporters

01:04:49.340 --> 01:04:51.519
that were doing it, though. It's other fans.

01:04:52.079 --> 01:04:55.260
We were outside the stadium from their supporters,

01:04:55.460 --> 01:04:59.639
right? Our section entry was literally the opposite

01:04:59.639 --> 01:05:03.190
of theirs. And just everyone seemed pretty chill,

01:05:03.250 --> 01:05:06.269
but we also had a lot of, you could, I actually

01:05:06.269 --> 01:05:08.469
purchased my tickets off a ticket master and

01:05:08.469 --> 01:05:10.289
I could tell where the supporter section was

01:05:10.289 --> 01:05:12.170
going to be because that was the only corner

01:05:12.170 --> 01:05:16.010
of the stadium unavailable. So I purchased my

01:05:16.010 --> 01:05:19.670
tickets that way for Gracie and I, and it just

01:05:19.670 --> 01:05:22.389
seems like probably other Seattle fans who weren't

01:05:22.389 --> 01:05:26.690
with, you know, the March and ACS also did that

01:05:26.690 --> 01:05:30.170
because we. had a bubble of like blue and green

01:05:30.170 --> 01:05:33.289
surrounding us, but I didn't feel any, I was

01:05:33.289 --> 01:05:35.449
with her. My daughter was five and like, I didn't

01:05:35.449 --> 01:05:38.670
feel any certain way. No one was hostile. Didn't

01:05:38.670 --> 01:05:40.630
seem like a rivalry match. It just seemed like,

01:05:40.650 --> 01:05:42.710
Oh, that's great that you guys are here and have

01:05:42.710 --> 01:05:44.690
fun. I think it helps having a five -year -old

01:05:44.690 --> 01:05:47.530
around me, but you know, we had a blast and the

01:05:47.530 --> 01:05:50.849
weather was obviously killer. It was like 65

01:05:50.849 --> 01:05:54.809
degrees all night. Nice. That's great. Yeah.

01:05:54.909 --> 01:05:59.239
I mean, uh, I used to take my nephew to a lot

01:05:59.239 --> 01:06:01.079
of sporting events at that age. And Nicholas

01:06:01.079 --> 01:06:03.480
obviously takes Roma to a lot of sporting events

01:06:03.480 --> 01:06:07.639
at that age. So I think it changes the way you

01:06:07.639 --> 01:06:09.659
experience games, right? Because you can't react

01:06:09.659 --> 01:06:11.800
the way and be as bummed as you are because you

01:06:11.800 --> 01:06:13.820
want to have them have fun. Although I remember

01:06:13.820 --> 01:06:16.739
when Corbin was that age, I took him to a Mariners

01:06:16.739 --> 01:06:18.800
Blue Jays game and the Blue Jays scored and the

01:06:18.800 --> 01:06:20.780
stadium was so full of Blue Jays fans. He started

01:06:20.780 --> 01:06:22.440
cheering because everyone was cheering. So he

01:06:22.440 --> 01:06:24.130
thought. That was time for him to cheer. And

01:06:24.130 --> 01:06:26.210
I was like, no, no, no, wrong team. Stop having

01:06:26.210 --> 01:06:35.329
fun. Don't be a Canadian. Hey. Thunderbirds headed

01:06:35.329 --> 01:06:39.150
to overtime in their must win game six playoff

01:06:39.150 --> 01:06:42.130
in the playoff series against the Everett Silver

01:06:42.130 --> 01:06:44.429
Tips. You know, it's funny. So I was, I started

01:06:44.429 --> 01:06:45.769
to say the story at the beginning of the show,

01:06:45.829 --> 01:06:49.309
but I was in the car to get beer right before

01:06:49.309 --> 01:06:55.760
the show. Who listens to AM radio? No one. Especially

01:06:55.760 --> 01:07:00.619
not Randy. Alex asks this from Everclear Does.

01:07:01.659 --> 01:07:04.920
What a random reference. Yeah, I'm going to struggle

01:07:04.920 --> 01:07:08.659
to say it. I listen to 7 a .m. for Mariners games.

01:07:09.539 --> 01:07:12.059
Well, this is what's weird. Do you like that

01:07:12.059 --> 01:07:15.460
reference, by the way? Yes, it's awesome. I guess

01:07:15.460 --> 01:07:18.000
I'm not allowed to actually tell this story.

01:07:18.340 --> 01:07:23.599
Go for it. Now it's not even funny. I don't even

01:07:23.599 --> 01:07:26.340
get it. Okay, so I'm driving down the road and

01:07:26.340 --> 01:07:30.960
AM radio is on. I'm driving Randy's car. That's

01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:35.159
weird. And they're mentioning Seattle and Berakovsky.

01:07:35.340 --> 01:07:37.940
I'm like, what the fuck? I'm in San Diego. Why

01:07:37.940 --> 01:07:42.199
is she listening to Spotify? It was somehow on

01:07:42.199 --> 01:07:46.400
the 710, I presume ESPN, local station here,

01:07:46.460 --> 01:07:49.199
picking up the Kings are playing the Kraken.

01:07:49.699 --> 01:07:52.280
Oh, or that probably finished, you know, an hour

01:07:52.280 --> 01:07:55.219
and a half ago, but like we were up to nothing,

01:07:55.260 --> 01:07:57.940
I believe in the start of the second period.

01:07:58.099 --> 01:08:04.420
So that was the most cracking games I've followed

01:08:04.420 --> 01:08:07.139
all, all season actually. And I'm in San Diego.

01:08:07.219 --> 01:08:09.179
We up two to one with four minutes left in the

01:08:09.179 --> 01:08:14.280
third period. How about that? Against the flames

01:08:14.280 --> 01:08:15.880
with four minutes left in the third period. What

01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:21.470
a, what a day for my sports teams. See how quick

01:08:21.470 --> 01:08:23.670
it can all change? See how quick it can all change?

01:08:24.689 --> 01:08:28.090
Which is why even though the last match was a

01:08:28.090 --> 01:08:30.090
real bummer, the Sounders have another match

01:08:30.090 --> 01:08:32.550
coming up this weekend. Who are we playing against?

01:08:34.869 --> 01:08:42.359
I have no idea. Dallas? Yeah, Dallas. Yeah. At

01:08:42.359 --> 01:08:44.680
Dallas on Saturday, April 12th. We don't return

01:08:44.680 --> 01:08:47.619
home until the 19th against the Nashville, not

01:08:47.619 --> 01:08:52.180
Predators. Do they have Nashville FCs? I'm in

01:08:52.180 --> 01:08:55.100
hockey mode now. So traveling to Dallas. I didn't

01:08:55.100 --> 01:08:57.479
know how I feel about this. Leo Chu, of course,

01:08:57.500 --> 01:08:59.720
scored a goal in the one match that disappeared.

01:09:00.659 --> 01:09:03.270
Leo's going to have a hat trick, isn't he? Yeah,

01:09:03.329 --> 01:09:05.189
Leo Chu is going to have a chance to come back.

01:09:05.189 --> 01:09:07.010
We are not Sporting Kansas City. He can only

01:09:07.010 --> 01:09:09.529
score against Sporting Kansas City. That is true,

01:09:09.729 --> 01:09:12.409
but he has a chance to do something very funny

01:09:12.409 --> 01:09:17.250
for him and sad for us and destroy the team that

01:09:17.250 --> 01:09:21.189
gave up on him. I mean... I obviously thought

01:09:21.189 --> 01:09:22.369
that was a good trade and they should have given

01:09:22.369 --> 01:09:25.069
up on him, but here is a great opportunity for

01:09:25.069 --> 01:09:29.170
him. Keep in mind the struggles we're having

01:09:29.170 --> 01:09:34.500
offensively. last season were exacerbated when

01:09:34.500 --> 01:09:37.279
our option was let's bring Leo Chu off the bench

01:09:37.279 --> 01:09:41.920
and to put him in to get things. I mean, he was

01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:45.680
our guy. He was your son, Aaron. He was your

01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:49.840
son. Treated him like a father. Or someone was

01:09:49.840 --> 01:09:54.760
a father. Someone was the daddy. But no. And

01:09:54.760 --> 01:09:57.560
I liked Leo Chu, and I want him to have success.

01:09:58.409 --> 01:10:01.430
Just not next weekend. But I just really want,

01:10:01.489 --> 01:10:05.250
you know, Jesus Ferrer to have way more success.

01:10:05.710 --> 01:10:07.590
That's who I picked to score in this last game

01:10:07.590 --> 01:10:11.390
because I feel like. Leo Chu? That was a bad

01:10:11.390 --> 01:10:15.649
move. He's not even on my drop down. I wrote

01:10:15.649 --> 01:10:22.369
him in. I feel like it has to click. Every practice

01:10:22.369 --> 01:10:23.949
they're going to have more and more time. And

01:10:23.949 --> 01:10:26.539
I thought. And that was before I knew, like they

01:10:26.539 --> 01:10:28.640
talked about, oh, Georgie's going to play it

01:10:28.640 --> 01:10:29.899
forward, but I thought they were going to play

01:10:29.899 --> 01:10:31.579
with two fours and put Jesus up there with them.

01:10:31.720 --> 01:10:33.560
By the way, I never did. I think they would just

01:10:33.560 --> 01:10:35.760
put Georgie up there alone. I just want to point

01:10:35.760 --> 01:10:40.680
out. So when you're listening to certain pundits

01:10:40.680 --> 01:10:43.319
around, around sounder world, especially non

01:10:43.319 --> 01:10:49.029
-official sounders pundits. When they're there

01:10:49.029 --> 01:10:52.670
at Longacres watching practices during the week

01:10:52.670 --> 01:10:56.130
leading up to the games, they're seeing basically

01:10:56.130 --> 01:10:59.630
the formations that the team plans to be playing.

01:11:00.149 --> 01:11:03.489
They're seeing who they anticipate playing. So

01:11:03.489 --> 01:11:05.329
when they're like, oh, well, what do you guys

01:11:05.329 --> 01:11:09.090
think about maybe we should try putting Georgie

01:11:09.090 --> 01:11:13.810
as a forward? But they saw that happening in...

01:11:14.570 --> 01:11:16.729
You know, what's funny, though, is do you remember

01:11:16.729 --> 01:11:18.609
the time Brian Schmetzer came to the Alliance

01:11:18.609 --> 01:11:21.069
Council and walked us through the entire lineup

01:11:21.069 --> 01:11:23.310
for the next day's game? Yeah, he gave us the

01:11:23.310 --> 01:11:27.470
spreadsheet, the PowerPoint. He showed us what

01:11:27.470 --> 01:11:30.109
he shows the players and what they were going

01:11:30.109 --> 01:11:34.270
to do on set pieces and corner pieces. Corners?

01:11:35.210 --> 01:11:38.649
We're going to do castling. We're going to switch

01:11:38.649 --> 01:11:43.829
the rook and the king. But we saw, and then I

01:11:43.829 --> 01:11:45.850
remember the next day, the potential lineup for

01:11:45.850 --> 01:11:47.989
the Sounders came out from a pundit like that,

01:11:48.069 --> 01:11:50.489
and it was completely wrong. And it was just

01:11:50.489 --> 01:11:53.670
like, you were at practice all week, so either

01:11:53.670 --> 01:11:55.710
A, they don't always do what they're going to

01:11:55.710 --> 01:11:56.970
do at practice because they don't want the other

01:11:56.970 --> 01:12:01.350
team to find out, which is possible, or B, they're

01:12:01.350 --> 01:12:05.130
just practicing things in practice. He doesn't

01:12:05.130 --> 01:12:06.310
always mean they're going to play him, but that

01:12:06.310 --> 01:12:08.289
another reason to join the allowance council

01:12:08.289 --> 01:12:10.590
is every once in a blue moon, meaning I think

01:12:10.590 --> 01:12:12.569
twice in the last four or five years, because

01:12:12.569 --> 01:12:14.409
we often have other guests as well, or instead

01:12:14.409 --> 01:12:18.270
from the team, we do get coach Brian to come

01:12:18.270 --> 01:12:20.670
in and I get to ask him questions about how you

01:12:20.670 --> 01:12:22.630
deal with players because like Siggy Schmidt

01:12:22.630 --> 01:12:26.050
yelled at them. Not every player responds to

01:12:26.050 --> 01:12:27.670
yelling. Siggy was old school. That's not his

01:12:27.670 --> 01:12:30.149
fault. That's how you coached back then. He,

01:12:30.289 --> 01:12:33.539
and he said, Ozzie. You didn't need to say anything

01:12:33.539 --> 01:12:35.520
to Ozzy. All you had to do was slide him a piece

01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:37.739
of paper with his stats on it. And he'd be like,

01:12:37.760 --> 01:12:39.859
you're right. Never had to say anything. But

01:12:39.859 --> 01:12:41.140
there's other players you would have to give

01:12:41.140 --> 01:12:42.819
constructive criticism. And then there's players

01:12:42.819 --> 01:12:44.260
you'd have to yell at because that's what motivates

01:12:44.260 --> 01:12:47.180
them. You need to know how each player is motivated

01:12:47.180 --> 01:12:50.300
and bring that energy to them, which is why last

01:12:50.300 --> 01:12:56.439
year when he suspended Raul and knew who I didn't

01:12:56.439 --> 01:12:59.250
have a problem with it because. I guarantee you

01:12:59.250 --> 01:13:01.789
that was on purpose. And also, it may not have

01:13:01.789 --> 01:13:04.189
necessarily been for those two, although it clearly

01:13:04.189 --> 01:13:06.369
helped with those two. It could have also been

01:13:06.369 --> 01:13:08.189
a message to other players on the team and how

01:13:08.189 --> 01:13:12.970
they need to respond. And when the club players

01:13:12.970 --> 01:13:14.470
on the club were saying this is the tightest

01:13:14.470 --> 01:13:18.109
locker room we've ever had, I think that speaks

01:13:18.109 --> 01:13:23.149
volumes to that. You know, it was really fun

01:13:23.149 --> 01:13:25.890
last season. You know, that is one really nice

01:13:25.890 --> 01:13:28.770
thing is when you get to have these conversations

01:13:28.770 --> 01:13:32.329
with players. And honestly, it's not just Alliance

01:13:32.329 --> 01:13:34.510
Council. You know, you run into Craig Weibel

01:13:34.510 --> 01:13:38.390
walking the stadium on game days. Talk with him.

01:13:38.470 --> 01:13:41.270
I've run into him at Qdoba before. Talk with

01:13:41.270 --> 01:13:45.630
him. He'll be very strict. He will absolutely

01:13:45.630 --> 01:13:50.760
talk to you about things. You know, last year,

01:13:50.800 --> 01:13:54.260
Andy Thomas, we had probably a 45 -minute to

01:13:54.260 --> 01:13:57.840
an hour -long discussion about the methodology

01:13:57.840 --> 01:14:02.720
and the gamesmanship psychology of penalty kicks.

01:14:03.020 --> 01:14:06.340
Yeah. And we were just geeking, like all of us

01:14:06.340 --> 01:14:08.140
were just geeking out and just talking theory

01:14:08.140 --> 01:14:13.439
and game theory and just, it's really interesting

01:14:13.439 --> 01:14:17.449
conversations. So I guess that's where. I guess

01:14:17.449 --> 01:14:20.449
where I tend to get a little frustrated on the

01:14:20.449 --> 01:14:22.609
Internet, and I should not read the comments

01:14:22.609 --> 01:14:25.449
sometimes when it comes to, you know, especially

01:14:25.449 --> 01:14:27.909
like Facebooks and Twitters and things like that.

01:14:28.960 --> 01:14:31.560
Where I get really frustrated is if you want

01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:34.239
to make an argument, the argument's there. We're

01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:36.140
not scoring goals, absolutely. But when you're

01:14:36.140 --> 01:14:38.779
using hyperbole to make an argument that's just

01:14:38.779 --> 01:14:41.460
not really supported by the evidence in front

01:14:41.460 --> 01:14:44.539
of us, it's like, come on. There are plenty of

01:14:44.539 --> 01:14:47.239
good arguments that you can be making. Use those.

01:14:47.479 --> 01:14:49.779
Don't be lazy in your arguments. Yeah, I mean,

01:14:49.800 --> 01:14:53.380
last night, I tweeted after the match, I should

01:14:53.380 --> 01:14:56.600
say, and I think the comment was yesterday that

01:14:56.600 --> 01:14:59.789
came, that... I don't think Ryan Kent, and you

01:14:59.789 --> 01:15:02.050
disagree because you talked about what he can

01:15:02.050 --> 01:15:04.149
do scoring -wise, and that's good to hear. I

01:15:04.149 --> 01:15:08.369
don't think Ryan Kent is going to have the impact

01:15:08.369 --> 01:15:10.130
we hope he's going to have because he's not a

01:15:10.130 --> 01:15:11.829
forward, and that's what we need is a number

01:15:11.829 --> 01:15:15.050
nine, and I've still yet to see it. That being

01:15:15.050 --> 01:15:19.409
said, this individual said, someone else said,

01:15:19.470 --> 01:15:21.029
well, let's bring in someone over the summer,

01:15:21.130 --> 01:15:23.470
and they said, rightfully, the only space they

01:15:23.470 --> 01:15:26.699
have is for a U -22. you could bring in a player

01:15:26.699 --> 01:15:29.300
for the club world cup but yes overall that is

01:15:29.300 --> 01:15:32.779
that's it another i'll go ahead young young players

01:15:32.779 --> 01:15:36.880
are by no means a sure thing agreed again and

01:15:36.880 --> 01:15:39.840
this last clause i was like especially since

01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:44.979
weibel doesn't do any scouting what he has an

01:15:44.979 --> 01:15:47.439
entire staff of scouts scouting you don't even

01:15:47.439 --> 01:15:49.659
need to fly anywhere anymore every single game

01:15:49.659 --> 01:15:52.710
of every single team pretty much There's footage,

01:15:52.770 --> 01:15:55.189
yeah. There's footage you can bring up at any

01:15:55.189 --> 01:15:57.569
time and look at a player playing from any angle.

01:15:57.989 --> 01:16:02.750
Yeah. Yeah, and there's, yeah, yeah. So to that

01:16:02.750 --> 01:16:09.630
point, I want to say, the idea was always, you

01:16:09.630 --> 01:16:12.890
know, the idea was always they were not going

01:16:12.890 --> 01:16:17.229
to sign a U -22 in the winter transfer window,

01:16:17.289 --> 01:16:21.539
this current transfer window. they felt they

01:16:21.539 --> 01:16:24.380
put together a good roster to see, and that actually

01:16:24.380 --> 01:16:28.779
proves quite prescient. Because now it's clear,

01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:33.239
when you look at this roster, you have depth

01:16:33.239 --> 01:16:39.159
at every position except one. Imagine if they

01:16:39.159 --> 01:16:42.760
signed a U -22 winger, and now we have no ability

01:16:42.760 --> 01:16:45.600
to go out and sign a U -22 forward. And now there

01:16:45.600 --> 01:16:50.949
are some caveats. Yes. Caveat one. Yes, we basically

01:16:50.949 --> 01:16:58.569
have the flexibility to sign a U22 player. At

01:16:58.569 --> 01:17:05.369
this point, I believe Craig Weibel made a comment

01:17:05.369 --> 01:17:08.609
on the record saying that they are looking for

01:17:08.609 --> 01:17:11.529
not a project like a Leo Chu, where it took him

01:17:11.529 --> 01:17:13.810
a while to ramp up into that, but someone who

01:17:13.810 --> 01:17:16.189
can contribute burst team minutes immediately.

01:17:19.590 --> 01:17:22.069
That's all they want to sign in these types of

01:17:22.069 --> 01:17:23.770
positions are players who are going to challenge

01:17:23.770 --> 01:17:25.310
for minutes. There's no point in signing someone

01:17:25.310 --> 01:17:26.649
who's going to sit on the bench. Not a problem.

01:17:27.390 --> 01:17:33.510
With that in mind, I do think that the other

01:17:33.510 --> 01:17:38.189
challenge is this is the most difficult thing

01:17:38.189 --> 01:17:41.970
to find an under -22 striker. They're going to

01:17:41.970 --> 01:17:44.909
have to pay some money. At a price that is realistically

01:17:44.909 --> 01:17:49.039
within our wheelhouse. I would expect now keep

01:17:49.039 --> 01:17:51.619
my, we transferred Leo chew in for like, I think

01:17:51.619 --> 01:17:54.979
two to 3 million, somewhere in that range. I

01:17:54.979 --> 01:17:58.560
honestly believe that when we identify that you

01:17:58.560 --> 01:18:00.699
22 player, we're probably going to end up paying

01:18:00.699 --> 01:18:04.199
somewhere in the five to 7 million range is my

01:18:04.199 --> 01:18:07.319
suspicion. That's my, that's my strong suspicion.

01:18:07.399 --> 01:18:09.680
We're not going to go sign a $14 million player.

01:18:09.779 --> 01:18:12.800
That would have been a DP level player. I think

01:18:12.800 --> 01:18:15.689
they're a little risk averse on that. Um, some

01:18:15.689 --> 01:18:17.770
teams have done that to different degrees of

01:18:17.770 --> 01:18:21.930
success, Atlanta United. Um, but it's just, we

01:18:21.930 --> 01:18:24.670
know it's not realistic. So, but I mean, they

01:18:24.670 --> 01:18:26.350
could land on that and it's going to be an amazing

01:18:26.350 --> 01:18:29.670
player. So go ahead. I was going to say before

01:18:29.670 --> 01:18:32.850
we got to start getting close to pulling it into

01:18:32.850 --> 01:18:36.350
port and we haven't talked about Dallas predictions

01:18:36.350 --> 01:18:38.430
yet. So finish your thought and then we'll go

01:18:38.430 --> 01:18:41.670
to that. Yeah, Aaron, what do you think? Okay,

01:18:41.770 --> 01:18:45.590
so I think we're going to see a summer transfer

01:18:45.590 --> 01:18:49.369
U22 player. It will probably be as a striker

01:18:49.369 --> 01:18:52.050
position. I think it's very clear that that is

01:18:52.050 --> 01:18:56.470
the gap that we need to fill. We've got a lot

01:18:56.470 --> 01:18:59.550
of wingers. We've got a lot of creativity in

01:18:59.550 --> 01:19:04.829
there. That gives us potentially more tactical

01:19:04.829 --> 01:19:11.489
flexibility. having a two -striker setup. And

01:19:11.489 --> 01:19:14.090
I do think Ferreira will figure it out at the

01:19:14.090 --> 01:19:16.229
nine. That won't be his most effective position,

01:19:16.409 --> 01:19:18.670
but by the end of the season, playoff time, if

01:19:18.670 --> 01:19:20.270
he had to, I think he can play that position.

01:19:20.470 --> 01:19:25.329
And he'll be more assimilated to just his teammates

01:19:25.329 --> 01:19:29.949
and knowing where to be. Did I read that Rusnak

01:19:29.949 --> 01:19:33.270
is hurt? I saw something about that on our Discord,

01:19:33.369 --> 01:19:35.260
but I don't know if they were just... surmising

01:19:35.260 --> 01:19:39.819
that maybe Jesus because he's our one goal in

01:19:39.819 --> 01:19:43.180
the list. Right. But Jesus is proper position

01:19:43.180 --> 01:19:45.060
could be dropping back to that 10. He would be

01:19:45.060 --> 01:19:47.159
incredible in that position. So if that's the

01:19:47.159 --> 01:19:51.180
case, I'm not as worried about it. Yeah. I don't

01:19:51.180 --> 01:19:53.960
know anything about that as of right now. But

01:19:53.960 --> 01:20:00.199
I can't tell you when Jesus and Albert are on

01:20:00.199 --> 01:20:03.270
the field together. They got to kind of really

01:20:03.270 --> 01:20:05.590
learn how to operate in each other's space, and

01:20:05.590 --> 01:20:08.010
I think they're working on that when they get

01:20:08.010 --> 01:20:13.630
that dialed in. I think we'll... I think, if

01:20:13.630 --> 01:20:16.029
I'm being completely honest, the problem we have

01:20:16.029 --> 01:20:17.670
in front of us right now reminds me a lot of

01:20:17.670 --> 01:20:20.810
the 2013 Sounders, that Amoeba type of offense

01:20:20.810 --> 01:20:23.729
where you had Dempsey and Oba and Mauro Rosales

01:20:23.729 --> 01:20:27.909
and... and eddie johnson and like how do you

01:20:27.909 --> 01:20:30.609
fit them all on the field and get them to interact

01:20:30.609 --> 01:20:34.569
with each other properly and it i hope it doesn't

01:20:34.569 --> 01:20:37.890
all this seems very forced yeah i hope i hope

01:20:37.890 --> 01:20:41.069
it doesn't have similar results because it was

01:20:41.069 --> 01:20:45.310
a struggle um where we had all the pieces for

01:20:45.310 --> 01:20:51.880
that great 2014 team but I hope this isn't the

01:20:51.880 --> 01:20:55.659
year before the year kind of situation. I'd be

01:20:55.659 --> 01:20:57.380
okay with it if it's the year before the year.

01:20:57.479 --> 01:20:59.880
I'd be okay if we're winning. And the next year

01:20:59.880 --> 01:21:03.279
we won the Supporter Shield, I believe. And the

01:21:03.279 --> 01:21:06.000
U .S. Open Cup. And we're one goal away from

01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:09.539
winning MLS Cup. Yeah, yeah. If you're telling

01:21:09.539 --> 01:21:11.479
me that we got to not make the playoffs this

01:21:11.479 --> 01:21:13.699
year, we did make the playoffs. We did. To nearly

01:21:13.699 --> 01:21:17.239
get a treble. To, yeah, have a chance at a treble

01:21:17.239 --> 01:21:19.760
the next year. Yeah, I'm taking it. Absolutely.

01:21:20.540 --> 01:21:23.979
But because I think we've got Ryan Kent as a

01:21:23.979 --> 01:21:26.899
one -and -one option here. We've got Jesus locked

01:21:26.899 --> 01:21:29.140
up, Paul Areola. That one's going to be – I don't

01:21:29.140 --> 01:21:31.079
want to rely too much on Paul Areola coming back

01:21:31.079 --> 01:21:34.420
from an injury. I think his effectiveness you're

01:21:34.420 --> 01:21:37.659
looking at maybe about this time of the regular

01:21:37.659 --> 01:21:40.479
season next year before he starts getting effective

01:21:40.479 --> 01:21:43.140
again. It depends. I mean, Adrian Peterson managed

01:21:43.140 --> 01:21:44.840
to do it in six months, so you know it's always

01:21:44.840 --> 01:21:46.960
possible. But it's very dependent on a player's

01:21:46.960 --> 01:21:50.619
body, and soccer tends to be – players who uh

01:21:50.619 --> 01:21:54.220
are more cautious around that even though even

01:21:54.220 --> 01:21:56.000
though adrian peterson was cutting while doing

01:21:56.000 --> 01:21:58.640
that but the the positive is that he's got someone

01:21:58.640 --> 01:22:00.460
who's gone through it twice right in the locker

01:22:00.460 --> 01:22:03.079
room with them yeah and jordan morris and he

01:22:03.079 --> 01:22:05.239
was there when he he was there when he tore his

01:22:05.239 --> 01:22:11.359
jp yeah and jp yeah but so i i'm optimistic But

01:22:11.359 --> 01:22:13.520
I like having that insurance policy of Ryan Kent.

01:22:13.619 --> 01:22:14.720
And actually, I don't even want to say insurance

01:22:14.720 --> 01:22:17.000
policy because I do think that. He's going to

01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:19.039
be quality. We haven't really talked about him

01:22:19.039 --> 01:22:21.859
because our last show was lost. I mean, we'll

01:22:21.859 --> 01:22:24.199
get more into him when we have more time and

01:22:24.199 --> 01:22:28.479
start seeing him on the field. Totally agree

01:22:28.479 --> 01:22:32.770
with all that. Dallas coming up. Should be an

01:22:32.770 --> 01:22:35.369
interesting game, obviously, on the road in Dallas.

01:22:35.489 --> 01:22:38.210
It's a 5 .30 p .m. start Seattle time, which

01:22:38.210 --> 01:22:41.229
means 7 .30 p .m. Dallas time. So even though

01:22:41.229 --> 01:22:44.449
we're only in April and it could still get hot

01:22:44.449 --> 01:22:48.529
there, I'm not expecting a lot of heat, I would

01:22:48.529 --> 01:22:53.689
say. In fact, right now, Google has a 36 % chance

01:22:53.689 --> 01:22:56.189
of a Dallas win, a 36 % chance of a Sounders

01:22:56.189 --> 01:23:00.449
win, and a 28 % chance of a draw. Dallas currently

01:23:00.449 --> 01:23:05.390
6 -8. I mean, Dallas is shipping goals like Seattle

01:23:05.390 --> 01:23:08.810
as well. They've allowed one less goal than us.

01:23:09.069 --> 01:23:11.949
Yeah, they scored four in three matches, though.

01:23:12.109 --> 01:23:14.369
Yeah, they had three wins, two draws, two losses,

01:23:14.449 --> 01:23:17.229
so obviously ahead of us, but by what, four points?

01:23:17.649 --> 01:23:20.909
Yeah, I mean, Peter Moussa's definitely got some

01:23:20.909 --> 01:23:24.220
talent there. Yeah, yep. uh they tied atlanta

01:23:24.220 --> 01:23:26.880
in their last match beat sporting kc the match

01:23:26.880 --> 01:23:29.180
before that obviously not a big thing beat dallas

01:23:29.180 --> 01:23:32.199
i mean beat salt lake the match before that but

01:23:32.199 --> 01:23:35.399
salt lake got a red card in the 23rd minute and

01:23:35.399 --> 01:23:39.199
the goal was in the 45th plus seven uh and the

01:23:39.199 --> 01:23:41.699
match before that they beat sporting kc again

01:23:41.699 --> 01:23:44.439
oh wait no other way around uh i switched my

01:23:44.439 --> 01:23:45.939
source so it went back but don't forget they

01:23:45.939 --> 01:23:48.500
also got lucho acosta so i mean yeah the loss

01:23:48.500 --> 01:23:51.760
to vancouver which that's Everyone's losing to

01:23:51.760 --> 01:23:54.319
Vancouver, right? This Vancouver team is in first

01:23:54.319 --> 01:23:58.539
place with five wins. So not a team you can sleep

01:23:58.539 --> 01:24:00.159
on right now. Sounders, oh, we have six points.

01:24:00.199 --> 01:24:02.579
Excuse me, not seven. So we are five back of

01:24:02.579 --> 01:24:06.060
Dallas, but we have one more draw than them,

01:24:06.079 --> 01:24:09.560
one more loss from them. It doesn't show that

01:24:09.560 --> 01:24:11.340
they're that much better of a team right now.

01:24:11.539 --> 01:24:15.560
Going into the game, just get ahead of it. When

01:24:15.560 --> 01:24:18.500
you watch the game on TV, they're doing construction

01:24:18.500 --> 01:24:22.020
on their... one side of the field. So it's all

01:24:22.020 --> 01:24:23.899
under tarp. So it's going to look like their

01:24:23.899 --> 01:24:27.199
attendance is embarrassing. We only have 11 ,000

01:24:27.199 --> 01:24:30.439
capacity right now. Yeah, it is. It is a, the

01:24:30.439 --> 01:24:32.140
one whole side of the field, the side that's

01:24:32.140 --> 01:24:34.079
on the camera is under tarp and they're like,

01:24:34.159 --> 01:24:38.479
wow, that sucks. But it's just unfortunate. Can

01:24:38.479 --> 01:24:40.739
I just say St. Louis only has four goals on the

01:24:40.739 --> 01:24:42.380
season, but they've only given up four goals.

01:24:42.439 --> 01:24:45.079
So they're also at zero, but at least, at least

01:24:45.079 --> 01:24:52.960
more than four goals. Jesus. Oh, gosh. San Jose

01:24:52.960 --> 01:24:55.039
destroyed the team they played this weekend.

01:24:55.159 --> 01:24:57.720
So some of our losses don't look as bad. And

01:24:57.720 --> 01:24:59.779
LAFC is in ninth place, so maybe that win actually

01:24:59.779 --> 01:25:02.039
looks better than it is. They are either good

01:25:02.039 --> 01:25:04.359
or terrible. Three wins, four losses. San Jose,

01:25:04.579 --> 01:25:06.859
I think, did they score six this past week? Something

01:25:06.859 --> 01:25:10.560
crazy like that. They did, yeah. I mean, Josef

01:25:10.560 --> 01:25:15.600
Martinez, Joseph Martinez had a hattie. And I

01:25:15.600 --> 01:25:18.619
mean, yeah, hindsight 2020 kind of going, oh,

01:25:18.640 --> 01:25:20.479
we could have. Why didn't we sign someone like

01:25:20.479 --> 01:25:25.239
Joseph Martinez as our backup nine? Here's the

01:25:25.239 --> 01:25:27.819
thing. It's a locker room transition. You put

01:25:27.819 --> 01:25:31.159
a superstar like him. It's the same situation

01:25:31.159 --> 01:25:34.079
with Raul last year. You know, if you have someone

01:25:34.079 --> 01:25:37.060
who. I would have been happy with him. I would

01:25:37.060 --> 01:25:40.140
have been stoked. It could have caused. The idea

01:25:40.140 --> 01:25:42.920
of it, but he is not always well liked by some

01:25:42.920 --> 01:25:47.850
of his teammates. And if you're getting in a

01:25:47.850 --> 01:25:51.189
situation where – it's like signing Russell Wilson

01:25:51.189 --> 01:25:53.729
to be your backup quarterback. It's going to

01:25:53.729 --> 01:25:55.829
potentially bite you in the ass. That's going

01:25:55.829 --> 01:25:59.289
to be hilarious. He's going to be starting in

01:25:59.289 --> 01:26:01.489
New York Giants. Come on. Just that quarterback

01:26:01.489 --> 01:26:04.569
room. But same thing. Look at Atlanta last year

01:26:04.569 --> 01:26:06.170
when Kirk Cousins was having a little bit of

01:26:06.170 --> 01:26:07.729
a struggle. Everyone's like, bring in Michael

01:26:07.729 --> 01:26:10.050
Penix. Bring in Michael Penix. Same idea. The

01:26:10.050 --> 01:26:11.970
moment Jordan Morris has a little bit of struggle,

01:26:12.010 --> 01:26:14.510
it's like, bring in Joseph Martinez. Penix. Penix.

01:26:15.689 --> 01:26:18.789
You just want to say it that way? I like saying

01:26:18.789 --> 01:26:21.189
it that way. I will say Joseph Martinez is only

01:26:21.189 --> 01:26:26.310
making $1 .3 million this year. Okay, then we

01:26:26.310 --> 01:26:28.689
wouldn't have even been able to. More cap space

01:26:28.689 --> 01:26:31.050
than we could have afforded to bring him in.

01:26:31.229 --> 01:26:34.449
But still a great deal where he probably could

01:26:34.449 --> 01:26:35.930
have gotten more money elsewhere, but went to

01:26:35.930 --> 01:26:40.369
play for Bruce Arena. Yeah. Okay, we got to wrap

01:26:40.369 --> 01:26:42.909
this up. We got to bring it in. And first, we

01:26:42.909 --> 01:26:44.930
also, before anything else, have to mention our

01:26:44.930 --> 01:26:47.270
Patreon. Yeah, but you got to say before that,

01:26:47.350 --> 01:26:50.029
even Dallas score. You have the right to change

01:26:50.029 --> 01:26:51.829
it before we get, when we actually get to it.

01:26:51.850 --> 01:26:53.750
But just from talking today, what's your score?

01:26:54.400 --> 01:26:59.119
We're losing. Okay. By how many? 1 -0 them. I

01:26:59.119 --> 01:27:02.239
still don't see a goal in our future. We are

01:27:02.239 --> 01:27:05.199
going to have Pedro starting, most likely. I

01:27:05.199 --> 01:27:10.640
need to see it before I believe it. Okay. Do

01:27:10.640 --> 01:27:16.600
you think Pedro and Jesus will start the game?

01:27:17.039 --> 01:27:19.939
Do you think we'll bring Jesus back up at the

01:27:19.939 --> 01:27:24.149
9? I don't know who else. Unless Danny Mazovsky

01:27:24.149 --> 01:27:27.729
is ready. Against his former team. Get that former

01:27:27.729 --> 01:27:32.590
team bump. What's your score then? 2 -1 Seattle.

01:27:34.069 --> 01:27:37.869
I'm going to go 2 -0 Dallas. I just think Moose

01:27:37.869 --> 01:27:41.390
is too good. Dan the Bastard, you're getting

01:27:41.390 --> 01:27:46.449
people onto your side. Stop it. To the point

01:27:46.449 --> 01:27:50.630
where Mr. Lingley here said maybe we need to

01:27:50.630 --> 01:27:54.039
start talking about Moving on from Brian Schmetzer

01:27:54.039 --> 01:27:58.800
on the Discord. I did say that. You didn't say

01:27:58.800 --> 01:28:01.060
we should. I think I also followed that with

01:28:01.060 --> 01:28:07.699
I've had a few margaritas. You embellish things

01:28:07.699 --> 01:28:12.199
in a truthful way when you're drunk. I will just

01:28:12.199 --> 01:28:16.300
say this. I've gotten to interact with Brian

01:28:16.300 --> 01:28:19.300
Schmetzer on multiple occasions and seeing his

01:28:19.300 --> 01:28:24.380
style. There is no world in which Brian Schmetzer

01:28:24.380 --> 01:28:28.720
would allow his team to do what Peter Vermees

01:28:28.720 --> 01:28:31.420
did that ended up getting him sacked. Agreed.

01:28:31.600 --> 01:28:34.680
There are wins in our future. And he would leave

01:28:34.680 --> 01:28:36.500
before that ever happened. That's what I'm getting

01:28:36.500 --> 01:28:41.119
at, is he would step down before. If he's not

01:28:41.119 --> 01:28:43.529
able to coach a team, he will leave. Yeah. And

01:28:43.529 --> 01:28:46.510
I fully believe that. And when he says we are

01:28:46.510 --> 01:28:50.069
stewards, I 100 % believe that. And I don't think

01:28:50.069 --> 01:28:53.810
he's got the ego to feel like, oh, I can change

01:28:53.810 --> 01:28:57.069
this when he can't. And I think he has earned

01:28:57.069 --> 01:29:03.250
the benefit of the doubt. So with that in mind,

01:29:03.289 --> 01:29:05.510
let's get back to some optimism. I feel like

01:29:05.510 --> 01:29:07.970
the optimism comes back on. Let's start it against

01:29:07.970 --> 01:29:10.449
Dallas. Join the Patreon. That's an optimistic

01:29:10.449 --> 01:29:13.739
thing to do. We have some great Patreon members

01:29:13.739 --> 01:29:16.300
that we love and we're going to be getting you

01:29:16.300 --> 01:29:19.579
even more episodes beyond the secret lost one

01:29:19.579 --> 01:29:21.359
that you got. That was the choose your own adventure

01:29:21.359 --> 01:29:25.159
episode. I am going to eventually cut my own.

01:29:25.239 --> 01:29:27.779
I'm going to take snippets of that episode and

01:29:27.779 --> 01:29:30.899
start changing what I said. I don't think that's,

01:29:30.899 --> 01:29:34.739
I think, I think we need a better show for Patreon,

01:29:34.840 --> 01:29:37.350
but I think that would be the best. oh yeah we're

01:29:37.350 --> 01:29:40.710
gonna have plenty of stuff you know it's an hour

01:29:40.710 --> 01:29:43.350
show where i've got to take what was said and

01:29:43.350 --> 01:29:44.869
i gotta come up with something clever to put

01:29:44.869 --> 01:29:47.770
in instead but yeah we'll just stay awake for

01:29:47.770 --> 01:29:50.770
like two more days and then do it it'll be incredible

01:29:50.770 --> 01:29:53.569
that'll be the best show ever Just stream of

01:29:53.569 --> 01:29:56.449
consciousness. I think it's time to pull this

01:29:56.449 --> 01:30:00.130
completely into port. I know Nicholas is asleep

01:30:00.130 --> 01:30:03.529
at the helm, and Aaron, I'm sure Randy would

01:30:03.529 --> 01:30:08.069
like to... I am going to put this out there right

01:30:08.069 --> 01:30:13.949
now. I swear to God, if my audio doesn't go through

01:30:13.949 --> 01:30:18.779
right now... Just so everyone knows, we tested

01:30:18.779 --> 01:30:21.119
this in advance to make sure we wouldn't have

01:30:21.119 --> 01:30:23.159
this issue. Everything we're seeing on the screen

01:30:23.159 --> 01:30:25.720
right now in quality check, there is going to

01:30:25.720 --> 01:30:27.979
be no issue. And the crazy thing is the audio

01:30:27.979 --> 01:30:30.460
went through, so we know my audio was working.

01:30:30.720 --> 01:30:33.840
But for whatever reason, the podcast quality

01:30:33.840 --> 01:30:36.140
audio wasn't there, and we just weren't able

01:30:36.140 --> 01:30:40.260
to. pull the raw data feed. Yeah, it's just really

01:30:40.260 --> 01:30:43.460
bad quality. By the time we realized we could,

01:30:43.699 --> 01:30:48.880
the moment had passed. Yeah, exactly. Speaking

01:30:48.880 --> 01:30:52.880
of which, since you missed Nick there, they can

01:30:52.880 --> 01:30:55.260
find you on the internet. They can. Cascades

01:30:55.260 --> 01:30:57.840
to see, right? Yeah, Cascades to see on Instagram.

01:30:57.960 --> 01:31:01.739
Come find me. Looking forward to seeing you there.

01:31:02.579 --> 01:31:04.960
What about you, Aaron? Where can we find you?

01:31:05.800 --> 01:31:09.159
At Aaron Lingley on Instagram and on Twitter.

01:31:09.300 --> 01:31:13.579
And at Scuttlebutt on Discord. The Scuttlebutt,

01:31:13.579 --> 01:31:17.619
I think. The, capital T -H -E, Scuttlebutt. The

01:31:17.619 --> 01:31:22.100
Ohio State University. I did create my own personal

01:31:22.100 --> 01:31:25.699
Discord, though, or whatever profile, because

01:31:25.699 --> 01:31:30.760
I didn't want to be the scuttlebutt. Were you

01:31:30.760 --> 01:31:34.720
guys eating today before the game? The scuttlebutt,

01:31:34.819 --> 01:31:39.039
sir. And I, of course, am LegalMindedPunk on

01:31:39.039 --> 01:31:42.789
all social media platforms. All right. Well,

01:31:42.869 --> 01:31:46.590
thank you so much for bearing with us with this

01:31:46.590 --> 01:31:50.189
gap in episodes between our last officially released

01:31:50.189 --> 01:31:54.689
episode. We appreciate you. Go to bed, Nick.

01:31:54.689 --> 01:31:58.970
Take it away, James. You can follow the Sounders

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01:32:04.300 --> 01:32:07.000
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