WEBVTT 00:00:21.289 --> 00:00:24.289 He's a tough kid. All I gotta say is the point 00:00:24.289 --> 00:01:03.810 I can't say is CHEAT! Hello, hello, hello. Welcome 00:01:03.810 --> 00:01:08.150 to Sounders Scuttlebutt. I am Aaron Lingley, 00:01:08.250 --> 00:01:12.709 and as usual, I am joined by your Alliance Council 00:01:12.709 --> 00:01:16.769 extraordinaire, Nicholas Biela. Hello. Good evening, 00:01:16.890 --> 00:01:18.989 my friend. How are you? Cameron is on assignment. 00:01:19.510 --> 00:01:22.629 Cameron is on assignment, yes. It's been a busy 00:01:22.629 --> 00:01:25.709 day today for me. I just picked up Bernadette 00:01:25.709 --> 00:01:30.069 from the airport. She was in L .A. for Beyonce's 00:01:30.069 --> 00:01:35.500 opening night. last night so oh my uh co -worker 00:01:35.500 --> 00:01:38.659 was at the concert drove up from san diego yeah 00:01:38.659 --> 00:01:41.859 yeah so so good times there how about yourself 00:01:41.859 --> 00:01:49.439 how are you doing um good socal life um contemplating 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:53.239 going to the mariners actually not contemplating 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:54.340 it's going to happen i just don't have tickets 00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:57.659 mariners versus padres the better game at 110 00:01:58.510 --> 00:02:01.250 The Vedder Cup. Yes, exactly. I'm thinking about 00:02:01.250 --> 00:02:04.909 a daddy -daughter date a la the Sounders SDFC 00:02:04.909 --> 00:02:07.709 match we went to. Nice. That is on the radar. 00:02:07.769 --> 00:02:10.849 Going to maybe join is my idea. I invited some 00:02:10.849 --> 00:02:15.750 of the work dads that I have. The kid's about 00:02:15.750 --> 00:02:18.370 the same age as Gracie. I think it was like three 00:02:18.370 --> 00:02:21.250 of us go with our four - to five -year -old and 00:02:21.250 --> 00:02:24.810 have some beers. Love it. Speaking of, I have 00:02:24.810 --> 00:02:28.240 my stubby holder in my hand. And I have a drink 00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:31.620 ready to inhale. Well, let's definitely do that. 00:02:31.740 --> 00:02:34.919 Let's crack these bad boys open. Ready? Let's 00:02:34.919 --> 00:02:40.780 crack these bad boys. One, two, three. Ooh, both 00:02:40.780 --> 00:02:43.379 pretty good. I think I like yours better. You 00:02:43.379 --> 00:02:46.699 got the Rainier. Yeah, I got some Rainier today. 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:51.400 Adam and R. I do. You know, this is going to 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:53.259 be a little bit... I'm getting rid of... I was 00:02:53.259 --> 00:02:55.259 going to say, it's going to be a little bit different. 00:02:55.340 --> 00:02:57.900 I'd like to start today's episode off with a 00:02:57.900 --> 00:02:59.259 little bit of a... You don't want to hear about 00:02:59.259 --> 00:03:02.080 my drink first? You know what? Yes. Let's go 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:03.539 for your drink. We've got to have a cheers first. 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:06.699 We do. We do. Sorry. It's not a beer. It's a 00:03:06.699 --> 00:03:09.439 high noon. I see. It's a grapefruit high noon, 00:03:09.500 --> 00:03:11.400 which these are actually pretty fantastic. It's 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:12.319 got that nice citrus. With the warm weather that 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:15.699 we have. Yeah. It actually is a good balance, 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:19.949 but because it's always warm here. This is pretty 00:03:19.949 --> 00:03:21.689 much the constant we have in our fridge right 00:03:21.689 --> 00:03:23.729 now just for going to the pool or going to the 00:03:23.729 --> 00:03:26.729 park because it is such an outdoor drink. It's 00:03:26.729 --> 00:03:28.770 been a while since I've had an IPA. Maybe about 00:03:28.770 --> 00:03:33.069 a full four or five days. Are you a grapefruit 00:03:33.069 --> 00:03:36.710 rattler kind of person? I don't know what the 00:03:36.710 --> 00:03:40.730 last part of that was. What's a rattler? Radler, 00:03:40.730 --> 00:03:44.050 like the Schofferhoffers, which is like a 2 % 00:03:44.050 --> 00:03:47.270 beer where it's kind of a wheat beer with grapefruit 00:03:47.270 --> 00:03:52.409 juice. They're really, really good. You've probably 00:03:52.409 --> 00:03:57.650 had the Stiegels. If you've seen the cans, you'd 00:03:57.650 --> 00:04:02.750 be like, oh, I know what those are. Well, sorry 00:04:02.750 --> 00:04:04.590 for interrupting you while you were describing 00:04:04.590 --> 00:04:09.879 your high noon. There's not going to be a good 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:14.259 segue from this. Very important. Yeah, so unfortunately, 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:16.839 I just kind of want to lead off this show by 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:20.339 sending some well wishes to a dear friend in 00:04:20.339 --> 00:04:24.699 our soccer community, ECS co -president Tom Biro. 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:29.180 He was involved in an accident Monday around 00:04:29.180 --> 00:04:33.240 2 a .m. where he was struck by a wrong -way driver 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:37.300 who fled the scene, hit and run. leaving Tom 00:04:37.300 --> 00:04:41.500 with some pretty bad injuries, currently in ICU. 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.779 And so just wanted to kind of send out some well 00:04:46.779 --> 00:04:51.800 wishes there. He's highly regarded in the Seattle 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:54.459 soccer community. He was my co -coach a few years 00:04:54.459 --> 00:04:58.519 ago in Pub League. Just an all -around wonderful 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:05.860 guy. ECS is asking a reminder to donate blood 00:05:05.860 --> 00:05:08.319 to Bloodworks Northwest or your local blood bank 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:11.579 if you're able to. Tom is a regular for donating 00:05:11.579 --> 00:05:17.199 blood and platelets. And then there is a GoFundMe 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:22.319 for helping out with things regarding this accident. 00:05:22.939 --> 00:05:25.300 I think we'll put that in the show notes and 00:05:25.300 --> 00:05:28.160 we'll put that in the Discord as well. But really 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:31.870 want to just send... you know, send, send some 00:05:31.870 --> 00:05:34.810 love wishes out to someone who doesn't deserve 00:05:34.810 --> 00:05:38.649 a hit and run. Um, just, just a great guy and, 00:05:38.689 --> 00:05:44.209 and hope he gets a speedy recovery. Yeah. It's 00:05:44.209 --> 00:05:49.089 messed up news. Um, and not the first time recently 00:05:49.089 --> 00:05:53.029 that I've heard of like a serious, actually one 00:05:53.029 --> 00:05:57.430 before was, uh, was fatal. Um, that I heard from 00:05:57.430 --> 00:06:00.250 my friend about wrong way driving, like, drunk 00:06:00.250 --> 00:06:03.790 on the complete opposite side of the road. And 00:06:03.790 --> 00:06:06.329 it's just fucking ridiculous. Don't drink and 00:06:06.329 --> 00:06:12.790 drive people. No, I mean, it's terrible. Yeah. 00:06:12.870 --> 00:06:15.269 So unfortunately that's kind of starting off 00:06:15.269 --> 00:06:18.290 in the show notes in the show notes. I've just 00:06:18.290 --> 00:06:20.449 put the link. So there we have it. Perfect. And 00:06:20.449 --> 00:06:24.910 there is no good segue into or out of that. However, 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.600 I do have a question I wanted to ask you that 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:29.540 is non -sounders or soccer related. I just thought 00:06:29.540 --> 00:06:31.360 it'd be kind of a quirky way to start the show. 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:35.300 Do you watch Family Guy? Have you watched Family 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:37.720 Guy? Yeah. Yeah. It's been a little while since 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:43.019 I've seen an episode, but a big fan. Okay. So 00:06:43.019 --> 00:06:44.600 there was an episode. I haven't watched it in 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:45.939 a while either, but it just popped in my head 00:06:45.939 --> 00:06:47.740 for some reason. I was starting to think of other 00:06:47.740 --> 00:06:50.480 irrational things that you could have, like add 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:54.319 to your daily life. For example, in the episode 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:57.720 I was thinking of, Peter Griffin has like his 00:06:57.720 --> 00:06:59.860 own theme music that follows him around all day. 00:07:01.139 --> 00:07:04.000 You know what I mean? Going the whole Randy Newman. 00:07:05.339 --> 00:07:07.959 Yeah. Take a bite out of an apple. It's Randy. 00:07:08.819 --> 00:07:11.560 Yeah, I love that. I reference that from time 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:15.600 to time. So, yeah. I'll give you a moment to 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:19.579 think because I already have mine. So what would 00:07:19.579 --> 00:07:22.779 be yours, right? Mine would be. you know when 00:07:22.779 --> 00:07:24.839 you're watching i don't know if you watch basketball 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:28.420 either college or mba or at really any basketball 00:07:28.420 --> 00:07:32.420 but not a lot um from time to time okay i'm sure 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:35.660 you know like when someone dunks or a huge block 00:07:35.660 --> 00:07:38.779 yeah you in the background you see the bench 00:07:38.779 --> 00:07:41.879 jump up and like hold each other back and you 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:44.519 know do i want for every like cool thing i do 00:07:44.519 --> 00:07:46.540 i want in the background of bench to be like 00:07:46.540 --> 00:07:51.990 oh shit did you see that I have my own bench 00:07:51.990 --> 00:07:55.230 just to kind of like get me going or I'm about 00:07:55.230 --> 00:07:57.089 to do something. They all stand up and then I 00:07:57.089 --> 00:07:58.509 like don't complete it and they all just kind 00:07:58.509 --> 00:08:01.410 of sit down quietly. Yeah. Oh, the scorgasm? 00:08:02.850 --> 00:08:07.230 I call that a premature scorgasm where like in 00:08:07.230 --> 00:08:10.410 hockey where a shot looks like it's going into 00:08:10.410 --> 00:08:12.449 the net and goalie makes a save. Everyone jumps 00:08:12.449 --> 00:08:16.449 up to go – and then just kind of – exactly. That's 00:08:16.449 --> 00:08:20.829 exactly right. Yeah. So that would be mine. So 00:08:20.829 --> 00:08:23.269 that'd be yours. So, so for me, what would, what 00:08:23.269 --> 00:08:29.170 would I want as my, as my theme? Irrational. 00:08:29.170 --> 00:08:31.670 Yeah. Yeah. You're, you're, you're a rational 00:08:31.670 --> 00:08:36.769 addition. You know, honestly, it wouldn't suck 00:08:36.769 --> 00:08:39.850 to have a supporter section behind me doing whatever 00:08:39.850 --> 00:08:43.909 I'm doing. You know, whether it's when you wake 00:08:43.909 --> 00:08:48.179 up, we take a shit. Someone cuts me off. You've 00:08:48.179 --> 00:08:52.580 got 300 people screaming, you dirty, cheating 00:08:52.580 --> 00:08:57.700 bastard. That's it. Just give me a supporter 00:08:57.700 --> 00:09:03.240 section. My own personal supporter section. Yours 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:06.100 is better because it's relevant to the podcast 00:09:06.100 --> 00:09:09.360 that we do. No, I actually do love the idea of 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.919 a whole bunch of people. following you like down 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:14.159 the street, like holding each other back and 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:17.559 reacting. So I don't think there's a wrong answer 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:23.539 here. But yeah, it's good times. What other kind 00:09:23.539 --> 00:09:26.799 of scuttlebutt do you have? Well, we've got a 00:09:26.799 --> 00:09:30.000 few actually in our mailbag in the discord. Please 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:33.879 join it. Link is in the show description. So 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.299 we have, oh, I guess we should probably mention 00:09:36.299 --> 00:09:38.159 that we're coming off a one, one draw against. 00:09:39.370 --> 00:09:42.090 Colorado, in Colorado. Yeah, I think we're going 00:09:42.090 --> 00:09:44.309 to hit a lot of that for the second half of the 00:09:44.309 --> 00:09:47.309 show, right? I just hadn't mentioned it at all. 00:09:47.370 --> 00:09:48.909 We started the whole show and we're a Sounders 00:09:48.909 --> 00:09:50.769 podcast and didn't even mention that we're coming 00:09:50.769 --> 00:09:53.350 off of that performance. So yeah, second half, 00:09:53.429 --> 00:09:56.830 we'll talk about that. But Kenny Sloth has a 00:09:56.830 --> 00:10:00.929 question here. We got Patrick GC, the regulars. 00:10:02.230 --> 00:10:04.909 So yeah, we'll start. Kenny says, how many fans 00:10:04.909 --> 00:10:09.950 does Seattle Sounders have? 250K? A million more? 00:10:11.990 --> 00:10:15.250 Now, as a data analyst, this is a great question. 00:10:16.590 --> 00:10:18.850 Yeah, I was just going to say, I don't know how 00:10:18.850 --> 00:10:21.129 I could probably come up with a reasonable number, 00:10:21.250 --> 00:10:23.590 but I'm sure you have some thoughts. Well, yeah, 00:10:23.669 --> 00:10:26.429 I mean, if I'm going to do this, the way I would 00:10:26.429 --> 00:10:30.710 do it is very, very methodical. You'd want to 00:10:30.710 --> 00:10:35.350 figure out, one, what represents a fan? How do 00:10:35.350 --> 00:10:42.500 you do that? Is it viewership? Is it likes on 00:10:42.500 --> 00:10:45.320 Instagram or Twitter, social media, that kind 00:10:45.320 --> 00:10:50.580 of stuff? And that's how you would have to come 00:10:50.580 --> 00:10:53.200 up with some sort of a system to comparatively 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:59.340 analyze it in comparison to other similar teams. 00:10:59.539 --> 00:11:01.820 I don't think you can really just say... oh, 00:11:01.860 --> 00:11:03.899 it's this many. There's no way to definitively 00:11:03.899 --> 00:11:06.779 know. It's an unknowable question. But that's 00:11:06.779 --> 00:11:09.899 what makes it a fun question. What tier do you 00:11:09.899 --> 00:11:16.539 think we'd be at? Top five in MLS. Hands down, 00:11:16.659 --> 00:11:22.039 absolutely. We'd have top five most fans in MLS, 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:27.460 I would say that. How to compare outside of U 00:11:27.460 --> 00:11:32.309 .S. soccer or against other professional sports 00:11:32.309 --> 00:11:36.049 teams? I don't know where it'd be interesting. 00:11:36.230 --> 00:11:41.370 It would be, would be a comparison of would there 00:11:41.370 --> 00:11:46.789 be more Sounders fans than say the lowest attended 00:11:46.789 --> 00:11:51.029 NHL team thinking like Arizona coyotes before 00:11:51.029 --> 00:11:54.289 they relocated, you know, like, like thinking 00:11:54.289 --> 00:11:56.509 about that, trying to think of like, Oh, you 00:11:56.509 --> 00:11:59.110 know, because I don't think we're not going to 00:11:59.110 --> 00:12:01.710 touch any football team. We're not going to touch 00:12:01.710 --> 00:12:08.730 any NFL teams. We're not going to touch any baseball 00:12:08.730 --> 00:12:14.470 teams, just longevity and years. Basketball and 00:12:14.470 --> 00:12:18.269 hockey are a little more niche, could possibly, 00:12:18.269 --> 00:12:20.950 but basketball has become so global in a lot 00:12:20.950 --> 00:12:26.480 of ways. It's a really interesting – well, yeah, 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:33.940 but soccer is also – there are an infinite number 00:12:33.940 --> 00:12:38.419 of teams almost. The number of professional leagues 00:12:38.419 --> 00:12:41.519 around the world in soccer just blows away all 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:46.179 the other sports. And so it is a great question. 00:12:47.289 --> 00:12:50.269 it'd be fun to do some comparisons between, oh, 00:12:50.289 --> 00:12:54.250 Canadian football teams, NHL teams, and just 00:12:54.250 --> 00:12:59.250 see how many followers each team has. And I think 00:12:59.250 --> 00:13:01.970 that's how I'd probably try to analyze that. 00:13:02.990 --> 00:13:05.370 Just rank them, essentially. But yeah, I mean, 00:13:05.370 --> 00:13:07.590 Sounders' breadth, if we could correlate it to 00:13:07.590 --> 00:13:13.070 our viewership, we're in Japan, Canada, the United 00:13:13.070 --> 00:13:17.590 States of America. We have... I think it's on 00:13:17.590 --> 00:13:20.049 Mozambique, Norway, Italy, Guatemala, Mexico, 00:13:20.590 --> 00:13:24.289 Portugal, Australia, Singapore. Yeah, there's 00:13:24.289 --> 00:13:30.330 Mozambique, Greece. I don't believe these to 00:13:30.330 --> 00:13:32.590 be bots, so we actually do have people that are 00:13:32.590 --> 00:13:34.490 at least listening in these cities because there 00:13:34.490 --> 00:13:37.889 is like a bot filter. Oh, and our cat listens 00:13:37.889 --> 00:13:42.250 to us. Oh, yeah, cats love... Argentina, Andorra, 00:13:42.250 --> 00:13:45.570 Germany, France, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka. Yeah, 00:13:45.629 --> 00:13:47.950 so... You know, there's at least one sounder 00:13:47.950 --> 00:13:49.509 fan in all these countries. So that gives you 00:13:49.509 --> 00:13:52.289 an idea of the breadth of the... So just to give 00:13:52.289 --> 00:13:59.250 you a little context, on Twitter, there are 563 00:13:59.250 --> 00:14:04.309 ,000 followers. On Facebook, there's 786 ,000 00:14:04.309 --> 00:14:09.090 followers. Instagram, there's 383 ,000 followers. 00:14:09.690 --> 00:14:12.049 So, I mean, that kind of gives you a starting 00:14:12.049 --> 00:14:20.230 point. I would definitely suggest that your cat's 00:14:20.230 --> 00:14:21.149 hungry. I'm going to go ahead and let my cat 00:14:21.149 --> 00:14:26.590 out. Your cat's hungry. So yeah, while you're 00:14:26.590 --> 00:14:29.590 letting, who let the cats out? Who, who, who, 00:14:29.629 --> 00:14:36.690 who? I would probably say that one, I'd question 00:14:36.690 --> 00:14:40.909 like what's the, how relevant that number might 00:14:40.909 --> 00:14:45.220 be. I like the team, you like the team, we all 00:14:45.220 --> 00:14:49.980 like the team, great. But it is a fun question 00:14:49.980 --> 00:14:53.600 to ask, you know? And so in the end, how much 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.559 does it matter how many fans there are? I'm not 00:14:56.559 --> 00:15:00.019 entirely sure, but I think it'd be more easier 00:15:00.019 --> 00:15:03.379 to compare against other teams versus just to 00:15:03.379 --> 00:15:06.039 come up with a number for us. That's my thought. 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:11.399 Patrick GC says, did Rosario, the little one, 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:15.259 First team contract win. They can keep him loaned 00:15:15.259 --> 00:15:17.100 down, but I feel he should get locked in. Do 00:15:17.100 --> 00:15:19.679 they have roster space for him and the under 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:22.899 -22? I don't know what De Rosario is doing right 00:15:22.899 --> 00:15:26.039 now, to be honest. I don't know. Is he doing 00:15:26.039 --> 00:15:29.100 good? Do you know? Yeah, I mean, Tacoma's pretty 00:15:29.100 --> 00:15:30.019 offensive. Good enough to have this question? 00:15:30.379 --> 00:15:36.080 Yeah. I'm not entirely... I trust the process 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:39.740 and I trust the team on this, but the jump between 00:15:39.740 --> 00:15:48.899 MLS next pro, to MLS is quite significant. Let's 00:15:48.899 --> 00:15:51.779 put it this way. I would 100 % take Danny Mussofsky 00:15:51.779 --> 00:15:54.100 even when he was struggling. I would take Jesus 00:15:54.100 --> 00:16:01.600 Ferreira 100 % over De Rosario as a forward. 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:06.259 We do this as Sounders fans quite a bit where 00:16:06.259 --> 00:16:10.879 we... We see success in some of lower division 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:14.639 levels, and we want that to happen for us on 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:18.840 the larger part. And more often than not, it 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:21.759 doesn't. Think Olex Anderson. Think Andy Craven 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:29.480 back in the day. However, I'm not going to say 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:33.000 that it's without success because, honestly, 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:37.509 I kind of put Paul Rothrock in that. same boat 00:16:37.509 --> 00:16:40.789 when he was scoring in his first three appearances 00:16:40.789 --> 00:16:43.830 as a sounder you know it was like a i didn't 00:16:43.830 --> 00:16:47.029 believe that he had what it takes to be a first 00:16:47.029 --> 00:16:49.649 teamer that it was more of a you know more of 00:16:49.649 --> 00:16:51.309 a oh that's just a really good run that's good 00:16:51.309 --> 00:16:54.049 for him but he's not gonna make it into this 00:16:54.049 --> 00:16:59.909 level so i could be wrong but i in the end i 00:16:59.909 --> 00:17:02.009 trust the club to make that decision because 00:17:02.009 --> 00:17:04.410 my talent evaluation skills are nowhere near 00:17:04.410 --> 00:17:11.000 theirs Yeah, and I honestly couldn't give you 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:17.859 just an answer other than I'm not ready to see 00:17:17.859 --> 00:17:23.180 any more tinkering as we get players back. I 00:17:23.180 --> 00:17:25.240 want to get them in the rotation. Jordan's on 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:29.599 the bench. We have a brand new signing also on 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:32.900 the on offensive player. I will I'll ask it right 00:17:32.900 --> 00:17:36.680 now because we're talking about forwards and 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:39.329 I think it's getting a little. ironically log 00:17:39.329 --> 00:17:42.769 jammed because of production from Moose right 00:17:42.769 --> 00:17:47.410 I don't think adding a De Rosario to the depth 00:17:47.410 --> 00:17:50.890 I don't think it would be good for him I don't 00:17:50.890 --> 00:17:55.950 think he's going to get playing time but what 00:17:55.950 --> 00:18:03.490 do I know yeah I mean in the end the in the end 00:18:03.490 --> 00:18:06.720 the club's going to do the right thing They get 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:09.599 it right more than they get it wrong. I also 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:11.880 don't believe they're going to want to give De 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:14.440 Rosario a contract because they're probably looking 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:19.140 for an under -22 signing in that forward position. 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:21.920 That's probably where they're going to look to 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:28.940 sign a U -22. So if you do that, you're not really 00:18:28.940 --> 00:18:34.240 giving him an opportunity to play into the first 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:38.140 team. I also don't know how long his contract 00:18:38.140 --> 00:18:41.220 is. Next Pro contracts don't get released publicly 00:18:41.220 --> 00:18:47.180 in the same way that MLS ones do. So outside 00:18:47.180 --> 00:18:53.740 of a random news dump, I'm just not going to 00:18:53.740 --> 00:18:58.160 know how long he's under contract. Do you know 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:05.119 anyone that is... understands the MLS roster 00:19:05.119 --> 00:19:08.319 construction I guess more specifically the Sounders 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:14.299 that could explain it to like a layman that like 00:19:14.299 --> 00:19:16.039 knows it better than like maybe you and Cameron 00:19:16.039 --> 00:19:19.519 like truly because I've always been like I think 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:21.319 it's one it's because the league has evolved 00:19:21.319 --> 00:19:25.380 so much and in the last probably five six years 00:19:25.380 --> 00:19:28.650 I've stopped really digging too deep into the 00:19:28.650 --> 00:19:31.309 mechanics of our league not that i was digging 00:19:31.309 --> 00:19:33.309 deep before but i think that would be maybe a 00:19:33.309 --> 00:19:36.170 good kind of like can we have a teaching segment 00:19:36.170 --> 00:19:38.410 in a like a patreon episode or something like 00:19:38.410 --> 00:19:41.450 that it's like here's how our roster is constructed 00:19:41.450 --> 00:19:44.130 and why and here's what we cannot do and what 00:19:44.130 --> 00:19:46.430 we can do even if we had this kind of money we 00:19:46.430 --> 00:19:50.430 you know i'm just there are definitely some people 00:19:50.430 --> 00:19:54.829 that i would think about um whether or not they 00:19:54.829 --> 00:19:58.500 would be available for an interview a couple 00:19:58.500 --> 00:20:00.019 of the people that i'm thinking about are no 00:20:00.019 --> 00:20:05.259 longer with the sounders um but that's oh i just 00:20:05.259 --> 00:20:09.880 meant anybody yeah um well most of the information 00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:12.579 is actually out there the mls roster rules are 00:20:12.579 --> 00:20:15.319 there i don't want to do that no i i get that 00:20:15.319 --> 00:20:18.740 chat gpt it or get a human being no no i get 00:20:18.740 --> 00:20:21.269 it i get it i don't do any work Well, that's 00:20:21.269 --> 00:20:23.950 the thing. You've seen me with the FIFA Club 00:20:23.950 --> 00:20:26.470 World Cup stuff and the Champions League and 00:20:26.470 --> 00:20:29.210 the World Cup. I read those regulations because 00:20:29.210 --> 00:20:31.130 I'm very interested and I geek out over that 00:20:31.130 --> 00:20:33.170 stuff. I've done the same thing with the roster 00:20:33.170 --> 00:20:36.589 rules as well, but I'm not going to say I'm an 00:20:36.589 --> 00:20:40.430 expert at it. But I do have a pretty good understanding 00:20:40.430 --> 00:20:43.990 of it. But there are definitely some people whose 00:20:43.990 --> 00:20:47.690 opinions I trust quite a bit when it comes to 00:20:47.690 --> 00:20:52.680 some of that. Some of those mechanisms, especially 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:54.559 when you're talking about those supplemental 00:20:54.559 --> 00:21:00.559 spots and the way those hit the cap differently 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:06.140 and such. And that's something that you love 00:21:06.140 --> 00:21:10.619 and hate about the MLS for sure. Hey, you know, 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:12.599 I do have a little bit of a scuttlebutt that 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:15.380 I wanted to kind of quickly toss out there. Tomorrow 00:21:15.380 --> 00:21:20.410 morning. Ballard FC will be officially launching 00:21:20.410 --> 00:21:27.029 their annual artist jersey. Every year they do 00:21:27.029 --> 00:21:29.430 a community kit. They do a third jersey with 00:21:29.430 --> 00:21:34.109 a local artist. One year it was Henry, but they 00:21:34.109 --> 00:21:38.869 do a local jersey. Stevie Chow was last year's 00:21:38.869 --> 00:21:44.279 kit. And they've all been really good. But they've 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:47.779 teased a little bit of it this morning. And what 00:21:47.779 --> 00:21:51.539 they teased was really interesting because what 00:21:51.539 --> 00:21:55.319 they teased is the badge being a lenticular badge. 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.519 So that depending on how you view the badge, 00:21:59.519 --> 00:22:04.910 it will change and that it's going to be. one 00:22:04.910 --> 00:22:08.109 part of the badge will say Ballard FC. The other 00:22:08.109 --> 00:22:13.069 part of the badge will be the, will be the Salmon 00:22:13.069 --> 00:22:16.690 Bay FC, which is the ladies team. And it's the 00:22:16.690 --> 00:22:19.529 Sarah Robbins kit. Looks like there's going to 00:22:19.529 --> 00:22:25.089 be some sort of palm trees or some sort of, yeah, 00:22:25.250 --> 00:22:27.009 I'm not entirely sure, but I'm, I'm, I'm very 00:22:27.009 --> 00:22:31.690 curious to see how that's weird. Well, I'm only 00:22:31.690 --> 00:22:35.630 seeing, you're only seeing like, Three square 00:22:35.630 --> 00:22:39.950 inches of the jersey. Reserve judgment. Yeah, 00:22:40.029 --> 00:22:44.049 so it looks kind of tropical, I guess I would 00:22:44.049 --> 00:22:47.430 say. But I'm very excited to see because, honestly, 00:22:47.589 --> 00:22:53.150 the Ballard FC jerseys have been fire. They really 00:22:53.150 --> 00:22:54.950 have. Give me the link. I'll put it in the show 00:22:54.950 --> 00:22:58.930 notes. Well, by the time we post this, we'll 00:22:58.930 --> 00:23:01.789 actually have the actual jersey launch. Oh, really? 00:23:01.789 --> 00:23:03.329 When does it come out? It should be tomorrow. 00:23:03.509 --> 00:23:10.069 It's tomorrow? Never mind. But still. Go check 00:23:10.069 --> 00:23:11.190 it out, everyone. Just so you can take a look 00:23:11.190 --> 00:23:13.410 at it. But yeah, it's good stuff. Ballard, actually, 00:23:13.490 --> 00:23:16.670 they're using a Canadian manufacturer called 00:23:16.670 --> 00:23:22.990 Anaria. And they've just been coming up with 00:23:22.990 --> 00:23:25.369 some really good designs in their jerseys. Really 00:23:25.369 --> 00:23:29.309 like the work they've done. So hats off to Ballard 00:23:29.309 --> 00:23:36.460 for that. uh we got some more scuttlebutt stuff 00:23:36.460 --> 00:23:39.279 going on the henry one that was pretty good yeah 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:43.039 alex diaz uh looks like he actually forwarded 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:46.079 something from these the match day channel um 00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:50.140 what's worse the peach ant we're throwing beer 00:23:50.140 --> 00:23:56.579 on everyone um i mean i'm gonna go with one's 00:23:56.579 --> 00:23:59.279 just blatantly offensive the other one is disrespectful 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:03.160 but it's not it's But sometimes, like, when are 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:04.880 you throwing the beer? Is it after a major goal? 00:24:05.019 --> 00:24:08.619 Is it like in LAFC is the one that throws a beer 00:24:08.619 --> 00:24:11.859 after every goal, which I know you also need 00:24:11.859 --> 00:24:13.700 to know where you're sitting. But I don't know. 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:19.680 Yeah, I would be less pissed off if I guess if 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:22.900 I brought Gracie, I would not want to explain 00:24:22.900 --> 00:24:26.460 the first one. I would I would just say someone 00:24:26.460 --> 00:24:29.440 had an accident and move seats and be angry about 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:35.900 it. But. I've definitely been soaked by beer 00:24:35.900 --> 00:24:42.079 and liked it. Both of them are not great. If 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:44.740 I'm going to be soaked in beer, we better have 00:24:44.740 --> 00:24:47.420 just won a championship, not scored a goal on 00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:54.400 a Saturday afternoon to make it 2 -1. The only 00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:58.079 time I've gotten soaked with beer was Game 7, 00:24:58.279 --> 00:25:01.779 Detroit Red Rings versus Colorado Avalanche. 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:04.960 I'm wearing my Dominik Hasek Czech Republic jersey. 00:25:05.339 --> 00:25:10.740 We're in a Detroit sports bar in Denver. And 00:25:10.740 --> 00:25:16.480 Denver, right across the street from the Detroit 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:20.980 sports bar, is the main Avalanche bar. And it's 00:25:20.980 --> 00:25:25.660 just this really fun, you know, rivalry for sure. 00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:30.039 And that game was a winner goes on to the Stanley 00:25:30.039 --> 00:25:33.140 Cup finals. Game seven, Hasek versus Patrick 00:25:33.140 --> 00:25:36.680 Waugh. And after the first period, Detroit was 00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:40.000 up five or six nothing. It just one of those 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.240 things. It was almost like the Women's World 00:25:42.240 --> 00:25:44.759 Cup game where 15 minutes into the game, the 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:48.440 game was over and there was no. There was no 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:56.019 drama. But in the midst of all these goals, just. 00:25:56.380 --> 00:25:58.559 beer just kept getting just tossed everywhere 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:00.960 and I still have some beer stains on my jersey 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:05.660 it really pissed me off for a long time right 00:26:05.660 --> 00:26:08.039 away but now when I look at those stains I kind 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:09.660 of think of that night and I'm like okay that 00:26:09.660 --> 00:26:13.160 was kind of special but if that happened on just 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:17.059 basically any other game other than that fuck 00:26:17.059 --> 00:26:23.579 those people so with that in mind I would prefer 00:26:25.230 --> 00:26:29.150 To see the beer throwing because, and this is 00:26:29.150 --> 00:26:33.769 my logical brain, it's a lot easier to kick out 00:26:33.769 --> 00:26:36.690 the person throwing the beer than to try and 00:26:36.690 --> 00:26:39.950 identify who was the one that said the P chant 00:26:39.950 --> 00:26:43.210 and get them out of there. Both behaviors absolutely 00:26:43.210 --> 00:26:45.950 should lead to ejection from the stadium. I want 00:26:45.950 --> 00:26:48.150 neither of them anywhere in my soccer stadium, 00:26:48.349 --> 00:26:52.289 but the beer throwing is a lot easier to identify. 00:26:52.789 --> 00:26:56.910 So that's where. I'd rather have that just because 00:26:56.910 --> 00:27:03.549 I can get them removed. Fair enough. I think 00:27:03.549 --> 00:27:05.210 the only time I've been soaked by beer was at 00:27:05.210 --> 00:27:10.769 a concert and that was in the pit. Totally reasonable. 00:27:11.950 --> 00:27:14.930 I'm thinking it was Fall of Troy, which is not 00:27:14.930 --> 00:27:18.329 my particular type of music, but I usually... 00:27:18.970 --> 00:27:22.289 chameleon myself at a live show and i was in 00:27:22.289 --> 00:27:25.190 the pit and it's like a screamo band and people 00:27:25.190 --> 00:27:27.390 were going nuts and it was kind of fun i just 00:27:27.390 --> 00:27:28.910 kind of went with it it was already i was pretty 00:27:28.910 --> 00:27:31.549 drunk too but but i think you saw i think it'd 00:27:31.549 --> 00:27:34.349 be 21 you touched on the part of that that is 00:27:34.349 --> 00:27:37.549 really important is is when you know in advance 00:27:37.549 --> 00:27:39.569 that that's the kind of atmosphere you're going 00:27:39.569 --> 00:27:42.890 into prepare accordingly yeah you know if i know 00:27:42.890 --> 00:27:46.250 i'm going to an insane clown posse show or a 00:27:46.250 --> 00:27:54.200 um Or who are the ones that dress up in the big 00:27:54.200 --> 00:28:00.599 penis costumes? Gwar. Gwar, thank you. If I know 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:03.019 I'm going to one of those shows, I know I'm wearing 00:28:03.019 --> 00:28:07.000 stuff that's going to get destroyed. I'm dressing 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:13.859 appropriately. You don't go to a Sarah McLachlan 00:28:13.859 --> 00:28:16.500 show and expect to get a beer dumped on you. 00:28:18.990 --> 00:28:24.130 We're a voodoo chant. And then just like throwing 00:28:24.130 --> 00:28:28.730 beer, you know, yeah. Just things you don't expect. 00:28:31.430 --> 00:28:35.230 It's funny. I crack myself up sometimes, I guess. 00:28:35.730 --> 00:28:40.890 But that is a great question. Both of them absolutely 00:28:40.890 --> 00:28:47.089 suck. Both suck. All right. What do you say? 00:28:48.420 --> 00:28:51.000 We get to the second half of the show. Yeah, 00:28:51.059 --> 00:28:52.980 let's do that. We got a lot to talk about. Cameron 00:28:52.980 --> 00:28:55.839 hasn't been. 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Sorry, 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:18.339 not 1 -0. 1 -1. Road draw. Goal scored. Didn't 00:31:18.339 --> 00:31:22.309 have our best players starting. and there's been 00:31:22.309 --> 00:31:25.230 some negativity, including Cameron said he's 00:31:25.230 --> 00:31:27.789 not able to make it tonight to us, but he did 00:31:27.789 --> 00:31:30.569 say he has nothing good to say anyway. Yeah, 00:31:30.569 --> 00:31:32.529 I don't get it. Nothing positive to take away. 00:31:33.130 --> 00:31:37.710 Let's start with the lineup. First off, it looks 00:31:37.710 --> 00:31:41.170 like Brian Schmetzer wanted to continue to reward 00:31:41.170 --> 00:31:43.690 the players who had been performing in the last 00:31:43.690 --> 00:31:49.440 two games, the Nashville 3 -0 win. the 1 -0 Dallas 00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:52.259 game on the road because we saw Danny Mussofsky 00:31:52.259 --> 00:32:00.079 start. You know, we saw Kim Keehy again. We saw 00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:06.759 Paul Rothrock. No Albert Rusnak. No Jordan Morris. 00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:12.019 We didn't see any of that. I kind of felt I could 00:32:12.019 --> 00:32:16.680 take it or leave it. You know, I get it. I get 00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:22.789 it. Long season. What were your thoughts on the 00:32:22.789 --> 00:32:31.789 lineup? Like, the lineup? I didn't really think 00:32:31.789 --> 00:32:34.630 too much of it. I was pretty much the same as 00:32:34.630 --> 00:32:36.829 you. It's like, okay, this has been productive. 00:32:37.009 --> 00:32:40.490 We just came off 3 -0. Pretty good match. And 00:32:40.490 --> 00:32:43.089 I actually predicted we'd have multi -score, 00:32:43.109 --> 00:32:44.789 probably another shutout, just because we just 00:32:44.789 --> 00:32:48.539 witnessed that against Nashville, who... destroyed 00:32:48.539 --> 00:32:51.319 who did they just who did they just play nashville 00:32:51.319 --> 00:32:54.380 oh this week they they put a seventh spot up 00:32:54.380 --> 00:32:59.299 on uh was it st not st louis chicago thank you 00:32:59.299 --> 00:33:01.180 seven two is what i ended up but it was seven 00:33:01.180 --> 00:33:04.400 nothing with no red cards so i mean chicago is 00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:08.279 terrible but um still they are humans and they're 00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:12.460 in your way and keep in mind five first half 00:33:12.460 --> 00:33:16.079 goals yeah that's ridiculous so we just scored 00:33:16.079 --> 00:33:18.079 three first half goals against them and then 00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:22.920 yeah we're on the road it's we've i think we 00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:24.920 have a winning record against colorado but that's 00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:26.559 including at home i feel like i think if you 00:33:26.559 --> 00:33:29.400 mentioned this before in colorado we and like 00:33:29.400 --> 00:33:33.980 the high altitude you know locations we struggle 00:33:33.980 --> 00:33:37.819 obviously Yeah, it hasn't been as bad as Real 00:33:37.819 --> 00:33:39.960 Salt Lake, but you're not wrong. Yeah, that's 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:45.900 the worst. We've done okay in Colorado, but I 00:33:45.900 --> 00:33:48.339 also feel like we're constantly not getting our 00:33:48.339 --> 00:33:51.799 first choice lineups in Colorado. I feel like 00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:56.539 that happens a lot. So, yeah, I was happy with 00:33:56.539 --> 00:33:58.640 the lineup. I wasn't considering what we just 00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:01.400 witnessed the week before. And I was expecting 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:03.640 to see Ryan Kent a little earlier. He didn't. 00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:08.179 He didn't even come on at all. Wait, against? 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:11.480 Did I miss that? Yeah, you did. He came on in 00:34:11.480 --> 00:34:14.619 the 75th inning. Oh, that's right. So he still 00:34:14.619 --> 00:34:19.780 got 15. 71st. I was expecting more like 20 or 00:34:19.780 --> 00:34:22.480 30, but I'm happy with it. Now I do recall. He 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:26.320 got his 20, yeah. I think I was upset because 00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:29.300 he wasn't in yet, but it's also I'm getting nitpicky. 00:34:29.780 --> 00:34:33.309 Kosa Rienzi had a great game. literally had an 00:34:33.309 --> 00:34:36.309 assist, and he's been really showing up. I'm 00:34:36.309 --> 00:34:42.090 taking his opportunity. Yeah, I can see that. 00:34:42.590 --> 00:34:46.670 Road draw? I'm happy with the road draw. Yeah, 00:34:46.989 --> 00:34:52.590 I'm happy with the road draw. I think where I'm 00:34:52.590 --> 00:34:57.349 going to suspect that where people are frustrated 00:34:57.349 --> 00:35:02.800 is that This game was largely dominated by Colorado. 00:35:03.519 --> 00:35:10.659 It just felt like they were the ones dictating 00:35:10.659 --> 00:35:14.139 how the game was being played. They weren't dominating 00:35:14.139 --> 00:35:20.000 in shots or even expected goals. They did get 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:29.139 more shots, but only four on target. Those game 00:35:29.139 --> 00:35:32.280 state graphs, I'm not sure exactly how they measure 00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:34.699 that. The five -minute intervals? Yeah, the momentum 00:35:34.699 --> 00:35:38.400 meters. I think it's just possession. I feel 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:40.280 like it's got to be a little more than that, 00:35:40.340 --> 00:35:42.280 but I really don't know. I don't think it is. 00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:45.199 I think it's possession. Literally, actually, 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:47.300 the stat on here right now, I'm on the website 00:35:47.300 --> 00:35:49.860 for the stats. It says possession. It has the 00:35:49.860 --> 00:35:52.800 five -minute intervals. Okay, interesting, because 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:59.760 what I'm showing you is very... Very red. Very 00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:05.219 red. But I thought defensively, I thought we 00:36:05.219 --> 00:36:08.659 played a really good game. I had spoken earlier 00:36:08.659 --> 00:36:11.179 that Georgie Mihaljevic, you don't want to give 00:36:11.179 --> 00:36:14.699 him a free kick. And I think that's where some 00:36:14.699 --> 00:36:18.579 people, there was some consternation on our Discord 00:36:18.579 --> 00:36:24.780 during our match day thread with Georgie Mihaljevic. 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:27.840 taking that free kick and the wall jumping, but 00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:31.739 that's what the wall is supposed to do. I know. 00:36:31.820 --> 00:36:33.420 Sometimes you get caught with your pants down 00:36:33.420 --> 00:36:37.019 on that. It's a risky shot to take, but I wasn't 00:36:37.019 --> 00:36:40.039 upset with it. And Georgie has scored multiple 00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:45.539 free kicks from within five yards of that spot. 00:36:46.860 --> 00:36:50.820 And so I'm not shocked that that happened. As 00:36:50.820 --> 00:36:53.210 a matter of fact... leading up to it when the 00:36:53.210 --> 00:36:57.409 foul was called i'm like oh fuck here we go did 00:36:57.409 --> 00:37:03.849 not feel good about that um i mean i i was more 00:37:03.849 --> 00:37:07.570 upset really with how the match started and then 00:37:07.570 --> 00:37:11.389 then it evened out for me and i was like okay 00:37:11.389 --> 00:37:13.849 we took we could when we had our backs against 00:37:13.849 --> 00:37:16.230 the ropes for the first 20 minutes 25 minutes 00:37:16.230 --> 00:37:18.969 could have been three or four nothing legitimately 00:37:18.969 --> 00:37:22.239 i think you know without roland saving that off 00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:24.099 the line, doing what he was supposed to do on 00:37:24.099 --> 00:37:28.260 a corner kick without the one minute later, another 00:37:28.260 --> 00:37:30.599 corner kick from the same corner. They had it 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.219 just over the bar. That was like, get your shit 00:37:34.219 --> 00:37:38.519 together, guys. And literally, thanks to Roldan, 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:43.420 it wasn't 2 -0. Real 1 -0, thanks to Roldan. 00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:48.130 And then that Bassett... yeah off the post i 00:37:48.130 --> 00:37:50.389 mean kim keehee showed that he still got enough 00:37:50.389 --> 00:37:53.210 gas to affect that shot but he still should have 00:37:53.210 --> 00:37:56.090 scored oh reagan probably catches up and shoulders 00:37:56.090 --> 00:38:00.909 him off but still i loved come on i i loved the 00:38:00.909 --> 00:38:04.829 effort from kim keehee to to basically not give 00:38:04.829 --> 00:38:07.489 him the ability to cut towards the center of 00:38:07.489 --> 00:38:10.210 the net minimizing that opportunity. He literally 00:38:10.210 --> 00:38:14.070 didn't touch the ball or touch him in any way, 00:38:14.130 --> 00:38:16.429 but the way he got back prevented him from being 00:38:16.429 --> 00:38:20.289 able to do that, so great play. A little disappointed 00:38:20.289 --> 00:38:23.750 in Yamar this game. Yamar did not have his best 00:38:23.750 --> 00:38:28.190 game. I will say that was a bit of a criticism 00:38:28.190 --> 00:38:31.969 for me. I will also say that I think the other 00:38:31.969 --> 00:38:35.030 part that gets people a little upset is that 00:38:35.030 --> 00:38:39.349 90th minute. where we have that breakout and 00:38:39.349 --> 00:38:42.690 Jordan starts sprinting down the line and pulls 00:38:42.690 --> 00:38:47.829 up with an injury. And that was really worrying. 00:38:47.969 --> 00:38:51.030 And the latest news on that is that he has undergone 00:38:51.030 --> 00:38:55.469 a second MRI. That was this morning. The first 00:38:55.469 --> 00:39:02.409 MRI was unclear. So they should know tomorrow 00:39:02.409 --> 00:39:04.989 what's going to happen. So he's almost certainly 00:39:04.989 --> 00:39:07.969 going to be out for, the next game. I would expect 00:39:07.969 --> 00:39:10.349 him to be out for the next game. Hopefully it's 00:39:10.349 --> 00:39:16.829 just not bad. We'll see what happens there. He 00:39:16.829 --> 00:39:19.630 finished the match though, right? No, no. He 00:39:19.630 --> 00:39:24.570 did get subbed off at the very, very end. I must 00:39:24.570 --> 00:39:27.429 have missed that. I know I actually watched the 00:39:27.429 --> 00:39:29.730 match that night, which is rare for me, but I 00:39:29.730 --> 00:39:32.530 know the last 15 minutes was kind of funky. Literally 00:39:32.530 --> 00:39:41.579 90th minute. Okay. Wonderful. But that kind of 00:39:41.579 --> 00:39:43.679 leads to a point that I jotted down on my notes 00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:47.320 here is that Moose, and I mentioned earlier, 00:39:47.500 --> 00:39:51.719 Moose's production. I mean, if this is a time 00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:54.639 we really need to kind of sit Morris down for 00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:57.059 longer, clearly he's going to be out. But to 00:39:57.059 --> 00:39:58.820 really take our time, make sure it's right for 00:39:58.820 --> 00:40:01.599 maybe the playoff push because he's... Seems 00:40:01.599 --> 00:40:04.460 a little tender. Moose, is this production real? 00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:09.500 Yes and no. Yes and no. I mean, you know what? 00:40:09.539 --> 00:40:12.659 I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say yes. The 00:40:12.659 --> 00:40:14.900 goals haven't been sexy. They've been opportunistic. 00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:19.659 The Nashville goal was sexy where he makes that 00:40:19.659 --> 00:40:23.079 deflection, that kind of jump kick with his heel. 00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:28.659 That was sexy. Yeah, that was nice. This is going 00:40:28.659 --> 00:40:31.380 back to last season. How many times I feel like 00:40:31.380 --> 00:40:33.800 a broken record where I'd say what I love about 00:40:33.800 --> 00:40:35.900 Moose is he keeps putting himself in dangerous 00:40:35.900 --> 00:40:38.400 positions. He's putting himself in opportunities 00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:43.599 to make those tap -in goals, to make those dirty 00:40:43.599 --> 00:40:47.679 Dave Anderchuk, if we're going old school 80s 00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:51.199 hockey, Dino Cicerelli type of, you know, get 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:54.460 in the crease and just bang it home from two 00:40:54.460 --> 00:40:57.599 feet out. And he's doing that, and I was really 00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:00.380 loving his efforts on that. And so now this is 00:41:00.380 --> 00:41:02.880 just kind of everything coming good. You keep 00:41:02.880 --> 00:41:04.699 putting yourself in those positions, your opportunities 00:41:04.699 --> 00:41:08.519 will come. And he was snake bit a little bit 00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:11.320 in the past, and right now he's got a good run 00:41:11.320 --> 00:41:13.420 where he keeps doing the same thing he's been 00:41:13.420 --> 00:41:17.599 doing. I'm not sure he's changing much, but now 00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:20.539 those balls are falling to him. So great. I'm 00:41:20.539 --> 00:41:25.159 thrilled, and this is kind of what I... could 00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:30.739 be what we expect to see from him. He is our 00:41:30.739 --> 00:41:37.599 leading goal scorer with three. He's got no assists. 00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:41.599 Expected goals is four and a half. And I do remember 00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:47.599 he started the season missing some sitters. But 00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:50.039 yeah, he and Jordan Morris each have three with 00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:54.980 50 more minutes and five more games. There was 00:41:54.980 --> 00:42:00.059 a really interesting stat. Misofsky. No, don't 00:42:00.059 --> 00:42:05.400 do that. Don't do what? Did you call him Misofsky? 00:42:07.980 --> 00:42:11.539 Misofsky. I've had a whole nine noon. Give me 00:42:11.539 --> 00:42:14.800 a break. No, no, no. I thought you were criticizing 00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:17.619 when he would miss those sitters calling him 00:42:17.619 --> 00:42:21.199 Misofsky. Oh, I should have. That would have 00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:25.960 been great. Damn it. Yes, I did say that. But 00:42:25.960 --> 00:42:28.380 someone came up with the stat. I'm not sure where 00:42:28.380 --> 00:42:32.920 I heard this. It might have been one of our fellow 00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:39.719 podcasts. But it was somewhere when Jordan or 00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:44.139 Danny Mussofsky are on the field, we are outscoring 00:42:44.139 --> 00:42:48.179 teams by a ridiculous margin. Our XGs are much 00:42:48.179 --> 00:42:52.170 better. When neither of those two forwards are 00:42:52.170 --> 00:42:55.409 on the field, we're getting outscored 5 -0. And 00:42:55.409 --> 00:42:58.610 it's not looking pretty. So I think that kind 00:42:58.610 --> 00:43:01.570 of talks about the idea is that that could be 00:43:01.570 --> 00:43:06.110 a sign that having a true forward in this system, 00:43:06.170 --> 00:43:08.750 because we've largely played mostly the same 00:43:08.750 --> 00:43:11.349 formations for the most part throughout the season, 00:43:11.530 --> 00:43:16.699 could be a good thing. And we're pretty stable 00:43:16.699 --> 00:43:20.119 and consistent around midfield and back. Yeah. 00:43:20.260 --> 00:43:23.579 And so now what happens next week? Let's assume 00:43:23.579 --> 00:43:25.579 Jordan's out. It's almost certain that he's out. 00:43:26.340 --> 00:43:28.920 Yeah. You know, what's going to happen? Do you 00:43:28.920 --> 00:43:33.400 put Mussofsky up there? Three goals in three 00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:36.599 games? I think you kind of do. I don't think 00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:40.960 you screw around with testing out new formations. 00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:43.340 But the question is, what do you do about Albert 00:43:43.340 --> 00:43:47.139 Rusnak, got 40 minutes in this game. What do 00:43:47.139 --> 00:43:50.059 you do about Ryan Kent who got 21 minutes or 00:43:50.059 --> 00:43:53.860 19 minutes in this game plus stoppage time? So 00:43:53.860 --> 00:43:56.420 some attacking options who might be able to eat 00:43:56.420 --> 00:44:03.380 some minutes. Could Ryan Kent come in as a forward? 00:44:03.800 --> 00:44:09.150 I have no idea. I don't think so. We do have 00:44:09.150 --> 00:44:11.289 some attacking options, and just figuring out 00:44:11.289 --> 00:44:14.309 how to put them in a formation against a stubborn 00:44:14.309 --> 00:44:18.570 St. Louis team who we've already seen this year. 00:44:18.610 --> 00:44:20.389 We've already talked about how stubborn they 00:44:20.389 --> 00:44:28.230 are. It'll be interesting to see. Do you want 00:44:28.230 --> 00:44:29.809 to do the preview now, or do you have anything 00:44:29.809 --> 00:44:31.929 else to add about that Colorado match? I thought 00:44:31.929 --> 00:44:34.710 it was well -officiated. I think we'll give a 00:44:34.710 --> 00:44:36.489 little shout -out. Yeah, I think we'll give a 00:44:36.489 --> 00:44:38.710 shout -out to Josh Atencio starting against us. 00:44:39.469 --> 00:44:45.989 Yeah. Yeah, and at one moment there was a little 00:44:45.989 --> 00:44:49.010 bit of physicality between him and Rothrock, 00:44:49.070 --> 00:44:50.750 and they were both kind of laughing at each other 00:44:50.750 --> 00:44:55.800 about it. But I kind of like seeing that. And 00:44:55.800 --> 00:44:58.719 I like seeing that he's getting minutes because 00:44:58.719 --> 00:45:02.079 I always liked him, but our young midfield was 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:06.679 just too stacked for his time with us. And I'm 00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:11.599 happy with Obed. I think the announcer said it. 00:45:11.619 --> 00:45:14.539 I think we said it when the original trade got 00:45:14.539 --> 00:45:17.500 mentioned. It's kind of one of those win -win 00:45:17.500 --> 00:45:23.019 -win situations. Atencio gets to play. We got... 00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:26.260 good value out of it in over a million in gam 00:45:26.260 --> 00:45:30.539 uh and then colorado gets a player they need 00:45:30.539 --> 00:45:34.519 in a position of need i mean he's been he's been 00:45:34.519 --> 00:45:36.820 playing in almost all of their games he's been 00:45:36.820 --> 00:45:40.119 in nine matches this year and he's been really 00:45:40.119 --> 00:45:44.880 solid for that team so um good for him just really 00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:52.800 really happy for him yeah um and Let's see. I 00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:56.119 think that's... Yeah, we don't have to talk about 00:45:56.119 --> 00:45:59.119 that. I'm looking at my notes here. Yeah, let's 00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:01.219 get to a little preview. Who do we got coming 00:46:01.219 --> 00:46:06.500 up next? St. Louis City. We get to play St. Louis 00:46:06.500 --> 00:46:11.940 at home. St. Louis, who we lost to 1 -0 earlier 00:46:11.940 --> 00:46:14.579 this year, as you may remember. There was that 00:46:14.579 --> 00:46:20.239 early goal from them. And then just basically... 00:46:20.969 --> 00:46:24.429 We kept putting the pressure on, but they just 00:46:24.429 --> 00:46:28.130 bunkered down, and we just couldn't get anything 00:46:28.130 --> 00:46:37.829 out of that. It was also a game where we didn't 00:46:37.829 --> 00:46:42.469 have Jordan. We didn't have Pedro de la Vega. 00:46:43.329 --> 00:46:46.570 We tried to start Jesus Ferreira up top, and 00:46:46.570 --> 00:46:48.610 that didn't quite work. That was one of those 00:46:48.610 --> 00:46:53.309 aforementioned games where, Mussofsky was not 00:46:53.309 --> 00:46:57.869 on the field until the 64th minute. So in the 00:46:57.869 --> 00:47:02.409 end, I'm excited to see the tables turn. I'm 00:47:02.409 --> 00:47:06.130 very excited that one of St. Louis City's big 00:47:06.130 --> 00:47:09.769 players in their defensive midfield, Alfredo 00:47:09.769 --> 00:47:13.110 Morales, got a red card, so he will not be available. 00:47:13.210 --> 00:47:19.769 That's a damn shame. So they'll be down a key. 00:47:20.510 --> 00:47:29.349 a key player in that match. Tough doggies. That's 00:47:29.349 --> 00:47:34.150 a damn show. I want to win. I like winning. I 00:47:34.150 --> 00:47:40.010 don't want to win. Here's to that. Where are 00:47:40.010 --> 00:47:42.230 they in the standings? They're 12th in the Western 00:47:42.230 --> 00:47:46.110 Conference with 10 points, two wins, four losses. 00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:50.079 four draws, seven goals, four and eight against 00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:52.480 negative one goal differential, if you can do 00:47:52.480 --> 00:48:01.000 math. Yeah, this should be... We're at home. 00:48:01.400 --> 00:48:06.880 Yeah, this should be a win. We've got enough 00:48:06.880 --> 00:48:11.500 attacking options that we should be able to find 00:48:11.500 --> 00:48:15.159 goals at home. I think you're absolutely right. 00:48:16.910 --> 00:48:19.650 And only eight goals against, though. That's 00:48:19.650 --> 00:48:25.150 pretty. No, but Berkey still got a broken hand. 00:48:26.730 --> 00:48:30.929 They have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven 00:48:30.929 --> 00:48:34.909 players on their injury report, along with the 00:48:34.909 --> 00:48:39.110 suspended player. So they are a little battered. 00:48:39.329 --> 00:48:45.429 Hopefully we can take advantage of that. been 00:48:45.429 --> 00:48:49.510 struggling as of late since we played them. They've 00:48:49.510 --> 00:48:53.389 lost three, tied two. Three straight losses followed 00:48:53.389 --> 00:48:57.150 by their most two recent games as ties. But the 00:48:57.150 --> 00:49:00.150 two ties were against Vancouver 0 -0 and LAFC 00:49:00.150 --> 00:49:03.929 2 -2. Yeah, because they're not scoring either. 00:49:05.510 --> 00:49:10.369 Yeah. So we'll see what happens there. I do expect 00:49:10.369 --> 00:49:15.710 us to come out guns blazing. I'd like to see 00:49:15.710 --> 00:49:19.090 us... I'd be curious to see if Ryan Kent gets 00:49:19.090 --> 00:49:23.469 a start over Paul Rothrock. I don't know if he 00:49:23.469 --> 00:49:26.090 starts. I think it all depends, honestly. It 00:49:26.090 --> 00:49:30.909 depends on what... This is where our depth comes 00:49:30.909 --> 00:49:33.469 into play. This is the situation where Brian 00:49:33.469 --> 00:49:35.349 gets to take a look at our players and go, okay, 00:49:35.369 --> 00:49:39.650 what players can I utilize specifically to attack 00:49:39.650 --> 00:49:44.440 St. Louis' style? And that's a great position 00:49:44.440 --> 00:49:47.159 we have where in previous years it's like, well, 00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:50.039 here are our 11 starters. This is pretty much 00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:52.179 we can predict who our starters are going to 00:49:52.179 --> 00:49:55.480 be. Now I think this season there are a number 00:49:55.480 --> 00:49:57.880 of positions where I have no idea who's going 00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:01.239 to start. And I kind of like that. And it's not 00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:04.900 because of being ineffectual. It's because we 00:50:04.900 --> 00:50:09.119 actually have talent options. So really excited 00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:16.659 about that. What was, oh, one other thing about 00:50:16.659 --> 00:50:22.559 this week we haven't talked about. Do you plan 00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:28.139 on watching tomorrow the Inter -Miami Vancouver 00:50:28.139 --> 00:50:35.019 CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinal? I hadn't thought 00:50:35.019 --> 00:50:37.239 about it. I think I will probably turn it on, 00:50:37.260 --> 00:50:41.730 though. Because at this point... Not live, but 00:50:41.730 --> 00:50:45.769 like my usual 10 p .m. throw something non -falsive 00:50:45.769 --> 00:50:48.909 on the couch thing, yeah. Because Vancouver got 00:50:48.909 --> 00:50:52.789 the home result. They won 2 -0, and they looked 00:50:52.789 --> 00:50:57.150 pretty damn good doing it. So they held Miami 00:50:57.150 --> 00:51:01.710 to a shutout. So Vancouver gets a road goal tomorrow, 00:51:01.889 --> 00:51:05.969 and Miami's going to need four goals to win. 00:51:09.630 --> 00:51:13.030 Is that math right? Yeah, because 3 -3. Yeah, 00:51:13.210 --> 00:51:16.449 so Vancouver scores one goal. Miami needs four. 00:51:18.610 --> 00:51:23.449 I don't trust Miami's defense to get a shutout, 00:51:23.510 --> 00:51:26.809 but I also don't know if Vancouver is going to 00:51:26.809 --> 00:51:31.909 be trying to play for a 0 -0. I don't think that's 00:51:31.909 --> 00:51:33.690 the right approach to take if I'm Vancouver. 00:51:33.969 --> 00:51:35.849 Like, if you're going to bunker, you're opening 00:51:35.849 --> 00:51:38.960 yourself up to getting destroyed. But it will 00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:42.699 be very interesting. Both teams kind of left 00:51:42.699 --> 00:51:45.679 a lot up. They played a rotated squad on Sunday. 00:51:47.119 --> 00:51:50.119 Vancouver getting the 3 -1 win. Miami losing 00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:56.800 to Dallas 4 -3. So we'll see. But I am excited. 00:51:56.940 --> 00:51:59.599 I think in the end what I really don't want is 00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:02.800 I don't really want an MLS team to win CONCACAF 00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:05.940 if it's not us. If it's not us, yeah. I agree. 00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:09.780 But if a team's going to win it, I'd be okay 00:52:09.780 --> 00:52:15.159 if it's Vancouver. I want no joy from Miami. 00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:19.260 I definitely want no joy from Miami on that, 00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:21.219 especially this year in particular. What if it 00:52:21.219 --> 00:52:28.880 was Portland? If it was Portland, Miami. If it 00:52:28.880 --> 00:52:32.500 was Portland or Miami? No, they were playing 00:52:32.500 --> 00:52:40.420 each other. I'd probably go Borland. As much 00:52:40.420 --> 00:52:52.619 as I hate it, a successful Cascadia makes all 00:52:52.619 --> 00:52:59.239 of us better. Keep in mind, from 2011 to something 00:52:59.239 --> 00:53:06.599 stupid like 2023, one of us, Seattle or Portland, 00:53:06.699 --> 00:53:09.900 was in the Western Conference final. Yeah, I 00:53:09.900 --> 00:53:14.460 know. I know. It's another logical answer. That 00:53:14.460 --> 00:53:15.820 doesn't mean it feels good, and I don't want 00:53:15.820 --> 00:53:17.619 to talk about it anymore. But crazy enough, it 00:53:17.619 --> 00:53:20.800 was never both of us. We were never in the Western 00:53:20.800 --> 00:53:23.119 Conference finals against each other. That is 00:53:23.119 --> 00:53:28.099 weird. It's almost like the late 80s, early 90s, 00:53:28.099 --> 00:53:31.739 where it was always either San Francisco or... 00:53:33.789 --> 00:53:36.630 Buffalo with success, but they never played each 00:53:36.630 --> 00:53:38.929 other in the super bowl, you know, but like one 00:53:38.929 --> 00:53:43.550 of those two teams from basically 88 to anyways, 00:53:43.590 --> 00:53:47.409 moving on. So how about this? How about this? 00:53:47.510 --> 00:53:50.510 Let's rapid fire. Okay. Because we don't know 00:53:50.510 --> 00:53:52.869 what the, the lineup is going to be. Let's just 00:53:52.869 --> 00:53:56.449 come up with one. Okay. You do yours. I'll do 00:53:56.449 --> 00:53:58.769 mine. And then we will just say our predictions 00:53:58.769 --> 00:54:01.989 and have James take us away. That sounds like 00:54:01.989 --> 00:54:04.650 fun. I already wrote mine out, so I'm going to 00:54:04.650 --> 00:54:09.650 do it. That sounds like a good idea. All right. 00:54:09.690 --> 00:54:15.170 Up top, Moose. Della Vega, Rosnack, Jesus, CR7, 00:54:15.530 --> 00:54:23.329 Obed. So this is a three -band behind Moose. 00:54:23.670 --> 00:54:26.369 And then you got your two defensive midfielders 00:54:26.369 --> 00:54:30.349 right there, Obed, Christian, and then... knew 00:54:30.349 --> 00:54:38.909 who bell yamar alex fry no one's injured right 00:54:38.909 --> 00:54:41.989 no one got injured in the last minute of the 00:54:41.989 --> 00:54:44.429 match that i'm unaware of that that's not named 00:54:44.429 --> 00:54:54.090 jordan morris yeah okay i mean i'm gonna go say 00:54:54.090 --> 00:54:55.389 go ahead and say my prediction while you keep 00:54:55.389 --> 00:54:59.530 thinking yeah um I'm going to say it is going 00:54:59.530 --> 00:55:03.250 to be 1 -0 us and Jesus gets his first goal. 00:55:04.590 --> 00:55:11.150 Okay. Remind me to put that on my prediction 00:55:11.150 --> 00:55:13.869 sheet you drop in the Discord. Speaking of which, 00:55:13.949 --> 00:55:18.210 big success to Dan the Bastard, who's had a nice 00:55:18.210 --> 00:55:20.969 run this year. He's won a few of these. He's 00:55:20.969 --> 00:55:25.309 owning everyone. He got all five points. He got 00:55:25.309 --> 00:55:28.590 Danny Mussofsky. One of three of us. I also chose 00:55:28.590 --> 00:55:32.650 Danny Masovsky. And I think Alex Diaz also chose 00:55:32.650 --> 00:55:35.969 Danny Masovsky. And then got the score right 00:55:35.969 --> 00:55:40.829 and everything. So good job on you. Once again, 00:55:40.909 --> 00:55:44.349 if you want to join us on that, I post it every 00:55:44.349 --> 00:55:48.170 match day. At the end of the season, we'll give 00:55:48.170 --> 00:55:51.550 a prize to whoever has the highest overall score. 00:55:51.730 --> 00:55:54.730 But then we'll also have another prize for everyone 00:55:54.730 --> 00:55:57.489 that has participated in any game. So if you 00:55:57.489 --> 00:56:00.090 participate in five games, we'll get five entries. 00:56:00.250 --> 00:56:02.530 You participate in 20 games, you'll get 20 entries. 00:56:02.750 --> 00:56:05.650 And this way, even if you're not playing every 00:56:05.650 --> 00:56:08.309 single week, you still have opportunities to 00:56:08.309 --> 00:56:11.460 win something cool. And right now, I'll be honest, 00:56:11.619 --> 00:56:15.380 I have a few different ideas. I've got some stuff 00:56:15.380 --> 00:56:18.699 that I think you might appreciate, but we'll 00:56:18.699 --> 00:56:20.480 come up with some good stuff. You kind of have 00:56:20.480 --> 00:56:22.679 to do this because you need to get rid of some 00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:26.480 of this shit. Both you and Cameron are hoarders 00:56:26.480 --> 00:56:30.159 of Sounders memorabilia. You say it like a bad 00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:33.150 thing. Or just used clothing. No, it's not. It's 00:56:33.150 --> 00:56:37.150 just the opposite of me, and I respect it. It's 00:56:37.150 --> 00:56:42.949 between money, time, and I don't know. I don't 00:56:42.949 --> 00:56:45.329 know. I do want more stuff, but it doesn't matter. 00:56:48.170 --> 00:56:51.190 Come on. What's your lineup? Okay, so we're going 00:56:51.190 --> 00:56:53.429 to start with Fry and Goal. We are going to do 00:56:53.429 --> 00:56:58.190 New Who, Kim Kihee, and Yamar in the back three. 00:57:01.610 --> 00:57:03.489 I think we're going to do... Kim is our difference. 00:57:05.269 --> 00:57:09.429 I think we're going to do... I think we're going 00:57:09.429 --> 00:57:11.389 to do Kent at home. I think we're going to do 00:57:11.389 --> 00:57:14.829 Kent instead of Rothrock. We're going to do Obed 00:57:14.829 --> 00:57:24.590 and Christian. And Alex instead of KKR. Instead 00:57:24.590 --> 00:57:28.230 of Kosarienzi. So the roll -downs will play side 00:57:28.230 --> 00:57:38.030 -by -side. With, oh my God, if I do that, then 00:57:38.030 --> 00:57:42.250 this doesn't make sense, but okay. Then we're 00:57:42.250 --> 00:57:54.789 going to do Musafsky. No. Yeah. How do you not 00:57:54.789 --> 00:57:59.510 put Albert in? It's like, dude. I did. Well, 00:57:59.570 --> 00:58:03.030 that's the thing. It's like, how do I take out 00:58:03.030 --> 00:58:06.409 one of De La Vega, Mussovsky, Ferreira to put 00:58:06.409 --> 00:58:10.070 in Albert? You know, I don't know, man. I don't 00:58:10.070 --> 00:58:15.150 know. Okay, so I think Moose gets subbed out 00:58:15.150 --> 00:58:17.489 for Kent shortly after. So probably around the 00:58:17.489 --> 00:58:21.389 60 -minute mark, maybe even longer. And Jesus 00:58:21.389 --> 00:58:23.969 moves up top. I think that's going to happen. 00:58:23.989 --> 00:58:26.989 So it would be Kent. Rosnack, De La Vega across 00:58:26.989 --> 00:58:29.210 the attacking band in front of Christian and 00:58:29.210 --> 00:58:32.869 Obed who are in front of Tolo, Bell, Yamar, and 00:58:32.869 --> 00:58:35.230 Alex. I think just mileage on Kim playing the 00:58:35.230 --> 00:58:38.150 last few matches. I think Bell, who's shown well, 00:58:38.289 --> 00:58:42.309 deserves some minutes. And Alex as well deserves 00:58:42.309 --> 00:58:48.730 some minutes. It'll be a 4 -2 -3 -1. Okay. Interesting. 00:58:49.030 --> 00:58:52.489 Which they're familiar with. Right? It's not 00:58:52.489 --> 00:58:54.989 like it's a big change. We pretty much play that 00:58:54.989 --> 00:58:59.590 way until we get the ball. Yeah. Between a five 00:58:59.590 --> 00:59:04.190 -man back line and... Yeah, the line of prediction, 00:59:04.489 --> 00:59:08.889 I just... Again, we just have champagne problems 00:59:08.889 --> 00:59:12.250 in that we have high -quality people who can 00:59:12.250 --> 00:59:16.329 start every game where you can't get it for all 00:59:16.329 --> 00:59:21.800 of them to be starting every game. So... So that's 00:59:21.800 --> 00:59:23.280 why I think it's just a fun exercise to do it 00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:25.739 specifically for this one. Knowing it's like, 00:59:25.780 --> 00:59:27.280 hey, we're not coming up with best 11. How do 00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:28.559 we use them all at once? It's just not going 00:59:28.559 --> 00:59:30.280 to happen. Yeah, doing it on the fly is really 00:59:30.280 --> 00:59:32.800 tough, by the way. I wish you would have given 00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:38.500 me a heads up. I did it on the fly. I just used 00:59:38.500 --> 00:59:46.000 Excel. I am. I don't mean that. Thank you. Thank 00:59:46.000 --> 00:59:53.519 you. You're good. Score, what do you think? We're 00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:57.880 at home. We're playing St. Louis, who's very 00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:00.440 injury depleted. St. Louis is going to try and 01:00:00.440 --> 01:00:04.039 make it a 0 -0 game. If we can get that early 01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:07.579 goal, we can get many goals. If we can get that 01:00:07.579 --> 01:00:10.800 early goal, we can win 3 -0. If we can't get 01:00:10.800 --> 01:00:13.019 that early goal, it's going to be a 1 -0 game. 01:00:14.659 --> 01:00:16.480 I'm going to have optimism that we're going to 01:00:16.480 --> 01:00:26.360 get three goals, so I'm going to say 3 -0. Yeah. 01:00:26.360 --> 01:00:28.800 All right. I reserve the right to change my mind 01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:33.940 when I see the lineup. Yeah, well, we're not 01:00:33.940 --> 01:00:36.059 recording again, so you can put that in your 01:00:36.059 --> 01:00:38.239 match day prediction. That's right. I've done 01:00:38.239 --> 01:00:39.800 that a few times where my match day prediction 01:00:39.800 --> 01:00:42.400 has not matched up with my pregame prediction. 01:00:42.719 --> 01:00:44.519 Oh, I certainly have because I usually forget 01:00:44.519 --> 01:00:49.429 what I've said. God, I'm a forgetful SOB. Well, 01:00:49.449 --> 01:00:52.710 where can they find you, good sir? Well, they 01:00:52.710 --> 01:00:56.269 can find me in our Discord. I am thescuttlebutt 01:00:56.269 --> 01:01:00.809 on there, but also Instagram, Aaron Lingley, 01:01:00.909 --> 01:01:06.590 and Twitter, Aaron Lingley. All right. What about 01:01:06.590 --> 01:01:12.690 you? Well, on Discord, I am Nicholas, and on 01:01:12.690 --> 01:01:17.980 Instagram, I am Cascades2C. and i just don't 01:01:17.980 --> 01:01:21.059 really post much on twitter so i don't really 01:01:21.059 --> 01:01:23.699 use it it's just mostly to catch up on news and 01:01:23.699 --> 01:01:26.340 that i really just want to answer you guys just 01:01:26.340 --> 01:01:28.059 answer you guys when you guys say that because 01:01:28.059 --> 01:01:29.980 i i honestly don't remember the last time i logged 01:01:29.980 --> 01:01:34.880 into to twitter so um you can add me if you want 01:01:34.880 --> 01:01:38.320 but discord is where i will be probably talking 01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:44.139 or you know um Maybe I'll get on Instagram a 01:01:44.139 --> 01:01:46.139 little bit more. I have no problem going on Instagram, 01:01:46.280 --> 01:01:49.539 and I want to, but anyway, it doesn't matter. 01:01:50.900 --> 01:01:55.320 Indeed. Well, and of course, Cameron is Legal 01:01:55.320 --> 01:01:59.440 Minded Punk. All our little links are in the 01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:01.159 show description, too. Yeah, pretty much, right? 01:02:02.039 --> 01:02:04.940 Pretty much. Pretty much. Well, yeah, pretty 01:02:04.940 --> 01:02:10.420 much. I can't think of another one. No. No. He's 01:02:10.420 --> 01:02:14.099 Legal Minded Punk. He's Lego -minded punk. And 01:02:14.099 --> 01:02:16.380 we miss him. And I'm sure he'll be on the next 01:02:16.380 --> 01:02:18.699 one. And then you two guys are setting up our 01:02:18.699 --> 01:02:22.019 Ultras segments, right? Yeah, I think he's working 01:02:22.019 --> 01:02:25.139 on that right now, kind of communicating to figure 01:02:25.139 --> 01:02:29.239 out how we're going to set that format up. But 01:02:29.239 --> 01:02:32.340 it'll be fun adding a little different spice 01:02:32.340 --> 01:02:38.340 to our episodes. But in the end, looking forward 01:02:38.340 --> 01:02:42.449 to seeing how that goes. Yeah, I think it's cool. 01:02:42.610 --> 01:02:45.929 I love that he just didn't tell us. We're like, 01:02:46.090 --> 01:02:49.070 okay. That sounds good. Well, I mean, it's like 01:02:49.070 --> 01:02:55.570 when I used our funds to go to Tahiti. I just 01:02:55.570 --> 01:02:58.309 kind of did that without telling you. I know 01:02:58.309 --> 01:03:02.150 you guys were upset at me, but... We're a forgiving 01:03:02.150 --> 01:03:05.690 bunch. I know. I took advantage of that. And 01:03:05.690 --> 01:03:09.300 I'm sorry. All right, well, we should also take 01:03:09.300 --> 01:03:11.440 advantage of the relationship that you guys have 01:03:11.440 --> 01:03:15.699 with James, who was polite enough to give us 01:03:15.699 --> 01:03:18.599 an outro on this wonderful show that we do. So, 01:03:18.639 --> 01:03:23.340 James, take us away. 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