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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! and welcome to another

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rendition of Sounders Scuttlebutt. Or edition.

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I think that's what I really wanted to say. But

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I am your host, Aaron Lingley, and as always,

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I am joined by your Alliance Council Secretary,

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Cameron Collins. Hello. And your Alliance Council

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Extraordinaire, Nicholas Biela. Hello, my friends.

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Welcome. Hello. Welcome. Hi. Why are we recording

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this week? I thought there wasn't a Sounders

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match. You just because you're not because someone

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didn't go to the game. So I found out the night

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before that we had a home Sounders match. Oh,

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no shit. I thought we are road this past weekend

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and home the next weekend. And that meant I had

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to struggle to find someone to put up the Gorilla

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FC banner. And it didn't happen because the only

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other people who know how to do it also had to

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work. I was going to say, yeah. I realized last

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minute that Bernadette would be able to make

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it. So I put a shout out to see if anyone was

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selling a ticket or getting rid of a ticket.

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I put that out in one channel. And then like

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five minutes later, you offered up your tickets

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to someone. And I was like, son of a bitch. Passing

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in the night. Shout out to Jose Raze. But no,

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it all worked out. Everyone got to go to games

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and everyone got to have a lot of fun. And we'll

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talk a little bit about that as we go. They played,

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though. They did. They played a game. Damn, they

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played well, too. Wait, they played a game and

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I wasn't there? Just like the other day they

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played a game and I wasn't there? I think I need

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a beer. You know, that sounds like a great idea.

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It is Cinco de Mayo. It is. Shall we? You go

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first. All right. Enjoy your Ranye. And you?

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It's funny. I said it's funny it's Cinco de Mayo,

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but I'm actually drinking a La Croix. I've been

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drinking all weekend, and actually, I just don't

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have any... My mom and her husband visited, so

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we just had a good three -day weekend. That's

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cool. And it's mainly because I ran out of beer,

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not because I've had three days of drinking.

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Maybe it's not a LaCroix. Maybe it's a LaCroix.

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LaCroix. No, I think cross is masculine and fresh.

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Elcroix? Elcroix? That's a good question. I don't

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know what cross is in Spanish. Crooks. Crooks.

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Yeah. All right, let's move on. This is not fun.

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No, no. Sounders played. I wasn't there. And

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guess what? When I'm not there, the Sounders

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win by three goals. It's happened two home games

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in a row. Lots of winning. Lots of winning. Nicholas,

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why don't you go over some other winners from

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our prediction? Yeah, we can hit that up right

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away. So in the prediction challenge, this was

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a pretty busy week. We had six people with three

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points. And so two of those six are right here

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in this room right now. And I am not one of them.

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It is not me. So Cameron, Aaron, congratulations.

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And then Bryce DeHeff, Bryson, Cedar, Jerry.

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And T6JRAM all got... I picked it 2 -1. Is that

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what you picked, Aaron? No, I did 3 -1. Yeah,

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but it was 2 .5 goals was the over -under, so

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that's why we all got that on that one. Yeah,

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and T6JRAM does go by RAM on the Discord, so

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I just wanted to make sure I had that information

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correct before I announced it. So congratulations,

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everyone. Really good, really good week. And

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a big shout -out, actually. I want to give a

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big shout -out to Muffin Top Model, Tim. Set

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up a really nice barbecue and margarita party.

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Alex Eagleson, fellow Alliance Council member,

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was making margaritas. We had a nice little group

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of people there and a little street party before

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the game. Always nice when you're walking up

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into the stadium with a red Solo cup with a freshly

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made margarita. It's a good way to start the

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day. I love tailgating. I can't remember the

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last time I did it. I like tailgating. One done

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properly is so much fun. For me, it's a college

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football thing because Husky football, that's

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where it's done. It's never been a Seahawks.

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People do it for Seahawks, but it's not. Not

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everyone does it for Seahawks. It's just not

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set up. It's just not set up very well. So it's

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weird for me thinking soccer, tailgate, but it's

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huge around other stadiums. Other sport groups

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have parties and tailgates. uh, outside the stadiums

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with barbecues and all sorts of cool stuff. Actually.

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Yeah. So for San Diego FC, we obviously met up

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with ECS with Gracie before we, you know, did

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our pre pre -funking, which everywhere else on

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the planet says pre -gaming. Um, I stand by pre

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-funking. A pre -funk is for me, a pre -funk

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is a pre -game party is where you go to pre -funk.

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Pre -funk to me, like that's where you're going

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to. To party before you party. Yeah, exactly.

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It's a pre -function. Anyway, you walk through

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this big open lot, basically, and it was almost

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too big for their fans because they weren't very

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condensed, but there was a shit ton of people

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barbecuing, listening to music, had tents up,

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and so they were getting down. Shout out to...

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Yeah, I was just going to say, I got to get you

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guys out to join me for a pre -funk in Buffalo.

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That would be fun. I've done Lambo. I've done

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Lambo in Green Bay. That's pretty legit. Shout

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out to the Boniface family. In December. No,

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that's gross. It was. What's up with the Boniface

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family? It was Russell's four interception game.

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Sorry. We are not on the same page today. I take

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a week off and we forget how to talk. Yeah, that's

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pretty much it. That's pretty much it. Hey, you

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know what? I'm so drunk right now. This is La

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Croix. Yeah, off of my smart water. Cameron,

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go. Shout out to the Bonifaces. They went to

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the Sounders game a couple weekends ago at Colorado,

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of course, and Stan was there and comes on to

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talk about the Rapids we used to cover. Unfortunately,

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sometimes listener of the show and future Colorado

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Rapid, Beckham broke his foot during practice

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or playing before the game at the... tailgate

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so uh we're thinking of you becks and uh shout

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out to dan because today is the 24 year anniversary

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of him setting the steeplechase record for university

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of miami and uh they have a little athletics

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you know one of those desk calendars and he sent

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me a picture today of the desk calendar with

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him as the stat of the day because he set the

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record on cinco de mayo oh cool uh miami hurricanes

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or university of miami ohio miami Miami Hurricanes.

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He started out at WSU and then transferred to

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South Beach. I think he traded up going from

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Pullman to South Beach. Do you think anyone from

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the University of Miami, Ohio ever says the Ohio

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part? No. Or just clarifies when someone asks

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that question? I think it's probably regional,

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though, because if you say you went to UW, here,

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we would assume they meant UW. But Wisconsin,

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they're going to mean that. In Wyoming, they

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think you mean that. But that's different. You

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know, that's just the initials, but I went to

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University of Miami. Yeah. Where though? Yeah.

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Ohio. Well, let's, let's do some other, I guess,

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good news for some people that is scuttlebutt,

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but is not related to the Sounders. MLS sponsorship

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spikes as US soccer gains popularity, says Lillian

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Rizzo on CNBC. So this is a non. Sports publication

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talking about it. We've made it. So far in 2025,

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MLS sponsorship revenue is up double digits compared

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to 2024. MLS counts brands like Adidas and Michelob

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as sponsors. I honestly didn't know Michelob

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was a sponsor. Have you seen Michelob on stuff?

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Have you not been watching those messy ads? Oh,

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those are Michelob? I just know them as the messy

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beer ad. Yeah, Michelob Ultra. Yeah, I don't

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think I'm their target audience since I... For

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me to drink a non -craft beer would be pretty...

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Rainier is no longer a craft beer. Would you

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ever drink a Rainier? Yeah, not by choice. That's

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the only thing I had. I'd prefer a Natty Bow,

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which is just Rainier for the East Coast. No.

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Rainier for Baltimore. No, no, no, no. It's literally

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the same formula now. Either that or... Yeah,

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it's the same formula. It might be the same as

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Olympia. Somebody's tapping their fingers and

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picking it up there on the... Not me. That would

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be me. You don't want to do that. Sorry, I'm

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in a different situation here. I prefer... Like

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the other day, I went to a cool spot in Columbia

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City. I got a sour. Take me to your craft beers.

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Real craft beers. None of this Elysian Budweiser

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crap. I mean, I generally do like a good craft.

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That's good news, though. But when I'm drinking

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at home, I try to just go for bulk. That's why

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I drink Guinness. I've got some subtle bugs.

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Hold on. One more thing. Oh, yeah. Lionel Messi,

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part of that. As much as people want to hate

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on Messi, people are signing up and sponsoring

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because of him. Oh, shit. I just enjoy watching

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Messi and Miami lose to Vancouver and CONCACAF

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semifinals. I enjoyed watching Miami lose. I

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don't know why. I mean, I get why people make

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it about Messi, but to me it's silly because

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Vancouver's just so good. I have no problem with

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Messi by themselves. As a matter of fact, I enjoy

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watching Messi. Um, but I don't want them running

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the table. I, I want them to struggle. Oh, here's

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a little tidbit real quick. And then we'll get

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back to that. Then I just saw in this article,

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uh, Adidas extended its multi -year partnership

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with MLS in 2023. Had we known that? I don't

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think we did. I knew they were on like a 10 year

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deal. Um, so now it goes till 2030 and it's valued

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at 830 million. from what does that mean well

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basically what does that mean we have adidas

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for at least five more years instead of it being

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done the the the problem is the goal was the

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hope for me at least personally was that when

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the deal would expire they can negotiate where

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teams individual teams could negotiate with their

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own jersey sponsors so yeah that was never gonna

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happen i know Legally, I don't think it can just

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because it's a single entity. It would be difficult.

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But yeah, in MLS, that was not going to happen.

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Of course, that's profound. I get it, but you

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know the struggles. No American League does that.

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Rugby, maybe? Rugby has different sponsors, perhaps,

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but everyone else, it's always the same. Well,

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it wasn't always that way. Baseball, anyways.

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You got to go back to the 80s for all that, though.

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Early 90s. So just a little bit of a hoop dream

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there. Pipe dream, I guess. Yeah. So it's unfortunate.

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But otherwise, yeah, soccer is more popular than

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ever. Speaking of soccer and popular, we got

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the Club World Cup coming up in just about a

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month. But tomorrow we will find out if. leone

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has winning will win their appeal or not the

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court of arbitration uh for sport will rule on

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their dispute and so one of two things will happen

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either leone will be allowed in or um they'll

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be kicked out and fifa will need to replace them

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with the almost confirmed rumor being a play

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-in game between lafc and club america um And

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that's because Club America is the leader in

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the CONCACAF coefficient. And LAFC because they

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were the team that lost to Leon in the final

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that year. Which is just kind of a shame that

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they're not following their own rule where U

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.S. or Mexico can't have more than two teams

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in. Because it would have been nice to see Alahuanse

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or Vancouver Whitecaps, for example, get the

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shout. I mean, if you had gone back to when that

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team made it, though, it would have been Philadelphia.

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So a lot of teams are getting screwed. No, because

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then, again, once again, because if they're following

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their own rules, Philadelphia would be ineligible.

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They're not following their own rules, though.

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And so in which case, it would have been Philadelphia.

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If you took the team that was eliminated by Lyon.

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It would have been Philadelphia in that instance.

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So they're going to feel aggrieved because the

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rules were not followed, and then they didn't

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go to them. No, Leon won against LAFC in the

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final. Okay. Well, all I know is Philadelphia

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was the highest -seeded one at the time, and

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that's why they were reporting that they were

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likely to get it. But I think it was wishful

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thinking. I think their thought was... Yeah,

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I think the idea was they were the highest non

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-Mexican team, but there was already two U .S.

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teams in. So, anyways, it's just FIFA's going

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to FIFA in this case. And, you know, whatever.

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We'll see what happens. Just kind of watch with

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interesting eye there. Aaron, do you have anything

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to add to that? No, because I don't really know

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what you're talking about. Why isn't Leon in?

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Leon got kicked out of the Club World Cup because

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they have the same ownership. Co -ownership is

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Pachuca. And the regulations say you cannot have

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two multi -ownership. I can see why there's so

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much. So like Red Bull Salzburg wouldn't be able

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to play in the Club World Cup with Red Bull New

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York, for example. And it seems because then

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Manchester City can't play with New York City,

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can't play with Auckland City, can't play with.

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I mean, they own so many clubs, so it seems like

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a short sighted rule. As long as they're not

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loaning players to one another to try and make

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it, it seems short sighted to me. I'm actually

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OK with it because I don't want multi ownership.

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groups in soccer so anything to discourage that

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i think would be would be better i don't think

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i'll discourage it they'll just favor their i

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get it but i'm just i'm just trying to you know

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i'm just trying to say um the other i have i

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have something good okay i got another thing

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but go for it well it's gonna be it's gonna be

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a change of subject but it'll still be soccer

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oh no i have one more scuttlebutt item so go

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for yours okay um so on mlssoccersoccer .com

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A article is up here, the Match Day 11. I hadn't

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really looked at these before by Joseph Lowry.

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Is it the best 11, are you saying? I don't know

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if it says Match Day 11, but anyway, it kind

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of just gives like little glimpses of what happened

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this weekend for each team. And number four is

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Seattle Sounders are fun. Yeah. And I just want

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to say he gives a shout out to someone that you

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are, that you really love, Cameron. So I just

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want to read it. Allow me, if you will, to quote

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the excellent Jeremiah O'Shan over at Sounder

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at Heart. There are a lot of adjectives that

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can describe the Seattle Sounders during Brian

00:18:04.410 --> 00:18:07.269
Schmitzer's tenure in charge. Successful, stout,

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hardworking, industrious, relatable, reliable.

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They all work. Anyway, it's just saying how great

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Brian Schmitzer is. And I thought it was really

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funny with that one thing you told us about.

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Did they change the meaning of the word excellent?

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Yes. Sure they did. Well, that's fine. Sounders

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jumped to fifth in the MLS power ranking, so

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I'm happy with that. That's amazing. Yeah, and

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these little snippets are actually pretty cool.

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So if you don't have time to watch any games

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like I do, I think I'm going to start reading

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this. Whose power ranking did they jump to fifth?

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Because MLS has them as 12. ESPN. oh gotcha gotcha

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okay we don't we use we've always used the spns

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on the show for some reason i don't know why

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we look at both i think it's because the sounders

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are always higher um yeah i haven't really noticed

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that yeah what do you got what do you got what

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do you got nicholas one of my favorite results

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this weekend was the sport in kansas city versus

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la galaxy game where galaxy an absolute new low

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uh already setting the record setting setting

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the record for winless start to the season although

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that record could still be broken because they

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currently share that record with montreal and

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they both have set the record this year so which

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team is going to blink first Do they play each

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other? Do they play each other at some point?

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That'd be great. I would watch that match for

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you. And it'd be a 0 -0 draw. So not only do

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they... LA Galaxy lost on an own goal? Wait,

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wait, wait. It gets worse. It gets worse. It

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gets worse. Okay, good. So a 13th minute own

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goal. Kansas City had... zero shots on target,

00:19:59.789 --> 00:20:05.930
zero shots off target. They had a 0 .00 expected

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goals. The only thing that got a sniff near the

00:20:12.450 --> 00:20:18.410
net was a cross that was own -goaled by LA. They

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set a record as the first MLS team to ever win

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a game with no shots on goal. Keep in mind that

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both the MLS Cup in 2016 and the RSL playoff

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game are considered ties. But that was the other

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game where a team got advanced with the 0 .0

00:20:42.670 --> 00:20:49.849
expected goals. So just wow. LA Galaxy finding

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new ways. Oh, and I think Peck and Payne still

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both went down with injuries. Can I ask you both

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a question? Here's the question. You're seeing

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what's happening in LA right now. Would you,

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knowing what you know right now, would you swap

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out the results? Would you swap out us advancing

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to MLS Cup, us winning at home for MLS Cup, and

00:21:23.829 --> 00:21:28.660
us going 0 for 13? or no wins to start this season.

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I'm not sure how I feel. I don't know. For another

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championship? Yeah, if we had won the championship

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last year. Yeah, I love the championship. Yeah.

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But boy, this is embarrassing. I'm not confident.

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This is embarrassing. I'm not confident we'll

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ever win a championship again. That's not a comment

00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:52.680
on our team. We could be the best team in the

00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:54.980
MLS history and not win the championship because...

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uh there's no guarantees ever right you can win

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a game without taking a shot i mean look so red

00:22:01.319 --> 00:22:03.559
bull red bull have been successful throughout

00:22:03.559 --> 00:22:06.799
their their identity and they have never never

00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:12.160
until this yeah yeah so i mean i take the championship

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in the third star absolutely uh because i have

00:22:15.460 --> 00:22:18.299
confidence that we would write as well i have

00:22:18.299 --> 00:22:21.720
confidence that if yeah if we were in that position

00:22:22.269 --> 00:22:23.509
I mean, we've been in that position. I mean,

00:22:23.529 --> 00:22:25.170
to a degree, that's kind of what happened with

00:22:25.170 --> 00:22:28.990
CONCACAF. Yeah, it's also what happened in 2016.

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We weren't losing every game, but we were the

00:22:32.470 --> 00:22:35.109
worst team in the league. And we won the MLS

00:22:35.109 --> 00:22:37.809
Cup. So you can turn it around. There's ways

00:22:37.809 --> 00:22:40.970
to do it through signings, through firings, through

00:22:40.970 --> 00:22:43.269
whatever. And to have it happen at the beginning

00:22:43.269 --> 00:22:45.130
of the season rather than the end of the season,

00:22:45.230 --> 00:22:47.039
right? It's like you kind of just get... just

00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:49.119
a slap in the face, woken up. This is a state

00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:51.099
of emergency. Let's, let's change some things.

00:22:51.140 --> 00:22:53.440
The pendulum swings in the other direction. And

00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:56.900
you also have a championship. Yeah. I mean, so,

00:22:56.900 --> 00:22:59.019
so to you, you're always like, Hey, give me the

00:22:59.019 --> 00:23:01.960
championship. Take it, take it because you never

00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:03.299
know when you're going to be a world Mariners

00:23:03.299 --> 00:23:05.319
world series this year. And then they can fold

00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:08.680
next year. Just give me, give me the one. So,

00:23:08.680 --> 00:23:10.740
so, I mean, honestly though, this is one of those,

00:23:10.779 --> 00:23:15.150
this is a. primary example of some of the stuff

00:23:15.150 --> 00:23:17.089
I've talked about especially at the beginning

00:23:17.089 --> 00:23:19.769
of the year and entering the offseason where

00:23:19.769 --> 00:23:23.549
be careful what you wish for when you're talking

00:23:23.549 --> 00:23:26.230
about roster construction because the Galaxy

00:23:26.230 --> 00:23:32.390
went for it last year and they got it but it

00:23:32.390 --> 00:23:35.369
came at a great cost now granted Ricky Pooja's

00:23:35.369 --> 00:23:40.700
injury that's unanticipated but yesterday's game

00:23:40.700 --> 00:23:45.740
had 10 of the 11 starters for mls cup and they

00:23:45.740 --> 00:23:48.779
still lost in that embarrassing fashion but they

00:23:48.779 --> 00:23:51.400
they had to get rid of a lot of people they had

00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:54.259
to they lost their talent in depth yeah yeah

00:23:54.259 --> 00:23:57.059
it's it you're right it is we were they were

00:23:57.059 --> 00:24:00.279
hamstrung worse this year than we were after

00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:02.880
winning concrete half champions league but we've

00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:04.799
been through this but but that's thing but that's

00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:07.740
where i really want to say i really want to encourage

00:24:07.740 --> 00:24:12.569
people who do um who maybe only passively pay

00:24:12.569 --> 00:24:15.329
attention to the roster construction rules it

00:24:15.329 --> 00:24:17.710
really highlights just how good of a job seattle

00:24:17.710 --> 00:24:21.009
has done i think in in my opinion yeah uh over

00:24:21.009 --> 00:24:25.710
the years okay so very steady shit oh that kitty

00:24:25.710 --> 00:24:28.990
is talkative today yeah i can't do anything about

00:24:28.990 --> 00:24:30.750
this either i'm in the living room guys who cares

00:24:30.750 --> 00:24:34.509
it adds depth to the show i'm it's captain james

00:24:34.509 --> 00:24:39.319
hook that's the kitty's name you know well affectionately

00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:42.440
hook. Yes. Yeah. That's cool. I, I was reading

00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:44.539
my favorite movies. Yeah. I was reading an article

00:24:44.539 --> 00:24:46.519
this week and I think I sent you a video that

00:24:46.519 --> 00:24:48.579
came up after I read the article. Both of you

00:24:48.579 --> 00:24:53.319
may be from Rufio, but that cat, that movie is

00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:55.980
one of the most underrated movies of all time.

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For sure. A hundred percent. Nick doesn't appear

00:25:00.980 --> 00:25:04.559
to agree. He seems perplexed by us. I can't imagine

00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:07.660
why. No, I'm just trying to withhold the urge

00:25:07.660 --> 00:25:16.740
to go Ruthie or to Crow or to Bangerang. I'm

00:25:16.740 --> 00:25:21.099
really trying to resist the urge. I mean, it's

00:25:21.099 --> 00:25:25.140
a Spielberg film. I mean, it's great. It's a

00:25:25.140 --> 00:25:30.759
great film. Is it his best film? No. Jurassic

00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:34.569
Park's pretty fucking good. Yeah, that's true.

00:25:35.150 --> 00:25:36.789
I mean, that's the thing, is he has a lot of

00:25:36.789 --> 00:25:39.789
classics. I would put it pretty high up there,

00:25:39.829 --> 00:25:43.829
though. I'd put it over... Is it top five? I

00:25:43.829 --> 00:25:46.609
mean, you've got Indiana Jones films. You've

00:25:46.609 --> 00:25:50.809
got... Last Crusade is also in my... Yeah, and

00:25:50.809 --> 00:25:53.650
that's the thing. I mean, Jaws is number one

00:25:53.650 --> 00:25:57.970
for me by far. So, like, not even close. What

00:25:57.970 --> 00:26:02.190
a fantastic movie that was. I mean, Close Encounters

00:26:02.190 --> 00:26:04.319
of the Third... And Raiders of the Lost Ark,

00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:06.720
E .T., Twilight Zone, which that was a mess,

00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:09.599
but still iconic in some ways. Yeah, Temple of

00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:12.880
Doom, Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Last Crusade,

00:26:13.059 --> 00:26:16.359
Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List. Is Schindler's

00:26:16.359 --> 00:26:20.480
List a good movie? It's much like Grave of the

00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:23.259
Fireflies, where you only need to see it once.

00:26:24.339 --> 00:26:27.339
I saw it in the theater on the anniversary. Was

00:26:27.339 --> 00:26:29.079
it the 25 -year anniversary? When did that come

00:26:29.079 --> 00:26:31.799
out? I saw it recently. Saving Private Ryan.

00:26:32.970 --> 00:26:36.809
yeah yeah that's a uh yeah i mean munich was

00:26:36.809 --> 00:26:39.509
good crystal skull was not but i still enjoy

00:26:39.509 --> 00:26:42.309
it i guess he's a pretty good director um yeah

00:26:42.309 --> 00:26:45.029
yeah we should get moving on though i think my

00:26:45.029 --> 00:26:47.390
favorite is probably in our discord too either

00:26:47.390 --> 00:26:49.769
raiders or lost crusade is probably my favorite

00:26:49.769 --> 00:26:55.529
yeah that's fair uh yeah because we have a bunch

00:26:55.529 --> 00:27:03.140
of the mailbag we do we do um Go for it, Nick.

00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:07.039
Okay. Show us your mailbag. All right. So Alex

00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:11.619
Diaz starting us off. Talking about Houston this

00:27:11.619 --> 00:27:14.940
Saturday. After letting the performance from

00:27:14.940 --> 00:27:17.779
Saturday marinate, Rothrock is playing well.

00:27:17.940 --> 00:27:20.160
Kent is playing like he wants that starting spot

00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:23.160
on the left. Pedro de la Vega is exciting still,

00:27:23.240 --> 00:27:25.400
but didn't contribute to the goals assists like

00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:28.700
Kent and Rothrock did. Houston's forecast has

00:27:28.700 --> 00:27:32.519
highs of 82, humidity level of 60. So the question

00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:35.359
is, would you start Kent on the left and bench

00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:37.660
Rothrock, start Kent and move Rothrock to the

00:27:37.660 --> 00:27:40.279
right, thus benching Pedro, or continue with

00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:42.380
the current starters that started against St.

00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:45.640
Louis? That is, given that we stick to a 4 -2

00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:49.799
-3 -1. Now, I mean, there's a lot to unpack in

00:27:49.799 --> 00:27:52.019
that question, I think. So I guess the heart

00:27:52.019 --> 00:27:54.460
of the question is, who do you expect to see

00:27:54.460 --> 00:27:58.000
your attacking options in Houston? I think Kent

00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:00.079
is the heart of the question. I think that's,

00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:04.519
does he start? And if he does, how does that

00:28:04.519 --> 00:28:07.259
affect your lineup? Yeah, I think you slot Kent

00:28:07.259 --> 00:28:10.039
in for Rothrock. I wouldn't be surprised, based

00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:11.859
on Brian Schmetzer's post -game interview, if

00:28:11.859 --> 00:28:13.880
that's the case, because he said Kent has earned

00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:19.240
it. Yeah. So, I mean, and that moving forward

00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:22.759
will be... I mean, Rothrock is great, but he's

00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:25.799
not going to be starting over a player of Kent's

00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:28.619
quality if both are completely healthy and ready

00:28:28.619 --> 00:28:32.380
to go. But I mean, if you're bringing Rothrock

00:28:32.380 --> 00:28:36.819
off the bench with energy, I mean, these are

00:28:36.819 --> 00:28:39.920
great problems to have. Between him and Georgie?

00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:43.619
Yeah. Rothrock and Georgie on either side coming

00:28:43.619 --> 00:28:46.039
in? I mean, I see the same lineup. I would see

00:28:46.039 --> 00:28:47.920
the same lineup as last week, but with Kent.

00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:50.359
slot slotting in for rothrock because it would

00:28:50.359 --> 00:28:52.599
be my expectation i mean right now yeah that's

00:28:52.599 --> 00:28:55.700
absolutely the case but when jesus gets healthy

00:28:55.700 --> 00:28:59.019
georgie's not in the 18 you know but then again

00:28:59.019 --> 00:29:01.539
something else may happen like so so who who

00:29:01.539 --> 00:29:06.259
knows um yeah also georgie is playing tomorrow

00:29:06.259 --> 00:29:08.480
i wonder how much that will take out of them

00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:14.279
before saturday well Earlier in the Open Cup

00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:17.259
run, when we had similar situations, we were

00:29:17.259 --> 00:29:20.980
playing our first -team players for one half,

00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:24.619
but it's against Portland, so all bets are off.

00:29:24.660 --> 00:29:27.799
Yeah, that's my thing. I think he's starting

00:29:27.799 --> 00:29:30.740
and playing all night. Yeah. Well, he wouldn't

00:29:30.740 --> 00:29:32.839
be starting on Saturday if he would just be in

00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:34.700
the 18th anyway. Oh, sure, sure. And he's young

00:29:34.700 --> 00:29:37.400
enough that it probably won't be an issue. That's

00:29:37.400 --> 00:29:40.099
not even a thought. Yeah. It's not like he's

00:29:40.099 --> 00:29:42.759
Jordan Morris or something where even if he weren't

00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:45.579
hurt right now, you're limiting his minutes in

00:29:45.579 --> 00:29:47.839
those situations. But the other question, though,

00:29:47.940 --> 00:29:51.220
is that comes into De Rosario because we really

00:29:51.220 --> 00:29:55.059
only have one attacking forward right now. Poor

00:29:55.059 --> 00:29:58.799
kid. He's that sitter. Man, we would have had

00:29:58.799 --> 00:30:00.740
to shut the podcast down after what we said last

00:30:00.740 --> 00:30:07.089
week. If he just comes in and just... knocks

00:30:07.089 --> 00:30:11.890
one in. I do stand by what I say. I know. It

00:30:11.890 --> 00:30:13.789
just would have been hilarious just to be like,

00:30:13.869 --> 00:30:16.109
you know, there's just no room. There's no reason

00:30:16.109 --> 00:30:21.130
to even talk about him. Well, I mean, that's

00:30:21.130 --> 00:30:23.670
honestly how I felt when Rothrock started his

00:30:23.670 --> 00:30:26.509
first, like, four games or three games with goals.

00:30:27.190 --> 00:30:30.150
Open cup game and then a couple first team sub

00:30:30.150 --> 00:30:31.650
appearances where he kept scoring. I was like,

00:30:31.730 --> 00:30:34.309
oh, okay. This just seems like a flash in the

00:30:34.309 --> 00:30:39.329
pan. And I was gladly proven wrong. Well, he

00:30:39.329 --> 00:30:42.930
didn't score, so. Yeah. But it was interesting

00:30:42.930 --> 00:30:45.670
to see him. So the next question here. Did we

00:30:45.670 --> 00:30:47.670
answer his question? Yeah, I think so. I think

00:30:47.670 --> 00:30:52.490
so. I didn't answer my side, but I think, I think,

00:30:52.529 --> 00:30:55.549
yes, I think you start Kent. Uh, I think you

00:30:55.549 --> 00:31:01.069
start Kent and Pedro and, and Albert, um, against,

00:31:01.150 --> 00:31:06.410
against Houston. And then you allow that speeding

00:31:06.410 --> 00:31:09.910
press of Rothrock to come in with high energy

00:31:09.910 --> 00:31:14.730
on tired legs in Houston and high humidity. Uh,

00:31:14.869 --> 00:31:18.740
Eric 13. Did you all see enough defending from

00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:20.839
Kent that you wouldn't be worried about him as

00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:27.160
a left wing back in a 3 -4 -2 -1? He has another

00:31:27.160 --> 00:31:28.740
follow -up question, but we'll start with that.

00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:34.700
I don't think that we... I mean, we do kind of

00:31:34.700 --> 00:31:37.259
play that, but without Jesus, we won't be playing

00:31:37.259 --> 00:31:42.630
that. If he's playing wingback, no. The only

00:31:42.630 --> 00:31:45.269
time he's playing left mid is if we have four

00:31:45.269 --> 00:31:48.589
at the back, would be my guess. Yeah, I think

00:31:48.589 --> 00:31:52.869
I'd expect to see a 4 -3 -2 -1. Or 4 -2 -3 -1.

00:31:54.210 --> 00:32:01.650
I do think that Kent is an unknown quantity on

00:32:01.650 --> 00:32:05.109
defensive actions, only because that entire second

00:32:05.109 --> 00:32:08.069
half, St. Louis couldn't get out of their own

00:32:08.069 --> 00:32:10.809
zone. It couldn't get out of their own half.

00:32:10.950 --> 00:32:17.190
It was, it was really, um, they struggled. Uh,

00:32:17.349 --> 00:32:20.549
categories. Captain Hook agrees. Yeah. Hook agrees.

00:32:20.990 --> 00:32:24.009
Well, here's, here's my, I don't think we saw

00:32:24.009 --> 00:32:26.470
enough. No. Um, that doesn't mean I don't think

00:32:26.470 --> 00:32:28.910
he has the quality to run and run him out as

00:32:28.910 --> 00:32:32.130
a starter. Um, he's played plenty of big matches

00:32:32.130 --> 00:32:34.609
against high quality talent. We can see how good

00:32:34.609 --> 00:32:40.720
he is. Um, I mean, I don't think we've played

00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:45.779
three at the back without having, I don't think

00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:47.700
we played that formation without having Paul

00:32:47.700 --> 00:32:49.940
Areola on the team. As far as I know, we might've

00:32:49.940 --> 00:32:52.079
shifted into it at times during the game, but

00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.039
when we're having three at the back, it's a three,

00:32:54.099 --> 00:32:57.619
four, three, or a three, two, three, two, two,

00:32:57.700 --> 00:33:00.660
one, three, two, two, two, one, however you want

00:33:00.660 --> 00:33:02.700
to put it. We're playing three. We're playing

00:33:02.700 --> 00:33:06.019
two wings with a forward, then midfielders, then.

00:33:06.589 --> 00:33:10.569
the defenders so i'm not i'm not seeing him be

00:33:10.569 --> 00:33:12.490
in a position where he's playing wing back because

00:33:12.490 --> 00:33:14.769
he's not that's not i mean the same reason you

00:33:14.769 --> 00:33:17.569
wouldn't see pedro play wing back that's not

00:33:17.569 --> 00:33:21.490
his position well i mean in the end i think that

00:33:21.490 --> 00:33:25.990
um i think that that's a risk that houston would

00:33:25.990 --> 00:33:29.410
have to take even if if he wasn't contributing

00:33:29.410 --> 00:33:31.930
defensively the same way that some other players

00:33:31.930 --> 00:33:34.920
in that position were like paul rothrock Well,

00:33:34.940 --> 00:33:38.279
then that opens up with his pace to break on

00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:42.079
the counter. So there is a risk there. But honestly,

00:33:42.240 --> 00:33:44.940
I don't know what to expect. I don't think I've

00:33:44.940 --> 00:33:47.880
seen enough to make an informed decision on that.

00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:52.279
Agreed. Eric, follow -up question is, make a

00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:54.859
list of the best 11 players on the Sounders if

00:33:54.859 --> 00:33:56.839
everyone was healthy, ranked by whatever you

00:33:56.839 --> 00:34:00.059
value, and put together your ideal 11. I feel

00:34:00.059 --> 00:34:03.099
like that's kind of... Maybe something that we

00:34:03.099 --> 00:34:06.039
should do on the Discord. Maybe we should answer

00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:11.840
that on the Discord. Or Patreon. Also, we've

00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:13.800
had requests. Wow, that's going to be loud. I

00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:16.320
apologize if that doesn't get brought down because

00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:19.739
I leaned forward as I started talking. Still

00:34:19.739 --> 00:34:25.800
thoughtful. What? Your apology. That was so nice.

00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:29.900
Oh, yeah. So thoughtful. Thank you. we still

00:34:29.900 --> 00:34:33.320
need to get our last Patreon episode, our lineups

00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:35.940
up for the, everyone to comment on the ones we

00:34:35.940 --> 00:34:37.900
drafted. Yeah. Yeah. We got to put that together,

00:34:37.900 --> 00:34:39.940
put a nice little graphic together. Oh yeah.

00:34:40.019 --> 00:34:42.900
All the actual. all the actual work you did.

00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:46.559
Let's keep it going for now just because we've

00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:49.159
got about 12 minutes -ish before our break and

00:34:49.159 --> 00:34:52.380
we want to make sure we get all the mailbag questions

00:34:52.380 --> 00:34:56.860
in. A lot of Ryan Kent talk here. Cedar asks,

00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:00.320
how many assists will Kent get in all competitions

00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:03.280
this year? What would be the over -under? Well,

00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:07.659
I think the over -under, honestly, I would probably

00:35:07.659 --> 00:35:15.440
put the over -under at... I feel like that's

00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:17.760
low. It feels low to me since he already has

00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:21.179
three or two. Two. Two. So you think he's only

00:35:21.179 --> 00:35:24.059
going to get six in all competitions? I think

00:35:24.059 --> 00:35:33.739
that it's not guaranteed he's going to be a starter.

00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:36.599
I think it's, I mean, we see a lot of excitement.

00:35:37.579 --> 00:35:41.559
I just feel like, well, It's the reason I drafted

00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:44.099
him on Patreon. You know what? The only way he's

00:35:44.099 --> 00:35:47.260
not getting that many assists is if Jordan Morris

00:35:47.260 --> 00:35:50.579
isn't out there scoring goals, in which case

00:35:50.579 --> 00:35:52.380
it just proves what we've said at the beginning

00:35:52.380 --> 00:35:54.119
of the season. Jordan Morris needed to prove

00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:59.039
it, and he didn't. So I would expect him to have

00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:02.760
that many assists if there's people scoring goals.

00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:04.519
If he's the one scoring goals, then maybe he

00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:06.219
won't. That's the only way. I don't see it happening.

00:36:06.340 --> 00:36:07.980
We've seen too much talent from him in minutes.

00:36:07.980 --> 00:36:12.699
Can I give you context? Context last year. Last

00:36:12.699 --> 00:36:15.760
year, Albert Rusnak led the team with 12 assists.

00:36:17.179 --> 00:36:20.239
Second place was Jordan Morris and Obed Vargas

00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:25.579
with four. Yeah, we didn't score a lot of goals

00:36:25.579 --> 00:36:28.119
last year. We're expecting 20 to 30 more goals

00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:29.840
this year than we had last year. Totally get

00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:32.199
that. So that's why I feel like eight is still

00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:41.679
a fair over -under. I'm going to say 8 .5. Assist,

00:36:41.900 --> 00:36:45.699
okay. Write it out. Let's review this later.

00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:48.260
If he starts scoring, then yeah, he will not

00:36:48.260 --> 00:36:49.699
be getting assists because he'll be the scorer.

00:36:49.900 --> 00:36:53.280
So it is a distinct possibility. In all competitions,

00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:57.320
it's barely May. Yeah. The only thing I see right

00:36:57.320 --> 00:37:01.760
now is that his talent level, his ceiling, the

00:37:01.760 --> 00:37:03.639
only player I think that even comes close to

00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:06.420
him. is Pedro de la Vega, and that's because

00:37:06.420 --> 00:37:08.739
he's out there just dominating. There's a lot

00:37:08.739 --> 00:37:11.099
to be excited about, and I think that with 8

00:37:11.099 --> 00:37:17.119
.5, while I do think we may all end up taking

00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:21.539
the over, I still think that's a fair... Yeah,

00:37:21.619 --> 00:37:23.840
I think that, I mean, half season, granted more

00:37:23.840 --> 00:37:26.280
than half games, because we're going to have

00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:32.400
Leagues Cup, Club World Cup, and MLS. Yeah. Write

00:37:32.400 --> 00:37:35.320
it down. Stick it on your wall. I'm trying to.

00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:40.820
I'm trying to. All right. Excuse me. All right.

00:37:40.860 --> 00:37:43.659
So what are you going to say? I'm going to say

00:37:43.659 --> 00:37:51.619
8 .5 assists for Ryan Kent. Cameron? I'm going

00:37:51.619 --> 00:37:54.659
over. I think Jordan Morris comes back and scores

00:37:54.659 --> 00:38:01.090
goals. Yeah, over. Okay. I mean, I do also believe

00:38:01.090 --> 00:38:05.050
it's going to be over, but maybe I should have

00:38:05.050 --> 00:38:06.550
said it higher. Whatever. We're going to stay

00:38:06.550 --> 00:38:10.610
with 8 .5. We'll take the over. Okay. Dan the

00:38:10.610 --> 00:38:14.630
Bastard points out that at home, we have 14 goals

00:38:14.630 --> 00:38:17.929
for, four goals against, and undefeated. Away,

00:38:18.210 --> 00:38:22.090
three goals for, eight goals against. Looks like

00:38:22.090 --> 00:38:23.909
Lumen is a fortress again, but what is really

00:38:23.909 --> 00:38:25.769
behind such great form at home, and how can we

00:38:25.769 --> 00:38:28.989
get the away form just as good? You know, what's

00:38:28.989 --> 00:38:30.869
interesting is of those four goals scored against

00:38:30.869 --> 00:38:34.429
us, one was an own goal. Yep. And two were on

00:38:34.429 --> 00:38:36.170
really bad mistakes that shouldn't have happened.

00:38:36.469 --> 00:38:38.949
So does that mean we only have one goal scored,

00:38:39.030 --> 00:38:40.909
a real goal scored against us? Like one real

00:38:40.909 --> 00:38:43.909
one -up play that wasn't a penalty? Yeah. Yeah.

00:38:43.989 --> 00:38:47.670
I mean. Oh, no, that was a penalty. Yeah. No,

00:38:47.750 --> 00:38:50.070
the other one was a penalty. So, no. Has there

00:38:50.070 --> 00:38:51.710
been a goal from the run -up play against us

00:38:51.710 --> 00:38:54.090
that didn't involve a major mistake from a defender

00:38:54.090 --> 00:38:56.610
or a penalty? I don't think there has now that.

00:38:57.230 --> 00:39:02.869
You say that? Maybe LAFC's goal. Yeah, yeah.

00:39:03.489 --> 00:39:07.969
That super sub dude coming off who's going to

00:39:07.969 --> 00:39:11.010
be a star where he just train wrecked. He train

00:39:11.010 --> 00:39:13.349
wrecked. That was a beautiful goal. That might

00:39:13.349 --> 00:39:17.349
have been the best goal I've seen in our games

00:39:17.349 --> 00:39:19.849
this year, either team. And I didn't see it.

00:39:19.889 --> 00:39:23.349
I was walking down to your seat, so I was away

00:39:23.349 --> 00:39:28.739
from a TV for a moment. It was really good. But

00:39:28.739 --> 00:39:32.039
yeah, no, no. Yeah. I think, I think, well, yes,

00:39:32.139 --> 00:39:34.579
Brian Schmetzer commented on this. It has become

00:39:34.579 --> 00:39:38.780
a place that is hard to play again, which we

00:39:38.780 --> 00:39:43.599
kind of fell off from. And it also, he commented

00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:46.679
the fact that go to playoff times when it's cold

00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:49.800
and rainy and you have the same energy we're

00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:52.179
bringing now, how much harder it becomes to play

00:39:52.179 --> 00:39:56.010
there for teams. Yeah. Jackson felt also mentioned

00:39:56.010 --> 00:39:58.789
yesterday or Sunday, Saturday, excuse me, was

00:39:58.789 --> 00:40:03.769
another one of the first game on us games. And

00:40:03.769 --> 00:40:07.349
they had 2000 people there for that one. So that

00:40:07.349 --> 00:40:09.670
was 2000 extra people in there. This was their

00:40:09.670 --> 00:40:13.050
first soccer experience. Okay. So I remember

00:40:13.050 --> 00:40:14.969
listening to the post game and I must've missed

00:40:14.969 --> 00:40:17.650
that. that that was specifically this match.

00:40:17.849 --> 00:40:20.210
Yeah. Well, there are 13, there are 13 matches.

00:40:21.130 --> 00:40:24.110
Yeah. So they do it frequently, but this was

00:40:24.110 --> 00:40:26.250
the second one, I believe. Correct. I'm not mistaken.

00:40:26.250 --> 00:40:28.989
It's the second one. There was 1000 at the first

00:40:28.989 --> 00:40:34.070
one. That's 1200. Yeah. Yeah. So the first one

00:40:34.070 --> 00:40:37.329
was Houston. Not a good, I mean, it was fun,

00:40:37.449 --> 00:40:40.010
but we did, it was not that fun. So it was not

00:40:40.010 --> 00:40:41.550
a great match for that. This was a great match

00:40:41.550 --> 00:40:45.989
for converting people into full -time fans. Yeah,

00:40:46.030 --> 00:40:48.309
I mean, I think... Hey, Tim Hamilton's got to

00:40:48.309 --> 00:40:50.409
be happy because Tim has said multiple times,

00:40:50.510 --> 00:40:52.690
sorry to interrupt you there, Cameron. No, you're

00:40:52.690 --> 00:40:57.909
right. He's 100%. He's always said, I yearn for

00:40:57.909 --> 00:41:00.630
the days where we're scoring a lot of goals at

00:41:00.630 --> 00:41:05.510
home. That's a big thing for him. And so, you

00:41:05.510 --> 00:41:07.949
know, I'm going to give credit to Tim on this

00:41:07.949 --> 00:41:10.730
one. He set up this nice tailgate and he got

00:41:10.730 --> 00:41:13.829
rewarded. So, Tim? Provide us with booze before

00:41:13.829 --> 00:41:17.889
games and you'll be rewarded. And you won't lose.

00:41:18.389 --> 00:41:20.969
I mean, like I said then and I'll say now, I

00:41:20.969 --> 00:41:22.829
don't care where we get our points. I just want

00:41:22.829 --> 00:41:26.969
to finish first place. So it don't matter to

00:41:26.969 --> 00:41:30.230
me if it's home or away. I will say, though,

00:41:30.389 --> 00:41:35.469
that your goal should never – your expectation

00:41:35.469 --> 00:41:37.449
should not be to win on the road unless you're

00:41:37.449 --> 00:41:39.690
playing against a really bad team. Your expectation

00:41:39.690 --> 00:41:41.510
should be three points at home, one point on

00:41:41.510 --> 00:41:43.530
the road. You, you, you win all your home games,

00:41:43.570 --> 00:41:45.050
tie all your road games. You're going to, you're

00:41:45.050 --> 00:41:48.250
going to win the league. That should be our expectation

00:41:48.250 --> 00:41:51.329
every year in my mind. So I've just always wanted,

00:41:51.369 --> 00:41:54.469
I just want a dominating season from start to

00:41:54.469 --> 00:41:57.510
finish. Yeah. Unfortunately, I think the travel

00:41:57.510 --> 00:42:00.050
in the United States and how far you have to

00:42:00.050 --> 00:42:03.349
go and the very, the varying weather. I just

00:42:03.349 --> 00:42:06.050
think it's, it's much harder than say England

00:42:06.050 --> 00:42:08.869
where. Like you're basically playing everything

00:42:08.869 --> 00:42:11.530
within the Pacific Northwest. You have all those

00:42:11.530 --> 00:42:14.610
teams. I just think it's not realistic, unfortunately,

00:42:14.610 --> 00:42:17.070
for that to happen in a country of our size.

00:42:18.190 --> 00:42:21.550
But I agree. That's what I want. I just don't

00:42:21.550 --> 00:42:24.630
think, especially not because we don't have money

00:42:24.630 --> 00:42:27.630
to throw. A team like Miami can do that, right?

00:42:27.809 --> 00:42:31.050
Miami, they've now lost three in a row, but they're

00:42:31.050 --> 00:42:34.269
arresting people for two of those games. But

00:42:34.269 --> 00:42:36.349
still. Well, they, they got off the Schneid,

00:42:36.369 --> 00:42:38.070
they got off the Schneid this weekend, but they

00:42:38.070 --> 00:42:39.989
did win. They did lose three in a row, but the

00:42:39.989 --> 00:42:42.610
body language and the, there were frustrations

00:42:42.610 --> 00:42:45.690
and yeah. Yeah. But, but that's a team that's

00:42:45.690 --> 00:42:47.570
built to do it because they have so many players

00:42:47.570 --> 00:42:51.050
that are beyond MLS level because of the way

00:42:51.050 --> 00:42:54.510
they've set that team up. But, but then there's

00:42:54.510 --> 00:42:57.489
a team like Chicago who, then they ended up losing

00:42:57.489 --> 00:42:59.190
seven, two. Was that the final when they got

00:42:59.190 --> 00:43:00.590
this two at the end, they were down seven, nothing.

00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:03.519
In like the 50 -pitch numbers. Was that against

00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:06.880
Nashville? Yeah, now it looks like they're getting

00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:11.599
De Bruyne. So, Kevin De Bruyne. Wait, I thought

00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:15.760
he resigned with... I thought he already resigned

00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:19.460
in Europe. No, unless he's done in the last few

00:43:19.460 --> 00:43:22.480
days. He announced he was leaving City, and he

00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:26.400
said there's still options in Europe. Okay. Chicago

00:43:26.400 --> 00:43:28.980
was in on him as of this past weekend, so unless

00:43:28.980 --> 00:43:32.260
he signed yesterday or today. I could be off

00:43:32.260 --> 00:43:34.559
on that. I may also be thinking of Griezmann.

00:43:35.699 --> 00:43:38.980
Griezmann re -signed. Yeah, he did, because he

00:43:38.980 --> 00:43:43.719
was going to, what, LAFC? The rumors, the rumors.

00:43:44.420 --> 00:43:48.400
I mean, he went and met with them even, but yeah,

00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:52.480
it did not happen, obviously. Yeah, and so ultimately,

00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:54.860
that's what I got for the mailbag this week.

00:43:56.029 --> 00:43:59.469
do we want to take a quick break and then talk

00:43:59.469 --> 00:44:01.650
about the game in more depth? Or what do you

00:44:01.650 --> 00:44:05.010
want to do? I think that's exactly what I would

00:44:05.010 --> 00:44:08.650
like to do. Well, you can't. Sure. You want to

00:44:08.650 --> 00:44:10.929
do that? I mean, we had one more mailbag question.

00:44:11.329 --> 00:44:14.190
Oh, did I miss one? We got a couple minutes.

00:44:14.369 --> 00:44:16.409
Yeah. What's your favorite soccer news sources?

00:44:17.750 --> 00:44:25.519
Oh, easy answer. You too. I'm not going to share

00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:28.659
the contents of our text thread earlier today,

00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:33.320
but we're breaking some news to you, but that's

00:44:33.320 --> 00:44:39.900
okay. Podcasting, I used to love Extra Time.

00:44:40.059 --> 00:44:42.820
I just like their camaraderie. Unfortunately,

00:44:42.860 --> 00:44:45.480
that went down. SoccerWise is doing a really

00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:53.380
good job. Kyle Gass and Mr. Massash, come on.

00:44:54.110 --> 00:44:58.170
I don't know. Tom Bogert. Tom Bogert. Okay. I

00:44:58.170 --> 00:45:01.690
like him a lot. Yeah. They're doing really good

00:45:01.690 --> 00:45:07.190
work with their stuff there. I really enjoy listening

00:45:07.190 --> 00:45:11.349
to a couple other different podcasts from time

00:45:11.349 --> 00:45:17.530
to time. The UK Soccer Show is one that I'll

00:45:17.530 --> 00:45:27.280
put on from time to time. Total Soccer Show is

00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:31.219
another one. They often will do world soccer.

00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:35.719
I really liked Football Americas, but it was

00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:40.360
hard for me to get that in podcast form. I think

00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:43.579
it was video only for a while, so it was a little

00:45:43.579 --> 00:45:50.460
tough. That's Hercules Gomez's stuff. Athletic

00:45:50.460 --> 00:45:54.550
does really good. stories they don't always keep

00:45:54.550 --> 00:45:57.090
up with up -to -date news per se but they do

00:45:57.090 --> 00:46:00.110
a lot of really good interesting stories and

00:46:00.110 --> 00:46:03.789
um i'm really enjoying like on my mondays when

00:46:03.789 --> 00:46:06.590
i'm when i'm working like today when i was driving

00:46:06.590 --> 00:46:11.070
listening to the 360 wraparound show and that

00:46:11.070 --> 00:46:13.170
and where i don't really even need to see the

00:46:13.170 --> 00:46:15.949
actual action of the games but just listening

00:46:15.949 --> 00:46:19.730
to the the mls 360 group just talking about the

00:46:19.730 --> 00:46:22.460
games i find that really interesting what about

00:46:22.460 --> 00:46:27.820
you guys cameron i mean sounder scuttlebutt is

00:46:27.820 --> 00:46:31.500
my number one news source um this podcast right

00:46:31.500 --> 00:46:35.099
answer this podcast uh i know cameron and nick

00:46:35.099 --> 00:46:37.699
from this podcast you and i have a direct line

00:46:37.699 --> 00:46:41.139
with the sounders gm and are informed on a lot

00:46:41.139 --> 00:46:44.260
of stuff that uh unfortunately we have ndas so

00:46:44.260 --> 00:46:46.079
we can't talk about like some of the other news

00:46:46.079 --> 00:46:53.309
um jackson felts uh would be my number one and

00:46:53.309 --> 00:46:57.510
outside of us. And that might be it. I mean,

00:46:57.550 --> 00:47:01.690
I don't, I, yes, Herc and I love that show on

00:47:01.690 --> 00:47:03.849
ESPN. That was the only one I watched. I don't

00:47:03.849 --> 00:47:08.949
really listen to other soccer podcasts, especially

00:47:08.949 --> 00:47:12.750
Sounders podcasts. For me, they tend to be a

00:47:12.750 --> 00:47:15.530
little over the top. They tend to be too much

00:47:15.530 --> 00:47:17.869
like I am when I'm trying to. Push the envelope,

00:47:18.010 --> 00:47:20.309
but they do it on an everyday, every episode

00:47:20.309 --> 00:47:23.269
basis. And I'm just not into that. Shots out.

00:47:24.090 --> 00:47:29.489
And yeah, so I, I, I spend my time usually listening

00:47:29.489 --> 00:47:33.610
to history podcasts or political history podcasts.

00:47:33.710 --> 00:47:37.690
So that that's where I stand with podcasts or,

00:47:37.750 --> 00:47:42.349
or lately star Wars audio books. Yeah. I, I,

00:47:42.349 --> 00:47:46.500
I like a lot of film. audio podcasts uh what

00:47:46.500 --> 00:47:52.659
went wrong unspooled uh rewatchables um love

00:47:52.659 --> 00:47:56.719
this video game podcast get played i i used to

00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:59.380
read the athletic pretty religiously but uh once

00:47:59.380 --> 00:48:02.159
i got that out the new york times um i stopped

00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:03.900
because i don't particularly support the new

00:48:03.900 --> 00:48:06.460
york times or their right -wing bent on the news

00:48:06.460 --> 00:48:08.800
and we were just talking about earlier today

00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:14.570
about how uh Pablo Morrow let go from The Athletic.

00:48:15.230 --> 00:48:18.489
Yeah, they didn't renew his contract. You got

00:48:18.489 --> 00:48:20.730
any soccer news down there, Aaron, that you've

00:48:20.730 --> 00:48:25.750
been keeping up on since you've moved away now

00:48:25.750 --> 00:48:27.929
and you're not connected to Seattle on the same

00:48:27.929 --> 00:48:30.949
basis that you used to be? Do you have time to

00:48:30.949 --> 00:48:34.289
keep up with anything right now other than my

00:48:34.289 --> 00:48:36.710
kids? You don't have a commute to and from work

00:48:36.710 --> 00:48:40.000
where you can listen to stuff? That's why all

00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:42.519
my listening is in the car or, but it's only,

00:48:42.579 --> 00:48:44.219
it's really, it's not about a community. It's

00:48:44.219 --> 00:48:47.019
only about 30 minutes and well, it's about 45

00:48:47.019 --> 00:48:49.599
to an hour, but 15 of it is dropping the girls

00:48:49.599 --> 00:48:51.760
off. So that's, that's perfect for an episode

00:48:51.760 --> 00:48:55.780
of princess. That's mostly Disney princess. Yeah.

00:48:56.519 --> 00:49:00.139
And I do actually listen to our show. Um, just,

00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:04.239
uh, quality check sound like quality check. Yeah.

00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:07.059
You know, I have, I have an F one. I have an

00:49:07.059 --> 00:49:09.500
F one. podcasts i like to listen to that's weekly

00:49:09.500 --> 00:49:12.179
okay yeah i used to listen to f1s i fell off

00:49:12.179 --> 00:49:14.800
um because i just got tired about hearing max

00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:17.340
winning but thankfully that's not always the

00:49:17.340 --> 00:49:19.960
case anymore well you can listen now yeah um

00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:23.539
and then generally any general seattle sports

00:49:23.539 --> 00:49:25.659
just to keep in touch with seattle so that's

00:49:25.659 --> 00:49:32.440
probably like 710 or or or jackson yeah shout

00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:36.079
out to jackson i listened to a lot yeah 93 .3

00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:41.760
That's just what I just want to catch up. I wish

00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:44.519
you were here right now because the Mariners,

00:49:44.539 --> 00:49:47.599
if they win this next series, will set the record

00:49:47.599 --> 00:49:50.719
for the most consecutive series wins. I know.

00:49:51.840 --> 00:49:54.579
It's very strange for them to be as good as they

00:49:54.579 --> 00:49:58.780
are considering they didn't sign any bats. Think

00:49:58.780 --> 00:50:00.119
of how good they would be if they actually signed

00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:02.639
bats. Anyways, this isn't a Mariner's Scuttlebutt,

00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:10.570
so let's take that break. It's time for Scuttlebutt

00:50:10.570 --> 00:50:15.750
Ultras. Quick takes from our Patreon Ultras,

00:50:15.849 --> 00:50:18.230
sharing their soundest thoughts straight from

00:50:18.230 --> 00:50:34.309
the heart. Your voice, your moment. But before

00:50:34.309 --> 00:50:38.670
we get to the Patreon promo... Let's have another

00:50:38.670 --> 00:50:41.889
segment with the one and only Dan the Bastard.

00:50:41.889 --> 00:50:44.389
What is up? How you doing, Dan? Hey, thanks for

00:50:44.389 --> 00:50:46.789
having me back. I really appreciate it. I had

00:50:46.789 --> 00:50:49.969
so much fun last time. I'm not going to say I

00:50:49.969 --> 00:50:52.610
had fun listening to myself this morning, but,

00:50:52.789 --> 00:50:58.110
you know. No, you were great. I was, I mean,

00:50:58.130 --> 00:51:00.050
I know we talked a little bit about your public

00:51:00.050 --> 00:51:04.449
speaking past, but not everyone can sit in front

00:51:04.449 --> 00:51:07.300
of a mic and talk. uh, right away and you were

00:51:07.300 --> 00:51:09.300
confident and it was fun. Yeah, no, I, you know,

00:51:09.340 --> 00:51:11.039
and I wasn't looking for a compliment. It's just,

00:51:11.039 --> 00:51:14.679
it's just so hard to listen to yourself. I bet,

00:51:14.699 --> 00:51:18.380
I bet Obama listens to himself talking. He grimaces

00:51:18.380 --> 00:51:22.579
when, uh, I had sinus surgery in 2007. So that

00:51:22.579 --> 00:51:24.699
meant when I was on the radio before that. i

00:51:24.699 --> 00:51:27.599
sounded more like this very nasally so i cannot

00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:29.539
go back and listen to my old interviews from

00:51:29.539 --> 00:51:32.500
before that you uh you never want to talk like

00:51:32.500 --> 00:51:35.340
hank williams sings i don't know i grew up in

00:51:35.340 --> 00:51:37.400
texas so that reference may be lost on some folks

00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:41.500
but no hopefully our our listeners are are music

00:51:41.500 --> 00:51:45.239
savvy uh for sure the the one of the the two

00:51:45.239 --> 00:51:48.219
out of three hank williams is that is good yeah

00:51:48.219 --> 00:51:51.960
yeah that's it's that's it Hank and Hank the

00:51:51.960 --> 00:51:54.500
Third. We'll forget that Junior exists. Oh, you

00:51:54.500 --> 00:51:59.559
like Hank the Third? Not necessarily musically.

00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:03.780
I like him as a person. Oh, okay. I only listened

00:52:03.780 --> 00:52:09.360
to his first album, and it got... Some of the

00:52:09.360 --> 00:52:13.380
music was good. yeah he he now has like a punk

00:52:13.380 --> 00:52:16.480
band a metal band yeah yeah and just yourself

00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:18.500
but the thing about Hank the third was he shares

00:52:18.500 --> 00:52:21.639
the sentiments of his grandfather oh okay well

00:52:21.639 --> 00:52:23.820
then I may have to reintroduce myself to him

00:52:23.820 --> 00:52:25.519
because I I thought he shared the sentiments

00:52:25.519 --> 00:52:27.820
of his father and it turned me off and I stopped

00:52:27.820 --> 00:52:30.199
listening okay well then I will reintroduce myself

00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:34.059
to Hank the third yeah he's he seems pretty cool

00:52:34.059 --> 00:52:36.500
um but let's talk some sounders I mean that's

00:52:36.500 --> 00:52:39.869
why we're here right Yeah. So my thought coming

00:52:39.869 --> 00:52:43.929
out of this game is Ryan Kent said that he wants

00:52:43.929 --> 00:52:46.710
to take bombs out of seats or something to that

00:52:46.710 --> 00:52:49.809
effect. I think if he keeps playing the way he

00:52:49.809 --> 00:52:52.289
is, Lumenfield might as well just uninstall the

00:52:52.289 --> 00:52:53.829
seats, right? Just take them all out because

00:52:53.829 --> 00:52:57.289
nobody's going to want to sit down. Yeah. I mean,

00:52:57.309 --> 00:53:01.889
the things he can do are truly exciting. I mean,

00:53:01.909 --> 00:53:05.190
and that shows based on where he's been. but

00:53:05.190 --> 00:53:07.230
he's got to prove it, right? Yeah, and I was

00:53:07.230 --> 00:53:09.210
cautious just because how long it's been, and

00:53:09.210 --> 00:53:12.530
I know Brian's cautious too as he's slowly ramping

00:53:12.530 --> 00:53:16.429
him up and getting him time. But question for

00:53:16.429 --> 00:53:20.750
you, if Ryan Kent was fit enough to play 90 minutes,

00:53:20.929 --> 00:53:22.349
what would that score have been if he'd have

00:53:22.349 --> 00:53:25.130
played the entire 90 minutes the same way he

00:53:25.130 --> 00:53:28.989
played the last 30? Yeah, I mean, it would have

00:53:28.989 --> 00:53:31.110
been ridiculous because St. Louis is only...

00:53:31.659 --> 00:53:33.920
Felt like the only real danger they had, minus

00:53:33.920 --> 00:53:35.719
a little here and a little there, was thanks

00:53:35.719 --> 00:53:39.440
to the referee. So penalties and whatnot. It

00:53:39.440 --> 00:53:42.599
could have been – I mean, we saw it when he came

00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:44.039
in at the end of the other game with Jordan too.

00:53:44.159 --> 00:53:45.880
I mean, they could have had three goals at the

00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:49.079
end of the – was that Nashville game? Yeah. So

00:53:49.079 --> 00:53:53.679
it could have been four, five, six goals. Six

00:53:53.679 --> 00:53:55.760
maybe. Did you see him, the highlight of him,

00:53:55.840 --> 00:53:59.159
Megan, the defender this week without even touching

00:53:59.159 --> 00:54:03.159
the ball? It was just beautiful. um so and that's

00:54:03.159 --> 00:54:05.539
something that is hard for players to learn i

00:54:05.539 --> 00:54:07.400
think um the one thing that i've always heard

00:54:07.400 --> 00:54:10.480
from uh people who come and watch the mls is

00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:12.559
the difference between the mls and other higher

00:54:12.559 --> 00:54:15.000
up leagues is that first touch but that also

00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.239
includes not touching the ball when you don't

00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:20.480
right and it's uh it's like watching when he's

00:54:20.480 --> 00:54:21.940
on the field it's like watching a higher level

00:54:21.940 --> 00:54:24.320
league I'm not a huge fan of the higher level

00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:27.019
league because I like my little hometown league

00:54:27.019 --> 00:54:29.940
and the Sounders. But yeah, it is like watching

00:54:29.940 --> 00:54:36.599
European football. And in that vein, I was looking

00:54:36.599 --> 00:54:38.880
at, before we got on, I wanted to make sure I

00:54:38.880 --> 00:54:40.960
had something to talk about. So I was looking

00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:42.820
at the MLS's power rankings. I don't know if

00:54:42.820 --> 00:54:45.960
you've taken a look at the power rankings. We

00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:48.440
looked at the ESPN ones because they tend to

00:54:48.440 --> 00:54:51.199
be more favorable to the Sounders than MLS sites.

00:54:51.780 --> 00:54:55.019
This one's good, I think. So it has the Sounders

00:54:55.019 --> 00:54:58.500
eighth, but it has them third if you just took

00:54:58.500 --> 00:54:59.800
out the Eastern Conference teams and you just

00:54:59.800 --> 00:55:02.019
looked at the West, it has them at third. But

00:55:02.019 --> 00:55:04.420
what really caught my eye was a little blurb

00:55:04.420 --> 00:55:07.340
in here where Seattle put up more XG in this

00:55:07.340 --> 00:55:09.820
game than any American soccer analysis database

00:55:09.820 --> 00:55:15.639
has on record going back to 2013. And as a fan

00:55:15.639 --> 00:55:19.320
watching the game, I felt it. It was all over

00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:21.739
the place in your face attacking, especially

00:55:21.739 --> 00:55:24.239
from that 60 minute on. There was definitely

00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:26.159
a sea change in the 60 minute. We were good,

00:55:26.239 --> 00:55:28.119
but once that 60 minute hit and Ryan Kent came

00:55:28.119 --> 00:55:33.440
on and we were almost an unstoppable force. And

00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:36.360
I talked about it at the top of this episode,

00:55:36.460 --> 00:55:38.400
which you'll hear when this gets melded in with

00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:43.400
it, but I... thought this weekend was a road

00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:46.840
game and i had to work so i was not in attendance

00:55:46.840 --> 00:55:49.679
which means i've now missed this match and i

00:55:49.679 --> 00:55:51.880
missed the nashville match so maybe i'm not allowed

00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:57.010
to go to well um i yeah um i can see that i'd

00:55:57.010 --> 00:55:58.889
be okay with that so whatever it takes to win

00:55:58.889 --> 00:56:01.630
uh but as as a note maybe maybe that's a chance

00:56:01.630 --> 00:56:04.369
to plug the discord because if somebody's listening

00:56:04.369 --> 00:56:06.070
to this and they're not on the discord and they

00:56:06.070 --> 00:56:08.369
had been they would have saw that you said that

00:56:08.369 --> 00:56:11.530
you're missing the game and that you had some

00:56:11.530 --> 00:56:14.250
tickets for people so that's uh yeah that's a

00:56:14.250 --> 00:56:16.110
good reason to be on the discord come talk to

00:56:16.110 --> 00:56:19.289
us and gave away my club seats for the game and

00:56:19.289 --> 00:56:22.929
uh uh you know super super fun to be able to

00:56:22.929 --> 00:56:25.639
do that um of course i worked for a minor league

00:56:25.639 --> 00:56:28.039
basketball team and what happened there was i

00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:30.300
went outside for a few minutes and in that time

00:56:30.300 --> 00:56:32.519
i went outside we were down 16 and we came when

00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:35.480
i came back in we were only down three so uh

00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:37.539
it turns out that i just shouldn't go anywhere

00:56:37.539 --> 00:56:40.559
near sports because my teams will yeah so so

00:56:40.559 --> 00:56:42.480
i guess you have like an unlucky gene and it

00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:44.500
carries over between all these different sports

00:56:44.500 --> 00:56:47.099
that's that's really interesting i spent all

00:56:47.099 --> 00:56:52.820
my luck in uh 2013 when or uh was it 2013 yeah

00:56:52.820 --> 00:56:55.019
i didn't i put on a seahawks belt buckle from

00:56:55.019 --> 00:56:57.320
1975 and i wore it every day until they won the

00:56:57.320 --> 00:56:59.039
super bowl they never lost the game while i had

00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:01.920
it on so uh i used up all my luck and now it's

00:57:01.920 --> 00:57:06.420
ever ever since then interesting well yeah i

00:57:06.420 --> 00:57:11.539
mean it could be worse you know our owner did

00:57:11.539 --> 00:57:14.059
sell his soul for three super bowls in the 90s

00:57:14.059 --> 00:57:16.840
and we haven't recovered yet yeah you know what

00:57:17.650 --> 00:57:23.809
I will take that. A great question that we asked

00:57:23.809 --> 00:57:27.349
each other on this episode that I'll ask you

00:57:27.349 --> 00:57:30.849
then is, would you switch places with LA Galaxy

00:57:30.849 --> 00:57:34.309
right now? If we could have won the MLS Cup last

00:57:34.309 --> 00:57:37.630
year, but we have zero wins and are in last place

00:57:37.630 --> 00:57:41.289
and no prospects of getting better because of

00:57:41.289 --> 00:57:44.150
injuries. I'm going to allow my recency bias

00:57:44.150 --> 00:57:47.360
to just take over completely and say no. Absolutely

00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:52.539
not. So you asked that question, but it really

00:57:52.539 --> 00:57:57.920
made me think of what the Sounders did to win

00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:03.460
CONCACAF and how they were able to really keep

00:58:03.460 --> 00:58:06.260
the ship afloat for a couple years after that

00:58:06.260 --> 00:58:08.559
squad, as that squad was dissolving, and how

00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:10.699
they've done a really good job with turnover

00:58:10.699 --> 00:58:16.019
without blowing everything up. Right. We didn't

00:58:16.019 --> 00:58:21.139
see a complete drop. There was a drop, obviously.

00:58:21.159 --> 00:58:22.440
We didn't make the playoffs the next year, but

00:58:22.440 --> 00:58:24.860
we didn't see a complete drop. Actually, I was

00:58:24.860 --> 00:58:26.019
just looking at them. They still haven't won

00:58:26.019 --> 00:58:30.179
a game? No, they still – and not only have they

00:58:30.179 --> 00:58:35.559
not won a game, the game they lost is the first

00:58:35.559 --> 00:58:40.059
time ever a team had zero expected goals, zero

00:58:40.059 --> 00:58:43.860
shots on goal in one in a regular season game.

00:58:44.880 --> 00:58:47.420
I guess because they were ties in the other time.

00:58:47.519 --> 00:58:51.340
It was an own goal that Kansas City won on. Kansas

00:58:51.340 --> 00:58:54.280
City had zero shots and won 1 -0 on an own goal.

00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:58.159
Negative 13 goal differential. That's just amazing.

00:58:58.719 --> 00:59:03.800
Good for them. Yeah, it's rough. At this point,

00:59:03.840 --> 00:59:07.159
I'm starting to feel bad for them. Yeah, I can

00:59:07.159 --> 00:59:09.960
see that. Now, if it was happening to Portland

00:59:09.960 --> 00:59:13.079
or LAFC, I don't think I would feel bad at all.

00:59:15.529 --> 00:59:18.150
Yeah. Although I do, historically, LA was the

00:59:18.150 --> 00:59:20.130
team we used to view as a big rivalry. You came

00:59:20.130 --> 00:59:23.349
out after that time because LAFC was, were they

00:59:23.349 --> 00:59:24.809
here when you started your fandom? They had just

00:59:24.809 --> 00:59:27.489
come into the league. And, you know, I've always

00:59:27.489 --> 00:59:29.929
said since I've really got into the Sounders

00:59:29.929 --> 00:59:33.530
is that I want a player who can score the game

00:59:33.530 --> 00:59:35.289
winner in the last five minutes of the game,

00:59:35.329 --> 00:59:37.429
run to this opposing team supporter section and

00:59:37.429 --> 00:59:40.619
do a backflip. Well, that happened to me. I saw

00:59:40.619 --> 00:59:43.280
somebody do that. So I want a player that can

00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:45.519
do it. And I don't know. Can Ryan Kent do a backflip?

00:59:45.619 --> 00:59:48.719
He can do everything else. That's a good question.

00:59:48.920 --> 00:59:52.699
That's a good question. I think Oba was our last.

00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:55.340
Oh, no. I mean, we got. Yeah, he did a backflip

00:59:55.340 --> 00:59:59.400
in the Open Cup. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so there is

00:59:59.400 --> 01:00:02.099
someone who can do one now, I guess. So that's

01:00:02.099 --> 01:00:05.440
good. But why don't we finish off with then.

01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:07.719
what are you expecting out of the Sounders moving

01:00:07.719 --> 01:00:09.719
forward? We've got a bunch of road games coming

01:00:09.719 --> 01:00:12.579
up and tough, tough ones. You know, Houston's

01:00:12.579 --> 01:00:14.739
not great, but it's going to be gross out and

01:00:14.739 --> 01:00:19.610
humid. And then Portland. Well, Houston's a cesspool,

01:00:19.730 --> 01:00:23.590
and I'm not saying Dynamo is. I'm saying I grew

01:00:23.590 --> 01:00:26.349
up in the Houston area, so that's just my own

01:00:26.349 --> 01:00:29.570
bias that I have for the city, and I would love

01:00:29.570 --> 01:00:31.510
to win. Houston's got to be a winnable game.

01:00:31.610 --> 01:00:34.510
I know that we had that nil -nil draw whenever

01:00:34.510 --> 01:00:37.730
they came here, but I believe we're still playing

01:00:37.730 --> 01:00:42.570
with Jesus up top instead of the Moose. Four

01:00:42.570 --> 01:00:45.190
goals in a row. I was wrong on my game prediction,

01:00:45.329 --> 01:00:47.110
but I was right that Moose would continue his.

01:00:47.639 --> 01:00:50.960
his goal scoring. That's got to be, you got to

01:00:50.960 --> 01:00:53.219
think that's a winnable game. I think that if

01:00:53.219 --> 01:00:55.920
we can pull out of these three games, if we can

01:00:55.920 --> 01:00:59.380
pull five points, that's outstanding. I think

01:00:59.380 --> 01:01:01.239
we can get all nine points. Yeah, that's absolutely

01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:04.880
possible. But realistically, I think five points

01:01:04.880 --> 01:01:07.920
out of these three is a really good showing.

01:01:08.039 --> 01:01:09.400
And then they're going to come back home. And

01:01:09.400 --> 01:01:11.760
I think they're going to come back home and destroy

01:01:11.760 --> 01:01:16.590
Dallas, which will make me feel better. One of

01:01:16.590 --> 01:01:18.449
the things I was thinking as we go into this

01:01:18.449 --> 01:01:22.750
yet another long string of road matches is how

01:01:22.750 --> 01:01:25.809
different Seattle plays at home versus on the

01:01:25.809 --> 01:01:28.329
road. And Brian even mentioned it in the press

01:01:28.329 --> 01:01:30.469
conference. He said that, hey, we're going to

01:01:30.469 --> 01:01:32.829
play this style at home a lot. You're going to

01:01:32.829 --> 01:01:36.010
see this style at home a lot. And so hopefully

01:01:36.010 --> 01:01:37.550
some of it will be able to carry over. But if

01:01:37.550 --> 01:01:39.690
you can get these, if you can get draws and pull

01:01:39.690 --> 01:01:41.610
out a couple wins on the road and keep playing

01:01:41.610 --> 01:01:44.050
like that at home, you're going to finish in

01:01:44.050 --> 01:01:47.070
the second. Second in the West, as long as Vancouver

01:01:47.070 --> 01:01:49.210
keeps doing what they're going to do, they'll

01:01:49.210 --> 01:01:54.130
probably be hard to catch. Yeah. Vancouver, I

01:01:54.130 --> 01:01:57.070
don't know what's in the water, but maybe their

01:01:57.070 --> 01:01:58.650
owners are like, here, we'll pay you extra money

01:01:58.650 --> 01:02:00.210
because we want to make more when we sell this.

01:02:00.210 --> 01:02:02.409
Yeah. How are they so good? I mean, I get that.

01:02:03.309 --> 01:02:06.050
But I just don't understand where it went from

01:02:06.050 --> 01:02:11.429
last year to this year. Yeah. You know, they

01:02:11.429 --> 01:02:13.230
did go down in the playoffs in Portland and win.

01:02:13.289 --> 01:02:17.400
Was it 5 -0? Yeah. So it felt like there was

01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:20.199
just something. I went up there for the Sounders

01:02:20.199 --> 01:02:25.039
game, the away Sounders at Vancouver. And I think

01:02:25.039 --> 01:02:27.219
we won 3 -0 in that game maybe or something like

01:02:27.219 --> 01:02:30.019
that. And you could tell the crowd was out of

01:02:30.019 --> 01:02:32.519
it. The players were frustrated. And something

01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:35.239
happened between that game and the playoffs that

01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:37.179
seemed to be a turnaround that then has carried

01:02:37.179 --> 01:02:39.920
into this year where they came together. And,

01:02:39.980 --> 01:02:43.179
I mean, you wouldn't expect Brian White to be

01:02:43.179 --> 01:02:46.619
the – an MLS superstar. Here he is. Brian White

01:02:46.619 --> 01:02:50.380
and Moose. I can't even say his last name. Say

01:02:50.380 --> 01:02:53.340
his last name for me. Yeah, that's it. Yeah,

01:02:53.340 --> 01:02:58.199
they're two of the best goal scorers right now,

01:02:58.280 --> 01:03:02.420
so good for them. Yeah, I love it. That's perfect.

01:03:02.579 --> 01:03:04.199
Well, thank you so much, Dan. We're so happy

01:03:04.199 --> 01:03:06.579
to have you. Where can they find you on the internet?

01:03:06.579 --> 01:03:11.920
I am only on Blue Sky at DanTheBastard. Perfect.

01:03:11.980 --> 01:03:14.300
And of course, on the Discord, which people can

01:03:14.300 --> 01:03:18.420
join and get into the discussion. Hey, thanks

01:03:18.420 --> 01:03:32.739
for your time. See you next episode. Hello and

01:03:32.739 --> 01:03:38.139
welcome to our other Scuttlebutt Ultra segment

01:03:38.139 --> 01:03:40.989
here. We've recorded one today already. Here's

01:03:40.989 --> 01:03:45.190
our second one. It is with the one and only Alex.

01:03:45.329 --> 01:03:47.989
What's up, Alex? Hey, Cameron. How's it going?

01:03:48.670 --> 01:03:51.670
Good, man. How you doing? Pretty good. A little

01:03:51.670 --> 01:03:54.489
bummed out about the Barca game, but a great

01:03:54.489 --> 01:03:58.070
game. Yeah, that's wild to go two minutes away

01:03:58.070 --> 01:04:05.050
from victory to suddenly losing is tough. Yeah,

01:04:05.050 --> 01:04:06.869
but I mean, hats off to Inter. They played a

01:04:06.869 --> 01:04:10.119
great game. Yeah, they were playing way over

01:04:10.119 --> 01:04:12.820
their heads, it felt like. But we're not here

01:04:12.820 --> 01:04:16.400
to talk about Barcelona or Inter. We're here

01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:20.519
to talk about the Sounders. You got to attend

01:04:20.519 --> 01:04:22.400
the match this weekend, is that right? Yeah,

01:04:22.519 --> 01:04:26.159
I got to sit pitch side. That is amazing. How

01:04:26.159 --> 01:04:27.960
was that experience, especially in a game like

01:04:27.960 --> 01:04:31.539
that? It was great, but it sucked that all the

01:04:31.539 --> 01:04:33.159
goals were scored on the other side of the field.

01:04:33.300 --> 01:04:37.380
Oh, no. But I did get to see Rothrock draw that

01:04:37.380 --> 01:04:41.010
penalty. That's cool. That's cool. But still,

01:04:41.090 --> 01:04:43.289
yeah. I mean, you're still closer than you would

01:04:43.289 --> 01:04:44.690
have been if you'd been in the stands behind

01:04:44.690 --> 01:04:48.730
where you were. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, to be

01:04:48.730 --> 01:04:50.449
in ECS in that game probably would have been

01:04:50.449 --> 01:04:54.750
fun too. That's true. That would have been incredible.

01:04:56.329 --> 01:04:59.769
I think that's the second time this year they've

01:04:59.769 --> 01:05:02.489
gone off on that end. So that's pretty exciting.

01:05:03.449 --> 01:05:05.789
What were your biggest takeaways from that match?

01:05:07.019 --> 01:05:09.559
That was honestly Seattle's best performance

01:05:09.559 --> 01:05:13.420
of this season from start to finish. Very dominant

01:05:13.420 --> 01:05:17.079
in the attack. We limited St. Louis' chances.

01:05:17.679 --> 01:05:22.699
Apart from the PK, they didn't have really no

01:05:22.699 --> 01:05:27.079
attack going forward. Yeah, it seemed like they

01:05:27.079 --> 01:05:29.219
relied on the ref to get their offense going.

01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:32.280
And yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking.

01:05:32.340 --> 01:05:33.920
I'm like, the only way that we'll lose to St.

01:05:34.019 --> 01:05:36.880
Louis is off a set piece. which is how we lost

01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:39.940
when we went to St. Louis a few weeks ago. It

01:05:39.940 --> 01:05:42.920
was from a set piece. Yeah. Oh, what's that dog's

01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:47.639
name? That's Zoe. What's up, Zoe? She's trying

01:05:47.639 --> 01:05:52.619
to go back inside. Welcome to the show. Yeah,

01:05:52.760 --> 01:05:55.059
so what did you see that felt different than,

01:05:55.179 --> 01:05:57.059
I mean, I guess we've had two home games that

01:05:57.059 --> 01:05:59.239
were like this now, but what felt different than

01:05:59.239 --> 01:06:00.780
what we've seen from the Sounders in the past?

01:06:01.860 --> 01:06:06.570
There was a lot of, A lot more crisp ball movement.

01:06:08.030 --> 01:06:11.829
And it was a lot more fluid. And I think with

01:06:11.829 --> 01:06:13.829
the formation change, instead of playing the

01:06:13.829 --> 01:06:17.030
3 -4 -3 and going back to the 4 -2 -3 -1, which

01:06:17.030 --> 01:06:20.570
allowed Nuhu and Alex to go more forward and

01:06:20.570 --> 01:06:22.550
attack, knowing that they had the defensive cover

01:06:22.550 --> 01:06:27.349
that they had, led to more crosses into the box

01:06:27.349 --> 01:06:31.989
and better attacking play. Yeah, I think that

01:06:31.989 --> 01:06:35.929
was especially apparent in the second half. Yeah,

01:06:35.949 --> 01:06:40.230
I want to say that Ryan subbed on. He was the

01:06:40.230 --> 01:06:43.050
game changer. Because once he subbed on is when

01:06:43.050 --> 01:06:46.750
we scored three goals. Yeah. In 30 minutes, he

01:06:46.750 --> 01:06:54.630
got two assists. What do you think is the difference

01:06:54.630 --> 01:06:58.969
with him on the field than off the field? It's

01:06:58.969 --> 01:07:04.650
just that... That soccer IQ, that European pedigree

01:07:04.650 --> 01:07:07.110
that he has, that he's played in Europe at a

01:07:07.110 --> 01:07:10.530
high level, that it's something that we haven't

01:07:10.530 --> 01:07:12.869
seen in the MLS, especially in the Sounders for

01:07:12.869 --> 01:07:18.670
a while. It kind of gives off like Oba, like

01:07:18.670 --> 01:07:23.000
the moments that Oba would do. Yeah, I thought

01:07:23.000 --> 01:07:25.880
that, especially the way he plays away from the

01:07:25.880 --> 01:07:28.179
ball when the ball comes towards him. Like Oba

01:07:28.179 --> 01:07:30.159
knew when and when not to touch it and to let

01:07:30.159 --> 01:07:32.920
the momentum of the ball go. And that's not something

01:07:32.920 --> 01:07:35.219
we've seen since Oba. We've seen Jordan do it

01:07:35.219 --> 01:07:36.880
a couple of times, but Oba did it all the time.

01:07:36.920 --> 01:07:38.280
And I don't think it's anything we saw before

01:07:38.280 --> 01:07:42.960
Oba on the Sounders. So yeah, he seems to just

01:07:42.960 --> 01:07:46.940
have this way, this knowledge of first touches

01:07:46.940 --> 01:07:50.619
and the ball that is missing largely from the

01:07:50.619 --> 01:07:53.610
MLS, I think. Yeah, the way that he can use his

01:07:53.610 --> 01:07:56.150
body to manipulate the defender with a body feint.

01:07:56.190 --> 01:08:01.590
I believe that he had... They passed him the

01:08:01.590 --> 01:08:03.809
ball, but he let it like a dummy and it numbed

01:08:03.809 --> 01:08:06.510
the defender. And then he got at the end of the

01:08:06.510 --> 01:08:10.150
ball. Yeah, that's pretty incredible. So what

01:08:10.150 --> 01:08:14.489
were you feeling being in that stadium on...

01:08:16.480 --> 01:08:18.159
because notoriously I've talked about in this

01:08:18.159 --> 01:08:19.979
episode where I thought it was a road game, so

01:08:19.979 --> 01:08:23.960
I was not there. So if I was just this random

01:08:23.960 --> 01:08:26.079
fan you were talking to, how would you explain

01:08:26.079 --> 01:08:29.840
how it made you feel? It was pretty electric,

01:08:30.079 --> 01:08:32.479
especially once Ryan went on us. Every touch

01:08:32.479 --> 01:08:36.920
that he had, the crowd was getting excited. Like

01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:39.300
he said, he likes to lift bums off the seats,

01:08:39.460 --> 01:08:43.039
and that's pretty much what he did on Saturday.

01:08:44.109 --> 01:08:46.569
and then knew who got the crowd going. And I

01:08:46.569 --> 01:08:49.069
think when Seattle is playing at home, playing

01:08:49.069 --> 01:08:51.949
the attacking football that they are, and gets

01:08:51.949 --> 01:08:54.529
the crowd into it, that's what makes it so exciting.

01:08:55.909 --> 01:09:00.069
And I think there was like 2 ,000 people that

01:09:00.069 --> 01:09:03.590
were there from the first match on us. Yeah.

01:09:03.930 --> 01:09:07.149
So that was a pretty good game for them to go

01:09:07.149 --> 01:09:09.850
to for their first match. I'm sure that they'll

01:09:09.850 --> 01:09:14.119
want to come back. Yeah, what an opportunity.

01:09:14.159 --> 01:09:16.880
I feel like the first of those matches was, we

01:09:16.880 --> 01:09:19.020
talked about this on the show, I can't recall

01:09:19.020 --> 01:09:22.140
if this is a preview of what's to come or based

01:09:22.140 --> 01:09:23.859
on where we're going to insert this segment,

01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:27.619
but that first one against Houston was not the

01:09:27.619 --> 01:09:29.760
most fun match for people attending their first

01:09:29.760 --> 01:09:32.340
match compared to this one. No, yeah, I was at

01:09:32.340 --> 01:09:36.560
that match and it was just dead. It was just

01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:40.739
a lot of possession. Houston was hunkered down

01:09:40.739 --> 01:09:44.859
and we weren't able to break them. So what do

01:09:44.859 --> 01:09:46.279
you think the Sounders can take out of this match

01:09:46.279 --> 01:09:49.039
as they move forward and head to Houston where

01:09:49.039 --> 01:09:54.319
it's going to be in the 70s with 65 % humidity?

01:09:55.500 --> 01:09:57.800
I think you have to just, you kind of got to

01:09:57.800 --> 01:09:59.479
stick with the team that was able to get this

01:09:59.479 --> 01:10:02.939
result. The real question mark is going to be

01:10:02.939 --> 01:10:08.260
whether or not you start Kent. And it might be,

01:10:08.989 --> 01:10:11.850
harsh to stardom and you know that type of weather

01:10:11.850 --> 01:10:15.909
you might want to keep rothrock going and then

01:10:15.909 --> 01:10:17.890
bring ken off the bench so he can have another

01:10:17.890 --> 01:10:23.170
great 30 minutes and be impactful yeah tough

01:10:23.170 --> 01:10:25.250
decisions i mean i think brian alluded to that

01:10:25.250 --> 01:10:26.989
in his postgame press conference where he said

01:10:26.989 --> 01:10:29.369
he's earned it but now we've got to figure out

01:10:29.369 --> 01:10:34.489
what to do yeah and i feel like houston houston's

01:10:34.489 --> 01:10:36.850
a very possession -based team and they're gonna

01:10:36.850 --> 01:10:39.399
have a couple of their guys back because when

01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:40.840
we played them in Seattle, they were missing

01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:45.180
a few on international duty. I think Jack McGlynn

01:10:45.180 --> 01:10:48.079
is going to be back, and I think he's a good

01:10:48.079 --> 01:10:51.399
player on the ball in possession. He's like their

01:10:51.399 --> 01:10:56.119
number eight. So maybe we'll go back to a 3 -4

01:10:56.119 --> 01:10:59.039
-3 just to crowd up the midfield, pull more bodies

01:10:59.039 --> 01:11:03.039
in there so we can control the midfield. And

01:11:03.039 --> 01:11:06.159
what are you expecting score -wise? Are Sounders

01:11:06.159 --> 01:11:07.500
going to continue their winning ways, or is it

01:11:07.500 --> 01:11:09.199
going to be tough heading out there? I think

01:11:09.199 --> 01:11:11.600
it's going to be tough. Given our recent history

01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:14.460
with Houston, they've been 0 -0 games, 1 -1s.

01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:18.479
They've been very close games. And so I think

01:11:18.479 --> 01:11:22.359
it might be a tie. I think it'll be 1 -1. Danny

01:11:22.359 --> 01:11:25.659
keeps the streak going. You know, can't complain

01:11:25.659 --> 01:11:29.520
about a tie on the road, right? Mm -hmm. Anything

01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:31.140
else you want to hit on the Sounders before we

01:11:31.140 --> 01:11:36.119
get out of here today? Reagan and Jesus are close,

01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:39.239
but they're not ready yet. Reagan's in full training,

01:11:39.380 --> 01:11:46.060
so that's good to hear, good to see. We need

01:11:46.060 --> 01:11:48.720
him, but also Kim Kihei has been tearing it up,

01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:50.739
so now there's some real competition there too.

01:11:51.020 --> 01:11:52.960
Oh yeah, I love the way that Kim Kihei's been

01:11:52.960 --> 01:11:56.239
playing. He's defense first. He's not really

01:11:56.239 --> 01:11:59.520
looking to... play the same type of progressive

01:11:59.520 --> 01:12:01.659
passes and build up from the back like Reagan,

01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:06.119
which has led to not having any mistakes in the

01:12:06.119 --> 01:12:11.880
back. Yeah, absolutely. There's some pros and

01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:16.260
cons to that. For sure. So where can they find

01:12:16.260 --> 01:12:18.039
you? It's fine if you just want to say on the

01:12:18.039 --> 01:12:20.380
Discord, but where can they find you if people

01:12:20.380 --> 01:12:22.760
want to hear more of your sage wisdom on Sounders?

01:12:23.399 --> 01:12:26.390
They can find me on Instagram. Alex underscore

01:12:26.390 --> 01:12:33.449
Diaz 509. Yeah. Let's note that 509. You come

01:12:33.449 --> 01:12:35.430
from the other side of the state to come watch

01:12:35.430 --> 01:12:39.369
the Sounders as a dedication. And I hope that

01:12:39.369 --> 01:12:42.050
every time I go that they put on the show. Yeah.

01:12:42.310 --> 01:12:45.130
Yep. That'll make it more fun to come on it.

01:12:45.729 --> 01:12:47.949
Yeah. I'll probably make it out there for San

01:12:47.949 --> 01:12:51.899
Diego. Awesome. Well, we're looking forward to

01:12:51.899 --> 01:12:54.119
seeing you then. Let's wrap up this segment and

01:12:54.119 --> 01:12:57.020
we will see you next episode. All right. Peace.

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01:14:46.989 --> 01:14:52.529
We're back. So, 4 -1 win. Where are we sitting

01:14:52.529 --> 01:14:55.810
at in the table right now? Who's got that up?

01:14:57.609 --> 01:14:59.390
I didn't even know we had a game, so I certainly

01:14:59.390 --> 01:15:01.289
don't know where we are in the table. I mean,

01:15:01.310 --> 01:15:04.949
we were in the last playoff spot, I believe,

01:15:05.010 --> 01:15:07.869
going into the game. And I would assume we jumped

01:15:07.869 --> 01:15:10.829
up. So, Nicholas, what are you thinking? As far

01:15:10.829 --> 01:15:12.350
as where we are in the table, I know exactly

01:15:12.350 --> 01:15:15.489
where we are in the table. Yeah. Yes. And that

01:15:15.489 --> 01:15:19.819
is? We're right in the middle there. We did jump

01:15:19.819 --> 01:15:23.579
into the playoff spot now after the results,

01:15:23.739 --> 01:15:28.460
which is great. Yay, go team, go. We are, I believe,

01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:33.520
we're tied with many teams right now with 16

01:15:33.520 --> 01:15:39.500
points. We're tied with Colorado, Austin, and

01:15:39.500 --> 01:15:46.470
the West. We are just a few points off of second

01:15:46.470 --> 01:15:49.649
place. Minnesota's in second with 19 points,

01:15:49.810 --> 01:15:52.569
so we're one result away from that. Portland

01:15:52.569 --> 01:15:57.050
is in third with 18, San Diego with 17, along

01:15:57.050 --> 01:16:01.829
with LAFC. Why does Austin have the tiebreaker

01:16:01.829 --> 01:16:07.329
over us? They have one more win. Oh, I didn't

01:16:07.329 --> 01:16:09.789
see the wins. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was looking

01:16:09.789 --> 01:16:11.810
at goals. I forgot that they changed that rule

01:16:11.810 --> 01:16:14.770
in order to let LA Galaxy do better one year.

01:16:14.829 --> 01:16:20.890
They went from goal differential to wins. That's

01:16:20.890 --> 01:16:26.130
a good one. Whatever. I mean, we were in ninth

01:16:26.130 --> 01:16:30.289
coming into the game, which was the play -in

01:16:30.289 --> 01:16:34.130
game. So, I mean, we're going to continue to

01:16:34.130 --> 01:16:35.909
be moving up considering how we're playing now.

01:16:38.070 --> 01:16:41.689
Ah, boy. You know what? You say that, but I'm

01:16:41.689 --> 01:16:45.489
not entirely positive. I like our team. I think

01:16:45.489 --> 01:16:48.470
we're going to be okay. But we do have a really

01:16:48.470 --> 01:16:50.590
tough stretch in front of us right now. So I

01:16:50.590 --> 01:16:53.649
don't want to pump the hype train a little bit

01:16:53.649 --> 01:16:56.270
because we do have three straight road games

01:16:56.270 --> 01:16:59.289
against Houston, which historically has been

01:16:59.289 --> 01:17:03.670
tough. They are, but they've also been Houston

01:17:03.670 --> 01:17:06.489
is tough. Fortunately, it's May and not June,

01:17:06.550 --> 01:17:12.270
July. But then we play at LAFC and at Portland.

01:17:12.810 --> 01:17:21.149
So I would just say let's take it one game at

01:17:21.149 --> 01:17:24.909
a time and let's see. I mean, Portland is going

01:17:24.909 --> 01:17:28.310
to be reeling off of their loss to Tacoma Defiance

01:17:28.310 --> 01:17:31.340
tomorrow. And probably won't win a game for the

01:17:31.340 --> 01:17:34.140
rest of the season. So I'm not worried about

01:17:34.140 --> 01:17:37.800
them. Mr. Hot take right there. Hey, I do have

01:17:37.800 --> 01:17:40.600
a question. Okay, so let's put it to you this

01:17:40.600 --> 01:17:42.619
way. We got three road games right now. We got

01:17:42.619 --> 01:17:44.739
a three -game road trip. Saturday, Wednesday,

01:17:44.920 --> 01:17:51.560
Saturday. So three games in seven days. At Houston,

01:17:51.859 --> 01:17:55.819
at LAFC on Wednesday, and then at Portland that

01:17:55.819 --> 01:18:00.739
Saturday. Is an acceptable points result out

01:18:00.739 --> 01:18:04.239
of that? Do you think three out of nine is acceptable?

01:18:04.539 --> 01:18:08.819
Do you think which could be one win and two losses?

01:18:08.859 --> 01:18:14.479
It could be three draws. What is your expectation?

01:18:15.340 --> 01:18:19.659
I think we need four. I think five. I'm expecting,

01:18:19.880 --> 01:18:26.260
wait, sorry, four. So a loss and two results.

01:18:26.380 --> 01:18:30.090
A win -loss draw. Yep, but I would expect...

01:18:30.090 --> 01:18:32.369
I mean, here's the thing. If you lose at Houston,

01:18:32.609 --> 01:18:35.270
they're terrible. I know it's Houston, but you've

01:18:35.270 --> 01:18:37.329
got to win that game. You've got to win against

01:18:37.329 --> 01:18:41.909
your rivals. So to me, it's Houston win, Portland

01:18:41.909 --> 01:18:45.729
tie, LAFC loss, but I think we've got to beat

01:18:45.729 --> 01:18:49.430
Portland. Is this the fuck, marry, kill of road

01:18:49.430 --> 01:18:56.609
trips? It is. It is. I'm marrying LAFC. I'm fucking

01:18:56.609 --> 01:19:01.659
Portland. Okay, so let's actually play this game.

01:19:01.779 --> 01:19:05.020
Win -loss -draw. You got to give a result to

01:19:05.020 --> 01:19:08.840
each one. Who are you giving your win -loss -draw

01:19:08.840 --> 01:19:16.319
to? I think it's draw, Houston, loss, LA, and

01:19:16.319 --> 01:19:19.720
I think win in Portland. I mean, from a standings

01:19:19.720 --> 01:19:24.760
perspective, win Portland, tie LAFC. I mean,

01:19:24.760 --> 01:19:28.810
sorry, we win Portland. we tie LAFC and we lose

01:19:28.810 --> 01:19:32.329
to Houston. That's not what I think will happen

01:19:32.329 --> 01:19:35.710
or, or that's not acceptable to me, but from

01:19:35.710 --> 01:19:37.409
a standings perspective, that would be the best

01:19:37.409 --> 01:19:39.449
because we would rather have them get three points

01:19:39.449 --> 01:19:40.930
than either of the two teams above us in the

01:19:40.930 --> 01:19:44.869
table. But what do you, if you've got to pick

01:19:44.869 --> 01:19:47.609
one, that's where you're going to go with. Yes,

01:19:47.670 --> 01:19:50.449
because it's the most favorable standings wise

01:19:50.449 --> 01:19:53.949
for us. If I've got a, if I've got a pick here,

01:19:54.050 --> 01:20:02.960
I'm saying. Beat Portland. I'm going to say draw

01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:11.020
LAFC and lose to Houston. Now, this whole premise

01:20:11.020 --> 01:20:13.899
is a false premise anyways. It's predicated on

01:20:13.899 --> 01:20:17.000
the idea that it has to be one win, one loss,

01:20:17.000 --> 01:20:19.899
and one draw. My expectation is we have to beat

01:20:19.899 --> 01:20:22.949
Houston and Portland. I don't care what happens

01:20:22.949 --> 01:20:24.510
in the other game because I don't think it affects

01:20:24.510 --> 01:20:26.710
us one way or the other at this point. I mean,

01:20:26.729 --> 01:20:31.609
but I think from a, from a team perspective,

01:20:31.710 --> 01:20:34.609
you got to win against the bad teams and you

01:20:34.609 --> 01:20:36.789
got to win against your rivals. I don't, I mean,

01:20:36.810 --> 01:20:39.489
those are the most important things. I mean,

01:20:39.510 --> 01:20:42.329
I would argue that both LAFC and Portland are

01:20:42.329 --> 01:20:44.829
your two biggest rivals right now, but that's

01:20:44.829 --> 01:20:49.270
just, that's just me. Yeah, but I don't think

01:20:49.270 --> 01:20:51.779
LAFC is the same level. I mean, we beat them

01:20:51.779 --> 01:20:54.640
last year, and we lost to the Galaxy. Obviously,

01:20:54.819 --> 01:20:57.439
the Galaxy are terrible this year, but that brought

01:20:57.439 --> 01:20:59.880
me back to the Galaxy being our rival more than

01:20:59.880 --> 01:21:03.619
LAFC. So with that said, on this road trip, I

01:21:03.619 --> 01:21:06.180
think we are going to lose one game. We'll get

01:21:06.180 --> 01:21:08.939
two results. What those two results will be,

01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:12.560
a win, a draw, two wins, I'm not sure. But I

01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:14.579
do think we're going to drop one of the three.

01:21:15.380 --> 01:21:20.159
Aaron? Yeah, I feel like Houston's going to be

01:21:20.159 --> 01:21:27.399
an annoying trap game. I think we'll draw still,

01:21:27.560 --> 01:21:31.000
right? But I don't think... I mean, they're pretty

01:21:31.000 --> 01:21:34.439
terrible. And I feel like we're riding high right

01:21:34.439 --> 01:21:37.880
now. I don't want it to happen. They're two wins,

01:21:38.079 --> 01:21:40.539
two draws, and a loss in their last five. They

01:21:40.539 --> 01:21:44.100
did get a red card in the dying minutes of the

01:21:44.100 --> 01:21:50.109
last game. so Escobar, their right back, will

01:21:50.109 --> 01:21:56.630
not be playing in this game. I think they're

01:21:56.630 --> 01:21:59.850
susceptible, but I don't... Yeah, I think they're

01:21:59.850 --> 01:22:01.550
susceptible. Yeah, I don't know. Just gut feeling.

01:22:01.710 --> 01:22:03.890
I think Houston's going to draw L .A. loss and

01:22:03.890 --> 01:22:08.310
win in Portland. Okay. I think we're going to

01:22:08.310 --> 01:22:14.510
improve on that 0 -0. That was a miserable game.

01:22:14.920 --> 01:22:18.840
It was. It was cynical. Yeah. It was cynical.

01:22:19.119 --> 01:22:24.359
Did we not get at least one offside goal that

01:22:24.359 --> 01:22:29.279
should have been a goal? I don't think so. I

01:22:29.279 --> 01:22:32.119
think that was the two games around it. Okay.

01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:35.279
That was just one where we kicked a lot of them

01:22:35.279 --> 01:22:39.979
over the goal. Fair enough. Could be interesting.

01:22:40.699 --> 01:22:43.060
So let's talk about this LA, let's talk about

01:22:43.060 --> 01:22:46.100
the St. Louis City game. St. Louis, yes, let's

01:22:46.100 --> 01:22:52.100
talk about it. So lineup comes out. We see anything

01:22:52.100 --> 01:22:55.899
jump out to you from that lineup? To me, it was

01:22:55.899 --> 01:22:57.880
pretty much kind of what you expected to see,

01:22:58.000 --> 01:23:05.699
especially knowing no Jordan and no Jesus. Yeah,

01:23:05.779 --> 01:23:08.789
I mean, I talked about it. a couple weeks before,

01:23:08.949 --> 01:23:10.789
but I would have liked to have seen Kent start,

01:23:10.970 --> 01:23:13.189
but I understand Rothrock has earned it, so I

01:23:13.189 --> 01:23:17.750
expected Rothrock to start. And it worked out.

01:23:19.609 --> 01:23:23.130
Soft penalty on our defense, but he made a very

01:23:23.130 --> 01:23:25.050
strong play on that penalty they got our way.

01:23:25.310 --> 01:23:28.470
I don't know that we come back in that game the

01:23:28.470 --> 01:23:31.750
same way we did if Rothrock doesn't start. I

01:23:31.750 --> 01:23:34.130
mean, he earned the penalty two minutes later,

01:23:34.250 --> 01:23:36.520
yeah. That's what I'm saying. Like that, that

01:23:36.520 --> 01:23:39.479
penalty felt like a punch in the gut and he immediately

01:23:39.479 --> 01:23:41.539
got our hopes back into it and made us start

01:23:41.539 --> 01:23:43.680
pushing. And I mean, he knew what he was doing.

01:23:43.800 --> 01:23:47.100
I wasn't. Yeah. Because he kind of, I feel like

01:23:47.100 --> 01:23:50.479
he broke the play down. Yeah. And he kind of,

01:23:50.479 --> 01:23:53.039
that's how we recovered. And which is just, you

01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:55.380
know, the blue collar, you know, dribbled, he

01:23:55.380 --> 01:23:57.680
dribbled into three defenders. Like, what are

01:23:57.680 --> 01:24:02.449
you doing? He is so the traditional. kind of

01:24:02.449 --> 01:24:05.210
player that Seattle sports fans love. Paul Rothrock

01:24:05.210 --> 01:24:09.289
is that Christian rolled on mold. That, that

01:24:09.289 --> 01:24:14.670
hardworking Zach. Yeah. Yeah. But, but I, I just

01:24:14.670 --> 01:24:17.409
can't believe that the St. Louis player stuck

01:24:17.409 --> 01:24:20.050
his foot in there. He had nowhere to go. All

01:24:20.050 --> 01:24:23.090
they had to do is stand still. And anyways, that

01:24:23.090 --> 01:24:28.649
that's their problem. Was not enamored with the

01:24:28.649 --> 01:24:33.460
officiating in the first half. it got a lot worse

01:24:33.460 --> 01:24:37.220
in the second half. Do you think, I mean, I didn't

01:24:37.220 --> 01:24:40.399
love the penalty calls or the VAR calls, but

01:24:40.399 --> 01:24:46.460
I didn't. Yeah, that's a penalty call for sure,

01:24:46.560 --> 01:24:48.640
which I want to know your takes on it because

01:24:48.640 --> 01:24:51.279
I don't know. I feel like my eyes are deceiving

01:24:51.279 --> 01:24:55.399
me in some ways on that. How did you feel about

01:24:55.399 --> 01:24:57.119
the ref? Because I felt like we've had pretty

01:24:57.119 --> 01:25:01.010
egregious referees overall this year a lot and

01:25:01.010 --> 01:25:04.170
this one didn't to me feel like he seemed consistent

01:25:04.170 --> 01:25:06.510
with the exception of the terrible penalty non

01:25:06.510 --> 01:25:08.909
-penalty calls he didn't have control of the

01:25:08.909 --> 01:25:11.430
game three yellow cards for us in the first half

01:25:11.430 --> 01:25:17.109
one for them um obviously the the the penalty

01:25:17.109 --> 01:25:22.289
against yamar was was pretty soft uh the penalty

01:25:22.289 --> 01:25:26.409
against rothrock was was was pretty soft uh both

01:25:26.409 --> 01:25:30.060
like neither neither were particularly... The

01:25:30.060 --> 01:25:32.899
difference between those, for me, is Roth...

01:25:32.899 --> 01:25:36.739
Or, Reymar made a play on the ball, and it didn't...

01:25:36.739 --> 01:25:39.319
And the guy deliberately went down, where I think

01:25:39.319 --> 01:25:42.140
Rothrock actually got stepped on. Yeah. Yeah,

01:25:42.199 --> 01:25:46.479
I think that's fair. That's fair, but I... Anyway,

01:25:46.640 --> 01:25:50.159
I... Those penalties aside... I think both were

01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:53.220
generally soft, but yes, they are different.

01:25:53.460 --> 01:25:59.789
Yes. The... I mean, we're just going to absolutely

01:25:59.789 --> 01:26:02.609
just put it out there right there that the handball

01:26:02.609 --> 01:26:10.729
was just a blown call. Was it? Say what you want

01:26:10.729 --> 01:26:13.930
to say, Cameron. So on the first time I saw the

01:26:13.930 --> 01:26:17.189
replay on the TV, it went off his chest. It went

01:26:17.189 --> 01:26:20.170
off his chest and bounced off. And then when

01:26:20.170 --> 01:26:22.289
they slowed it down, it was because it was near

01:26:22.289 --> 01:26:24.029
his hand. It kept going off. But then when they

01:26:24.029 --> 01:26:25.949
slowed it down, it kept looking at me like he

01:26:25.949 --> 01:26:28.500
came off his hand. So that's where my eyes are.

01:26:28.659 --> 01:26:31.800
Because when they did the first slowdown, it

01:26:31.800 --> 01:26:35.199
came off his pec. It definitely went off his

01:26:35.199 --> 01:26:37.880
hand. I didn't see a change in direction until

01:26:37.880 --> 01:26:42.000
it hit his hand. Then how do they not... How

01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:45.119
does VAR get it that wrong? That is what it is.

01:26:45.159 --> 01:26:47.859
It's the official. And I got proof on this one,

01:26:47.920 --> 01:26:49.659
by the way. I got proof that it hit his hand.

01:26:50.220 --> 01:26:54.710
The proof that it hit his hand was the... The

01:26:54.710 --> 01:27:00.029
ref said on the VAR that no handball offense,

01:27:00.270 --> 01:27:04.329
his hand was in a natural position. Did he? The

01:27:04.329 --> 01:27:07.689
fourth official, that was on the broadcast. That

01:27:07.689 --> 01:27:11.130
was on the broadcast. Yeah, the broadcast said

01:27:11.130 --> 01:27:13.890
the fourth official said that the reason that

01:27:13.890 --> 01:27:17.510
the handball was not given was that he determined

01:27:17.510 --> 01:27:22.250
to be in a natural position. Which he was like

01:27:22.250 --> 01:27:25.649
this, which people can't see. You're basically

01:27:25.649 --> 01:27:28.050
chesting the ball. So his arm was out like that.

01:27:28.109 --> 01:27:30.270
I don't agree that that's a natural position.

01:27:30.569 --> 01:27:32.810
Not at all. It's a 40 -degree angle. I could

01:27:32.810 --> 01:27:34.670
see how someone would argue it because when you

01:27:34.670 --> 01:27:36.970
go to chest the ball, your arms come back like

01:27:36.970 --> 01:27:40.270
this. I will say. Chest the ball, that's how

01:27:40.270 --> 01:27:41.609
your arms go. That's what you're taught to do.

01:27:41.670 --> 01:27:45.029
You should have your arms down, though. If you'd

01:27:45.029 --> 01:27:46.130
hit his hand, you're right. This should have

01:27:46.130 --> 01:27:47.850
been a handball. What I'm saying is I could see

01:27:47.850 --> 01:27:49.430
how they could make that argument. It's wrong.

01:27:49.850 --> 01:27:54.949
I mean, MLS 360, all of them were like, oh, absolute

01:27:54.949 --> 01:27:58.689
handball, absolute handball. The Apple broadcast,

01:27:59.130 --> 01:28:01.310
Apple broadcast, everyone, absolute handball,

01:28:01.369 --> 01:28:03.710
absolute handball. Sounders broadcast, absolute

01:28:03.710 --> 01:28:06.529
handball, absolute handball. The only person

01:28:06.529 --> 01:28:08.970
that seemed to think that it wasn't a handball.

01:28:09.189 --> 01:28:11.529
It was like the Ichiro Hall of Fame voting. Yes.

01:28:12.090 --> 01:28:15.329
There was one person who didn't think it was

01:28:15.329 --> 01:28:19.109
a one motherfucker who didn't think it was a

01:28:19.109 --> 01:28:21.229
handball. Thank God it didn't come back to bite

01:28:21.229 --> 01:28:24.210
at the ass. No, it ended up being meaningless.

01:28:24.810 --> 01:28:27.090
This goes back to the changes that need to be

01:28:27.090 --> 01:28:29.569
made to VAR where it's not the center ref making

01:28:29.569 --> 01:28:31.890
decisions on his own calls. More like NHL style.

01:28:32.750 --> 01:28:35.869
Yeah, or NBA or MLB. MLB still gets it wrong

01:28:35.869 --> 01:28:39.109
sometimes, but make someone else do the wrong.

01:28:39.310 --> 01:28:42.529
Where ego's not part of it? No ego, because we've

01:28:42.529 --> 01:28:44.850
seen multiple times them get VAR wrong inside

01:28:44.850 --> 01:28:49.789
our stadium. I will say, though, to highlight

01:28:49.789 --> 01:28:54.850
how rough of a game this was, besides that, I

01:28:54.850 --> 01:28:57.270
would say... In terms of officiating. Yes, I

01:28:57.270 --> 01:29:01.369
would say St. Louis were... the beneficiaries

01:29:01.369 --> 01:29:06.130
of some of that and their coach is the one who

01:29:06.130 --> 01:29:10.229
got a bench yellow. It's just, I think, unfortunately,

01:29:10.250 --> 01:29:12.770
I think he just lost control of the plot. Uh,

01:29:13.069 --> 01:29:15.250
but let's not talk. I don't want to talk any

01:29:15.250 --> 01:29:19.510
further about this. Yeah. Yeah. I, I don't want

01:29:19.510 --> 01:29:22.069
to, I mean, ultimately I'm going to, he's, he's

01:29:22.069 --> 01:29:23.890
on my list of someone I want to pay attention

01:29:23.890 --> 01:29:26.869
to in future games to see if this is a aberration

01:29:26.869 --> 01:29:29.170
or a norm for this guy. Do you know his name?

01:29:29.500 --> 01:29:32.439
Yeah, Lorenzo Hernandez. I don't recognize him

01:29:32.439 --> 01:29:36.840
from previous games. Lorenzo Hernandez. Yes.

01:29:36.880 --> 01:29:42.399
Okay. Yeah. So, first half goes into the break

01:29:42.399 --> 01:29:47.479
1 -1. A big shout -out to Stefan Frey, his 400th

01:29:47.479 --> 01:29:52.109
career game with the Sounders. Not only... not

01:29:52.109 --> 01:29:54.770
only there he's in rarefied air i mean you've

01:29:54.770 --> 01:29:58.970
got your diego charas kyle beckerman's nick ramondos

01:29:58.970 --> 01:30:02.010
uh i think graham zuzy these are the kind of

01:30:02.010 --> 01:30:06.590
players that are on how dare you mention beckerman

01:30:06.590 --> 01:30:10.789
in the same sentence as a great player like diego

01:30:10.789 --> 01:30:16.949
chara yeah like diego chara hey and and say the

01:30:16.949 --> 01:30:20.060
other half of that though fries 400 What did

01:30:20.060 --> 01:30:21.859
Schmetzer bring up in the post -game press conference?

01:30:22.300 --> 01:30:24.239
Oh, this was great, actually. Yeah, this was

01:30:24.239 --> 01:30:26.960
great. I looked at Ryan's face when he said this.

01:30:26.979 --> 01:30:34.319
He was kind of like, hmm. So, I want to make

01:30:34.319 --> 01:30:39.399
sure. Osase De Rosario, who is Dwayne De Rosario's

01:30:39.399 --> 01:30:44.279
father, or son, Dwayne's son. Stephen Fry got

01:30:44.279 --> 01:30:48.619
his debut in a game that... duane de rosario

01:30:48.619 --> 01:30:51.000
was playing in because they were teammates in

01:30:51.000 --> 01:30:54.640
toronto toronto and now all these years later

01:30:54.640 --> 01:30:59.340
duane's son is debuting in a game in which stephen

01:30:59.340 --> 01:31:03.060
fry is playing and that's just that's just so

01:31:03.060 --> 01:31:06.340
cool and and and i i loved it i loved it that's

01:31:06.340 --> 01:31:10.859
awesome um so halftime you know it's one one

01:31:10.859 --> 01:31:15.909
uh i thought i thought we're Looking good. I

01:31:15.909 --> 01:31:20.329
thought we were doing okay. We had a ton of shots

01:31:20.329 --> 01:31:22.789
in the first half. I'd have to take a quick look

01:31:22.789 --> 01:31:24.890
at what it was. At the end of the first half,

01:31:25.029 --> 01:31:29.430
it was 13 -3. Our expected goals at halftime

01:31:29.430 --> 01:31:36.510
was already 1 .57. We had two big chances, scored

01:31:36.510 --> 01:31:38.750
on one of them, so things were looking good.

01:31:39.329 --> 01:31:43.079
Second half comes on. And we just kind of, everything

01:31:43.079 --> 01:31:47.699
changes when we brought on Ryan Kent. Ryan Kent

01:31:47.699 --> 01:31:50.279
coming on for Paul Rothrock in the 57th minute.

01:31:50.340 --> 01:31:52.439
Is that the move you would have made? Or would

01:31:52.439 --> 01:31:56.960
you have taken off Pedro? No, I want to see Ryan

01:31:56.960 --> 01:31:59.000
Kent with Pedro. Yeah, I want to see them together.

01:31:59.819 --> 01:32:02.880
I think people seemed a little confused by that.

01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:08.210
Turns out, I think they... Sideline reporting

01:32:08.210 --> 01:32:12.489
for the home broadcast was saying that Schmetzer

01:32:12.489 --> 01:32:15.609
thought with Rothrock's yellow, he wanted to

01:32:15.609 --> 01:32:19.770
get him off. I think that's probably a testament

01:32:19.770 --> 01:32:23.149
to questioning some of the decisions by the officiating.

01:32:23.529 --> 01:32:27.289
That's kind of my thought there. I think he's

01:32:27.289 --> 01:32:29.949
off without the yellow. Yeah, I think he's off

01:32:29.949 --> 01:32:31.529
without the yellow, but he did bring that up

01:32:31.529 --> 01:32:34.750
for sure. I also want to say the official, this

01:32:34.750 --> 01:32:38.460
was his fourth ever. mls game as a center ref

01:32:38.460 --> 01:32:41.520
okay okay he's been a fourth official one two

01:32:41.520 --> 01:32:43.619
three four five six times this year he's been

01:32:43.619 --> 01:32:46.579
a center ref four times he gave out five yellows

01:32:46.579 --> 01:32:49.300
this time cincinnati beat chicago three two he

01:32:49.300 --> 01:32:52.159
gave up four nashville beat montreal three nothing

01:32:52.159 --> 01:32:54.439
he gave out one and colorado rap is in dallas

01:32:54.439 --> 01:32:57.140
tied three three with colorado giving up two

01:32:57.140 --> 01:33:00.050
goals in the final moments, and he gave out two

01:33:00.050 --> 01:33:02.590
yellows in that. Was that his first match? What

01:33:02.590 --> 01:33:06.409
about penalties? His first match was a 3 -3 with

01:33:06.409 --> 01:33:10.489
Stunner. Let me see. Penalties. I don't think

01:33:10.489 --> 01:33:13.409
I have that information. If you do find out,

01:33:13.409 --> 01:33:15.310
I am curious. He gave out one against Chicago

01:33:15.310 --> 01:33:18.770
and two in our game. Interesting. Okay, so not

01:33:18.770 --> 01:33:21.609
enough to create any kind of sample size of trends.

01:33:22.449 --> 01:33:24.229
And you've got to start supporting him, but maybe

01:33:24.229 --> 01:33:29.140
he's young and not ready. Yeah. Maybe he's still

01:33:29.140 --> 01:33:32.960
shitty. Yeah, maybe. I felt like he was struggling

01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:36.479
with controlling the game. He definitely was.

01:33:37.420 --> 01:33:42.239
Okay, so you bring on Ryan Kent, and four minutes

01:33:42.239 --> 01:33:45.020
later, he immediately assists with a goal for

01:33:45.020 --> 01:33:48.880
Obed Vargas, who's having a season. Great to

01:33:48.880 --> 01:33:52.659
see that. Anything you want to add to that goal?

01:33:55.060 --> 01:34:00.699
I mean... Ryan Kent shows that he can do it through

01:34:00.699 --> 01:34:03.939
finesse or he can do it through straightforwardness.

01:34:04.020 --> 01:34:06.619
And that's what I love about it. The oohs and

01:34:06.619 --> 01:34:09.739
the ahs from the crowd in -house watching him.

01:34:09.819 --> 01:34:15.640
Oh, yeah. Little turns, little dummies. Everything

01:34:15.640 --> 01:34:18.500
is quick. It's not just him just starting to

01:34:18.500 --> 01:34:22.260
run quick. It's the decision -making, the precision

01:34:22.260 --> 01:34:25.689
on short passes, the combinations. The fact that

01:34:25.689 --> 01:34:28.590
you're seeing Obed and Pedro link up, that's

01:34:28.590 --> 01:34:30.189
why I wanted to see him on the field. And that's

01:34:30.189 --> 01:34:33.729
why, you know, ultimately, you know, that Rothrock

01:34:33.729 --> 01:34:35.550
is watching up from the bench and then coming

01:34:35.550 --> 01:34:40.170
on and playing a, what will be pivotal. Plus

01:34:40.170 --> 01:34:42.010
all these minutes are going to be needed. He's

01:34:42.010 --> 01:34:44.630
Rothrock starting multiple more matches. This

01:34:44.630 --> 01:34:49.369
isn't replacing him, but if we're kind of harkened

01:34:49.369 --> 01:34:51.329
back to that other question, scuttlebutt question,

01:34:51.430 --> 01:34:56.100
like Ryan Kent is your. on your ideal 11. well

01:34:56.100 --> 01:34:59.340
yeah i mean i mean in in in that question which

01:34:59.340 --> 01:35:03.779
was which was submitted by eric 13 uh make a

01:35:03.779 --> 01:35:06.000
list of the best 11 players in the roster if

01:35:06.000 --> 01:35:08.800
everyone was healthy That if is doing a lot of

01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:13.479
work in that statement. That's why it's so hard

01:35:13.479 --> 01:35:15.340
to have that conversation. Because Paul Areola

01:35:15.340 --> 01:35:17.420
is on that list, and he's not going to be back

01:35:17.420 --> 01:35:20.380
with us. By the way, I got to meet Paul before

01:35:20.380 --> 01:35:22.800
the game, and I got to say hi to him, and that

01:35:22.800 --> 01:35:27.079
was just a really nice surprise. It was really,

01:35:27.100 --> 01:35:31.539
really awesome. That was really cool. Good dude.

01:35:32.319 --> 01:35:38.079
Yeah, just very affable. In good spirits. I'm

01:35:38.079 --> 01:35:41.760
looking forward to, I love the signing. I wanted

01:35:41.760 --> 01:35:43.399
to remember. I haven't considered this before.

01:35:43.640 --> 01:35:45.640
Imagine the conversations we're going to have

01:35:45.640 --> 01:35:50.279
when Paul Areola is healthy. So next season.

01:35:50.399 --> 01:35:52.819
Next year is going to be wild, especially since,

01:35:52.840 --> 01:35:55.640
I mean, this is a topic for another show, but

01:35:55.640 --> 01:35:58.039
because of injury, it doesn't look like Jesus

01:35:58.039 --> 01:36:02.520
is going to earn enough stats to become a DP

01:36:02.520 --> 01:36:04.939
next year, which means. There's going to be questions

01:36:04.939 --> 01:36:06.659
around, do you re -sign Rusnak? Do you bring

01:36:06.659 --> 01:36:08.739
in another DP? What do you do? So it's going

01:36:08.739 --> 01:36:11.119
to be, I mean, Jesus can still do it, but there,

01:36:11.180 --> 01:36:13.180
you know, there's a lot, I think there's a lot

01:36:13.180 --> 01:36:16.920
of expectation on him that makes it hard. You're

01:36:16.920 --> 01:36:20.800
right. So it's going to be pretty wild. So going

01:36:20.800 --> 01:36:25.840
into, going into the late stages of the game,

01:36:26.020 --> 01:36:29.479
Pedro comes off for Georgie. And then a few moments

01:36:29.479 --> 01:36:33.180
later. Scoring his fourth goal in four matches,

01:36:33.439 --> 01:36:36.779
Danny Mussofsky. Four straight games with a goal.

01:36:37.020 --> 01:36:43.260
Do not sleep on Nuhu's beautiful assist on that.

01:36:43.439 --> 01:36:47.159
Comes in off the edge. I was saying to Bernadette

01:36:47.159 --> 01:36:50.619
and Eric, saying, man, well before this moment,

01:36:50.680 --> 01:36:53.720
Nuhu is getting really involved offensively in

01:36:53.720 --> 01:36:58.199
a very productive way. He was foot mob's man

01:36:58.199 --> 01:37:01.460
of the match. uh 9 .1 i mean coach commented

01:37:01.460 --> 01:37:04.960
on it afterwards that because of how good kim

01:37:04.960 --> 01:37:08.039
kihi was it allowed new who to push forward and

01:37:08.039 --> 01:37:10.960
become more offensively dangerous i mean and

01:37:10.960 --> 01:37:12.960
and he was being smart he was looking for those

01:37:12.960 --> 01:37:16.579
passes he had assist he had a goal he uh not

01:37:16.579 --> 01:37:20.220
to get ahead of ourselves 94 accurate passing

01:37:20.220 --> 01:37:23.840
uh three chances created two big chances created

01:37:24.840 --> 01:37:29.579
Uh, just a, he, his, you know, XG was 45 .45

01:37:29.579 --> 01:37:34.199
is expected assist 0 .68. Uh, just, just a really

01:37:34.199 --> 01:37:37.380
great, great game from new who, uh, great game

01:37:37.380 --> 01:37:39.859
from a lot of players, but, uh, don't want to

01:37:39.859 --> 01:37:43.960
lose sight of that. So, um, so Musafsky Musafsky,

01:37:43.960 --> 01:37:47.220
just beautiful pulling the new who's ball quick

01:37:47.220 --> 01:37:54.420
turn. And just blowing it by. You can't get away

01:37:54.420 --> 01:38:00.539
with that. You can't get away with that. I did

01:38:00.539 --> 01:38:06.460
not mean that. Phrasing. Hey, leave the mailbag

01:38:06.460 --> 01:38:10.560
out of this. So, question for the two of you.

01:38:11.369 --> 01:38:15.029
Yes. Can you name the four players in Sounders

01:38:15.029 --> 01:38:17.789
history who have scored in four straight matches?

01:38:18.670 --> 01:38:21.489
We'll throw that to Aaron because I heard Coach

01:38:21.489 --> 01:38:24.310
Schmetzer, who could only name three, talk about

01:38:24.310 --> 01:38:27.609
it on the postgame show. I'm going to go with

01:38:27.609 --> 01:38:35.630
Freddie. He was the first. Okay. Ruidias. No.

01:38:36.289 --> 01:38:42.399
No Ruidias. Never did. Oba. Oba. Deuce? Oh, yeah,

01:38:42.420 --> 01:38:46.600
yeah. No Deuce. So you got two. Well, we know

01:38:46.600 --> 01:38:56.100
Danny Mussofsky, so who's the fourth? Don't overthink

01:38:56.100 --> 01:38:59.960
it. Nico? Nico. Who's our all -time leading goal

01:38:59.960 --> 01:39:03.779
scorer? Jordan Morris, really? There you go.

01:39:03.880 --> 01:39:08.439
There you go. Jordan, Obafemi. I think last year

01:39:08.439 --> 01:39:11.810
he scored four games in a row. I think you're

01:39:11.810 --> 01:39:17.130
right with Leo Chu. Yeah. So that's the list

01:39:17.130 --> 01:39:21.210
right there. That's great verified air. Danny

01:39:21.210 --> 01:39:26.130
Mussofsky is putting in the most of his minutes.

01:39:26.170 --> 01:39:27.770
And you know what? He's making me look like a

01:39:27.770 --> 01:39:31.789
goddamn genius. So thank you, Danny. Danny, you

01:39:31.789 --> 01:39:35.819
make me look good. Thank you. But no, I said

01:39:35.819 --> 01:39:38.340
earlier in the year when he was struggling, he's

01:39:38.340 --> 01:39:40.579
putting himself in good positions, and I expect

01:39:40.579 --> 01:39:45.479
once he gets that first goal that he'll get five

01:39:45.479 --> 01:39:49.560
to ten all comps, and he's there. He's got five

01:39:49.560 --> 01:39:52.279
because he got the one in CONCACAF Champions

01:39:52.279 --> 01:39:55.319
League against Cruz Azul to unleash. So he's

01:39:55.319 --> 01:39:58.220
already done what I said he'd do. So congratulations,

01:39:58.640 --> 01:40:04.310
Danny. In a weird way, it's exactly what... this

01:40:04.310 --> 01:40:08.069
offense kind of needs is a striker that isn't,

01:40:08.069 --> 01:40:11.869
you know, shooting from 18, 20 yards out, but

01:40:11.869 --> 01:40:19.510
can put away the four or five channels. Aaron,

01:40:19.649 --> 01:40:24.770
we had 20 shots in the box. Yeah, that's fantastic.

01:40:25.670 --> 01:40:28.069
We had 20 shots in the box. That's fantastic.

01:40:28.289 --> 01:40:33.479
I mean, we ended up. Like five players. pumping

01:40:33.479 --> 01:40:39.060
the ball in and yeah it's we ended up with 29

01:40:39.060 --> 01:40:44.000
shots 29 shot thank god we are we are putting

01:40:44.000 --> 01:40:46.960
a video right we're not putting a video um 29

01:40:46.960 --> 01:40:51.060
shots to seven eight shots on target seven big

01:40:51.060 --> 01:40:55.579
chances um we're just we're just clearing it

01:40:55.579 --> 01:40:59.649
uh but Let's not sleep on our fourth goal, the

01:40:59.649 --> 01:41:02.170
most important goal. Well, actually, just before

01:41:02.170 --> 01:41:05.329
that most important goal, we bring on Osase De

01:41:05.329 --> 01:41:10.390
Rosario, who gets a good opportunity. He gets

01:41:10.390 --> 01:41:12.149
a really good opportunity. Christian Roldan puts

01:41:12.149 --> 01:41:16.569
a beautiful ball in right in front of that. He

01:41:16.569 --> 01:41:19.829
puts himself in a good spot. He missed it. Okay.

01:41:20.310 --> 01:41:23.430
All right. Get the yips out. Let's see what happens.

01:41:25.320 --> 01:41:30.739
Capital Y -I -P. I mean, it was a Wondolowski

01:41:30.739 --> 01:41:36.560
-level miss in the World Cup. But he did what

01:41:36.560 --> 01:41:40.300
my coach last year in PubLeaks, Michelle, always

01:41:40.300 --> 01:41:44.119
said not to do, or said to avoid, by going boobs

01:41:44.119 --> 01:41:46.739
over ball. Put your boobs over your foot when

01:41:46.739 --> 01:41:48.640
you're shooting. He leaned back, and that's why

01:41:48.640 --> 01:41:53.779
it skied it. Boobs over ball. The bumper sticker

01:41:53.779 --> 01:41:59.750
right there. Yeah. I mean, we're moving on. So

01:41:59.750 --> 01:42:02.970
moments later, though, right off of a corner,

01:42:03.090 --> 01:42:07.250
ball gets cycled back in, ball gets cycled back

01:42:07.250 --> 01:42:10.529
in. Ryan Kent makes a beautiful run inside the

01:42:10.529 --> 01:42:13.829
box, fights off a defender, and then makes this

01:42:13.829 --> 01:42:17.029
little feint, brings the ball back, cuts the

01:42:17.029 --> 01:42:21.529
ball back over to New, who does his best. to

01:42:21.529 --> 01:42:26.729
sky it higher than de rosario but he's so close

01:42:26.729 --> 01:42:29.970
to net it just goes into the upper part of the

01:42:29.970 --> 01:42:34.510
net beautiful i'm gonna say he did it on purpose

01:42:34.510 --> 01:42:36.829
to try and hit it as hard as he could into the

01:42:36.829 --> 01:42:39.069
upper back corner but uh that's probably not

01:42:39.069 --> 01:42:40.689
the case but we're gonna say that he did because

01:42:40.689 --> 01:42:44.170
i mean no he he put pace on that he he he got

01:42:44.170 --> 01:42:47.510
he got christian rolled on in against houston

01:42:47.510 --> 01:42:51.069
in the playoffs level penalty like that Yes,

01:42:51.149 --> 01:42:55.270
yes. I mean, he, you know, and hey, I'm not going

01:42:55.270 --> 01:42:57.609
to shit on him because he had a great offensive

01:42:57.609 --> 01:42:59.729
game. With saying that, it was great to see.

01:42:59.729 --> 01:43:01.569
It was great to have the fans. He had the goal

01:43:01.569 --> 01:43:04.949
and two assists, right? Yeah. He might have gotten

01:43:04.949 --> 01:43:07.890
a secondary. He definitely had one assist for

01:43:07.890 --> 01:43:11.109
sure. He might have gotten a second one. Might

01:43:11.109 --> 01:43:14.649
have had no secondary. But he's looking really

01:43:14.649 --> 01:43:24.880
good. I will say the crowd hearing them scream

01:43:24.880 --> 01:43:27.539
New Who, and then if you listen to the game on

01:43:27.539 --> 01:43:31.140
repeat, whether it's a broadcast or the Apple

01:43:31.140 --> 01:43:33.899
TV or home TV broadcast, you'll hear us doing

01:43:33.899 --> 01:43:37.840
the Hey Jude, New Who song, and the whole stadium

01:43:37.840 --> 01:43:40.380
was getting into it. I don't know that song.

01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:43.659
Can you tell me what that is? The end of Hey

01:43:43.659 --> 01:43:46.420
Jude, where it's like, na, na, na, na, na, na,

01:43:46.420 --> 01:43:49.000
na. Are you really? We are going to get. We're

01:43:49.000 --> 01:43:51.399
going to get. Yeah. So then you say, hey, hey,

01:43:51.399 --> 01:43:55.779
new who? No, just new who. Oh, okay. Hey, Jude.

01:43:56.100 --> 01:43:59.260
Yeah. Okay. Because I was like, that's too many

01:43:59.260 --> 01:44:01.479
syllables. But new who makes sense. Okay. I'm

01:44:01.479 --> 01:44:03.819
going to do it. So it's na, na, na, na, na, na,

01:44:03.939 --> 01:44:07.180
na, na, na, na, na, new who. That's definitely.

01:44:07.739 --> 01:44:10.340
I'll be right straight. i think copyright if

01:44:10.340 --> 01:44:13.199
we're singing it is okay it's it's it's i mean

01:44:13.199 --> 01:44:16.199
there's a there's without getting into it there's

01:44:16.199 --> 01:44:18.159
two copyrights that comes with every single song

01:44:18.159 --> 01:44:20.119
one of it is the underlying music and the other

01:44:20.119 --> 01:44:22.439
is the sound recording and we've licensed neither

01:44:22.439 --> 01:44:26.420
but yes we don't have ask at bmi but what we

01:44:26.420 --> 01:44:29.460
do have is under 30 seconds of the song so we

01:44:29.460 --> 01:44:32.340
should be fine moving that's also a thing that

01:44:32.340 --> 01:44:38.109
does not exist but but let's uh let's talk about

01:44:38.109 --> 01:44:41.329
then what did it feel like to be in the stadium

01:44:41.329 --> 01:44:46.350
when that went in and have that joyous moment

01:44:46.350 --> 01:44:51.329
that feels like the perfect topper off and and

01:44:51.329 --> 01:44:53.710
almost like we had we had more injuries what

01:44:53.710 --> 01:44:56.210
the fuck is happening and then that goal goes

01:44:56.210 --> 01:44:58.189
in and it's just like everything's perfect you

01:44:58.189 --> 01:45:00.369
know what it really was honestly it reminds me

01:45:00.369 --> 01:45:04.779
of a goal way back in 2014 where we beat Dallas

01:45:04.779 --> 01:45:08.979
5 -0, and our fifth goal was just a late goal

01:45:08.979 --> 01:45:12.640
just like this from our left back who never scores,

01:45:12.819 --> 01:45:16.500
and Leo Gonzalez popped one in, and we just all

01:45:16.500 --> 01:45:19.119
were so happy for him because he's just one of

01:45:19.119 --> 01:45:22.319
the nicest guys. Everyone loved him. Same feeling.

01:45:22.560 --> 01:45:24.800
Same feeling. It was great. It's one of those

01:45:24.800 --> 01:45:29.319
goals that, you know, it's just great energy.

01:45:31.500 --> 01:45:35.779
Crowd was really into it all game long. A lot

01:45:35.779 --> 01:45:39.699
of love for Tom Biro in the stands. You'll have

01:45:39.699 --> 01:45:42.859
seen a number of two polls that say, hi, Tom.

01:45:43.159 --> 01:45:47.060
We did talk about Tom. Did you last episode?

01:45:47.359 --> 01:45:51.760
We did. I was not aware what happened to Tom,

01:45:51.779 --> 01:45:55.500
so I found out on the internet during the match.

01:45:55.949 --> 01:45:59.970
Okay, so I will reiterate that Tom does have

01:45:59.970 --> 01:46:03.590
a GoFundMe. Tom is the former ECS co -president,

01:46:03.729 --> 01:46:07.750
also my former public co -coach with me. We coach

01:46:07.750 --> 01:46:12.350
Scum and Villainy, a Star Wars themed team. Tom

01:46:12.350 --> 01:46:23.630
was hit by a driver in Pioneer Square who sped

01:46:23.630 --> 01:46:27.260
off and took off. They were driving the wrong

01:46:27.260 --> 01:46:31.539
way down a one -way street. Yes. It was awful.

01:46:33.779 --> 01:46:38.260
Yes, and just absolutely awful. Tom has been

01:46:38.260 --> 01:46:43.199
in the hospital. He has GoFundMe where details

01:46:43.199 --> 01:46:46.800
of his condition and the incident of the accident

01:46:46.800 --> 01:46:52.300
are public there. I don't feel comfortable sharing

01:46:52.300 --> 01:46:57.960
everything. You got the details. He was injured.

01:46:58.159 --> 01:47:00.119
It's going to be a long road to recovery. Yeah.

01:47:00.199 --> 01:47:05.560
And so I want nothing but the best for Tom. He

01:47:05.560 --> 01:47:11.920
is genuinely a really nice guy. Actually had

01:47:11.920 --> 01:47:16.159
his own Sounders podcast for a long time. They

01:47:16.159 --> 01:47:20.060
had a video, a sonar feed back in the day. That

01:47:20.060 --> 01:47:24.960
was an ongoing video YouTube podcast. uh podcasts

01:47:24.960 --> 01:47:27.680
that they had for for years and i think they

01:47:27.680 --> 01:47:30.060
stopped recording maybe five years ago or so

01:47:30.060 --> 01:47:34.880
um but that was actually one of my first sounders

01:47:34.880 --> 01:47:39.039
podcasts that i would ever listen to so uh lots

01:47:39.039 --> 01:47:42.899
of love for tom and uh and and really hope he

01:47:42.899 --> 01:47:47.500
can recover absolutely good get well tom that

01:47:47.500 --> 01:47:50.960
sucks so much um aaron give us the final word

01:47:50.960 --> 01:47:54.350
on this game so that we can quickly hit uh our

01:47:54.350 --> 01:48:00.130
predictions on Houston. It's refreshing. That's

01:48:00.130 --> 01:48:05.109
for sure. It was refreshing to have a match that

01:48:05.109 --> 01:48:10.390
I think officiated a little bit more smoothly.

01:48:11.189 --> 01:48:14.810
Could have been six goals. Could have been something

01:48:14.810 --> 01:48:19.010
like that Nashville match, right? It just seemed,

01:48:19.170 --> 01:48:22.810
especially once Kent came on, just some cohesion.

01:48:23.840 --> 01:48:28.300
some talents were connected. Um, so that was,

01:48:28.319 --> 01:48:30.699
it was just refreshing to see pieces fall into

01:48:30.699 --> 01:48:33.779
place, um, the way we want them to be. And I'm

01:48:33.779 --> 01:48:37.939
excited to see, um, can start really. I think

01:48:37.939 --> 01:48:40.640
that's, I think can, and the new who story is

01:48:40.640 --> 01:48:42.539
just a great story, but we know it's going to

01:48:42.539 --> 01:48:44.380
be another 102 matches before he scores again.

01:48:44.479 --> 01:48:47.220
And I also still do not want him running into

01:48:47.220 --> 01:48:50.640
the offensive attack unless, you know, there

01:48:50.640 --> 01:48:54.079
is something. If he's picking people out. you

01:48:54.079 --> 01:48:57.220
know I just don't I feel like before it was just

01:48:57.220 --> 01:49:00.119
we couldn't figure it out so we're seeing it

01:49:00.119 --> 01:49:03.920
more often as more of a like try shit but I think

01:49:03.920 --> 01:49:06.699
if it fits better then of course I mean maybe

01:49:06.699 --> 01:49:10.439
that's what unlocked his now scoring prowess

01:49:10.439 --> 01:49:14.479
or something so but yeah refreshing match for

01:49:14.479 --> 01:49:18.800
sure excited to watch it all in full and remember

01:49:18.800 --> 01:49:21.579
it and not fall asleep too that was huge for

01:49:21.579 --> 01:49:26.710
me Absolutely massive. It's fun. So let's talk

01:49:26.710 --> 01:49:29.649
about Houston versus the Sounders coming up.

01:49:29.689 --> 01:49:31.850
Obviously, we talked about Houston is near the

01:49:31.850 --> 01:49:35.289
bottom of the table. Always a tough place to

01:49:35.289 --> 01:49:38.090
play. Most recently, we had a scoreless draw

01:49:38.090 --> 01:49:40.789
against them in Seattle in a game where we honored

01:49:40.789 --> 01:49:47.369
Nico. So that was super. Ooh, beer. That was

01:49:47.369 --> 01:49:54.010
super fun. Oh, dang. Yeah, that's true. You know

01:49:54.010 --> 01:49:56.869
me. I love me my LaCroix. I wish it was called

01:49:56.869 --> 01:49:59.989
LaCroix as a French speaker. But I do want to

01:49:59.989 --> 01:50:03.529
note one thing about this game coming up. If

01:50:03.529 --> 01:50:06.649
you look at Houston, they have a negative six

01:50:06.649 --> 01:50:11.989
goal differential, 10 goals scored, 16 given

01:50:11.989 --> 01:50:14.869
up, and we've scored 17 and given up 13. So we're

01:50:14.869 --> 01:50:21.810
plus four. Very similar to St. Louis. Yeah. We'll

01:50:21.810 --> 01:50:23.689
start with you again, Aaron. How are you feeling

01:50:23.689 --> 01:50:26.289
going into this game? Obviously, the weather

01:50:26.289 --> 01:50:29.609
will be a factor, but what are you thinking we're

01:50:29.609 --> 01:50:34.329
going to be? I think I said we're going to draw.

01:50:34.510 --> 01:50:38.529
I think it's just going to... I don't think this

01:50:38.529 --> 01:50:42.789
last match was an anomaly. I do think we'll find

01:50:42.789 --> 01:50:47.609
our balance at about two goals a game, but I

01:50:47.609 --> 01:50:50.029
don't think we're going to... Come away with

01:50:50.029 --> 01:50:54.930
a win on this one. It'll be a new lineup. They

01:50:54.930 --> 01:50:57.090
looked great. So I think we'll probably score

01:50:57.090 --> 01:51:02.270
a goal. Maybe even two. So let's go 2 -2. How

01:51:02.270 --> 01:51:05.569
about you, Nick? I just want to point out first

01:51:05.569 --> 01:51:08.329
off that Houston's a better team than they look.

01:51:08.829 --> 01:51:12.029
They're a much better team than they look. They've

01:51:12.029 --> 01:51:17.750
had a rough first. 11 -game schedule. They open

01:51:17.750 --> 01:51:21.250
up against their rival for Dallas against Dallas.

01:51:21.529 --> 01:51:24.829
They lose. Then they play Inter -Miami, Columbus.

01:51:26.350 --> 01:51:34.789
They had to play Portland. They had to play LAFC

01:51:34.789 --> 01:51:40.409
twice. Colorado and Austin. So, I mean, that's

01:51:40.409 --> 01:51:44.460
not... easy schedule uh and and obviously they

01:51:44.460 --> 01:51:47.859
played us as well so they also lost just lewis

01:51:47.859 --> 01:51:50.779
in the uh on a way goal oh no they won on away

01:51:50.779 --> 01:51:53.739
goals against uh houston i mean it's against

01:51:53.739 --> 01:51:56.060
st louis houston in the concacaf champions league

01:51:56.060 --> 01:52:00.859
they have one loss in their last five yeah they

01:52:00.859 --> 01:52:05.279
got pretty but they got pretty manhandled uh

01:52:05.279 --> 01:52:08.319
against lafc that red card was a late red card

01:52:09.359 --> 01:52:14.520
Obviously, LAFC is good, but that's not a – it

01:52:14.520 --> 01:52:18.220
is not a – They scored two goals in three straight

01:52:18.220 --> 01:52:21.619
matches. Yep, yep. I mean, they scored – they

01:52:21.619 --> 01:52:23.859
beat Austin 2 -0 at home. They tied Colorado

01:52:23.859 --> 01:52:28.399
2 -2 at home. Well, they tied at LA Galaxy, and

01:52:28.399 --> 01:52:31.859
then they beat LAFC at home. So they – They're

01:52:31.859 --> 01:52:34.140
a good team. They have been playing well, and

01:52:34.140 --> 01:52:35.579
they're more talented than they are. I think

01:52:35.579 --> 01:52:37.600
my frustration with losing, not beating them

01:52:37.600 --> 01:52:40.539
at home, is that they had a guy making his MLS

01:52:40.539 --> 01:52:45.199
debut come in on goal halfway through. Yeah,

01:52:45.199 --> 01:52:48.380
that's frustrating. So, yeah, all that being

01:52:48.380 --> 01:52:51.039
said, what's your prediction, Nick? Yeah, so,

01:52:51.119 --> 01:52:54.220
I mean, I think we're feeling very confident

01:52:54.220 --> 01:52:58.180
offensively, and you want that. I think that's

01:52:58.180 --> 01:53:02.680
going to be a really important thing. Keep in

01:53:02.680 --> 01:53:04.699
mind, last game we played them, we didn't have

01:53:04.699 --> 01:53:10.000
Kent. We didn't have Pedro. We didn't have Jordan

01:53:10.000 --> 01:53:14.239
in that game either. So I think things are going

01:53:14.239 --> 01:53:17.420
to be a little different. I do think we're going

01:53:17.420 --> 01:53:25.279
to win this game. I'm going to say 2 -1. Talk

01:53:25.279 --> 01:53:30.800
into the mic, bro. 2 -1. Rookie. Two to one.

01:53:30.840 --> 01:53:35.140
That is also my prediction. I think that we are

01:53:35.140 --> 01:53:38.579
on fire. We are that good that I would expect.

01:53:38.760 --> 01:53:40.319
I mean, yes, they haven't been getting their

01:53:40.319 --> 01:53:42.420
points, but there's a reason for that. They are

01:53:42.420 --> 01:53:45.159
better than their points, but we are a better

01:53:45.159 --> 01:53:48.239
team than them. We saw that against them when

01:53:48.239 --> 01:53:51.539
they played here in the rain. I think we should

01:53:51.539 --> 01:53:53.619
go down there. And if it were a home game, I

01:53:53.619 --> 01:53:55.939
think we would win 4 -0. But since it's in Houston,

01:53:56.119 --> 01:53:59.079
I'm saying two to one. I am curious to see what

01:53:59.079 --> 01:54:01.020
happens, who's going to take that right back

01:54:01.020 --> 01:54:07.840
position and how Pedro or Ryan Kent, depending

01:54:07.840 --> 01:54:09.859
on how they line up, is going to attack that.

01:54:10.140 --> 01:54:13.319
It could just be a little rough. It could be

01:54:13.319 --> 01:54:18.399
a bit of a long day if they pick on him. I think

01:54:18.399 --> 01:54:24.020
it also depends on how they use Nico. I mean,

01:54:24.039 --> 01:54:26.930
we saw he was still... a team leader when he

01:54:26.930 --> 01:54:30.529
played against us. Yeah. Yeah. And I think, I

01:54:30.529 --> 01:54:33.670
feel like they gave him the start against, against

01:54:33.670 --> 01:54:36.590
us at home out of, out of honor and respect.

01:54:36.750 --> 01:54:38.750
I don't know if he's going to get the start.

01:54:39.250 --> 01:54:41.430
Yeah. He hasn't been starting every game, but

01:54:41.430 --> 01:54:43.989
you saw that the play, when he did start, the

01:54:43.989 --> 01:54:47.329
play went through him. Oh, 100%. Cause he's just

01:54:47.329 --> 01:54:49.550
a force multiplier, even at his current age.

01:54:49.630 --> 01:54:56.760
Sure. Yeah, sure. So, yeah. Who's scoring? You're

01:54:56.760 --> 01:54:58.199
not going to give that away yet. Got to save

01:54:58.199 --> 01:55:01.760
it for the amazing... We don't necessarily have

01:55:01.760 --> 01:55:04.319
to say who's going to score first. But honestly,

01:55:04.460 --> 01:55:07.979
I do tend to wait on that until the lineup gets

01:55:07.979 --> 01:55:10.060
released so I can kind of see who's starting.

01:55:11.739 --> 01:55:13.800
Also, how do people practice during the week?

01:55:14.279 --> 01:55:16.659
Stuff like that. Who's got a knock? I think all

01:55:16.659 --> 01:55:21.300
of that helps. I will say I do like watching

01:55:21.300 --> 01:55:24.880
the, I do subscribe to the Sounders YouTube feed

01:55:24.880 --> 01:55:28.159
and it is good stuff hearing the midweek updates

01:55:28.159 --> 01:55:31.720
and that. So that's another, I know it's not

01:55:31.720 --> 01:55:33.619
exactly a podcast, but it's definitely one that

01:55:33.619 --> 01:55:36.359
I would encourage people to listen to to keep

01:55:36.359 --> 01:55:40.319
updates on what's going on. Yeah, for sure. That's

01:55:40.319 --> 01:55:43.659
a great YouTube channel. They always get those

01:55:43.659 --> 01:55:45.220
interviews up and they've had some interesting

01:55:45.220 --> 01:55:47.840
ones with Freddy Juarez and stuff too. It's fun

01:55:47.840 --> 01:55:53.739
also when Brian gets saucy. Saucy. What's up,

01:55:53.760 --> 01:55:56.100
Aaron? So speaking of watching things, and before

01:55:56.100 --> 01:55:58.859
we end the show, I wanted to maybe put this out

01:55:58.859 --> 01:56:03.819
there for another Patreon -type episode. Maybe

01:56:03.819 --> 01:56:08.920
if listeners wanted to suggest things the three

01:56:08.920 --> 01:56:12.680
of us could watch together and commentary on.

01:56:12.779 --> 01:56:15.439
So it could be maybe a past match that's available.

01:56:17.190 --> 01:56:23.109
Or a soccer movie or show or clip. Yeah, yeah,

01:56:23.109 --> 01:56:25.590
yeah. I think that'd be kind of fun. You know

01:56:25.590 --> 01:56:28.170
what soccer movie I've never seen? What? End

01:56:28.170 --> 01:56:32.390
It Like Beckham. For real? Never seen it. I know

01:56:32.390 --> 01:56:34.729
what happens in it, but I would like to see it.

01:56:34.829 --> 01:56:37.989
Shaolin Soccer? There's one. Shaolin Soccer is

01:56:37.989 --> 01:56:40.250
one of the, it's maybe the greatest sports film

01:56:40.250 --> 01:56:42.890
of all time. Can I be honest? I own the DVD.

01:56:43.050 --> 01:56:45.729
I've never watched it. I've owned it for maybe

01:56:45.729 --> 01:56:49.590
20 years now. I've owned it. Yeah, I owned it

01:56:49.590 --> 01:56:51.850
as well. It's incredible. I've never seen it.

01:56:51.949 --> 01:56:56.109
This is a good suggestion. Go me. What was the

01:56:56.109 --> 01:56:59.649
Pele movie? The Pele movie with, I think, Sylvester

01:56:59.649 --> 01:57:04.010
Stallone was in it? It was. No. Sylvester Stallone.

01:57:04.560 --> 01:57:06.479
Wait, no, Sylvester Stallone... He did a great

01:57:06.479 --> 01:57:09.399
melee. Wait, wait, are you not aware of this?

01:57:09.579 --> 01:57:12.979
Okay, Sylvester... No. He can sculpt in Maradona

01:57:12.979 --> 01:57:19.220
in one as well. Sly Stallone was Escape to Victory,

01:57:19.420 --> 01:57:25.260
where it's a sports war film. What? With with

01:57:25.260 --> 01:57:28.180
Sly Salone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow and

01:57:28.180 --> 01:57:31.960
Pele about allied prisoners of war who are interned

01:57:31.960 --> 01:57:34.180
in a German prison camp during World War Two

01:57:34.180 --> 01:57:37.739
to who play an exhibition match against the football

01:57:37.739 --> 01:57:45.159
team. 1981. Yeah. Oh, Max von Sydow was in it.

01:57:45.220 --> 01:57:48.079
Oh, Michael Caine is in it. Bobby Moore was in

01:57:48.079 --> 01:57:52.460
it. Michael Caine. Yeah, Michael Caine. This

01:57:52.460 --> 01:57:54.319
is an interesting... I want to see this now.

01:57:54.460 --> 01:57:59.779
Okay. 70 % on Rotten Tomatoes. Maybe we need

01:57:59.779 --> 01:58:02.979
to start doing special Patreon episodes with

01:58:02.979 --> 01:58:07.659
movies and stuff. We should get our little watch

01:58:07.659 --> 01:58:10.159
-along party. Maybe I should just suggest that

01:58:10.159 --> 01:58:12.699
on our own podcast. Maybe I should do that. We

01:58:12.699 --> 01:58:14.680
can call them Patriots now. That's my new name

01:58:14.680 --> 01:58:17.260
for them. Patriots? I think calling them patron

01:58:17.260 --> 01:58:22.220
is stupid. Wait, wait. Our patriots? And what

01:58:22.220 --> 01:58:26.520
percentage of our listeners would you say are

01:58:26.520 --> 01:58:35.079
patriots? Would you say maybe 3 %? We're moving

01:58:35.079 --> 01:58:38.039
on. We are moving on. I do want to end on a serious

01:58:38.039 --> 01:58:41.279
note real quick. Today, we're recording on Cinco

01:58:41.279 --> 01:58:46.039
de Mayo. It is, of course, National Day of Awareness

01:58:46.039 --> 01:58:47.739
for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and

01:58:47.739 --> 01:58:51.819
Girls. And during class today at Seattle U, there

01:58:51.819 --> 01:58:54.180
was a big, I wouldn't say it was a protest, but

01:58:54.180 --> 01:58:58.060
there was like a drum performance out and with

01:58:58.060 --> 01:59:01.500
a bunch of stuff for awareness. And I mean, it's

01:59:01.500 --> 01:59:03.819
a big issue everywhere, but we're so close to

01:59:03.819 --> 01:59:06.439
British Columbia where there's so many, so many

01:59:06.439 --> 01:59:08.460
missing indigenous women and girls and they're

01:59:08.460 --> 01:59:10.239
not being, I mean, there's some here too, but

01:59:10.239 --> 01:59:16.140
that highway that runs through BC is a very dangerous

01:59:16.140 --> 01:59:19.060
place and something that. People need to be aware

01:59:19.060 --> 01:59:20.520
of everything that's going on. So definitely

01:59:20.520 --> 01:59:23.119
look in to the National Day of Awareness for

01:59:23.119 --> 01:59:24.859
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

01:59:25.079 --> 01:59:28.520
It affects us very much up here. Four out of

01:59:28.520 --> 01:59:30.300
five Native women experience some form of violence

01:59:30.300 --> 01:59:34.600
in their lifetime. So it's messed up. But yeah,

01:59:34.680 --> 01:59:37.920
I know that's a sad note, but just before we

01:59:37.920 --> 01:59:39.720
stopped, I wanted to mention that. Usually I

01:59:39.720 --> 01:59:42.279
would mention it at the top of the show. But

01:59:42.279 --> 01:59:48.529
soccer, yay! I mean, what is an episode without

01:59:48.529 --> 01:59:53.590
us having our death watch, unfortunately? Oh,

01:59:53.670 --> 01:59:56.329
did we have one? Who died? Yeah. Someone died.

01:59:56.770 --> 02:00:04.229
Yeah, so 90s, 90s artist Jill Sobule. Oh, that's

02:00:04.229 --> 02:00:07.529
right. She sang I Kissed a Girl. She was on the

02:00:07.529 --> 02:00:11.069
Clueless soundtrack, the song Supermodel. Really

02:00:11.069 --> 02:00:15.329
tragic. She's a really witty folk singer. um

02:00:15.329 --> 02:00:18.170
definitely in my vein of music uh she died in

02:00:18.170 --> 02:00:22.090
a house fire at 66 and uh she was supposed to

02:00:22.090 --> 02:00:25.210
tour later that yeah like uh i was supposed to

02:00:25.210 --> 02:00:27.409
tour in the middle of anyways it's just just

02:00:27.409 --> 02:00:31.270
you know just just a bummer um if you're not

02:00:31.270 --> 02:00:33.949
familiar with her work uh check out i kissed

02:00:33.949 --> 02:00:37.069
a girl it was the the the og i kissed a girl

02:00:40.859 --> 02:00:42.880
Matter of fact, I always thought when I first

02:00:42.880 --> 02:00:45.039
saw Katy Perry's thing, I thought she was covering

02:00:45.039 --> 02:00:48.539
that. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Jill Sobiel in the

02:00:48.539 --> 02:00:51.920
90s was, I mean, I feel like she's been very

02:00:51.920 --> 02:00:54.899
influential since then, but none of that's garnered

02:00:54.899 --> 02:00:57.399
the attention she got in the 90s. But I found

02:00:57.399 --> 02:01:03.319
out because Tom Morello posted about her passing

02:01:03.319 --> 02:01:06.939
away and how... much she was into fighting righteous

02:01:06.939 --> 02:01:09.260
causes and just how much he was going to miss

02:01:09.260 --> 02:01:12.199
her. So, um, kind of, kind of a real bummer.

02:01:12.500 --> 02:01:16.439
Um, especially hopefully I'm assuming she died

02:01:16.439 --> 02:01:18.640
in her sleep. So hopefully that's, um, she didn't

02:01:18.640 --> 02:01:22.199
suffer. I mean, that's, that's in my vein of,

02:01:22.300 --> 02:01:25.199
you know, Anita Franco's and Indigo girls and

02:01:25.199 --> 02:01:30.319
just right up in my, my alley of, uh, politically,

02:01:30.659 --> 02:01:37.029
uh, using music to activate. Um, so, um, yeah,

02:01:37.149 --> 02:01:40.529
so, you know, it'd be nice if we can go through

02:01:40.529 --> 02:01:42.670
an episode without talking about someone that,

02:01:42.710 --> 02:01:47.750
that we appreciated that passed away. Um, so

02:01:47.750 --> 02:01:50.109
Margo might be walking soon. That's pretty cool.

02:01:50.229 --> 02:01:52.510
Oh, household system positive. No, that's not

02:01:52.510 --> 02:01:55.229
cool. I mean, the idea is cool, but that's going

02:01:55.229 --> 02:02:00.210
to suck for you. Actually, I feel like she, I

02:02:00.210 --> 02:02:02.369
think she gets frustrated not being able to.

02:02:03.940 --> 02:02:10.180
do things. She's a lot of work, man. She's got

02:02:10.180 --> 02:02:13.560
the big sister. When she can talk and she can

02:02:13.560 --> 02:02:15.439
walk, I think she's going to be a whole different

02:02:15.439 --> 02:02:18.020
animal in a good way. That's what Gracie was

02:02:18.020 --> 02:02:21.420
like. Frustrated, she couldn't communicate. Frustrated,

02:02:21.420 --> 02:02:23.359
she couldn't get places. And then when she could,

02:02:23.479 --> 02:02:27.680
she was just exploratory, but more... And then

02:02:27.680 --> 02:02:30.000
frustrated that you're, yeah. Frustrated that

02:02:30.000 --> 02:02:32.060
you're taking her away from the places she wants

02:02:32.060 --> 02:02:36.239
to go to because they're dangerous. Yeah. I mean,

02:02:36.239 --> 02:02:38.460
do not stick a fork. I've been pretty lucky.

02:02:38.560 --> 02:02:40.819
I've been pretty lucky. She doesn't really. You

02:02:40.819 --> 02:02:42.520
want to knock on wood somewhere around there?

02:02:42.939 --> 02:02:46.060
Yeah. I'm looking right now. Yeah. She also,

02:02:46.140 --> 02:02:50.840
I don't think Margo does not have that deviousness

02:02:50.840 --> 02:02:56.460
that. That Nicholas's child has. Who got it directly

02:02:56.460 --> 02:02:59.840
from him. Who pushes the envelope. As much as

02:02:59.840 --> 02:03:02.359
she can. Until her dad starts doing a countdown.

02:03:02.979 --> 02:03:08.239
Oh man. She's. You know okay. So we're in the

02:03:08.239 --> 02:03:11.460
pro shop after the game. After the game on Saturday.

02:03:12.279 --> 02:03:17.020
And she sees. The Orca stuffy. It's got the Sounders

02:03:17.020 --> 02:03:20.520
logo on it. And she's like, I want the orca stuffy.

02:03:20.520 --> 02:03:24.600
And she's got a lot of stuffies. And she puts

02:03:24.600 --> 02:03:29.159
on her little pow. I want the orca stuffy. No,

02:03:29.300 --> 02:03:32.979
no, you can't have it. And I'm firm. I am firm.

02:03:33.079 --> 02:03:34.800
Like, no, no, you don't need this. We're not

02:03:34.800 --> 02:03:37.500
going to get this right now. And who swoops in

02:03:37.500 --> 02:03:41.680
and goes, hey, Roma, can I get that for you?

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Jerry. So thank you, Jerry. Bye. Bye. But if

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he hadn't, I was going to get it and have it

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ready for her. I was just about to say, this

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is not her first rodeo because you have gotten

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her a few different sports stuffies. You know

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what? It sounds like a good way to get your daughter

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memorabilia without ever you having to buy it.

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Yeah. Just get her to cry on stage just like

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that. In all fairness. Maybe you were doing that.

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I've been, I I've been given out some, I've been

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given out some stuff. So it all comes around

02:04:18.430 --> 02:04:20.449
full circle. Maybe we need to have a Patreon

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add on where every month you give an extra $5

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and two 50 of it. Oh, two 50 of it goes to Roma

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and one 25 goes to each of your kids. So that'll

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just make it easier. And you can use that to

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save up for a plush because I did 50 50 before

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realizing you have two kids now, even though

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we just talked about it. $3 .33. Fuck you. Each

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of you get $1 .11. Extra $3 .33, $1 .11 for each

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kid. They're not half humans, you know? Children

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aren't half humans. And what does Cameron get?

02:04:54.920 --> 02:04:59.239
He gets sleep. Yeah. Not enough, though. The

02:04:59.239 --> 02:05:03.859
bags under my eyes are so big. That's not what

02:05:03.859 --> 02:05:09.340
your Xbox usage says. Yes, actually it is. Just

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let me tell you. Did you read the text I sent

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before we started recording today? I was playing

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Saints Row. Busted. Busted. I played it for about

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15 minutes before we got on. I am excited because

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I think tomorrow one of the monthly free games

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for PlayStation is a game that I've been wanting

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to play because I hear it's really fun, but I

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didn't want to buy it, is Bellatro. Have you

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heard of this? Have you played this? No. Okay,

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it's kind of like a, well, this will be a conversation

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for another time. Let me play it a little bit

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first, then I'll explain. But on that note, where

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can they find you, Aaron? Since you just said

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that, I just want to say, if you're an Amazon

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Prime member and you aren't taking advantage

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of Prime Games, head over to there because they're

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giving away, every month they give away a lot

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of games, and this month they are giving away

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the entire nine -game saga of Star Wars. in Lego

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star Wars games. So, and if you haven't played,

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I've played them on three. I've not, I played

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the original trilogy on both three 60 and X and

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Xbox regular, uh, the late, not original Xbox,

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but the current one. Uh, and those games follow

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the movie along, but as Lego characters, they

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are so fun. Uh, and it's free for play on PC.

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So you can just, uh, and your computer. So go

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out and get, get those games for free. Cause

02:06:33.890 --> 02:06:36.829
it's, it's pretty awesome. Where are they? Yeah,

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they are pretty fun. Uh, prime. Prime Games,

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and they'll send it to you too. GOG, I think,

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it's like Steam, but it's a different company.

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There was a huge Xbox sale, and I had just downloaded

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Red Dead Redemption 2. I remember playing the

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first one like 20 years ago. I got Saints Row

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in that sale, and I just got another game. But

02:07:00.630 --> 02:07:02.470
maybe this is a Patreon discussion. We'll do

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a video game Patreon episode. Yeah, that's right.

02:07:05.789 --> 02:07:09.899
So, Aaron, where can they find you? On our Discord

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and on Instagram, at Aaron Lingley. On Instagram

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and at Aaron Lingley on X as well. What about

02:07:21.340 --> 02:07:26.760
you? Let's pick Cameron. Legal -minded punk on

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everywhere that social media is, unless you are

02:07:29.579 --> 02:07:35.439
on LO or Mastodon. I'm not on there. Nicholas?

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Wake up. You can find me. Wake up. No, no, no.

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Wake up. I was going to do it. I was going to

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do it. He did it. He did it. You can find me

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at Instagram at Cascades2C. Cascades2C on Instagram.

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Nice. That's good. You know what? I think James

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should take it away. Nate, Jake were. You can

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Alexa, who's the best MLS team of all time? The

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arguably the best MLS team of all time.