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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! Hello, hello, hello. Welcome

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to another episode of Sounders Scuttlebutt. I'm

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Aaron Lingley, and as always, joined by two Alliance

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Council extraordinaires. Your Alliance Council

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Secretary, Cameron Collins. And all over the

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place with the Alliance Council and the soccer

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community, Nicholas Biella. What's up, man? Hey,

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how's it going? Well, it's going good. The Sounders

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did get a result at home midweek this week. And

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on the weekend. And on the weekend. And we didn't

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record. Yeah, duh. I didn't even think about

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that. It's the 29th that we're recording. It's

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Thursday, so the day after the San Diego match,

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which is kind of funny, considering I'm in San

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Diego. So that wraps up the Vetter Darby, should

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we call it? No, there's another home match, isn't

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there? No. Do we play them three times? No, no,

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just two. Just two, but I think they won it on...

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You're aggregate. Aggregate, right? Is that how

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that works? Yeah, I guess. Now that I've just

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created it. I mean, it exists in baseball. It's

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in the Eddie Darby or the Vetter Darby. Should

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this be the Eddie Darby and that's the Vetter

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Cup? Yeah. Okay. No one gives a shit about that.

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By the way, I wore my Pearl Jam hat, my Pearl

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Jam home show. No one from San Diego considers

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Eddie Vetter to have anything to do with San

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Diego just because he was there before he came

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to Seattle. Yeah, he worked at a gas station

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and then worked as a volunteer. Is he from Chicago

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originally? Yeah. I'm like, why does he root

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for the Cubs? Yeah, diehard Cubs fan and isn't.

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Anyway, so yeah, Sounders win. Yeah. Should we

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just get in a scuttlebutt that's non -Sounders

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related? Sure. I have one that I want to hear

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Nicholas's take on. No, first, first, gentlemen,

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alcohol. Oh, please. Oh, yeah. Hey, I'm really

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bummed, actually. My stubby holder's missing.

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My beloved stubby holder. Oh, no. I blame Margo.

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Did I just hear a zipper? Yeah. We're talking

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about a stubby holder? My cooler. Uh -huh. Your

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cooler, sure. You were pulling out your stubby.

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Three, two, one. Mine's a bottle, so that didn't

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work out very well. A little bit. Ooh. Okay.

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Pulling up the rear, Cameron. As always. I'm

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drinking an Aurora Hoppy Alice from Carl Strauss

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Brewing Company here in San Diego. Ooh, local

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beer for you. I grabbed it because it's Aurora.

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Yeah, we sent him to San Diego to make him have

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to get new beers on the podcast. Not a bad choice,

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but with that said, I'm actually double fisting.

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I already had one open that I was working on,

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but I needed to – so I've got a Rainier in one

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hand and the gigantic brewing company Wonder

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Crusher, which is kind of like a pale ale IPA

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type of citrus and tropical vibes. God damn it.

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I can only do this for so long. I can only look

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at the screen. God damn it. You don't know? Yeah,

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you've kind of just... Now you're just a pervert.

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I know. Look at the stupid screen. Ever since

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you said double fisting, Nick, he's been doing

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that, and I'm not going to describe it for the

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listeners. I'll leave it up to their imagination.

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Oh, man. Come for the London Bridge and stay

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for the double fisting. Okay. Lane Lambert. Talk

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to me about Lane Lambert. The new head coach

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of the Kraken, who was the assistant coach of

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the Toronto Maple Leafs, who also previously

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head coached the New York Islanders. Yeah, so

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basically as long as the Kraken stay out of the

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playoffs and out away from Game 7s, they should

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be okay. Because the Toronto Maple Leafs haven't

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won the Stanley Cup in how many years? 1967,

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who's counting? Yeah, but Lane... he's led his

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teams to the Stanley Cup playoffs eight times

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in 10 years. And every single time he advanced

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the second round or better. No trophies though?

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No. So that works for most Seattle sports teams.

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Maybe perhaps with the Islanders. I mean, no,

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no, no. Did they make it through the cup at all?

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They didn't win the cup. We know that. No, the

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Islanders haven't done shit since the 80s. Where's

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Barzal these days? Is he still there? Yeah. Time

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to bring him home. Okay. On to the next one.

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Maybe soccer related? Yeah, I got you. I mean,

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there are goals and offsides in both hockey and

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soccer. We're going to have a very interesting

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one -two punch on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday

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is going to be the LAFC versus Club America Club

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World Cup playoff game following the European

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Champions League final. Let's go America. Now,

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keep in mind, the European Champions League final

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is going to feature two teams that are playing

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in the Club World Cup in Seattle. So that'll

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be really interesting. That's crazy. And I'm

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going to get my second trophy from Europe in

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a week after Chelsea just won 4 -1 against Real

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Batiste. You're just cherry -picking teams as

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you want. Yes, my Chelsea fandom that dates back

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to 1995 and my PSG fandom that dates back to

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2000, I am cherry -picking my fandom. Neither

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of them were owned by oligarchs or... yet fair

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enough fair enough so yeah so we got that on

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Saturday the the interesting play -in game followed

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by Sunday which I'm really interested to see

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the Vancouver Whitecaps taking on Cruz Azul for

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this year's CONCACAF Champions Cup for the right

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to play in the 2020 nine club world cup nine

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yeah and that's uh that's leg one correct no

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one game one game oh geez one game they changed

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that a couple years they changed that after one

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match that's one opportunity which yeah um yeah

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so so what are your thoughts on this first off

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let's start with the club america lafc game in

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the words of donald trump America, fuck yeah.

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All right. And I don't think you're talking about

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the United States. I agree. I do not want LAFC.

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It's bad enough that Miami was gifted a spot

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in this, which just still doesn't sit right.

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I mean, if it wasn't Miami, it would have been

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another U .S. team. Yeah, but I'd rather it had

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gone to a true sporting. you know a true criteria

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that everyone was aware of before it happened

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you know yeah but you know it's it was a skeezy

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entry that's for sure yeah that's how the mls

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operates though i mean they change the rules

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regularly to make sure la galaxy finished the

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highest when they change it from gold differential

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to wins so you know by the end of this season

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the team that's going to be in first place is

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the one with the most losses That's the rule

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they're going to change so that they can get

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their chance to win the MLS Cup yet again. Since

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the Galaxy still haven't won a game, I think

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they're doing pretty good there. Yeah, I'm going

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to change it. Now, it is interesting. At first,

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I was a little upset at the idea that they gave

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the game to a home game for LAFC. But the reality

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is Club America is going to travel. And strangely

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enough, that's probably about the fairest. to

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a neutral site stadium as it could be. I thought

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it was a home match. What's up? It's not a home

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match? I thought it was LAFC home match. It is.

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It is, but it's in LA. But it's in LA. Southern

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California, Texas, Club America probably is going

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to have a decent populace in the stadium. Yeah,

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but I'm guessing their season ticket holders

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got most of the tickets. I think it's controlled

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by FIFA, not by... Not by LAFC. I hope so. So

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I expect it to be about a 50 -50. I also expect

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to see LAFC just get trounced. I really think

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this will be a 3 -1 or worse. But what about

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that Vancouver game? How are you guys feeling

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about the Vancouver -Cruz Azul game? Vancouver

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all the way. You think so? Yeah, with their dumb

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ass. Blue! I like blue! I like blue! That's the

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dumbest chant from the dumbest fans on the face

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of the planet. And think about this. I say this

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later in the ultra section. What if both Vancouver

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and Seattle have won Champions League? Now, Vancouver

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didn't do it through the MLS. They did it through

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Canada, so they have a different route. So we're

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still the only United States of America team

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to win it. And then guess which team from Cascadia

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hasn't won it. Oh shit, that's Portland. So now

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all we can do is make fun of Portland more. We

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do have Timbers at the top of the bonfire. I

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mean, ultimately, I don't know. I just want us

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to be the only one. I do want us to be the only

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one as well, but I would be thoroughly impressed

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and I wouldn't be angry. If Vancouver does it,

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I will give them mad respect and credit for the

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way they've done it as well. What do you think

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gives us the best chance for them to be let down

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after that? If they win it, does the gravitas

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of the game against us disappear? Oh, they're

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already fucked. They're already fucked in our

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game because it's international break and they've

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got like nine players that are gone for international

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duty. And we only have like two international

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players. So, so actually, yeah, Vancouver is

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going to be struggling in, in, in that. So, and,

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but we're getting, getting ready for the club

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world cup. So think about, think about this too.

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Will, will there be comparisons between Vancouver

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and Seattle based on their performance for the

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rest of the season? Like the hangover, right?

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Cause we notoriously missed the playoffs. for

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the first time ever after we won it. True, but

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we also lost Jao Paulo for the season in that

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game. That ignores the fact that it was made

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very clear from within that locker room that

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there's a bunch of people that said we won the

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big trophy. The season doesn't matter after that.

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There's still going to be comparisons. Yeah,

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I think so, but also there'll be comparisons

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because we beat Minnesota and we beat Vancouver.

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we will be one point behind Vancouver. I mean,

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three points behind Vancouver with they still

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have a game in hand, but we'll be in second place.

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Only three points behind them. So I guess my

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point is I would hope that they don't win anything

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for the rest of the year in terms of trophies.

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If they win that, because I would like the other

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ones available. Yeah. To be ours. Yeah. So, I

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mean, I'm just going to be a very interested

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observer for both games this weekend. It'll be,

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it'll be fun to see. What are they? How do you

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watch them? The. Fox Sports will be the LA or

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the Vancouver. Cruz Azul game will be on Fox

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Sports 1. The LA game will be on the DAZN, which

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will also be all the Club World Cup games, I

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believe, or the World Cup games or something.

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Yeah, so we got to all subscribe to DAZN. DAZN.

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That's what DAZN stands for, DAZN. Okay. We in

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DAZN. Oh. Auto zone. Yeah. Oh, oh, oh, O 'Reilly.

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Auto farts. We all say it. We all say auto farts.

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Yeah, I mean, these are good jingles, man. These

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are good jingles. Okay, so that's what I got

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on my radar. Yeah, I mean, I think those are

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both good and great things. I mean, I think also

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on my radar is the various... uh, and we can

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get more into it, but for me, it falls in scuttlebutt

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is, uh, MLS power rankings. Um, okay. With, uh,

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obviously Vancouver's first and all of them.

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But if we look at, I'm going to tell you the

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top five in the three major ones, uh, and then

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I'll tell you where the sounders are. ESPN has

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Vancouver, Philly, Nashville, Columbus, and Minnesota.

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Those are the top five, uh, sounders are in six.

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They moved up to six from ninth. Uh, this was,

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after the Dallas game, before the San Diego game.

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Okay. Then you go on over to MLS .com, where

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the top five are Vancouver, Philly, Orlando,

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and Columbus. And you have the Sounders coming

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in down at eighth. Again, this is Dallas, no

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San Diego, but they have us where we were. We've

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stayed the same. Then you go on over to Sports

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Illustrated, where the top five are Vancouver,

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Philly, San Diego, Minnesota, and FC Cincinnati.

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And you have to go all the way down to 12th to

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find the Sounders, where they say we had a largely

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forgettable game against Dallas. Yeah, so I have

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a couple things that are a little concerning.

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I mean, what are these? These are power rankings.

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And traditionally, power rankings are typically

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about, you know, where someone is at this point

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in the season, not necessarily at this point

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right now. My argument should be that the Sounders

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should be a lot higher. And my main argument

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for that is in our last nine games, we have one

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loss. We have six wins, one loss, two draws,

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so 20 points out of our last nine games. And

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without our two top forwards, now three center

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backs, we just keep doing it. And if you look

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at it on a game -by -game basis, yeah, we're

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not incredible at times, but we're finding ways

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to win. And one loss in the entire month of May.

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I want you to tell me what other team in MLS

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can sustain their top two strikers and three

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of their top four center backs being injured

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and still getting results like this. Great testament

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to the depth. LAFC is about the only one I can

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think of. Maybe Cincinnati. But ultimately, that's

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kind of where we're not getting to see us fully

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loaded and that that's unfortunate but that's

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the reality of an mls season i don't think any

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of us would have predicted these kind of injuries

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to continuously stack up but i'm very impressed

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with the way that we're getting results in different

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ways sometimes it's going to be a gritty result

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sometimes it's going to be For example, let's

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just look at the last two games this week. The

00:17:18.049 --> 00:17:21.710
Dallas game, I thought we were taking it to them

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early in that first half. We could have had three,

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four goals. We were just absolutely obliterating

00:17:27.470 --> 00:17:30.970
them offensively. Didn't get a goal, had to kind

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of play it out to the end. And then yesterday,

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it was kind of the vice versa, where San Diego

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really took it to us in a lot of ways, but we

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just kind of bunkered down, played solid defensive.

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I think we kind of remembered what it was like

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getting beat 3 -0, and we wanted to really make

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sure we focused defensively. And you saw that

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result there. So I think this team has a multitude

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of ways to get it done. I agree with that. But

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my take on that, it almost sounds like, yeah,

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I don't know. The Dallas game to me, well, we'll

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get into it. But the Dallas game was every single

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thing that I thought was wrong with the Sounders

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team coming out of Portland. It was that big

00:18:13.559 --> 00:18:15.539
debate we had on the fact that they can perform

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but not score. More of the fucking same. I mean,

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we were lucky to get a point there. But we did,

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and that's what matters. Whereas the San Diego

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game, although you look at the – what's that

00:18:27.829 --> 00:18:29.849
chart you like to look at? Momentum chart? Yeah.

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We had very little – we had one in the first

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half and one in the second half. But in those

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instances, even though the XG is way higher for

00:18:37.970 --> 00:18:40.849
them on the game, I never felt threatened by

00:18:40.849 --> 00:18:43.369
most of their chances except for the ones Fry

00:18:43.369 --> 00:18:45.630
made the saves on that were really good. Otherwise,

00:18:45.910 --> 00:18:47.990
they didn't look that dangerous versus we had

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– three possessions in a row where we could have

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scored there and and the pressure we were putting

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on them was i mean and and if danny had done

00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:57.140
a better run then christian doesn't have to shoot

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that shot and then we score another goal anyway

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so i came away from that dallas game being like

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we're screwed and then come out of the san diego

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game doing that that was impressive it's so funny

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i just don't know how And we're just seeing different

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things, I guess, because I was so energized by

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what I was seeing out of that Dallas game and

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the way we're taking it to them and just wave

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after wave after wave of attack. I think it's

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the problem because it proves what my problem

00:19:26.279 --> 00:19:29.279
with the team is. So you're excited for the attack,

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but for me, it's the lack of scoring. And so

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every time they're on attack and doing well and

00:19:34.579 --> 00:19:37.599
then can't score, it just reinforces this belief

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in my head that... It's like Felix Hernandez

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pitching a perfect game and we lose. I get it,

00:19:44.289 --> 00:19:47.549
but the game's not played in a vacuum. The other

00:19:47.549 --> 00:19:50.650
team has agency in how it goes as well. Sure,

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but Dallas sucks, and they were rotating. Yes,

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but they were also on the road. So they were

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basically playing to try and stay alive the best

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they could. So I don't... I just think it's a

00:20:06.089 --> 00:20:09.630
good Rorschach test for how you see the team.

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And I guess it's pretty known I'm ultimately

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the optimist. I'm between both of you. I am as

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I was before the show, right? People are like,

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what is he talking about? Actually, if you know

00:20:27.519 --> 00:20:28.859
us, you know it's probably exactly what we're

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talking about. Anyway, I'm frustrated and also

00:20:34.819 --> 00:20:45.380
excited. This team tends to own the game that

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we watch. I don't ever feel threatened. by other

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teams so much. We've had two games where we've

00:20:51.460 --> 00:20:54.220
just shit the bed. Other games have been close

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and I've never been, haven't been concerned with

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just kind of give up stupid goals. But the lack

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of scoring, those two or three games that we've

00:21:06.539 --> 00:21:09.240
had, four or five goals, that's about it. Everything

00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:13.039
else, last three games, one goal. And that is

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frustrating to me as well. So I'm kind of agreeing

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with both of you that I'm just like... I'm encouraged,

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especially with the injuries, especially with

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the injuries, that we're coming up with results.

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And the last six wins, we're in fourth place

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right now in the Western Conference. So, I mean,

00:21:30.349 --> 00:21:35.109
we can exhale. We're going to start getting...

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And Jesus just scored. Like, is that floodgates?

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So, like, I'm still excited, but I am frustrated

00:21:40.769 --> 00:21:43.289
at the fact that we're not getting as many two

00:21:43.289 --> 00:21:45.710
-goal games. I need more two -goal games. But

00:21:45.710 --> 00:21:48.690
for me, like... It's the tale of two games because

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my problem is that San Diego is a good team.

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I don't have a problem with us only scoring once

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against San Diego, even though we could have

00:21:54.349 --> 00:21:56.750
scored more. My problem was coming out of that

00:21:56.750 --> 00:21:59.289
Dallas game where I thought it was a miserable

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performance from a scoring perspective wise.

00:22:04.990 --> 00:22:06.930
Dallas is a team that we should be beating for

00:22:06.930 --> 00:22:08.329
nothing when they don't have their starters.

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They're off the game. They're coming off of every

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single fucking time. You had Coach Schmetzer

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calling out players after both games for playing

00:22:16.529 --> 00:22:20.630
like shit. He was nice to them. He said Obed

00:22:20.630 --> 00:22:22.849
is 19 years old. He can't play perfect every

00:22:22.849 --> 00:22:25.470
game, but he's calling out players both times.

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But for me, it's the tale of two different games.

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Dallas game was an embarrassment. The San Diego

00:22:30.190 --> 00:22:32.470
game was super impressive, and we were able to

00:22:32.470 --> 00:22:34.410
come out of it in a way that I think will lead

00:22:34.410 --> 00:22:37.630
us well into Minnesota. There seemed to be a

00:22:37.630 --> 00:22:41.410
focus in the San Diego game, whereas it... Dallas

00:22:41.410 --> 00:22:47.690
seemed more uncontrolled. They're just throwing,

00:22:47.769 --> 00:22:49.890
they were more talented, but we're not doing

00:22:49.890 --> 00:22:52.490
it. And they were, there was effort, but it,

00:22:52.490 --> 00:22:54.710
it just actually was way higher than there. So

00:22:54.710 --> 00:22:56.930
yeah, so we were, I felt like we were pummeling

00:22:56.930 --> 00:22:58.569
them, but there was just no control. There was

00:22:58.569 --> 00:23:01.730
no, there's, you know, and now I think, I think

00:23:01.730 --> 00:23:04.210
especially with Hazy scoring and hopefully that

00:23:04.210 --> 00:23:06.569
shakes off whatever. what's going on because

00:23:06.569 --> 00:23:08.950
he's more talented than one goal and obviously

00:23:08.950 --> 00:23:12.509
he's been a part of other match or he's been

00:23:12.509 --> 00:23:14.829
a part of goals before he just hasn't scored

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hopefully this shakes it off and this maybe kind

00:23:18.230 --> 00:23:20.910
of just sparks my two goal matches i'm looking

00:23:20.910 --> 00:23:26.329
for yeah we got any mail mail bag before yeah

00:23:26.329 --> 00:23:28.029
we should get into that actually that was like

00:23:28.029 --> 00:23:33.150
match review yeah for sure looking at the mailbag

00:23:33.150 --> 00:23:35.349
we did have um i know there was something that

00:23:35.349 --> 00:23:45.529
came in uh yeah yellows for oh what was with

00:23:45.529 --> 00:23:48.069
uh so that we do have to go back yellow card

00:23:48.069 --> 00:23:51.410
for taking off his shirt um russnack in dallas

00:23:51.410 --> 00:23:53.650
it was interesting because we all assumed it

00:23:53.650 --> 00:23:55.730
was because and i said this later in the podcast

00:23:55.730 --> 00:23:58.039
as well that it's because he became the first

00:23:58.039 --> 00:24:00.460
player in history to do 25 -25 for two teams.

00:24:01.339 --> 00:24:03.420
But after the game, he just said there had been

00:24:03.420 --> 00:24:05.720
so much frustration. So the fact that they actually

00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:08.680
scored and were going to win the game was, although

00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:14.539
Abubakar tried to make that not happen, it was

00:24:14.539 --> 00:24:17.880
such a relieving moment for the team that he

00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:19.259
took off his shirt and threw it in the crowd.

00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:22.220
And then Alex had to get it back for him. Yeah,

00:24:22.259 --> 00:24:23.799
I thought that was funny. I didn't think anything

00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:25.680
of it other than that's a yellow, but I totally

00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:28.539
got like... i was relieved yeah it's just like

00:24:28.539 --> 00:24:30.519
okay let's okay good we're getting three fucking

00:24:30.519 --> 00:24:33.180
points out of this fucking match let's get out

00:24:33.180 --> 00:24:36.200
of here i think we should have three uh goals

00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:40.819
but um that's what i didn't think that didn't

00:24:40.819 --> 00:24:43.400
seem like an accomplishment that i would i would

00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:45.059
put on my mantle i would be like yeah that's

00:24:45.059 --> 00:24:48.799
cool that i have that but it's not like a i mean

00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:50.799
the only player in mls history right was that

00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:53.799
yeah it's pretty cool yeah do 25 goals 25 assists

00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:57.109
for two different teams yeah So, I mean, yeah,

00:24:57.210 --> 00:25:02.329
I will say I worry. I mean, we're already a game

00:25:02.329 --> 00:25:04.990
past it, so we have a ways to go. But luckily,

00:25:05.049 --> 00:25:06.630
he's not a big yellow. I mean, if it was Ozzy,

00:25:06.690 --> 00:25:09.369
you know, you worry. But yellow card accumulation,

00:25:09.769 --> 00:25:11.509
of course, worries me. So when you're getting

00:25:11.509 --> 00:25:13.089
a yellow card for something silly like that,

00:25:13.269 --> 00:25:15.029
you don't really want that to come back and bite

00:25:15.029 --> 00:25:17.549
you later. It didn't in that game. And, you know,

00:25:17.569 --> 00:25:19.670
we've got a few more games to prevent it from

00:25:19.670 --> 00:25:22.269
happening. So I'm not that worried about it,

00:25:22.289 --> 00:25:26.960
but it was very exciting. Yeah. Never. And it's

00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:29.140
my understanding that at the end of the game,

00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:31.859
real snack went back and gave the fan. Oh, that's

00:25:31.859 --> 00:25:35.079
cool. Yeah. You know, if I'm him, I keep the

00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:37.339
Jersey, but I give them something else just because

00:25:37.339 --> 00:25:39.440
that Jersey is the one you score. You did the

00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:41.619
something that's never been done in the MLS before.

00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:43.759
Give them some sign, give them your boot signed

00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:46.680
or something. Well, those boots are also the

00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:48.420
boots you wore when you did it. So that's true.

00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:52.599
Send those to the MLS hall of fame. Is there

00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:55.480
an MLS hall of fame? Dallas is the U .S. Soccer

00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:57.940
Hall of Fame. Right. And Kansas City is the U

00:25:57.940 --> 00:26:00.200
.S. NFL Hall of Fame. But what's the MLS Hall

00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:07.559
of Fame? It's clearly the headquarters of Pro

00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:10.339
Ref. Why? Because they seem to think everything

00:26:10.339 --> 00:26:14.500
revolves around them. I was going to say Miami.

00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:19.380
But holy shit. That was a red card, right? The

00:26:19.380 --> 00:26:21.339
goalie did handle the ball outside the box. Looks

00:26:21.339 --> 00:26:25.279
like it to me. And it looked like a penalty shortly

00:26:25.279 --> 00:26:29.099
after, so I'm all right with it. Yeah, I mean,

00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:33.519
I only saw the replay once, and I had it on at

00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:35.160
the basketball game. I wasn't there, of course.

00:26:35.180 --> 00:26:38.220
I had to work the Superhawks playoff game. But

00:26:38.220 --> 00:26:40.339
the second half, I was able to put on and watch

00:26:40.339 --> 00:26:42.740
live. And I watched the very end of the first

00:26:42.740 --> 00:26:47.039
half. But because the game was going on in front

00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.859
of me, I had the game broadcast for Superhawks,

00:26:49.859 --> 00:26:51.869
and then I had the... Sounders broadcast down

00:26:51.869 --> 00:26:53.750
below. So a bunch of us, including the guy keeping

00:26:53.750 --> 00:26:55.890
track of the score and the scoreboards were watching

00:26:55.890 --> 00:27:02.950
the Sounders. We also broke the Sounders did

00:27:02.950 --> 00:27:04.630
not score three goals when I wasn't there. So

00:27:04.630 --> 00:27:06.589
it turns out it had nothing to do with me. They

00:27:06.589 --> 00:27:10.009
did win though. They won on Saturday when I was

00:27:10.009 --> 00:27:13.710
there as well though. So it's not me. I can go

00:27:13.710 --> 00:27:16.869
to games and realize that I do not have as much

00:27:16.869 --> 00:27:19.730
of an impact on them scoring as I would hope.

00:27:20.159 --> 00:27:24.000
You don't matter, Cameron. Yeah, yeah. It's not

00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:26.440
all about you, Cameron. I mean, I'm still waiting

00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:29.039
for my Super Bowl ring for when the Seahawks

00:27:29.039 --> 00:27:31.339
won, and I wore the same belt buckle every single

00:27:31.339 --> 00:27:33.380
day from after they had their final loss of that

00:27:33.380 --> 00:27:34.980
season until they won the Super Bowl. Belt buckle?

00:27:35.299 --> 00:27:38.099
Who has a belt buckle? It was a 1975 Seahawks

00:27:38.099 --> 00:27:39.900
belt buckle from even before they were a team.

00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:42.640
I wore it every single day. I thought you were

00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:44.460
just talking about just like some belt buckle.

00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:46.920
No, Seahawks belt buckle. I had these cufflinks

00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:51.390
that I wore every day. Who gives a shit? We're

00:27:51.390 --> 00:27:53.910
talking too much of the match. Anything else?

00:27:53.990 --> 00:27:59.009
Discord? Messi and Suarez bought a team. Messi

00:27:59.009 --> 00:28:02.390
and Suarez bought a team. They named it after

00:28:02.390 --> 00:28:06.230
themselves. While they're on a team? Not an MLS

00:28:06.230 --> 00:28:08.630
team. I didn't catch what country it was in.

00:28:09.309 --> 00:28:19.930
It's called LSA. LSM. So Leo Messi and then Luis

00:28:19.930 --> 00:28:21.950
Suarez. So they put their names in. It's called

00:28:21.950 --> 00:28:24.529
LSD. Yeah, where you would have AFC or whatever,

00:28:24.650 --> 00:28:30.490
they have LSM. That's terrible. Yeah. Well, cool.

00:28:30.690 --> 00:28:32.930
Good for them. There's nothing in the Discord,

00:28:33.029 --> 00:28:34.230
though? We didn't tell them we were recording,

00:28:34.410 --> 00:28:37.309
did we? No, but that's everything. We had yellows.

00:28:39.009 --> 00:28:41.170
Tim talked about dumb yellows, dumb reds. The

00:28:41.170 --> 00:28:43.390
dumbest second yellow I think I saw ever was

00:28:43.390 --> 00:28:46.539
Kellen Rose when... He threw the ball for time

00:28:46.539 --> 00:28:49.160
-wasting over. He deserved it. He was told before

00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:53.160
the match that they were going to do that and

00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:55.119
give yellows for that and that they were going

00:28:55.119 --> 00:28:56.859
to be harsh on it, and he did it anyways and

00:28:56.859 --> 00:28:59.900
got a red card. So it was dumb on his part, but

00:28:59.900 --> 00:29:01.779
also it seems like such a dumb thing to give

00:29:01.779 --> 00:29:04.980
a red card for in the first place. Especially

00:29:04.980 --> 00:29:08.619
when it didn't hold up play at all in the scheme

00:29:08.619 --> 00:29:10.759
of things. That's true with the jersey being

00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:12.519
taken off and thrown in the crowd anyways because

00:29:12.519 --> 00:29:14.380
Alex went and grabbed it and then he had it back

00:29:14.380 --> 00:29:16.019
on before they even kicked off the ball again.

00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:20.900
I don't know. Some of the things that they give

00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:22.940
yellow cards out are just based on tradition,

00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.680
I feel. Yeah, arbitrary bullshit. Speaking of

00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:30.619
gold celebrations, big shout -out to Jesus Ferreira.

00:29:30.660 --> 00:29:35.380
He's got a baby on the way. After his main celebration,

00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:42.720
he ran back to the ball that's on the stand behind

00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:46.200
the goal, put it under his shirt, sucked his

00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:48.779
thumb. I don't think they showed that. They didn't

00:29:48.779 --> 00:29:51.079
show that, no. No, because it was well afterwards.

00:29:51.339 --> 00:29:53.480
It was like, oh, yeah, wait, I got to get a ball.

00:29:53.859 --> 00:29:58.160
And he did that in front of ECS. So, yeah, so

00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:00.079
he's got a baby coming on the way. So congratulations

00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:05.519
to Jesus. Wait, sweet baby Jesus. Oh, my God.

00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:10.500
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. We got a sweet

00:30:10.500 --> 00:30:14.940
baby Jesus coming. Oh. I did think of something

00:30:14.940 --> 00:30:17.480
that was a scuttlebutt that was non -soccer related,

00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:21.559
just to mention real quick. Seeing Dallas lose

00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:23.799
their third straight Western Conference final

00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:29.059
in hockey after being a stolen team is glorious.

00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:30.900
Unfortunately, that did not happen for Oklahoma

00:30:30.900 --> 00:30:35.380
City, and we are potentially about to see Oklahoma

00:30:35.380 --> 00:30:37.220
City win a championship, and they're going to

00:30:37.220 --> 00:30:39.380
talk about this is their second championship,

00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:44.180
and it's going to drive me crazy. I'm not even

00:30:44.180 --> 00:30:46.359
watching. Stolen Valor. You know I love basketball.

00:30:46.460 --> 00:30:49.180
I'm not watching it either, yeah. I can't. Yeah,

00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:52.279
you do. A lot. But we can only hope the Pacers

00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.460
show up. You know. Anyway. Weird. Should we take

00:30:56.460 --> 00:30:59.940
a break and come back with some more game talk?

00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:04.099
Let's do it. Yeah. Well, first it's the Ultras.

00:31:04.180 --> 00:31:13.759
Yeah, let's have Ultras. Ultras. It's time for

00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:19.039
Scuttlebutt Ultras. Quick takes from our Patreon

00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:21.720
Ultras, sharing their soundest thoughts straight

00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:34.079
from the heart. Your voice, your moment. Scuttlebutt

00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:38.319
Ultras with Dan the Bastard. What's up, Dan?

00:31:38.420 --> 00:31:41.630
How you doing? Hey, what's going on? I am still

00:31:41.630 --> 00:31:45.549
riding high after beating San Diego. Whenever

00:31:45.549 --> 00:31:49.190
we lost to them, I really wanted a rematch almost

00:31:49.190 --> 00:31:51.630
immediately afterwards because I felt like it

00:31:51.630 --> 00:31:55.529
would go better the second time. The score definitely

00:31:55.529 --> 00:31:57.950
went better. The game was a little bit nerve

00:31:57.950 --> 00:32:01.130
-wracking. But yeah, the score was better. I

00:32:01.130 --> 00:32:02.970
thought it was a great win. Before we get too

00:32:02.970 --> 00:32:04.910
far into that, why don't we go back since it

00:32:04.910 --> 00:32:09.029
has been a two -game week. Why don't you give

00:32:09.029 --> 00:32:14.089
us your thoughts on Dallas? It's crazy, but we

00:32:14.089 --> 00:32:20.490
had really similar outcomes. They were both 1

00:32:20.490 --> 00:32:23.970
-0 wins with the goal coming a lot later in the

00:32:23.970 --> 00:32:26.349
Dallas game, but still coming well into the second

00:32:26.349 --> 00:32:29.670
half. The feelings I have about the two games

00:32:29.670 --> 00:32:32.150
are completely different. I was pretty down after

00:32:32.150 --> 00:32:35.609
Dallas. It was one of those times where we talked

00:32:35.609 --> 00:32:37.549
about it after the Portland game, just shot after

00:32:37.549 --> 00:32:41.849
shot, and they can't go in. I have PTSD from

00:32:41.849 --> 00:32:44.829
the first time I saw the Sounders play live in

00:32:44.829 --> 00:32:46.789
Austin, and it was the same thing. So every time

00:32:46.789 --> 00:32:49.349
it happens, I just get triggered. And I'm sure

00:32:49.349 --> 00:32:50.970
y 'all saw some of the stuff I was writing on

00:32:50.970 --> 00:32:52.670
the Discord, probably thinking, man, this guy's

00:32:52.670 --> 00:32:58.299
a wacko. No, my comments, I think. mimicked yours

00:32:58.299 --> 00:33:02.960
on the actual podcast so yeah i i just i i think

00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:05.779
uh dallas was a little bit of a letdown one uh

00:33:05.779 --> 00:33:10.710
we you talk about we we have uh there's there's

00:33:10.710 --> 00:33:13.650
an excuse for grade that runs around and you

00:33:13.650 --> 00:33:16.430
talk about, well, you know, we have excuses for

00:33:16.430 --> 00:33:19.210
why we got blown out by LA. We were tired. We

00:33:19.210 --> 00:33:21.089
were heavily rotated. Well, Portland, we were

00:33:21.089 --> 00:33:23.410
heavily rotated. So now we're playing a heavily

00:33:23.410 --> 00:33:25.450
rotated team that is tired. That's traveled all

00:33:25.450 --> 00:33:28.369
over the country and we can, we can barely score

00:33:28.369 --> 00:33:31.750
against them. If it wasn't for a. It was a fair

00:33:31.750 --> 00:33:34.569
call. It was a good call. But still, the ball

00:33:34.569 --> 00:33:37.109
bounced the right way for us. And about time,

00:33:37.150 --> 00:33:39.089
because I feel like the ball bounces against

00:33:39.089 --> 00:33:43.089
us a lot. But if it wasn't for the ball bouncing

00:33:43.089 --> 00:33:46.410
just right, and I think the team knew it, too.

00:33:46.569 --> 00:33:49.829
The Rusnak celebration was, you know, he talked

00:33:49.829 --> 00:33:51.230
about after the game that he just had a lot of

00:33:51.230 --> 00:33:52.990
frustration up to that point. So I think they

00:33:52.990 --> 00:33:55.670
were probably way more frustrated than us. The

00:33:55.670 --> 00:33:58.349
fans were me, Dan the Bastard, sitting here watching

00:33:58.349 --> 00:34:01.660
the game. was but that that was my big takeaway

00:34:01.660 --> 00:34:03.819
is it was another game where we dominated the

00:34:03.819 --> 00:34:06.339
ball we had time of possession we were just all

00:34:06.339 --> 00:34:08.679
over the field and we couldn't get that final

00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:11.219
product even though we're taking shots right

00:34:11.219 --> 00:34:14.159
in front of the goal yeah whereas the san diego

00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:16.659
game stats wise kind of the opposite the exact

00:34:16.659 --> 00:34:19.719
opposite right what we had uh before we scored

00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:22.079
we had two shots on two shots a total i don't

00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:23.719
even know if they were on goal but we had two

00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:27.400
shots and then jesus just That first touch he

00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:29.800
took, I thought it was an accident watching it

00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:32.300
live, right? My initial thought was like, oh,

00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:34.639
the touch was too hard and the ball got away

00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:36.920
from him. And, you know, then he scored. I was

00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:38.260
like, oh, sweet. But going back and watching

00:34:38.260 --> 00:34:40.639
it, I think he meant that. He passed it to his

00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:44.019
future self. That's what he did. It was just

00:34:44.019 --> 00:34:47.119
a really skilled and talented play. So I'm happy

00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:49.539
for him, happy we got the win, but definitely

00:34:49.539 --> 00:34:51.719
happy for him. You could see a weight being lifted

00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:53.539
off of his shoulders whenever he scored, too.

00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:57.260
And then ran straight to the UCS section, arms

00:34:57.260 --> 00:35:01.280
in the air. That felt good. That's great. Yeah,

00:35:01.380 --> 00:35:03.760
totally. What do you think we can take out of

00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:05.440
these games heading into Minnesota? Another,

00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:07.980
I wouldn't say must win, but it's another team

00:35:07.980 --> 00:35:10.039
that is right ahead of us in the standings and

00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:13.179
a chance to jump them. maybe jump up to second

00:35:13.179 --> 00:35:15.739
place. So I was actually kind of thinking about

00:35:15.739 --> 00:35:18.480
this today. And one of the takeaways that I think

00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:22.940
I have is that we as fans, the talking heads,

00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:26.679
take too much, read too much into a single performances

00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:30.440
or a couple performances. And I think that past

00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:33.480
performances maybe don't even tell us. you know,

00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:35.079
all that much what's going to happen in the future.

00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:37.519
Now to contradict myself, one of the things that

00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:40.480
I was excited about the San Diego game that I

00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:42.480
was worried about and going forward, playing

00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:44.659
Minnesota, Minnesota likes to counter a lot.

00:35:44.739 --> 00:35:47.900
You know, San Diego will, they will hold the

00:35:47.900 --> 00:35:49.820
ball back there in their half and then find breakthrough

00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:52.400
passes. But in a way, you know, they move the

00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:55.679
ball down the field quickly and Minnesota does

00:35:55.679 --> 00:35:58.099
that too whenever they have it. And so countering

00:35:58.099 --> 00:36:01.070
has been... difficult for us in the past at times.

00:36:01.190 --> 00:36:03.570
And so if we can play the same style of defense

00:36:03.570 --> 00:36:06.750
that we played against San Diego, Minnesota is

00:36:06.750 --> 00:36:10.570
going to be a lot of fun for us. Yeah. Although

00:36:10.570 --> 00:36:13.329
those counterattacks is what got us against LA.

00:36:13.349 --> 00:36:19.789
It sure is. Which, which time? Every time. Every

00:36:19.789 --> 00:36:24.469
time. At least three of the goals. Every, every,

00:36:24.510 --> 00:36:30.239
every time. So, you know, A lot of next man up

00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:33.639
coming up. It really was hard to see Kim go down

00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:36.300
with an injury as well as he's been playing and

00:36:36.300 --> 00:36:39.739
just as much of a fan favorite as he is. Going

00:36:39.739 --> 00:36:42.880
down, hopefully he recovers quickly. Hopefully

00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:45.079
he's not in a lot of pain and he's getting through

00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:52.000
it. But Stu looked good. Yeah. Absolutely. And

00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.380
he played, I mean, Schmetzer said it, he's played

00:36:54.380 --> 00:36:57.119
next to Bell before down at Defiance. So they

00:36:57.119 --> 00:36:58.699
definitely have some time. Yeah. I wonder, do

00:36:58.699 --> 00:37:00.500
you think Reagan's going to start or do you think

00:37:00.500 --> 00:37:02.639
they'll bring Reagan in somewhere between the

00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:07.079
60th and 80th minute? It may depend on his time

00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:09.900
restrictions, right? Like he couldn't come in

00:37:09.900 --> 00:37:12.320
that game because of his minutes were restricted.

00:37:12.420 --> 00:37:15.679
So the question is, where are his minutes at?

00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:21.239
And if he is at, let's say 45. Do you start him

00:37:21.239 --> 00:37:23.079
and take him off at halftime? Do you bring him

00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:25.300
in late if you need him and give him more rest?

00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:29.739
I think that's a hard thing to decide, and it

00:37:29.739 --> 00:37:32.500
may depend on how they're feeling about that

00:37:32.500 --> 00:37:34.559
Hawkins -Bell partnership. Just how comfortable

00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:37.119
they are with those two starting the game out.

00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:43.280
Yeah. I mean, they look surprisingly good considering

00:37:43.280 --> 00:37:46.340
what we'd – I mean, we know Stu is a superstar,

00:37:46.500 --> 00:37:49.409
but – He hasn't necessarily shown that yet. A

00:37:49.409 --> 00:37:52.969
few minutes that he did have, L .A. made him,

00:37:53.050 --> 00:37:56.650
kind of turned him around a little bit. So I

00:37:56.650 --> 00:38:00.829
think that, and you know, Brian, he seems to

00:38:00.829 --> 00:38:03.570
be cautious. He'll play young guys, but he still

00:38:03.570 --> 00:38:06.130
seems to be cautious with them and doesn't want

00:38:06.130 --> 00:38:08.130
them to get too excited or too down on themselves.

00:38:08.670 --> 00:38:11.289
Absolutely. I mean, in his post -game interview,

00:38:11.469 --> 00:38:13.880
it was interesting to hear him. critiquing players,

00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:16.679
but then also saying, but they're human. So of

00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:18.920
course a 19 year old like Obed is not going to

00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:21.880
have a perfect game every time. Yeah. Yeah. Gave

00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:25.679
him the old shit sandwich. But yeah, I mean,

00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:31.739
great month, one loss, the rest we won all the

00:38:31.739 --> 00:38:34.260
time. How do you think the Sounders are looking

00:38:34.260 --> 00:38:37.760
as we head in just a couple more games before

00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:41.710
the World Cup break? Yeah, two more games, right?

00:38:42.010 --> 00:38:45.050
And one of them is going to be against a Vancouver

00:38:45.050 --> 00:38:47.889
team, which is scary, but they're missing nine

00:38:47.889 --> 00:38:50.409
players, which makes it a little bit less scary,

00:38:50.510 --> 00:38:54.389
unless you have the theory that the Sounders

00:38:54.389 --> 00:38:57.929
play down a competition. Well, and they're playing

00:38:57.929 --> 00:39:02.369
the match before is in Mexico in the CONCACAF

00:39:02.369 --> 00:39:04.130
Champions League. That's right. So do you want

00:39:04.130 --> 00:39:06.630
them to win that? How are you going to be rooting

00:39:06.630 --> 00:39:10.010
for that? It's a tough one. I was talking about

00:39:10.010 --> 00:39:12.849
this earlier on another Ultra segment where I

00:39:12.849 --> 00:39:16.929
don't hate Vancouver. And I do kind of hate Cruz

00:39:16.929 --> 00:39:23.349
Azul after our games with them. And there's something

00:39:23.349 --> 00:39:27.110
where if we could say like, oh, hey, Portland,

00:39:27.289 --> 00:39:29.650
you've never won Champions League. You know who

00:39:29.650 --> 00:39:33.070
has? The other teams in Cascadia. So it A, elevates

00:39:33.070 --> 00:39:35.329
Cascadia, and B, gives us another point of making

00:39:35.329 --> 00:39:37.590
fun of Portland. So you know what? I think no

00:39:37.590 --> 00:39:40.690
matter what happens, I'll be happy. But I'm mildly

00:39:40.690 --> 00:39:43.130
rooting for Vancouver. Yeah, I think I was mildly

00:39:43.130 --> 00:39:46.369
rooting for Cruz until you brought up some of

00:39:46.369 --> 00:39:49.449
those points. I always like if we get knocked

00:39:49.449 --> 00:39:51.570
out of a tournament, I always want the team to

00:39:51.570 --> 00:39:53.929
knock it out that knocks us out to to win it,

00:39:53.989 --> 00:39:56.269
because then we can point and say, hey, look,

00:39:56.389 --> 00:39:58.469
yeah, we you know, we didn't go as far as we

00:39:58.469 --> 00:40:01.449
wanted, but we we met the the team of destiny

00:40:01.449 --> 00:40:04.150
that and I'm scared of Vancouver. I don't want

00:40:04.150 --> 00:40:06.570
to play Vancouver healthy. I don't want them

00:40:06.570 --> 00:40:08.289
to be as good as they are because I want us to

00:40:08.289 --> 00:40:13.610
be that good. And so I I would hope that a loss

00:40:13.610 --> 00:40:17.469
here would maybe. strike midnight on the Cinderella

00:40:17.469 --> 00:40:19.789
story. And then we can go on with our lives as

00:40:19.789 --> 00:40:22.130
MLS can be back to normal and Seattle can be

00:40:22.130 --> 00:40:26.269
the top of the Cascadia again. Is I, no, I haven't

00:40:26.269 --> 00:40:28.070
looked, I believe that's the first leg, right?

00:40:28.110 --> 00:40:30.050
Do they have a second leg after that? Yes. Yes.

00:40:30.110 --> 00:40:32.730
I believe they do. So maybe we just have them

00:40:32.730 --> 00:40:35.449
do well in that first leg. And so they're going

00:40:35.449 --> 00:40:37.210
to rest players against us because they want

00:40:37.210 --> 00:40:41.030
them to be fresh. Then they can lose. Okay. Then

00:40:41.030 --> 00:40:43.349
we get, that's the best of both worlds. And they're

00:40:43.349 --> 00:40:46.460
playing in. Mexico, right? Yeah. Interesting.

00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:52.719
I just want to beat Vancouver. That's what it

00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:54.860
comes down to. Whatever happens, happens. But

00:40:54.860 --> 00:40:56.960
at the end of the day, I want us to be able to

00:40:56.960 --> 00:40:59.420
beat them. And if we play with the resiliency

00:40:59.420 --> 00:41:02.320
that we did against San Diego, I wouldn't count

00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:07.260
us out completely. Totally agree. So we got to

00:41:07.260 --> 00:41:10.940
get you back to your family duties here. And

00:41:10.940 --> 00:41:14.019
I have to record tonight's episode that we're

00:41:14.019 --> 00:41:17.269
recording. Do you have any final thoughts before

00:41:17.269 --> 00:41:20.130
we get out of here? The last thing I got to say

00:41:20.130 --> 00:41:22.329
about the San Diego game is it was my favorite

00:41:22.329 --> 00:41:24.869
one of the year. The first half was rough, but

00:41:24.869 --> 00:41:27.550
that second half, I just enjoyed it so much because

00:41:27.550 --> 00:41:30.789
it felt like the stakes were high and it was

00:41:30.789 --> 00:41:33.929
a good team playing against a good team. And

00:41:33.929 --> 00:41:36.610
it was, you know, if we're going to grind out

00:41:36.610 --> 00:41:38.429
a win, I want to do it against San Diego and

00:41:38.429 --> 00:41:41.690
in that fashion. And I enjoyed it. So thanks

00:41:41.690 --> 00:41:45.170
to the Sounders crew for such a great game. Yeah,

00:41:45.210 --> 00:41:47.650
at one point I was counting, they had six players

00:41:47.650 --> 00:41:51.369
back on defense plus two center defensive mids

00:41:51.369 --> 00:41:53.210
dropping packs. There's eight players basically

00:41:53.210 --> 00:41:55.630
playing defense in some of those late minutes.

00:41:55.789 --> 00:41:58.690
It was nervy, but it was a lot of fun to watch.

00:42:00.510 --> 00:42:06.559
Yeah, absolutely. So Dan the Bastard on... The

00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:09.579
Discord, where everyone should join. Yeah. No

00:42:09.579 --> 00:42:12.480
internet. I mean, I think I have an account on

00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:15.260
Blue Sky. I can't tell you the last time that

00:42:15.260 --> 00:42:17.880
I logged into it. I try to put my efforts in

00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:22.400
other places besides social media. Smart. Social

00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:25.659
media is worthless, yet I'm on all of them. You

00:42:25.659 --> 00:42:28.840
know, I watched Idiocracy a couple nights ago,

00:42:28.940 --> 00:42:30.880
and every time I get on social media now, I can

00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:34.559
just think of Idiocracy. Yeah. Imagine that must

00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:37.570
hold up. tremendously. I've seen it and I watch

00:42:37.570 --> 00:42:39.809
it about every 10 years. I feel like, yeah, it

00:42:39.809 --> 00:42:44.590
does. So speaking of videocracy, go Sounders.

00:42:46.630 --> 00:42:48.650
That's right. Way to, way to bring us back on

00:42:48.650 --> 00:42:52.650
top. All right. We'll talk to you soon. What

00:42:52.650 --> 00:43:04.170
is up, Alex? How you doing? Hey Cameron, how's

00:43:04.170 --> 00:43:08.420
it going? Good. Another Sounders win. Great month

00:43:08.420 --> 00:43:10.000
for the Sounders. How are you feeling right now?

00:43:11.139 --> 00:43:14.019
Pretty good. So far we got six points out of

00:43:14.019 --> 00:43:18.039
six points on our little home, back to home trip.

00:43:20.119 --> 00:43:23.019
The chance to get three more against the team

00:43:23.019 --> 00:43:26.599
right ahead of us coming up. Yeah, I think we're

00:43:26.599 --> 00:43:31.380
only one point out of second place in the West.

00:43:33.139 --> 00:43:35.500
Yep. Right there. And we played Vancouver after

00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:38.159
that. So what do you... Well, let's go back to

00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:41.880
Dallas because we have had two games since we

00:43:41.880 --> 00:43:44.920
had a midweek game since then. What were your

00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:48.219
thoughts of that Dallas game? That was a very

00:43:48.219 --> 00:43:53.079
gritty performance, I would say. That one showed

00:43:53.079 --> 00:43:56.139
that if it wasn't for that penalty at the end,

00:43:56.159 --> 00:44:00.519
I didn't see us winning that game. After we started

00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:03.530
off hot, like that first half was... It was good.

00:44:03.590 --> 00:44:07.630
I liked what I saw attacking -wise. And I just

00:44:07.630 --> 00:44:12.250
knew that once Jesus missed that toe poke in

00:44:12.250 --> 00:44:14.289
front of goal that it was going to come and bite

00:44:14.289 --> 00:44:20.449
us in the ass. Yeah. But luckily, we were able

00:44:20.449 --> 00:44:24.070
to win a PK off a set piece on that handball,

00:44:24.110 --> 00:44:30.960
so we were able to get three points. It's always

00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:33.239
good to get three points at home. And then, of

00:44:33.239 --> 00:44:37.340
course, out of that, we turn around and get another

00:44:37.340 --> 00:44:40.800
three points midweek against San Diego. What

00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:44.559
were your thoughts on that one? Oh, man, that

00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:49.940
first half was something else. What was it? Honestly,

00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:54.519
we got outplayed. But it's just like how it is

00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:56.559
sometimes when we're outplaying teams. All it

00:44:56.559 --> 00:44:59.000
takes is one to go in, and you end up winning

00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:02.079
the game. Like if you look at the stat line with

00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:07.880
San Diego, we were outpossessed, outshot. Their

00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:11.860
XG was better. Their XG was a 1 .1 and ours was

00:45:11.860 --> 00:45:18.840
0 .4. But what matters is the goals that go in.

00:45:18.940 --> 00:45:23.719
It was a 1 -0. 1 -0 win. I didn't feel, except

00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:26.380
for the saves that Fry made, I didn't feel that

00:45:26.380 --> 00:45:31.119
their... were overly dangerous, though, their

00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:33.420
chances. And it felt like there was a few times

00:45:33.420 --> 00:45:35.059
where the Sounders easily could have put up a

00:45:35.059 --> 00:45:37.099
few more goals, especially right after our goal

00:45:37.099 --> 00:45:40.300
when Rusnak had that next shot. Yeah, I agree.

00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:43.400
I think that Fry had a very tremendous game.

00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:46.820
He's making the people that said he was washed,

00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:53.300
you know, eat their words. And there was instances

00:45:53.300 --> 00:45:55.300
where I felt like we could have got that second

00:45:55.300 --> 00:45:58.019
goal if we were to make, let's say, pass it.

00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:01.179
play that through ball in or make that extra

00:46:01.179 --> 00:46:05.440
pass. But, you know, like, Jesus has arrived.

00:46:05.940 --> 00:46:09.199
He's finally arrived. Yeah. That's what we've

00:46:09.199 --> 00:46:12.179
been waiting for. He scored the game winner.

00:46:12.539 --> 00:46:14.760
And you could tell once he scored, like, you

00:46:14.760 --> 00:46:17.679
could tell he was relieved, like, his face. Like,

00:46:17.699 --> 00:46:20.059
there was, like, weight lifted off his shoulders.

00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:25.099
That's awesome. Yeah. I mean, he talked about

00:46:25.099 --> 00:46:26.860
it in the locker room too. And I think Schmetzer

00:46:26.860 --> 00:46:30.260
said, this is the first of many. Yeah. I think

00:46:30.260 --> 00:46:32.820
this is going to be kind of like once Moose scored

00:46:32.820 --> 00:46:36.139
his first, it just, it's going to be the momentum

00:46:36.139 --> 00:46:38.199
is going to carry and he's just going to find

00:46:38.199 --> 00:46:42.940
the net. Was there anything that you think that

00:46:42.940 --> 00:46:44.860
you can take away from those two games? You know,

00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:47.539
a strong month where the Sounders in May only

00:46:47.539 --> 00:46:50.119
lost one match. Of course we got blown out in

00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:52.280
that match, but. I don't think that score was

00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:55.599
necessarily indicative of the whole game. But

00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:58.760
fantastic May, and then first day of June, we

00:46:58.760 --> 00:47:00.719
have Minnesota coming to town, the team right

00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:04.260
ahead of us in the standings. Yeah, I think Minnesota's

00:47:04.260 --> 00:47:08.119
very counterattacking, just like San Diego. But

00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:11.760
San Diego, I think, possesses the mall more than

00:47:11.760 --> 00:47:14.800
Minnesota does, because I think Minnesota might

00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:16.800
have the lowest possession out of the whole league.

00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:20.369
And they might even have like a... league high

00:47:20.369 --> 00:47:22.889
like a league low like the record for having

00:47:22.889 --> 00:47:25.090
the lowest possession in like the history of

00:47:25.090 --> 00:47:31.210
MLS but given that we saw some the Saunders were

00:47:31.210 --> 00:47:35.050
able to bunker down and lock down and not get

00:47:35.050 --> 00:47:41.389
scored on in the last 15 minutes really like

00:47:41.389 --> 00:47:44.010
shows that we can do it because there's been

00:47:44.010 --> 00:47:46.090
times last year where we had a lead in the last

00:47:46.090 --> 00:47:49.989
15 minutes and we gave up a goal or then we gave

00:47:49.989 --> 00:47:51.750
up another goal and we ended up losing the game

00:47:51.750 --> 00:47:54.489
where we were up with like 10 minutes left. So

00:47:54.489 --> 00:47:58.469
that just shows more improvement this year defensively.

00:47:59.630 --> 00:48:08.190
Yeah, absolutely. What do you think could happen

00:48:08.190 --> 00:48:11.530
with Minnesota coming to town? Do you think this

00:48:11.530 --> 00:48:13.230
is a game the Sounders should win or is it going

00:48:13.230 --> 00:48:16.170
to be another close one where we have to eke

00:48:16.170 --> 00:48:21.230
it out? I think it might be a close one, but

00:48:21.230 --> 00:48:24.989
if we're able to get one or two early goals or

00:48:24.989 --> 00:48:28.190
get a goal off a set piece, then it can go our

00:48:28.190 --> 00:48:33.130
way. I think there might be some rotation, just

00:48:33.130 --> 00:48:36.750
depending on the evaluations that come Friday,

00:48:36.829 --> 00:48:40.909
like Brian was saying. With injury, there has

00:48:40.909 --> 00:48:43.789
to be. Yeah, so we're going to see Kim Kihee.

00:48:44.650 --> 00:48:47.710
He's out. So that means we're probably going

00:48:47.710 --> 00:48:50.869
to see John Bell and Stu. Maybe we'll see Regan

00:48:50.869 --> 00:48:53.489
subbed on because Brian said he was on a minutes

00:48:53.489 --> 00:48:57.829
restriction still. But then that's also going

00:48:57.829 --> 00:49:00.110
to give more opportunities to Reed Baker, Whiting,

00:49:00.230 --> 00:49:04.130
and Cody Baker. Just in case they want to put

00:49:04.130 --> 00:49:05.949
Nuhu as a center back, you know, they'll put

00:49:05.949 --> 00:49:09.090
someone in at left back. But I think that we

00:49:09.090 --> 00:49:14.400
have to stick with the 4 -2 -3 -1. How important

00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:17.500
do you see four at the back for us right now?

00:49:20.300 --> 00:49:25.239
I think defensively is just, there's more balance

00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:27.679
in a four back than I guess a three back. Because

00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:30.039
the times where we have gone three back, well,

00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:31.599
the last time we did go three back is when we

00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:35.820
got blown out against LAFC. Like even though

00:49:35.820 --> 00:49:37.420
the scoreline doesn't reflect the game, they

00:49:37.420 --> 00:49:41.199
still put four. But then again, it was on Andrew

00:49:41.199 --> 00:49:47.090
Thomas. And, you know, Stu Hawkins was out there

00:49:47.090 --> 00:49:49.610
in his first game. I mean, there was a few things

00:49:49.610 --> 00:49:51.570
at the end there that I think maybe the score

00:49:51.570 --> 00:49:53.809
didn't reflect the actual game. But, yeah, you're

00:49:53.809 --> 00:49:56.809
right. Yeah, yeah. And at the end of the day,

00:49:56.829 --> 00:49:58.630
yeah, even though you felt like the scoreline

00:49:58.630 --> 00:50:01.690
doesn't reflect the game, like, at the end of

00:50:01.690 --> 00:50:02.989
the day, people are going to look at the score.

00:50:03.050 --> 00:50:05.329
They're going to say, oh, 4 -2. Like, LAFC is

00:50:05.329 --> 00:50:08.409
back. Not everyone's going to look into the deeper

00:50:08.409 --> 00:50:11.190
dive into the stats. Like some of us that will.

00:50:12.829 --> 00:50:15.699
Perfect. Thank you, Alex. Excited to have you

00:50:15.699 --> 00:50:17.639
here yet again, of course, for the ultra segment.

00:50:17.719 --> 00:50:26.519
And we'll talk to you soon. What is up, Cedar?

00:50:26.679 --> 00:50:29.300
Welcome. We're happy that you are here in another

00:50:29.300 --> 00:50:31.940
ultra segment. It's good to see you, my friend.

00:50:32.440 --> 00:50:34.940
It's good to see you, too. Hopefully your head

00:50:34.940 --> 00:50:39.239
is doing better. uh i don't i'm assuming we'll

00:50:39.239 --> 00:50:41.500
talk about this before before this comes into

00:50:41.500 --> 00:50:45.420
the episode so my head is um injured again as

00:50:45.420 --> 00:50:49.179
you know i got punched in the head and have a

00:50:49.179 --> 00:50:54.219
uh eardrum that is uh now ruptured so um welcome

00:50:54.219 --> 00:50:57.840
to my world oh boy oh boy yeah this hopefully

00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:01.260
this will stop being a weekly check -in and yeah

00:51:01.260 --> 00:51:03.500
right as rain here pretty soon that'll be nice

00:51:03.500 --> 00:51:06.940
we do know though that uh Since I did not get

00:51:06.940 --> 00:51:10.139
to attend last night's Sounders match because

00:51:10.139 --> 00:51:12.559
I had to work because the Super Hawks, I wish

00:51:12.559 --> 00:51:15.860
Super Sonics, had a playoff game. How'd that

00:51:15.860 --> 00:51:19.119
go? We lost, unfortunately. But we lost to the

00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:20.760
first place team. Now we have to go play there.

00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:22.800
We have to win twice there in order to advance.

00:51:23.019 --> 00:51:26.079
But I wasn't there and the Sounders didn't win

00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:29.940
by three goals. So maybe it isn't me. I think

00:51:29.940 --> 00:51:32.519
we're safe now. Yeah, we've debunked that. Yeah,

00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:37.289
you're clear. That's good. but but we do have

00:51:37.289 --> 00:51:39.510
two matches to talk about because we had a midweek

00:51:39.510 --> 00:51:42.570
match so um i'm just gonna let you take it away

00:51:42.570 --> 00:51:44.429
talking about what you thought about uh that

00:51:44.429 --> 00:51:46.230
dallas match i think there's a lot of parallels

00:51:46.230 --> 00:51:48.230
between the two matches in some ways oh yeah

00:51:48.230 --> 00:51:51.969
yeah a lot of parallels and then parts where

00:51:51.969 --> 00:51:54.349
it's like one's the inverse of the other but

00:51:54.349 --> 00:51:58.150
two obviously great outcomes uh yeah that dallas

00:51:58.150 --> 00:52:02.739
game was was uh was frustrating in that you know

00:52:02.739 --> 00:52:07.679
dallas had a demoralizing match just before um

00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:11.599
on the road in the open cup uh where they lost

00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:18.000
um and and they didn't yeah and like they had

00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:19.760
the lead at one point then they gave it up and

00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:24.340
uh if i'm remembering correctly and so and they

00:52:24.340 --> 00:52:26.980
also were missing lucho costa they had kind of

00:52:26.980 --> 00:52:30.590
a rotated lineup So you felt like, okay, that

00:52:30.590 --> 00:52:36.030
should be a favorable situation for us. But as

00:52:36.030 --> 00:52:40.989
the game unfolded, it was very difficult for

00:52:40.989 --> 00:52:44.710
us to score. Obviously, we got that handball

00:52:44.710 --> 00:52:48.610
PK. It kind of bailed us out at the end there.

00:52:49.489 --> 00:52:52.289
Well, yeah, we'll take that, right? I mean, we

00:52:52.289 --> 00:52:57.719
had 2 .1 expected goals versus their 1 .3. That's

00:52:57.719 --> 00:53:00.059
good to hear though. So at least, I mean, we

00:53:00.059 --> 00:53:01.960
were dangerous. It's just that same old story

00:53:01.960 --> 00:53:04.920
and we can't score. Exactly. I mean, we had that,

00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:08.039
uh, Ruth snack shot that just went wide. Um,

00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:11.320
and then Kent had an assist to Georgie, but he

00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:15.460
was offside. And, um, yeah, so we did, we did

00:53:15.460 --> 00:53:17.980
kind of like, I feel like we earned that result,

00:53:18.079 --> 00:53:21.300
but for most of the game, it felt like, oh man,

00:53:21.420 --> 00:53:24.360
like if, uh, you know, Dallas could get away

00:53:24.360 --> 00:53:28.519
with a draw or even. you know um i mean this

00:53:28.519 --> 00:53:30.860
was actually after the penalty but they had a

00:53:30.860 --> 00:53:33.199
breakaway in the 93rd minute in stoppage time

00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:37.840
and uh abu bakr had a shot go off the post i

00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:40.219
was like okay beautiful shot from a defender

00:53:40.219 --> 00:53:44.119
yeah seriously he's uh yeah that was that was

00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:46.920
really nice on the half volley i like him he

00:53:46.920 --> 00:53:48.739
jumped in the crowd one time after the game to

00:53:48.739 --> 00:53:50.300
talk to a friend because the friend couldn't

00:53:50.300 --> 00:53:53.059
come on the field and i got to have a very short

00:53:53.059 --> 00:53:55.320
nice conversation with him and i've he's been

00:53:56.150 --> 00:53:58.050
When he played for Colorado, he was really great

00:53:58.050 --> 00:54:00.610
to one of my friend's kids. So he seems like

00:54:00.610 --> 00:54:02.289
a good guy, but I'm still glad he didn't score.

00:54:03.050 --> 00:54:07.510
Oh, totally. I admire his dedication to his hair

00:54:07.510 --> 00:54:11.929
too. Yeah. That is something else. Yeah, no,

00:54:12.050 --> 00:54:18.309
it really felt like, okay, we kind of got away

00:54:18.309 --> 00:54:21.170
with one there, even though. We were the better

00:54:21.170 --> 00:54:23.170
team. We had more possession. We created more

00:54:23.170 --> 00:54:26.090
opportunities, but it was a little sketchy there.

00:54:27.489 --> 00:54:31.809
And then, man, Yamar getting injured, not great.

00:54:32.250 --> 00:54:35.550
Yeah. He's going to be out two to four weeks,

00:54:35.690 --> 00:54:41.949
I guess Brian said yesterday. So there's that.

00:54:42.050 --> 00:54:46.050
But as we saw in the San Diego game, because

00:54:46.050 --> 00:54:52.239
Kim Kihee also went down. John Bell and Stuart

00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:56.679
Hawkins were, were really solid. Yeah. And if

00:54:56.679 --> 00:55:00.300
those are our two, you know, youngest, most inexperienced,

00:55:00.320 --> 00:55:05.340
you know, quote unquote, worst center backs out

00:55:05.340 --> 00:55:07.860
of our five, I think we're in, we're in good

00:55:07.860 --> 00:55:11.880
hands, but you know, let's hope now that Reagan's

00:55:11.880 --> 00:55:14.570
back, that's great. But. let's hope for no more

00:55:14.570 --> 00:55:17.630
injuries because right right and he went down

00:55:17.630 --> 00:55:20.030
uh pretty early in that match i actually only

00:55:20.030 --> 00:55:23.030
got to watch the second half live because um

00:55:23.030 --> 00:55:25.110
of the basketball game that i was working at

00:55:25.110 --> 00:55:28.829
but i did once i sat at the scores table i brought

00:55:28.829 --> 00:55:31.250
up the game on my on my laptop and i was watching

00:55:31.250 --> 00:55:33.829
it during the game so i did see the second half

00:55:33.829 --> 00:55:39.239
but uh what what was your thoughts on At least

00:55:39.239 --> 00:55:40.980
my takeaway was it was another game where we

00:55:40.980 --> 00:55:43.440
seem to be the better team, but we're not scoring

00:55:43.440 --> 00:55:48.619
goals. Yeah, I felt like it was pretty even.

00:55:48.659 --> 00:55:53.139
I mean, San Diego definitely outpossessed us.

00:55:53.360 --> 00:55:56.920
I mean, they had three, you know, their midfielders

00:55:56.920 --> 00:55:59.940
are kind of their total ball hogs. They had three

00:55:59.940 --> 00:56:04.460
players with over 100 touches where are the player

00:56:04.460 --> 00:56:06.730
with. the most amount of touches for us i think

00:56:06.730 --> 00:56:12.269
was 75 and that was christian um and yeah they

00:56:12.269 --> 00:56:14.469
they possessed the ball but it still felt like

00:56:14.469 --> 00:56:17.030
it was it still felt like it was more or less

00:56:17.030 --> 00:56:20.090
even like i you know they were creating chances

00:56:20.090 --> 00:56:24.969
that you know were were not super dangerous yeah

00:56:24.969 --> 00:56:27.030
this might take away too like they were creating

00:56:27.030 --> 00:56:30.789
chances but i wasn't afraid they were going to

00:56:30.789 --> 00:56:33.889
score most of them fry still stepped it up though

00:56:34.409 --> 00:56:37.829
Oh, totally. He definitely did. He had, what

00:56:37.829 --> 00:56:40.929
did he have? He had seven saves in total and

00:56:40.929 --> 00:56:43.530
yeah, a lot of them were right to him, but there

00:56:43.530 --> 00:56:48.510
was that one shot from Mighton just before halftime.

00:56:48.510 --> 00:56:52.809
That was a, was a pretty big save. And then it,

00:56:52.929 --> 00:56:56.449
it, it completed with the new who bike clearance,

00:56:56.550 --> 00:57:00.230
which was pretty great. New has been, he's been

00:57:00.230 --> 00:57:02.030
really, I mean, he's always feeling himself,

00:57:02.130 --> 00:57:06.260
but I love. uh just him deking out attackers

00:57:06.260 --> 00:57:09.719
you know shielding the ball with his body doing

00:57:09.719 --> 00:57:12.320
a little rope -a -dope here and there he's it's

00:57:12.320 --> 00:57:15.679
really fun to watch um and it feels like he's

00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:18.719
because i know he you know there have been times

00:57:18.719 --> 00:57:22.019
in the past where he maybe gets a little overzealous

00:57:22.019 --> 00:57:25.760
in terms of advancing the ball forward maybe

00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:28.519
not making the best pass but it really feels

00:57:28.519 --> 00:57:33.469
like he's he's kind of fit in well to um the

00:57:33.469 --> 00:57:38.230
flow of the team this year yeah um but yeah that

00:57:38.230 --> 00:57:41.250
uh yeah that that game also had a similar kind

00:57:41.250 --> 00:57:44.289
of like oh we've got some chances but they're

00:57:44.289 --> 00:57:49.050
not you know nothing's going in and then um man

00:57:49.050 --> 00:57:52.710
so great to see Jesus get his first goal right

00:57:52.710 --> 00:57:56.440
um that first touch you know, sending the defender

00:57:56.440 --> 00:57:59.940
just a half a step the wrong way. I thought that

00:57:59.940 --> 00:58:02.860
CJ Dos Santos, the goalkeeper for San Diego,

00:58:02.980 --> 00:58:05.880
he could have, I thought his positioning was

00:58:05.880 --> 00:58:07.719
a little weird on that one. If you're looking

00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:13.079
at the goal camera, like Jesus, you know, gets

00:58:13.079 --> 00:58:18.400
the ball towards the center of the box. I mean,

00:58:18.460 --> 00:58:20.239
it looks pretty clear like he's going to take

00:58:20.239 --> 00:58:23.880
that with his left. But CJ Dos Santos, instead

00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:26.039
of like stepping over to the right and closing

00:58:26.039 --> 00:58:29.179
down that angle, he kind of steps back a little

00:58:29.179 --> 00:58:32.860
bit, like straight back. And it opens up that

00:58:32.860 --> 00:58:37.559
angle for Jesus to curl it in past him. So I

00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:40.239
thought Dos Santos could have been better on

00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:42.679
that one, but we'll take it. Dos Santos had kind

00:58:42.679 --> 00:58:46.500
of a shaky game, you know, in general. In the

00:58:46.500 --> 00:58:49.679
third minute, that was a weird... Deservedly

00:58:49.679 --> 00:58:51.659
right card for touching outside the box in that

00:58:51.659 --> 00:58:54.780
one. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I wish we had a

00:58:54.780 --> 00:58:57.280
better angle on that. Cause I, I mean, I wonder,

00:58:57.360 --> 00:59:00.199
you know, if there's anybody who's in the stands

00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:03.539
who could, who had that angle and could attest

00:59:03.539 --> 00:59:07.440
to if that was out because yeah, that would have

00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:11.880
been, that would have been really nice. But yeah.

00:59:12.380 --> 00:59:15.119
And then the, obviously the third minute, the,

00:59:15.239 --> 00:59:21.380
his, his poor clearance and. Alex almost chipping

00:59:21.380 --> 00:59:23.980
him, basically, or getting him off his line.

00:59:24.239 --> 00:59:26.780
That would have been nice, too. But yeah, we'll

00:59:26.780 --> 00:59:30.079
take it. Great to see Jesus score one. I feel

00:59:30.079 --> 00:59:33.380
like that's the same thing with what happened

00:59:33.380 --> 00:59:36.159
to Mussofsky. Once the first one comes, confidence

00:59:36.159 --> 00:59:40.599
goes up and things start falling. Absolutely.

00:59:42.860 --> 00:59:45.340
Successful May. One loss out of, what was it,

00:59:45.340 --> 00:59:49.130
six matches? That's pretty good. It's an incredible

00:59:49.130 --> 00:59:54.349
month, despite some times of frustration. Sounders

00:59:54.349 --> 00:59:56.789
continue to be undefeated at home. What do you

00:59:56.789 --> 00:59:59.429
think that does when we start June on Sunday

00:59:59.429 --> 01:00:03.329
and bring Minnesota into town? It's good. We're

01:00:03.329 --> 01:00:08.309
going to need it. Minnesota has a really good

01:00:08.309 --> 01:00:10.690
defense. They're just a really good team overall.

01:00:11.150 --> 01:00:14.809
I don't have the standings up right here, but

01:00:14.809 --> 01:00:18.980
they're ahead of us by five. think it's one or

01:00:18.980 --> 01:00:22.400
three points yeah but you know we're fourth now

01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:26.139
they're second so this is gonna be a great test

01:00:26.139 --> 01:00:29.760
um and then after one point ahead uh one point

01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:32.280
ahead yeah and they're tied they're uh oh they're

01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:34.719
behind san diego and wins so they dropped a third

01:00:34.719 --> 01:00:39.360
or oh okay gotcha with their match hey so we

01:00:39.360 --> 01:00:42.300
just you know we just beat san diego we're gonna

01:00:42.300 --> 01:00:46.239
be playing uh Minnesota, and then after that,

01:00:46.320 --> 01:00:48.980
Vancouver. So this is a really good stretch of

01:00:48.980 --> 01:00:51.280
games to test ourselves against the best in the

01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:53.420
Western Conference. Teams right ahead of us with

01:00:53.420 --> 01:00:57.380
a chance. If you win both those matches, you

01:00:57.380 --> 01:01:02.179
are at minimum three points behind first place

01:01:02.179 --> 01:01:04.139
Vancouver. They have a game in hand, though,

01:01:04.139 --> 01:01:07.940
too. Right. But still, three points back from

01:01:07.940 --> 01:01:11.179
Vancouver with another play against them. Yeah,

01:01:11.199 --> 01:01:14.360
that's pretty good. Especially when we still

01:01:14.360 --> 01:01:19.280
don't have our full strength lineup back in action.

01:01:19.699 --> 01:01:22.900
So I'll take that. I'll take some good momentum

01:01:22.900 --> 01:01:26.340
going into the Club World Cup, which is going

01:01:26.340 --> 01:01:31.219
to happen after the Vancouver match. And yeah,

01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:33.840
we're almost to the halfway point of the season.

01:01:33.900 --> 01:01:37.389
I think these next two games will be... we'll

01:01:37.389 --> 01:01:39.969
mark that as the first half of the season. So,

01:01:39.969 --> 01:01:42.949
so overall feeling pretty, pretty good about

01:01:42.949 --> 01:01:47.889
where we stand. I think in terms of, you know,

01:01:47.889 --> 01:01:52.030
notable players for, you know, at least through

01:01:52.030 --> 01:01:54.530
the first half of the season for me, I mean,

01:01:54.550 --> 01:01:57.670
Albert Rusnak so far already with 10 goals plus

01:01:57.670 --> 01:02:01.849
assists quietly, you know, kind of having another

01:02:01.849 --> 01:02:07.000
really, really solid season. It's so fun to see

01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:08.699
him tear off his jersey and throw it in the crowd,

01:02:08.840 --> 01:02:12.599
even though it was a yellow card. Yeah, absolutely.

01:02:14.209 --> 01:02:18.590
I think they had to get it back, too. Yeah, Alex

01:02:18.590 --> 01:02:21.230
ran up and grabbed it. They didn't show that

01:02:21.230 --> 01:02:23.789
on TV, but Alex ran up and grabbed it and got

01:02:23.789 --> 01:02:25.530
it back to him because they aren't going to have

01:02:25.530 --> 01:02:27.510
one sitting on the sideline waiting for him.

01:02:27.690 --> 01:02:30.650
Oh, that's so funny. I hope they went and gave

01:02:30.650 --> 01:02:32.190
the fans something, though, afterwards because

01:02:32.190 --> 01:02:34.050
how cool would that be to catch that? I mean,

01:02:34.070 --> 01:02:35.769
he needs that jersey, though, because he just

01:02:35.769 --> 01:02:39.489
set an MLS record as the first player to, was

01:02:39.489 --> 01:02:41.530
it 25 goals, 25 assists on two different teams?

01:02:42.210 --> 01:02:45.090
Yeah, that's right. I think that's why he celebrated

01:02:45.090 --> 01:02:46.989
like he did, because there's no other way to

01:02:46.989 --> 01:02:49.949
explain on a penalty kick why you would throw

01:02:49.949 --> 01:02:51.889
your jersey into the ground level and take it

01:02:51.889 --> 01:02:55.610
off. Well, I love that. I love that. Yeah, that

01:02:55.610 --> 01:03:00.530
is a really great milestone. And yeah, it's great

01:03:00.530 --> 01:03:04.650
to see him enjoying himself. And then this was

01:03:04.650 --> 01:03:07.409
a really interesting stat. Danny Mussofsky actually

01:03:07.409 --> 01:03:12.090
leads the MLS in non -penalty expected goals

01:03:12.090 --> 01:03:15.960
per 90. Which is, he's up there with the likes

01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:19.960
of Ty Baribo, the striker for Philadelphia, and

01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:27.519
current Golden Boot leader, and Messi. So it's

01:03:27.519 --> 01:03:31.679
going to be interesting to see, even when Jordan

01:03:31.679 --> 01:03:34.880
comes back, it's like, who do you start, right?

01:03:35.019 --> 01:03:39.260
Who's the better player? I don't know. And then

01:03:39.260 --> 01:03:42.219
we've got Christian. He leads the team in touches

01:03:42.219 --> 01:03:46.559
and minutes. He's eighth in MLS. That's surprising

01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:48.880
considering we've seen what he means to the team.

01:03:49.239 --> 01:03:54.800
Oh, my God. Yeah, he really is so, so crucial,

01:03:54.980 --> 01:04:01.480
obviously. And then Fry is third in goals against

01:04:01.480 --> 01:04:08.199
per 90. Just behind... Dane St. Clair, I think,

01:04:08.199 --> 01:04:09.760
is leading that. So that's who we're going to

01:04:09.760 --> 01:04:14.780
be facing when we play Minnesota. That's interesting

01:04:14.780 --> 01:04:19.380
because you mentioned a week ago that an MLS

01:04:19.380 --> 01:04:22.679
podcast was kind of questioning where he was

01:04:22.679 --> 01:04:25.920
on the numbers. And I would argue, and I think

01:04:25.920 --> 01:04:27.840
I said it then too, that his defense has been

01:04:27.840 --> 01:04:30.059
largely letting him down rather than the other

01:04:30.059 --> 01:04:35.920
way around. Not that he has any mistakes. That's

01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:40.400
impressive. Yeah, 12 saves in the last two matches

01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:44.280
and a couple of highlight saves. Yeah, no, he's

01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:47.760
playing really well. It's nice to see him in

01:04:47.760 --> 01:04:52.159
a good run of form there. Absolutely. Well, why

01:04:52.159 --> 01:04:55.219
don't we wrap it up here? Any final thoughts

01:04:55.219 --> 01:04:59.679
before we get out of here? No, not really. Just

01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:03.199
hoping to, again, put in some really good performances,

01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:07.000
get some good luck against two really tough teams

01:05:07.000 --> 01:05:09.760
in Minnesota and Vancouver headed into the Club

01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:12.460
World Cup. So, yeah, let's keep it rolling. And

01:05:12.460 --> 01:05:13.760
when are you going to come up and watch a game

01:05:13.760 --> 01:05:19.659
with us? I will be up on June 19th to see us

01:05:19.659 --> 01:05:22.840
play Atletico Madrid. So I'm really stoked. Well,

01:05:22.860 --> 01:05:25.239
we'll definitely have to plan something pre or

01:05:25.239 --> 01:05:27.800
post match for that because that'll be fun. Absolutely.

01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:30.940
Yeah, let's do it. Cool. All right. Well, where

01:05:30.940 --> 01:05:32.780
can people find you on Discord or the internet?

01:05:33.800 --> 01:05:37.300
I am on the Discord. So join the Discord if you

01:05:37.300 --> 01:05:40.260
haven't already. It is the place to be. Yeah.

01:05:40.320 --> 01:05:41.880
All right. Thanks, Cedar. We'll talk to you soon.

01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:56.570
Thank you. Bye. Hey, everybody. This is one of

01:05:56.570 --> 01:05:59.510
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01:05:59.510 --> 01:06:02.449
this time is time for a break. But really, it's

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a time for me to talk to you about our corporate

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-N dot C -O -M. Now back to your regularly scheduled

01:07:19.820 --> 01:07:29.599
programming. Welcome back to Scuttlebutt for

01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:32.820
the second show in a row where Nicholas was going

01:07:32.820 --> 01:07:34.599
to bring us in and then didn't pay attention.

01:07:35.800 --> 01:07:37.699
As I pointed at him, because you were asked to

01:07:37.699 --> 01:07:40.579
last time and they were just paused. Let me guess,

01:07:40.719 --> 01:07:42.679
you haven't been sleeping well because you work

01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:46.320
overnight and have to find a way to raise a daughter

01:07:46.320 --> 01:07:49.179
and do all sorts of other things like go to Sounders

01:07:49.179 --> 01:07:52.039
matches. Well, I do have to be up for work in

01:07:52.039 --> 01:07:56.360
three hours. Something we missed real quick.

01:07:56.920 --> 01:07:58.940
Just because I know this is close to your and

01:07:58.940 --> 01:08:00.780
my heart because we used to live in San Jose.

01:08:01.599 --> 01:08:04.320
Did you see the third kit leak that was shared

01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:08.480
by Alex Diaz in the non -sounders talk portion

01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:15.320
of a throwback Clash third kit leak for the San

01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:17.380
Jose earthquakes, which would be super fun to

01:08:17.380 --> 01:08:20.840
see? You know, I did not get a chance to take

01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:23.199
a look at that one yet, but I can guess what

01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:25.779
it looks like. Yeah, it's what you would expect

01:08:25.779 --> 01:08:29.520
with some extra 90s air thrown in. That looks

01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:33.640
dope. Yeah. That looks really cool. It is totally

01:08:33.640 --> 01:08:44.600
1992. Yeah, I mean, it's incredible. So we played

01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:48.960
two games. First was Dallas. Next was San Diego.

01:08:49.100 --> 01:08:51.380
One -nothing wins in both. We all had different

01:08:51.380 --> 01:08:53.979
takes from all of them. Why don't we start with

01:08:53.979 --> 01:08:57.899
the Dallas match where, Nicholas, can you speak

01:08:57.899 --> 01:09:01.319
a little bit more on how dangerous you thought

01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:02.800
the offense was in that? Because you felt like

01:09:02.800 --> 01:09:05.000
that was a real highlight of that game. Yeah,

01:09:05.039 --> 01:09:07.239
I mean, right from the get -go of that game,

01:09:07.399 --> 01:09:11.659
Dallas was just weathering storm after storm

01:09:11.659 --> 01:09:14.340
after storm. They just could not get the ball

01:09:14.340 --> 01:09:17.979
out of their own half of the field. Every time

01:09:17.979 --> 01:09:21.579
they'd get the ball, they'd have two players

01:09:21.579 --> 01:09:25.670
on it. Sounders would get the ball back and just

01:09:25.670 --> 01:09:29.550
reclaim it. Talking about the momentum meter,

01:09:29.750 --> 01:09:34.289
while, yes, I use it as a tool of looking at

01:09:34.289 --> 01:09:38.069
things, I mean, it's just completely off the

01:09:38.069 --> 01:09:40.050
charts there for that first half in particular.

01:09:40.090 --> 01:09:43.050
It's really pretty funny to see. I've never seen

01:09:43.050 --> 01:09:46.470
anything quite like that one before. But, yeah,

01:09:46.550 --> 01:09:49.630
and I just thought that the Sounders, they had

01:09:49.630 --> 01:09:53.779
67%. possession in the first half they had nine

01:09:53.779 --> 01:09:59.439
shots three on target two big chances they just

01:09:59.439 --> 01:10:04.279
were they had four off sides which some people

01:10:04.279 --> 01:10:06.479
may might look at that like oh they couldn't

01:10:06.479 --> 01:10:09.939
stay on sides I look at that on the sign of a

01:10:09.939 --> 01:10:13.899
very aggressively attacking team you know and

01:10:13.899 --> 01:10:17.539
so I just thought it was a really really good

01:10:17.539 --> 01:10:22.020
first half of a play very exciting. And I think

01:10:22.020 --> 01:10:24.140
there could have been multiple goals out of that.

01:10:24.680 --> 01:10:27.140
I don't mind offsides actually. I think I agree

01:10:27.140 --> 01:10:30.260
with you that it shows, I mean, unfortunately

01:10:30.260 --> 01:10:33.020
is Georgie that does it quite often, but he was

01:10:33.020 --> 01:10:36.739
so barely offsides on that. Like it was literally

01:10:36.739 --> 01:10:39.260
him leaning forward. It wasn't like his foot

01:10:39.260 --> 01:10:40.640
was in front of it. It was the top, it was the

01:10:40.640 --> 01:10:44.739
upper half of his body. So I am hopeful that

01:10:44.739 --> 01:10:46.560
they actually changed the rule based on what

01:10:46.560 --> 01:10:48.359
they're trying out, where you have to have any

01:10:48.359 --> 01:10:52.069
part of your body behind. the defender like you

01:10:52.069 --> 01:10:54.270
do in the NFL when the quarterback is throwing

01:10:54.270 --> 01:10:57.550
the ball. That's interesting. Yeah. Because to

01:10:57.550 --> 01:10:59.270
me that makes more sense because if you start

01:10:59.270 --> 01:11:01.029
your run, but you still have a part of your body

01:11:01.029 --> 01:11:03.050
behind that defender, that makes way more sense

01:11:03.050 --> 01:11:04.909
to me that the defender needs to react better.

01:11:04.949 --> 01:11:07.989
Well, that's, that's, that's also how it is in

01:11:07.989 --> 01:11:10.430
hockey, hockey. You can, you could drag your

01:11:10.430 --> 01:11:14.210
foot to stay on side. Oh yeah. Think of how many

01:11:14.210 --> 01:11:19.250
more exciting plays will happen per match. Yeah.

01:11:19.369 --> 01:11:21.569
If that was the rule change. I mean, that's the

01:11:21.569 --> 01:11:23.989
question. It does. Doesn't it just move the line

01:11:23.989 --> 01:11:26.149
of demarcation though? Yeah. It depends on if

01:11:26.149 --> 01:11:28.250
people are still, if they start leaving earlier

01:11:28.250 --> 01:11:31.270
than, so they're offsides more often, or if they

01:11:31.270 --> 01:11:34.090
would keep the same mentality in the onsides

01:11:34.090 --> 01:11:36.430
more often. I think it's, I think it has to do

01:11:36.430 --> 01:11:38.609
with reaction time. I think a well -timed, that's

01:11:38.609 --> 01:11:42.670
true. A well -timed pass is, is only, you know,

01:11:42.670 --> 01:11:45.569
12 inches. There's a, probably a 12 inch grace

01:11:45.569 --> 01:11:48.449
there, but we're, we're missing that. If that's,

01:11:48.880 --> 01:11:55.199
Any part of your body. That's true. I will say

01:11:55.199 --> 01:11:58.060
one thing that I really like. And since COVID.

01:11:59.659 --> 01:12:02.460
FIFA and international soccer has shown a willingness

01:12:02.460 --> 01:12:06.460
to experiment with rules. Yeah. And it started

01:12:06.460 --> 01:12:08.779
with the five substitutions, which is clearly

01:12:08.779 --> 01:12:13.420
a win. Big win. And then the substitutions 10

01:12:13.420 --> 01:12:18.060
-second rule and the concussion subs. And coming

01:12:18.060 --> 01:12:21.039
up in the Club World Cup, I believe, will be

01:12:21.039 --> 01:12:24.739
the first tournament in which the goalkeepers

01:12:24.739 --> 01:12:27.560
are now allowed to hold the ball for... eight

01:12:27.560 --> 01:12:30.840
seconds not six they already have been allowed

01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:36.500
to hold the phrase no no wait wait but if they

01:12:36.500 --> 01:12:40.119
hold it for eight seconds and the horn blows

01:12:40.119 --> 01:12:43.060
off it will no uh what will happen is it'll become

01:12:43.060 --> 01:12:45.819
a corner kick instead of an indirect free kick

01:12:45.819 --> 01:12:49.420
uh from from inside the box yeah so the thought

01:12:49.420 --> 01:12:55.899
being that refs are unwilling to signal the six

01:12:55.899 --> 01:12:59.699
-second runoff because it's so punitive towards

01:12:59.699 --> 01:13:02.380
the goalkeeper, so they just don't enforce it.

01:13:02.479 --> 01:13:06.659
But if they turn it into a corner kick, it is

01:13:06.659 --> 01:13:10.119
much more likely to be enforced. And I believe

01:13:10.119 --> 01:13:12.859
that that could be a very positive change for

01:13:12.859 --> 01:13:16.079
the game. I think so, too. And we've seen baseball

01:13:16.079 --> 01:13:19.819
adopt so many... um interesting new rules that

01:13:19.819 --> 01:13:23.180
i think the larger bases larger bases i mean

01:13:23.180 --> 01:13:25.680
i didn't love the pitch clock at first now i

01:13:25.680 --> 01:13:27.699
would be so mad if they got rid of it because

01:13:27.699 --> 01:13:29.399
games are shorter it's not just the pitch clock

01:13:29.399 --> 01:13:32.220
it's also the like engage with the pitcher oh

01:13:32.220 --> 01:13:34.800
yeah yeah yeah right within before eight seconds

01:13:34.800 --> 01:13:37.920
now the one that i'm not a fan of is starting

01:13:37.920 --> 01:13:40.699
a runner on second base in extra innings yeah

01:13:40.699 --> 01:13:42.640
although the mariners seem to take advantage

01:13:42.640 --> 01:13:46.899
of that a lot i mean Damn shame. I don't know.

01:13:47.420 --> 01:13:52.920
I'm fine with it. Breaking news. Hold on, but

01:13:52.920 --> 01:13:55.220
Cameron and I were at the 18 -inning game. That's

01:13:55.220 --> 01:13:59.380
true. That was painful. That was nuts, and that

01:13:59.380 --> 01:14:01.300
was the playoffs, so there was no ghost runner.

01:14:01.520 --> 01:14:05.560
Yeah. I don't know. Aaron, I'm telling you this

01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:07.560
because this does not fall within your criteria.

01:14:07.600 --> 01:14:09.539
Do not watch the Mariners game tonight. They

01:14:09.539 --> 01:14:16.199
lost 9 -3 in 10 innings. They were leading three.

01:14:16.680 --> 01:14:20.500
Oh, my God. Just piece together how that can

01:14:20.500 --> 01:14:25.340
happen. They gave up seven. It was two to two

01:14:25.340 --> 01:14:28.199
after nine, and they gave up seven runs in the

01:14:28.199 --> 01:14:30.340
top of the 10th and then only scored one. God,

01:14:30.340 --> 01:14:31.539
that's what I was worried about. I was like,

01:14:31.579 --> 01:14:34.239
hopefully it was like. And now they've lost two

01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:36.939
or three to another terrible team. So thank God

01:14:36.939 --> 01:14:39.020
we have the Sounders right now because the Mariners

01:14:39.020 --> 01:14:43.470
have went from the best. Again, only one team

01:14:43.470 --> 01:14:46.270
can be good in Seattle. Yeah, I think so. At

01:14:46.270 --> 01:14:47.949
least the Storm are doing okay to start the season.

01:14:49.350 --> 01:14:50.909
Yeah, there we go. Yeah, look at that. Seattle

01:14:50.909 --> 01:14:52.909
Storm, baby. How many games have they played

01:14:52.909 --> 01:14:55.470
so far? Six, maybe. Okay. They just started.

01:14:56.090 --> 01:14:58.670
I think they're like, don't quote me on this,

01:14:58.689 --> 01:15:01.050
maybe five and one, four and two. Don't quote

01:15:01.050 --> 01:15:06.229
you on it. Okay. Don't. Nobody out there goes

01:15:06.229 --> 01:15:09.140
into a conversation. Well, Cameron says. Hold

01:15:09.140 --> 01:15:13.500
on. Let me get my notepad. They are 3 -2. What

01:15:13.500 --> 01:15:16.119
was that again? They've played five games. They're

01:15:16.119 --> 01:15:22.779
3 -2. Also, I learned a funny stat where, what's

01:15:22.779 --> 01:15:25.180
her name? Angel Reese, who Nicholas and I are

01:15:25.180 --> 01:15:29.100
going to go see later this year. It was something

01:15:29.100 --> 01:15:33.600
like 34 % of her rebounds last year were on her

01:15:33.600 --> 01:15:38.420
own missed shots. So she was like this awesome

01:15:38.420 --> 01:15:40.380
rebounder, but it was because she was just missing

01:15:40.380 --> 01:15:44.239
them and bouncing them back up. She going full

01:15:44.239 --> 01:15:47.039
Gretzky. You're going to miss 100 % of the shots

01:15:47.039 --> 01:15:49.979
you don't take. No, she was missing a larger

01:15:49.979 --> 01:15:59.060
number than that. But yeah, I think whatever

01:15:59.060 --> 01:16:04.800
happened, we came out of those two games with

01:16:04.800 --> 01:16:10.409
two wins. Six points and a real chance going

01:16:10.409 --> 01:16:15.409
into the Club World Cup break to be three points

01:16:15.409 --> 01:16:18.270
out of first place in second place. They'll have

01:16:18.270 --> 01:16:22.510
a game in hand on us. But if we had talked earlier

01:16:22.510 --> 01:16:25.510
this season and said the Sounders are going to

01:16:25.510 --> 01:16:27.750
be three points out of first place in the West

01:16:27.750 --> 01:16:34.039
against the best team in the MLS. We know Nicholas

01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:37.260
would have said yes. But Aaron, would you be

01:16:37.260 --> 01:16:43.380
surprised right now? Yeah. Yeah, if you had told

01:16:43.380 --> 01:16:46.399
him that the best team in the league was Vancouver.

01:16:47.579 --> 01:16:57.210
Yes. And LA Galaxy hadn't won a game. Yeah. When

01:16:57.210 --> 01:16:59.130
do we play them? I'm so worried it's going to

01:16:59.130 --> 01:17:01.409
be us. Oh, my God. I hadn't thought about that.

01:17:01.630 --> 01:17:04.550
I'm so worried it's going to be us. That's uncomfortable.

01:17:04.750 --> 01:17:08.029
I don't want to look it up yet. What I'm excited

01:17:08.029 --> 01:17:13.210
about is that this team... We don't play them

01:17:13.210 --> 01:17:15.510
until after League's Cup in August, so that would

01:17:15.510 --> 01:17:21.270
be funny if it is us. But that means they would

01:17:21.270 --> 01:17:23.329
have to lose a lot or not win a lot more games

01:17:23.329 --> 01:17:25.850
between now and then. That's why it's almost

01:17:25.850 --> 01:17:30.909
worth it. It's tracking. That will happen. It's

01:17:30.909 --> 01:17:33.949
just like a locomotive just heading right down

01:17:33.949 --> 01:17:39.750
for us. The LA Galaxy's first win. Chugga chugga.

01:17:40.189 --> 01:17:45.270
I forgot what I was saying. What about you? Nicholas,

01:17:45.289 --> 01:17:46.890
I mean, you were positive on the team, but we

01:17:46.890 --> 01:17:48.449
were struggling and you knew we could turn it

01:17:48.449 --> 01:17:51.609
around. But would you be surprised? Are you surprised

01:17:51.609 --> 01:17:53.189
we turned it around? So, I mean, it feels like

01:17:53.189 --> 01:17:55.869
the ball is bouncing our way now when it hasn't

01:17:55.869 --> 01:17:59.789
been the last couple of years. It's a loaded

01:17:59.789 --> 01:18:03.210
question because the sport is always so topsy

01:18:03.210 --> 01:18:05.069
-turvy. I mean, look at our injuries, you know,

01:18:05.069 --> 01:18:08.390
they're just piling up. um and will that come

01:18:08.390 --> 01:18:10.590
back to bite us or maybe it won't because we're

01:18:10.590 --> 01:18:12.090
about to get a break and they'll all come back

01:18:12.090 --> 01:18:14.329
healthy and we've gone through i mean think if

01:18:14.329 --> 01:18:15.630
we're doing this now what are we going to do

01:18:15.630 --> 01:18:17.550
when we're full hey i'll tell you one thing i

01:18:17.550 --> 01:18:20.409
did talk to jordan morris yesterday um you know

01:18:20.409 --> 01:18:24.289
well no no no but i asked him specifically this

01:18:24.289 --> 01:18:28.850
question like i did i did specifically ask him

01:18:28.850 --> 01:18:33.000
um you know how you know how how he's feeling

01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:35.739
as far as will he be ready for club world cup

01:18:35.739 --> 01:18:38.119
and he's like you better believe i will be yeah

01:18:38.119 --> 01:18:43.100
um breaking news on this podcast nicholas bielo

01:18:43.100 --> 01:18:46.739
can report yeah that jordan morris is expected

01:18:46.739 --> 01:18:48.420
to play in club world cup you're not going to

01:18:48.420 --> 01:18:51.479
hear that in any other podcast because they aren't

01:18:51.479 --> 01:18:55.279
asking those questions we are thank you cameron

01:18:55.279 --> 01:19:02.029
thank you cameron yeah uh and so And so I think,

01:19:02.029 --> 01:19:05.329
you know, it goes back to the whole Mufasa thing

01:19:05.329 --> 01:19:07.970
earlier in the year. And what was I saying about

01:19:07.970 --> 01:19:10.050
Mufasa? I thought you were going to say Mufasa.

01:19:10.510 --> 01:19:14.949
What was I saying about Mufasa? I took Jordan

01:19:14.949 --> 01:19:17.430
and I held him over my head and I was like, oh.

01:19:18.729 --> 01:19:23.470
No. What I told him is, what I said about it

01:19:23.470 --> 01:19:26.579
is. I really like that he keeps putting himself

01:19:26.579 --> 01:19:29.279
in good positions. And if you keep doing that,

01:19:29.380 --> 01:19:31.359
the results are going to come. And that's what

01:19:31.359 --> 01:19:35.039
I was getting at with the Dallas game. Now, now,

01:19:35.079 --> 01:19:37.340
now, now, now, let me, let me boister that point.

01:19:37.479 --> 01:19:40.699
Yep. I think it was Cedar that talked about this

01:19:40.699 --> 01:19:42.340
earlier. You haven't heard it yet, but on his

01:19:42.340 --> 01:19:47.439
ultra segment, uh, Musafsky has, I believe the

01:19:47.439 --> 01:19:51.260
third highest expected goals in the MLS. Yeah.

01:19:52.779 --> 01:19:58.750
Per forward. Yeah. Incredible. It is. And he's

01:19:58.750 --> 01:20:01.029
putting himself in really good positions. But

01:20:01.029 --> 01:20:05.350
the thing is, this team has a lot of quality

01:20:05.350 --> 01:20:10.489
that can pick out passes. And the talk about

01:20:10.489 --> 01:20:12.930
Albert Rosnack is really starting to come out

01:20:12.930 --> 01:20:15.750
big on the national stage. I mean, we're trying

01:20:15.750 --> 01:20:21.859
to see. Yeah. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Well, and finally,

01:20:21.979 --> 01:20:25.039
I mean, we've been tooting his horn for three

01:20:25.039 --> 01:20:26.960
years now. And the funny thing is, I think he's

01:20:26.960 --> 01:20:29.300
doing it more quietly than he usually does because

01:20:29.300 --> 01:20:32.260
he's not, he's not flashy and he's not the star

01:20:32.260 --> 01:20:36.319
player on our team from a outward looking in

01:20:36.319 --> 01:20:42.779
perspective. Yeah. So, you know, you know what

01:20:42.779 --> 01:20:47.539
I'm stoked about is remember when, was it Christian?

01:20:48.039 --> 01:20:52.899
That said that this locker room is the most tight.

01:20:53.079 --> 01:20:55.119
Last year when he said it was the closest locker

01:20:55.119 --> 01:20:59.260
room. Right now, this is the moment. These next

01:20:59.260 --> 01:21:01.180
couple months is when that's really going to

01:21:01.180 --> 01:21:04.220
start to shine through. I think you see teams

01:21:04.220 --> 01:21:07.640
start to find regress or regress to the mean,

01:21:07.779 --> 01:21:10.779
so to speak, after we go through these tournaments.

01:21:11.819 --> 01:21:14.340
In the next few months, we come out in August

01:21:14.340 --> 01:21:18.510
on the home stretch for playoffs. I think this

01:21:18.510 --> 01:21:23.609
tightest locker room he's ever been on is really

01:21:23.609 --> 01:21:25.390
going to start to shine through because we've

01:21:25.390 --> 01:21:29.229
been very consistent. That was last season. Yeah,

01:21:29.270 --> 01:21:31.649
but I mean, look at what you're hearing. Was

01:21:31.649 --> 01:21:35.850
it last season? It was, it was. But look at what

01:21:35.850 --> 01:21:38.630
you're seeing from players like Ryan Kent coming

01:21:38.630 --> 01:21:41.510
in and saying how he's finding the joy of playing.

01:21:41.689 --> 01:21:44.369
It's the bulk of the people coming back and then

01:21:44.369 --> 01:21:48.140
you're adding key people who, I mean, No, not

01:21:48.140 --> 01:21:51.279
key people. Kim Ki -hee. Kim Ki -hee. Yeah, Ki

01:21:51.279 --> 01:21:55.239
-hee. You added Ki -hee. But no, like players.

01:21:55.460 --> 01:21:57.760
What do you think is, when people talk, you know

01:21:57.760 --> 01:22:00.600
how like Barack Obama's Barry? What do you think

01:22:00.600 --> 01:22:02.439
they call Kim Ki -hee? Do they call him Ki? Do

01:22:02.439 --> 01:22:04.640
they call him he? They call him Ki -hee? Is there

01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:06.380
another nickname? I wonder. We should find that

01:22:06.380 --> 01:22:13.050
out. Ki -ki. Ki -ki. What's up, Ki -ki? Yeah,

01:22:13.050 --> 01:22:15.029
I'd love to hear, you know, I'd love to have

01:22:15.029 --> 01:22:17.329
like a fun, you know what, this is what we're

01:22:17.329 --> 01:22:18.550
going to do. We're going to do an episode where

01:22:18.550 --> 01:22:20.369
we're going, we're going to do a Patreon episode

01:22:20.369 --> 01:22:23.050
where we're going to do like sounder superlatives

01:22:23.050 --> 01:22:25.689
and we're going to make up nicknames for everyone.

01:22:25.930 --> 01:22:27.829
And we're going to make up like, you know. We're

01:22:27.829 --> 01:22:29.329
going to leak them to Jackson Feltz and see if

01:22:29.329 --> 01:22:32.869
we can get them into the lexicon. Yeah, we're

01:22:32.869 --> 01:22:35.489
going to be like, okay, so which sounder is most

01:22:35.489 --> 01:22:37.869
likely to be banned? What if it's like we asked

01:22:37.869 --> 01:22:42.890
the Discord to give us their starting 11? And

01:22:42.890 --> 01:22:45.710
their nicknames. And then we will give the superlatives

01:22:45.710 --> 01:22:47.949
for those players. Oh, for those 11, yeah. Yeah.

01:22:49.550 --> 01:22:56.050
Including referees and the judges. Shitface McGee.

01:22:57.470 --> 01:23:01.729
Well, which one is that? I mean, most recently,

01:23:01.850 --> 01:23:04.550
I wasn't there for San Diego, so I don't even

01:23:04.550 --> 01:23:06.489
know who our ref was. But I'll tell you what,

01:23:06.529 --> 01:23:09.529
Chapman in the Dallas match was quite frustrating.

01:23:10.200 --> 01:23:14.140
Well, Chapman also has a long history of fucking

01:23:14.140 --> 01:23:18.859
things up in a beautiful way. Despite being multiple

01:23:18.859 --> 01:23:20.720
times. It's Alan Chapman, right? Yep. I think

01:23:20.720 --> 01:23:22.500
he's multiple times. I feel like that's the only

01:23:22.500 --> 01:23:26.899
Alan I can think of. I know Alan's in real life.

01:23:27.060 --> 01:23:28.460
Really? I don't know any Alans. My brother -in

01:23:28.460 --> 01:23:31.619
-law. I've heard about the name Alan. Okay. I've

01:23:31.619 --> 01:23:33.199
heard of the name Alan. I don't think I've met

01:23:33.199 --> 01:23:37.880
an Alan before in my entire life. Yeah, I know

01:23:37.880 --> 01:23:44.170
a few. Also, in that game, the VAR ref, so not

01:23:44.170 --> 01:23:46.010
the game where we would have had to rely on it,

01:23:46.069 --> 01:23:50.670
was a well -known VAR ref, or a well -known referee

01:23:50.670 --> 01:23:54.210
to us. Chris Penso was the VAR ref in that game.

01:23:57.649 --> 01:24:00.750
I've met a Chris before. You've met a Chris?

01:24:00.829 --> 01:24:04.029
Oh, that's good. Yes, yes. That's ludicrous.

01:24:05.130 --> 01:24:07.310
His name is Chris. You're right. Chris Bridges,

01:24:07.329 --> 01:24:13.979
right? I believe so. So Minnesota's up next.

01:24:14.060 --> 01:24:17.859
What are we thinking? Sunday, 3 p .m. I love

01:24:17.859 --> 01:24:20.859
that we're playing them. I love that we just

01:24:20.859 --> 01:24:23.819
played San Diego. I love that we just played

01:24:23.819 --> 01:24:28.859
Portland a couple days ago. A couple days, a

01:24:28.859 --> 01:24:31.659
couple weeks ago. And they're right below us.

01:24:31.779 --> 01:24:34.859
And I love that we're going to play Minnesota.

01:24:35.220 --> 01:24:38.760
It's like we're... getting results against the

01:24:38.760 --> 01:24:42.960
top of our Western conference table. This one's

01:24:42.960 --> 01:24:44.800
going to be really interesting though, because

01:24:44.800 --> 01:24:50.260
this is a complete pairing of styles. Minnesota

01:24:50.260 --> 01:24:54.100
does not like the ball there. We talked about

01:24:54.100 --> 01:24:57.199
this in a previous episode where they are at

01:24:57.199 --> 01:25:00.159
a historical low as far as having possession

01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:04.500
and the Sounders at their best love having the

01:25:04.500 --> 01:25:11.770
ball. So it seems like it it's basically it could

01:25:11.770 --> 01:25:14.909
come out to play to see, well, whose style is

01:25:14.909 --> 01:25:17.529
going to is going to win out here. But I mean,

01:25:17.529 --> 01:25:20.229
it plays into both of our favor in that instance.

01:25:21.569 --> 01:25:23.890
Yeah, it just seems like we're just going downhill

01:25:23.890 --> 01:25:28.789
on ice. Yeah. Now, our head referee for this

01:25:28.789 --> 01:25:35.270
match is Lucas Spala. Hate him. Bringing up his

01:25:35.270 --> 01:25:43.449
profile. No idea. Yeah, sure. His profile? Where

01:25:43.449 --> 01:25:46.470
does he summer? No, his transfer market profile.

01:25:46.770 --> 01:25:54.210
He said 10 appearances in the MLS this season

01:25:54.210 --> 01:25:59.770
and given up 36 yellow cards and two penalty

01:25:59.770 --> 01:26:04.619
kicks. Oh, so the 20 % chance of penalty kick.

01:26:05.079 --> 01:26:07.399
Yeah, he has not given out penalty kicks in any

01:26:07.399 --> 01:26:11.060
of the Champions League. Well, Champions Cup,

01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:13.140
Central American Cup, Gold Cup qualification

01:26:13.140 --> 01:26:16.079
or Nations League, CONCACAF Nation League matches

01:26:16.079 --> 01:26:18.380
he's reffed, which he's reffed at least one in

01:26:18.380 --> 01:26:22.960
all of those. So it'll be interesting. But most

01:26:22.960 --> 01:26:28.199
recently, he looks like he reffed the Austin

01:26:28.199 --> 01:26:32.170
Salt Lake match tonight. which was a 1 -1 finish,

01:26:32.229 --> 01:26:35.210
and he gave out three yellow cards. Sounds exactly

01:26:35.210 --> 01:26:37.609
like the result we're going to have this weekend.

01:26:37.869 --> 01:26:42.010
Probably 1 -1. I'm going to say something here

01:26:42.010 --> 01:26:47.550
that I want Nicholas's reaction first. The VAR

01:26:47.550 --> 01:26:56.390
ref for that match is Daniel Radford. The silence

01:26:56.390 --> 01:27:01.430
speaks volumes. Well, I mean... He's kind of

01:27:01.430 --> 01:27:04.810
found himself as a VAR ref because he clearly

01:27:04.810 --> 01:27:09.609
is not going to be placed in a center position

01:27:09.609 --> 01:27:15.449
at the MLS level. We've talked about that before,

01:27:15.550 --> 01:27:20.050
that he was thrown to the wolves, fair or unfair.

01:27:20.510 --> 01:27:25.550
He was thrown to the wolves in the red card wedding.

01:27:26.550 --> 01:27:30.260
Okay. So, yeah, give some context to people who

01:27:30.260 --> 01:27:36.640
don't follow referees. So it's a derby game in

01:27:36.640 --> 01:27:43.699
the quarterfinals of the U .S. Open Cup, and

01:27:43.699 --> 01:27:49.520
you brought in someone who had never officiated

01:27:49.520 --> 01:27:56.479
a game of that magnitude before. They set him

01:27:56.479 --> 01:28:01.899
up to fail. Now, I will never know the answer

01:28:01.899 --> 01:28:05.340
to this, but when that kind of happens, I can't

01:28:05.340 --> 01:28:09.020
believe that that was by accident. I have to

01:28:09.020 --> 01:28:12.939
believe that he was set up to fail for whatever

01:28:12.939 --> 01:28:17.560
political reason. And I'm not talking about politics

01:28:17.560 --> 01:28:19.720
of Seattle and Portland. I'm talking about politics

01:28:19.720 --> 01:28:22.920
within MLS Pro. Why are you putting a guy whose

01:28:22.920 --> 01:28:28.000
first match at MLS level? uh, granted it's in

01:28:28.000 --> 01:28:30.340
the U S open cup, but is a, is not just any match,

01:28:30.380 --> 01:28:32.439
but a Darby match between Seattle and Portland

01:28:32.439 --> 01:28:36.439
at star fire where you're like on reputations.

01:28:36.819 --> 01:28:39.159
Yeah. I mean, I was talking to a Memorial day

01:28:39.159 --> 01:28:43.100
this weekend. I was at a party, uh, with a friend

01:28:43.100 --> 01:28:46.279
and I was talking to one of her, uh, friends

01:28:46.279 --> 01:28:50.420
who had gone to the Portland versus defiance

01:28:50.420 --> 01:28:53.239
match. And he actually had to, he, he liked it,

01:28:53.260 --> 01:28:56.000
but his little son, he had to go cause the fans

01:28:56.000 --> 01:28:58.460
were so violent against the referees and what

01:28:58.460 --> 01:29:00.520
they were shouting. And so there was so much

01:29:00.520 --> 01:29:03.279
vitriol in that match. I was there. The, the

01:29:03.279 --> 01:29:05.939
rep was bad. And this was before. Yeah. Yeah.

01:29:05.960 --> 01:29:07.779
But this was before the, he left at halftime.

01:29:07.800 --> 01:29:10.520
So this is way before the, uh, the, the awful

01:29:10.520 --> 01:29:15.199
penalty kick, uh, given, but, uh, I'm just saying

01:29:15.199 --> 01:29:18.300
that like the history is still there where when

01:29:18.300 --> 01:29:19.720
you were playing Portland, it doesn't matter

01:29:19.720 --> 01:29:24.420
what level of Seattle at starfire. It is a, uh,

01:29:25.359 --> 01:29:27.939
I think people get PTSD. It's a pressure cooker.

01:29:28.220 --> 01:29:32.819
Yeah, yeah. So I guess what I'm saying is I'm

01:29:32.819 --> 01:29:37.479
coming around on Daniel Radford where, yes, he

01:29:37.479 --> 01:29:42.239
had a howler of a game, and it was just bad on

01:29:42.239 --> 01:29:49.640
so many levels in the micromanaging, but it seems

01:29:49.640 --> 01:29:55.289
like he's found his place in... you know in the

01:29:55.289 --> 01:30:01.430
in the league in in usl or in us pro and so um

01:30:01.430 --> 01:30:04.149
as long as it's not center reffing i think i'm

01:30:04.149 --> 01:30:06.369
going to be okay with that so it sounds like

01:30:06.369 --> 01:30:10.149
to me it sounds like to me shitty center refs

01:30:10.149 --> 01:30:15.699
get set down to be our VAR refs, which are critical

01:30:15.699 --> 01:30:19.859
of others. And so is considered a good ref though.

01:30:20.020 --> 01:30:22.520
So cause, cause, cause well, well, well usually

01:30:22.520 --> 01:30:24.939
like if it's like baseball where there's a rotation,

01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:27.180
you know, you're kind of doing that. However,

01:30:27.239 --> 01:30:31.579
some people might just be rotation. Well, no,

01:30:31.600 --> 01:30:35.000
no, but, but let's say this, Daniel Radford might

01:30:35.000 --> 01:30:38.979
have a great. technical knowledge of the game

01:30:38.979 --> 01:30:42.079
might be able to when he's not the one that's

01:30:42.079 --> 01:30:45.140
running alongside and making the decisions on

01:30:45.140 --> 01:30:47.960
the fly when he's able to sit and observe he

01:30:47.960 --> 01:30:50.220
might technically read that game better than

01:30:50.220 --> 01:30:52.560
anyone i don't know that sounds like i would

01:30:52.560 --> 01:30:54.819
give someone a compliment sandwich and then their

01:30:54.819 --> 01:30:57.439
documentation now did we did we mention this

01:30:57.439 --> 01:31:00.880
i don't know if it's still true but in 2023 uh

01:31:00.880 --> 01:31:04.260
which we we had the show then i'm pretty sure

01:31:04.260 --> 01:31:08.350
january 2023 Yeah, 2022 was our first season

01:31:08.350 --> 01:31:10.810
and we won Champions League Cup. It was phenomenal.

01:31:11.409 --> 01:31:14.930
Daniel Radford, he was named the first ever senior

01:31:14.930 --> 01:31:19.050
manager of referees for US Youth Soccer. So maybe

01:31:19.050 --> 01:31:21.109
that actually plays into what I'm saying here.

01:31:21.149 --> 01:31:23.409
I think it does. I think he is a very technically

01:31:23.409 --> 01:31:32.949
skilled ref who was in over his head. And, yeah,

01:31:33.090 --> 01:31:37.189
I mean, Ricardo Salazar was similar. He had a

01:31:37.189 --> 01:31:39.810
number of games against Seattle that just did

01:31:39.810 --> 01:31:45.729
not endear him to the fan base. But in his final

01:31:45.729 --> 01:31:49.369
few seasons before his health issues forced him

01:31:49.369 --> 01:31:53.090
out of being on the field. How do you know shit

01:31:53.090 --> 01:31:56.130
like that, Nick? Well, I actually used to be

01:31:56.130 --> 01:31:59.270
a ref. I used to do high school officiating for

01:31:59.270 --> 01:32:03.630
different sports. And I'd like to think of myself

01:32:03.630 --> 01:32:05.829
as someone who's fair and balanced. I don't know

01:32:05.829 --> 01:32:10.979
what, you know, Ed Hockley's. Well, no, his son

01:32:10.979 --> 01:32:14.659
is actually in the NFL as well. Yeah, he is.

01:32:14.960 --> 01:32:16.239
He's an official. Yeah, he's an official in the

01:32:16.239 --> 01:32:19.119
NFL. So it's funny you bring that up. I said

01:32:19.119 --> 01:32:21.260
Ed Hockey Lee Jr. Isn't his name Ed Hockey Lee

01:32:21.260 --> 01:32:22.859
Jr.? I don't think it is. I don't know if it

01:32:22.859 --> 01:32:25.899
is or not, but his son is an official in the

01:32:25.899 --> 01:32:27.380
NFL. And we can talk forever about NFL officials

01:32:27.380 --> 01:32:30.060
because my favorite official went to Santa Clara

01:32:30.060 --> 01:32:33.939
University and had a – he's now the CBS Mike

01:32:33.939 --> 01:32:37.770
Carey. He's the CBS – But he didn't even need

01:32:37.770 --> 01:32:41.270
to ref. He made so much money from heated snowboard

01:32:41.270 --> 01:32:43.229
pants he invented that he was just reffing because

01:32:43.229 --> 01:32:47.189
he loved doing it. Well, most of the refs, it

01:32:47.189 --> 01:32:51.229
was a part -time gig for them as well. So the

01:32:51.229 --> 01:32:56.529
reason I bring this up is because I do pay attention

01:32:56.529 --> 01:32:58.850
to that stuff. I have friends who were minor

01:32:58.850 --> 01:33:07.970
league baseball umpires. It's a thankless position,

01:33:08.250 --> 01:33:14.109
but for me, my mantra when I'm officiating a

01:33:14.109 --> 01:33:15.909
game is if I'm going to get the call wrong, that's

01:33:15.909 --> 01:33:19.949
one thing, but be in the right position to get

01:33:19.949 --> 01:33:26.770
the call wrong. Anyhow, we got onto a tangent

01:33:26.770 --> 01:33:30.510
there. That's all right. I think it's important

01:33:30.510 --> 01:33:34.310
to talk about referees, especially... in this

01:33:34.310 --> 01:33:37.529
upcoming match against Minnesota. So Minnesota

01:33:37.529 --> 01:33:40.449
ahead of us in the state, we have a chance to

01:33:40.449 --> 01:33:45.750
jump ahead of them. I think their style is still

01:33:45.750 --> 01:33:47.850
playing out of the back as their new head coach

01:33:47.850 --> 01:33:50.229
developed last season and it's working for them.

01:33:50.310 --> 01:33:53.850
Yes. Nicholas. Speaking of new head coach, did

01:33:53.850 --> 01:33:57.449
you catch that? Did you catch that St. Louis

01:33:57.449 --> 01:34:01.229
city fired their coach? No. Did that just happen?

01:34:01.329 --> 01:34:06.109
Yeah. Breaking news. They did. Yeah, they fired

01:34:06.109 --> 01:34:09.189
their coach, I think, yesterday, maybe today.

01:34:10.729 --> 01:34:13.850
They just had a rough start. I don't think he's

01:34:13.850 --> 01:34:15.529
been with them very long. I think this might

01:34:15.529 --> 01:34:18.329
have been his first year, if I remember correctly.

01:34:20.750 --> 01:34:24.369
But I could be wrong on that. If that's true,

01:34:24.529 --> 01:34:28.409
that's... I mean, obviously, we don't know what

01:34:28.409 --> 01:34:32.710
goes on behind closed doors, but that's... I

01:34:32.710 --> 01:34:35.090
hate seeing when a coach gets an opportunity

01:34:35.090 --> 01:34:38.789
and then they don't get to see their vision through.

01:34:38.970 --> 01:34:41.149
If that's kind of what you've hired them for,

01:34:41.289 --> 01:34:47.229
right? Yeah, 15 games. It's 15. Whoa. Yeah, there

01:34:47.229 --> 01:34:49.130
has to be stuff going on behind the scenes. Yeah,

01:34:49.189 --> 01:34:52.300
there has to be. And let's take a moment. real

01:34:52.300 --> 01:34:56.079
quick before we give predictions. Let's pull

01:34:56.079 --> 01:34:59.560
one out. Don't waste your beer. Let's take a

01:34:59.560 --> 01:35:02.100
moment before we get our predictions in this

01:35:02.100 --> 01:35:05.500
upcoming Minnesota game. I think we need... Oh,

01:35:05.579 --> 01:35:10.460
and don't forget our prediction for next little

01:35:10.460 --> 01:35:12.979
segment. This is more important than all of that.

01:35:13.060 --> 01:35:14.819
Let's talk about what's going on with San Diego

01:35:14.819 --> 01:35:18.000
and their fan base. Oh, shit. What happened?

01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:21.180
You didn't see the videos of the match before

01:35:21.180 --> 01:35:26.460
ours? LA. Can I get the context? Galaxy fans.

01:35:26.859 --> 01:35:29.840
Yeah, go ahead. Wait, so it was an LAFC before

01:35:29.840 --> 01:35:31.840
the last time we played them? So they played

01:35:31.840 --> 01:35:34.399
LA Galaxy before they played us this time? This

01:35:34.399 --> 01:35:38.239
was the LA Galaxy game because... Because there

01:35:38.239 --> 01:35:40.800
was shit in the one previous to ours before.

01:35:40.939 --> 01:35:45.020
Okay, sorry. So after the game... San Diego fans

01:35:45.020 --> 01:35:48.500
went up to the supporters section for the LA

01:35:48.500 --> 01:35:52.640
Galaxy's away fans and got into a fight with

01:35:52.640 --> 01:35:56.760
them. A pretty nasty brawl. Not too many rows

01:35:56.760 --> 01:36:02.939
up from the railing. There were people tumbling

01:36:02.939 --> 01:36:06.800
onto the rail. So it was a little nervy. Now,

01:36:06.800 --> 01:36:13.939
I will say that the cause of the fight... was

01:36:13.939 --> 01:36:19.439
in the away match when LA Galaxy, when San Diego

01:36:19.439 --> 01:36:24.819
traveled to LA, LA Galaxy supporters stole one

01:36:24.819 --> 01:36:29.989
of the banners of the San Diego supporters. And

01:36:29.989 --> 01:36:33.189
then after the game was held, they held that

01:36:33.189 --> 01:36:36.529
banner upside down, and that's what triggered

01:36:36.529 --> 01:36:38.930
it. They went to go get their banner back. So

01:36:38.930 --> 01:36:41.729
in this recent one. Yeah, but we've also seen

01:36:41.729 --> 01:36:44.130
ECS do that to the old players of San Jose. I

01:36:44.130 --> 01:36:47.529
mean, to me, there's no future fight. Yeah, that's

01:36:47.529 --> 01:36:51.149
happened. The Wayboys. A long time ago. Yeah.

01:36:51.710 --> 01:36:53.369
It's why I couldn't hang out with all my friends

01:36:53.369 --> 01:36:55.270
from San Jose anymore when they came up, even

01:36:55.270 --> 01:36:58.310
though I wasn't in ECS. They wouldn't let me.

01:36:58.460 --> 01:37:00.720
them hang out with me because i mean supporter

01:37:00.720 --> 01:37:03.340
and and i'd love to do an episode and we've already

01:37:03.340 --> 01:37:06.119
kind of talked about this amongst us uh i'd love

01:37:06.119 --> 01:37:08.079
to do an episode where we do talk about supporter

01:37:08.079 --> 01:37:11.159
culture and get in depth on those things because

01:37:11.159 --> 01:37:16.159
it's a really fascinating subject and and just

01:37:16.159 --> 01:37:20.539
like It's a key part of soccer, and it's important

01:37:20.539 --> 01:37:23.319
to understand the dynamics. So when you're visiting

01:37:23.319 --> 01:37:27.479
another stadium and you're told, tie your scarf

01:37:27.479 --> 01:37:31.859
to your body, don't let your scarf hang loose.

01:37:32.439 --> 01:37:35.649
There are people that are... That could just

01:37:35.649 --> 01:37:40.310
be a sub -series. I can tell you all about when

01:37:40.310 --> 01:37:42.350
I lived in Europe and the things I experienced

01:37:42.350 --> 01:37:45.010
going to PSG matches where Stan's getting...

01:37:45.010 --> 01:37:48.149
You got trapped onto a train. You got funneled

01:37:48.149 --> 01:37:51.250
onto a train after one of the games. I definitely

01:37:51.250 --> 01:37:54.529
experienced it firsthand. One of my friends got

01:37:54.529 --> 01:37:57.029
his jaw broken. One of our friends got his jaw

01:37:57.029 --> 01:38:01.880
broken in DC. That was awful. yeah dc actually

01:38:01.880 --> 01:38:04.819
yeah dc stop talking because it's going to be

01:38:04.819 --> 01:38:07.199
an episode okay i got we're going to do this

01:38:07.199 --> 01:38:10.239
this sounds awesome because because with the

01:38:10.239 --> 01:38:14.159
meantime with uh international yeah whatever

01:38:14.159 --> 01:38:18.100
read among the thugs by bill buford to see what

01:38:18.100 --> 01:38:21.239
hooligan culture used to be it is the movie i

01:38:21.239 --> 01:38:23.960
mean green street hooligans is not a fair representation

01:38:23.960 --> 01:38:27.060
of the book the book cosplay yeah the book is

01:38:27.060 --> 01:38:29.380
one of the most incredible things you will read

01:38:29.380 --> 01:38:31.899
about what hooliganism was like in the 80s in

01:38:31.899 --> 01:38:36.680
England. It's not pretty. Among the thugs. I

01:38:36.680 --> 01:38:40.300
mean, we're talking racism, people being murdered,

01:38:40.439 --> 01:38:45.399
attacks. That's why hooliganism here is cosplay

01:38:45.399 --> 01:38:48.920
-ish to me, number one. And number two, the moment

01:38:48.920 --> 01:38:51.520
it goes out of hand is the moment the MLS cracks

01:38:51.520 --> 01:38:54.600
down on all supporter culture, which we've seen

01:38:54.600 --> 01:38:58.890
a few small instances of that. Over the years,

01:38:59.029 --> 01:39:04.550
San Jose fans being banned in Portland, you know,

01:39:04.550 --> 01:39:08.630
LAFC fans getting banned for fire in the stands,

01:39:08.670 --> 01:39:10.850
mainly because their fire was right next to things

01:39:10.850 --> 01:39:13.069
that weren't fireproofed and could have really

01:39:13.069 --> 01:39:18.149
harmed people. But yeah, Among the Thugs by Bill

01:39:18.149 --> 01:39:20.329
Buford, check it out. It's an incredible book.

01:39:22.009 --> 01:39:24.470
One other piece of note, talking about bands

01:39:24.470 --> 01:39:27.850
and talking about soccer, is news that came out

01:39:27.850 --> 01:39:29.949
that we just didn't talk about, a press release

01:39:29.949 --> 01:39:31.970
from the Sounders. We're going to try and set

01:39:31.970 --> 01:39:35.810
a Guinness Book of World Records on Father's

01:39:35.810 --> 01:39:41.130
Day. And the idea being that'll be one year to

01:39:41.130 --> 01:39:44.329
the day from the first World Cup game in Seattle.

01:39:44.989 --> 01:39:48.949
And at Pier 62... The Sounders are going to try

01:39:48.949 --> 01:39:51.189
and set a record for... Is that where we had

01:39:51.189 --> 01:39:54.710
the party? Yes. Yeah. That's where they're going

01:39:54.710 --> 01:39:58.670
to try and set a record for the biggest soccer

01:39:58.670 --> 01:40:04.810
clinic, which San Jose has. What? It's a Guinness

01:40:04.810 --> 01:40:09.550
Book of World Records. Okay, come on. Okay. But...

01:40:09.550 --> 01:40:12.409
Should we... Hey, can we talk to them and see

01:40:12.409 --> 01:40:14.829
if we can do the biggest podcast recording at

01:40:14.829 --> 01:40:22.409
a soccer clinic? yeah exactly yes please let's

01:40:22.409 --> 01:40:28.100
do it but hey it's never been done But pre -registration

01:40:28.100 --> 01:40:31.560
is required. Go to the Sounders website. It's

01:40:31.560 --> 01:40:34.899
partnered with Raid Foundation. I believe every

01:40:34.899 --> 01:40:37.739
participant will go away with a soccer ball.

01:40:38.000 --> 01:40:41.399
It's also the same day as our first Club World

01:40:41.399 --> 01:40:45.119
Cup match against Botafogo. So it'll be a really

01:40:45.119 --> 01:40:47.760
busy day for some of us with Pub League Fun Week,

01:40:47.920 --> 01:40:51.100
followed by this, followed by Botafogo. It'll

01:40:51.100 --> 01:40:54.520
be a big day of soccer. So for all you dads out

01:40:54.520 --> 01:40:57.789
there, It sucks, man. Who wouldn't want to set

01:40:57.789 --> 01:40:58.869
a world record? I don't want to be here right

01:40:58.869 --> 01:41:02.090
now. Come visit. I don't want to be in San Diego.

01:41:02.750 --> 01:41:07.529
Just here. Come visit that weekend. Don't watch

01:41:07.529 --> 01:41:09.489
the F1 movie until that weekend. We'll all watch

01:41:09.489 --> 01:41:11.850
it. Leave my family for Father's Day weekend.

01:41:11.909 --> 01:41:14.069
Yeah. It's Father's Day. You should be able to

01:41:14.069 --> 01:41:16.649
do what you want. I want peace and relaxation

01:41:16.649 --> 01:41:19.770
away from the kid. I'm jokingly. Just to see.

01:41:19.770 --> 01:41:22.319
I actually don't want to be with you. Just say

01:41:22.319 --> 01:41:25.600
you need to step out for some smokes. I got to

01:41:25.600 --> 01:41:33.739
go get some milk from the store. I got lost.

01:41:34.060 --> 01:41:37.279
I drove the wrong way into Mexico and Trump wouldn't

01:41:37.279 --> 01:41:43.239
let me back in. All right, so let's get ready

01:41:43.239 --> 01:41:49.020
to wind up here. So let's start with our predictions

01:41:49.020 --> 01:41:51.960
for the Minnesota match and then move on to the

01:41:51.960 --> 01:41:55.699
Scuttlebutt prediction results. Yeah, let's do

01:41:55.699 --> 01:41:57.579
it. Aaron, what are you thinking? This Minnesota

01:41:57.579 --> 01:42:01.100
match coming up on Sunday, 3 p .m. start. Two

01:42:01.100 --> 01:42:04.979
contrasting and or similar styles. What are the

01:42:04.979 --> 01:42:07.979
Sounders going to do? Well, one, this is Apple

01:42:07.979 --> 01:42:12.359
TVs. Isn't this the Sunday? Sunday soccer. Sunday,

01:42:12.399 --> 01:42:14.380
Sunday, Sunday. I think it's Sunday night soccer.

01:42:14.439 --> 01:42:17.180
Sunday night soccer at 3 p .m. It's at 3 o 'clock,

01:42:17.319 --> 01:42:22.060
yeah. East Coast bias. I really, I love the idea

01:42:22.060 --> 01:42:25.739
of Sunday night soccer. I kind of wish it was

01:42:25.739 --> 01:42:27.539
executed better because this would be cool to

01:42:27.539 --> 01:42:29.439
be a part of it. Yeah, it was actually Sunday

01:42:29.439 --> 01:42:31.699
night. I love Seahawks primetime, right? It's

01:42:31.699 --> 01:42:34.260
always, you get amped up. Yeah. I want a reason

01:42:34.260 --> 01:42:39.189
to be amped up beyond just the... the matchup

01:42:39.189 --> 01:42:42.409
because of the table. Right. Um, I want a reason

01:42:42.409 --> 01:42:45.229
for us to score multiple goals, like just for

01:42:45.229 --> 01:42:51.409
the team to just be all on 11. Right. So as usual,

01:42:51.409 --> 01:42:54.770
my predictions, which we'll get to shortly. Right.

01:42:55.250 --> 01:42:59.109
I, I have been saying three, nothing sounders

01:42:59.109 --> 01:43:04.329
for rare scores for, for weeks. I actually want

01:43:04.329 --> 01:43:07.050
that to actually happen for this match. Love

01:43:07.050 --> 01:43:09.310
it. Because I've been saying that because I've

01:43:09.310 --> 01:43:11.689
just been trying to will it into existence, and

01:43:11.689 --> 01:43:13.210
it still hasn't happened. But I think this is

01:43:13.210 --> 01:43:14.170
the match where it needs to happen. This is the

01:43:14.170 --> 01:43:16.170
first week I think I changed from Ferreira being

01:43:16.170 --> 01:43:22.689
the scorer. So is you. That was the key. Me,

01:43:22.869 --> 01:43:26.829
not you. Yeah. Nicholas, what about you? I like

01:43:26.829 --> 01:43:32.050
scoring. Scoring is fun. I like goals. I have

01:43:32.050 --> 01:43:34.170
been predicting some high -scoring goals lately.

01:43:35.949 --> 01:43:38.470
high -scoring games, and they just haven't come

01:43:38.470 --> 01:43:41.470
to fruition. This game's going to be really interesting.

01:43:42.609 --> 01:43:45.029
I'm a little nervous about the counterattack

01:43:45.029 --> 01:43:51.350
from Minnesota, especially with our key center

01:43:51.350 --> 01:43:55.470
backs. That's a good point. I am nervous about

01:43:55.470 --> 01:43:57.989
that, so I do think it's going to be tough to

01:43:57.989 --> 01:44:04.680
keep a clean sheet. But, boy, I just... I like

01:44:04.680 --> 01:44:07.819
our odds if you're giving us possession at home,

01:44:07.979 --> 01:44:13.300
letting us cook. I do like our odds with that.

01:44:13.560 --> 01:44:22.399
So if we can get the injury report looking good

01:44:22.399 --> 01:44:26.119
and have a true number nine up top, so whether

01:44:26.119 --> 01:44:30.539
that's Danny, I think you take Jesus over Osase

01:44:30.539 --> 01:44:35.060
de Rosario, but... If Danny's starting up there,

01:44:35.199 --> 01:44:40.699
we can get three goals, I think. If not, we might

01:44:40.699 --> 01:44:45.680
get one or two. Can I say one thing off of that?

01:44:45.760 --> 01:44:49.199
I think you have to start Jesus because he just

01:44:49.199 --> 01:44:52.479
scored. Unless his baby's being born at that

01:44:52.479 --> 01:44:57.359
time. That's reality fair, but in terms of soccer

01:44:57.359 --> 01:45:01.140
reality, I think you have to start him. because

01:45:01.140 --> 01:45:03.060
he just just scored and that and that's what

01:45:03.060 --> 01:45:08.699
he's here for masovsky is it was is a high return

01:45:08.699 --> 01:45:11.760
of investment yeah but we we invested money in

01:45:11.760 --> 01:45:15.119
jesus yeah and actually and it's quite a steal

01:45:15.119 --> 01:45:19.460
honestly but but he's here for a reason and that's

01:45:19.460 --> 01:45:21.720
just scored he just scored give him the opportunity

01:45:21.720 --> 01:45:24.779
to do it again i don't yeah i agree on that but

01:45:24.779 --> 01:45:28.140
i'm also out too so he should be able to start

01:45:28.140 --> 01:45:31.020
no problem Well, that's the question right there.

01:45:31.300 --> 01:45:33.060
And we have to say something about Stuart Hawkins.

01:45:33.600 --> 01:45:39.020
Hey, Stu came in, had a solid game. He had a

01:45:39.020 --> 01:45:43.960
rough start to his MLS career last time. Yeah,

01:45:45.819 --> 01:45:49.699
yeah. This was much, much better. Much better.

01:45:51.180 --> 01:45:54.359
He's got some long legs. Yeah, he does. And I

01:45:54.359 --> 01:45:58.140
have long legs. So that's game recognize a game

01:45:58.140 --> 01:46:03.300
right there. I am no torso, all legs, 6 '2".

01:46:03.300 --> 01:46:07.939
Defending Chucky Luzano in his first game at

01:46:07.939 --> 01:46:15.180
home. Props. I'm all torso. Oh, I didn't really

01:46:15.180 --> 01:46:17.439
give a score, did I? It's like I'm Jack Skellington.

01:46:17.439 --> 01:46:18.680
You said we were going to score three goals.

01:46:19.419 --> 01:46:23.020
I mean, it depends on the lineup, but assuming

01:46:23.020 --> 01:46:27.140
that the lineup is what I think it'll be, I think

01:46:27.140 --> 01:46:30.420
it's going to be a 3 -2 game. I do think it's

01:46:30.420 --> 01:46:32.180
going to be a higher scoring game because I think

01:46:32.180 --> 01:46:35.260
those counter goals from Minnesota, they've got

01:46:35.260 --> 01:46:43.840
quality. Yeah, I hope so. I worry about that

01:46:43.840 --> 01:46:48.760
as well. If you look at Minnesota's most recent,

01:46:49.180 --> 01:46:54.880
uh matches minnesota minnesota that's a fun that's

01:46:54.880 --> 01:46:59.479
that's offensive yeah well they uh they they

01:46:59.479 --> 01:47:02.939
tied at vancouver so that was good for them uh

01:47:02.939 --> 01:47:05.380
they tied at home against austin and then their

01:47:05.380 --> 01:47:08.859
previous two wins in the open cup and in a regular

01:47:08.859 --> 01:47:10.699
mls match two games before that were against

01:47:10.699 --> 01:47:13.100
st louis where they did give up two goals but

01:47:13.100 --> 01:47:14.880
probably didn't have their full lineup for that

01:47:14.880 --> 01:47:18.630
open cup match and they lost to houston in Houston.

01:47:18.750 --> 01:47:22.050
So, uh, before that we did see them beat inner

01:47:22.050 --> 01:47:27.710
Miami and Austin. Uh, but I think lately they've

01:47:27.710 --> 01:47:31.310
been more miss against teams than hit if you

01:47:31.310 --> 01:47:33.449
get rid of that St. Louis match. So my hope is

01:47:33.449 --> 01:47:36.369
that we'll do well. Uh, I gotta, I gotta believe

01:47:36.369 --> 01:47:38.470
we're going to win right now, but I don't see

01:47:38.470 --> 01:47:40.189
us scoring multiple goals until they prove it

01:47:40.189 --> 01:47:42.130
to me. So I'm saying one, nothing Seattle. I

01:47:42.130 --> 01:47:46.000
think Schmetzer, uh, plays cautious like he did

01:47:46.000 --> 01:47:48.100
against Dallas, but somehow we pull out that

01:47:48.100 --> 01:47:52.939
goal. I don't think it's going to be so cautious

01:47:52.939 --> 01:47:58.060
because, one, we're at home. And we've been at

01:47:58.060 --> 01:48:00.760
home. Yeah. I think that plays a factor. But

01:48:00.760 --> 01:48:02.720
we're going to rotate it a little bit, and we

01:48:02.720 --> 01:48:06.500
have no – I mean, unless we're moving Nuhu over

01:48:06.500 --> 01:48:10.340
to center back, Reagan's not a 90 -minute fit.

01:48:10.760 --> 01:48:12.899
We don't even know if he's 45 minute fit. We

01:48:12.899 --> 01:48:15.760
know he's not 60 because, or 50, whatever it

01:48:15.760 --> 01:48:18.439
was, because Spencer said that it was too many

01:48:18.439 --> 01:48:20.319
minutes for him to play to sub in at that moment

01:48:20.319 --> 01:48:22.680
for when Kiki got hurt, when Kim got hurt. So

01:48:22.680 --> 01:48:27.239
I just, I think that we will be, I mean, we'll

01:48:27.239 --> 01:48:28.979
still have great wing play, right? But I think

01:48:28.979 --> 01:48:30.220
we're going to be a little cautious through the

01:48:30.220 --> 01:48:31.619
middle. We're not going to see the center backs

01:48:31.619 --> 01:48:33.479
push up where we've seen the most success when

01:48:33.479 --> 01:48:36.340
they do that. And so I think it's going to leave

01:48:36.340 --> 01:48:38.859
us wanting a little bit in the attack, but I

01:48:38.859 --> 01:48:40.979
think we find a way to pull it out. I think JP

01:48:40.979 --> 01:48:45.279
starts with Christian. Interesting. They haven't

01:48:45.279 --> 01:48:47.000
been doing that. They've been doing JP paired

01:48:47.000 --> 01:48:48.840
with Danny. So I would like to see that. I think

01:48:48.840 --> 01:48:50.619
that would be cool. I don't know. I think maybe

01:48:50.619 --> 01:48:54.920
Kalani Kosa -Rienzi starts over Alex. Because

01:48:54.920 --> 01:48:58.399
again, I think with Minnesota conceding so much

01:48:58.399 --> 01:49:01.560
possession, you need someone on the back line

01:49:01.560 --> 01:49:03.539
who's going to be able to be a little more attacking.

01:49:05.450 --> 01:49:08.210
And just demand attention, yeah. And you're going

01:49:08.210 --> 01:49:11.130
to see Nuhu, well, as long as you have a solid

01:49:11.130 --> 01:49:15.050
back line there, center back line, you can see

01:49:15.050 --> 01:49:17.829
Nuhu and him both pushing forward, but they're

01:49:17.829 --> 01:49:19.670
really going to have to get back. They're really

01:49:19.670 --> 01:49:22.149
going to have to shift into that. That's why

01:49:22.149 --> 01:49:23.729
I feel like... Because you only have three at

01:49:23.729 --> 01:49:25.850
the back when one pushes forward, right, instead

01:49:25.850 --> 01:49:28.430
of four. That's why I feel like a JP Christian

01:49:28.430 --> 01:49:33.300
playing defensively to help direct things. I

01:49:33.300 --> 01:49:36.279
think that holds the back line together with

01:49:36.279 --> 01:49:41.300
Fry. Yeah. Almost like some sort of bridge or

01:49:41.300 --> 01:49:47.960
Eiffel Tower structure. Yeah. Those two guys

01:49:47.960 --> 01:49:52.060
really keep the middle. Yeah. I think you're

01:49:52.060 --> 01:49:55.619
the glue that keeps it all together. So with

01:49:55.619 --> 01:49:58.720
that in mind, let's talk about the prediction

01:49:58.720 --> 01:50:05.260
challenges. Oh, God, no. So the Dallas game,

01:50:05.520 --> 01:50:11.140
we had a perfect score, Asian Man 1974. Nice.

01:50:11.420 --> 01:50:16.380
Got all five. Denying my wife back -to -back

01:50:16.380 --> 01:50:18.659
victories because she had four. Bernie, shut

01:50:18.659 --> 01:50:20.619
down. Oh, my God, I thought that was someone's

01:50:20.619 --> 01:50:23.979
name, and I was like, that's... My wife. My wife.

01:50:25.100 --> 01:50:28.060
Denying my wife. Denying my wife. Yes, that's

01:50:28.060 --> 01:50:31.659
right. Woman, you do not get none from me. I'm

01:50:31.659 --> 01:50:35.500
shutting this thing down. I mean, okay, we're

01:50:35.500 --> 01:50:38.439
moving on. How our days work, honey. So then

01:50:38.439 --> 01:50:42.399
the San Diego game, we had four people with four

01:50:42.399 --> 01:50:46.380
points. That would be Ram, Alex Diaz, Paul, and

01:50:46.380 --> 01:50:51.920
Dan Rowe. So they all got four points out of

01:50:51.920 --> 01:50:57.579
five. So congratulations there. Was there five

01:50:57.579 --> 01:50:59.920
or did you just say Dan Rowe twice? No, I said

01:50:59.920 --> 01:51:02.319
Dan Rowe, but the first time I said it, I kind

01:51:02.319 --> 01:51:05.720
of slurred it somehow. Shout out to Daniel for

01:51:05.720 --> 01:51:09.000
getting up there on the tide for first place.

01:51:09.060 --> 01:51:10.939
That's his first appearance up there for sure.

01:51:14.520 --> 01:51:20.100
Anyone pick Hazes? I did. Yeah, I did. I switched

01:51:20.100 --> 01:51:25.520
it to Brian Kent. As a matter of fact, I have

01:51:25.520 --> 01:51:28.439
the thing in front of me right now. I can see

01:51:28.439 --> 01:51:31.060
if anyone else did. That's what I was trying

01:51:31.060 --> 01:51:36.020
to get you to do. Ooh. So with the question of

01:51:36.020 --> 01:51:39.500
who will score the first goal. Who did? Sweet

01:51:39.500 --> 01:51:44.100
baby Jesus. Three people chose. Jesus Ferreira.

01:51:44.199 --> 01:51:48.220
And that would be Cedar. Cedar. Oh, yeah, that's

01:51:48.220 --> 01:51:50.420
right. I knew that. I knew that. So that shows

01:51:50.420 --> 01:51:54.760
if you, well, I guess all the ultras positions

01:51:54.760 --> 01:51:57.460
are gone. But if you're an ultra, then you have

01:51:57.460 --> 01:52:00.779
a higher chance at. Maybe we create a super ultra

01:52:00.779 --> 01:52:05.020
position. 50 bucks a month. Join our Patreon.

01:52:05.220 --> 01:52:10.479
It's $1 .74, right? What's the cheapest? $1 .974

01:52:10.479 --> 01:52:14.970
million. We'll get you. access to do whatever

01:52:14.970 --> 01:52:17.869
the hell you want. We will name this after the

01:52:17.869 --> 01:52:24.369
Adrian Hanauer Sounders Scuttlebutt Hour. We'll

01:52:24.369 --> 01:52:26.970
name the entire show after you. Brought to you

01:52:26.970 --> 01:52:30.949
by whatever sellout sponsor wants to give us

01:52:30.949 --> 01:52:34.770
money. Oh, speaking of, hey, San Diego companies,

01:52:34.869 --> 01:52:36.489
if you want to get in on this brewing action,

01:52:36.770 --> 01:52:38.930
throw some money our way. We'll say Sounders

01:52:38.930 --> 01:52:40.890
Scuttlebutt brought to you by Aurora Brewing

01:52:40.890 --> 01:52:43.979
or whatever that is you're drinking. It's Carl

01:52:43.979 --> 01:52:48.539
Strauss, man. Carl Strauss. Appreciate the offer.

01:52:48.760 --> 01:52:53.920
Think about it. I will get back to you. No worries,

01:52:54.079 --> 01:53:02.380
right? Don't you have a turtle to go? Sounds

01:53:02.380 --> 01:53:05.739
like, bro, that you have a daughter that has

01:53:05.739 --> 01:53:10.739
seen some movies about turtles and other Nemo's.

01:53:11.000 --> 01:53:14.329
I'm going to go. It took me a minute to understand

01:53:14.329 --> 01:53:16.710
that as someone who does not have a child. And

01:53:16.710 --> 01:53:19.069
then I realized I watched Instagram videos of

01:53:19.069 --> 01:53:20.930
the live action. Is that at Disneyland? Where

01:53:20.930 --> 01:53:23.310
is it where you can talk to that? Yeah. Well,

01:53:23.390 --> 01:53:26.470
they have money at the different parks, but it's

01:53:26.470 --> 01:53:28.409
really adorable and pretty funny. It's pretty

01:53:28.409 --> 01:53:29.770
cool where the kid's going to ask that turtle

01:53:29.770 --> 01:53:32.569
questions and he responds. Crush. It's at Living

01:53:32.569 --> 01:53:36.159
Seas in Epcot. turtle talk with crush it's at

01:53:36.159 --> 01:53:38.899
it's at the living season epcot and it's at the

01:53:38.899 --> 01:53:41.579
california adventure kind of in the it's also

01:53:41.579 --> 01:53:45.880
at uh tokyo disney as well is it in english at

01:53:45.880 --> 01:53:49.159
tokyo disney no it is not that made it really

01:53:49.159 --> 01:53:52.800
interesting that that turtle is is bilingual

01:53:52.800 --> 01:53:59.680
that is crazy my guess that actually this surprises

01:53:59.680 --> 01:54:02.479
me because disney's pretty like They think about,

01:54:02.539 --> 01:54:04.279
they have a lot of layers to their thoughts.

01:54:05.800 --> 01:54:08.380
That's what I love about Imagineering. But I

01:54:08.380 --> 01:54:13.199
would think Crush would take the current to Tokyo,

01:54:13.720 --> 01:54:18.439
Japan. And be like, what's up? Yeah, but here's

01:54:18.439 --> 01:54:21.520
the thing. With the amount of turtle and whale

01:54:21.520 --> 01:54:24.220
hunting they do in Japan, he probably needed

01:54:24.220 --> 01:54:26.060
to learn the language to prevent himself from

01:54:26.060 --> 01:54:32.500
being murdered. You know, I will say. My favorite

01:54:32.500 --> 01:54:35.319
ride at Tokyo Disney was the Beauty and the Beast

01:54:35.319 --> 01:54:37.880
ride, which was all in Japanese, but it's the

01:54:37.880 --> 01:54:39.939
songs of Beauty and the Beast, so you know the

01:54:39.939 --> 01:54:43.520
melodies and you know the songs. It was amazing.

01:54:44.680 --> 01:54:52.520
Absolutely amazing. I'm jealous. Did you do It's

01:54:52.520 --> 01:54:54.699
a Small World? Do they have that? Fuck yeah,

01:54:54.720 --> 01:55:01.760
I did. Is it still racist? They erased a lot

01:55:01.760 --> 01:55:03.560
of the racism from it that was there when I was

01:55:03.560 --> 01:55:08.479
a kid. Which was what? When they would go through

01:55:08.479 --> 01:55:12.020
countries from Africa and Asia, it was not very

01:55:12.020 --> 01:55:14.579
good. It was Looney Tunes -esque. The dolls were

01:55:14.579 --> 01:55:18.039
originally made in the late 1950s, early 60s.

01:55:18.340 --> 01:55:21.840
Exactly. Exactly what you think they look like.

01:55:21.840 --> 01:55:26.479
It was pretty awesome. Got it. Right on. Yeah.

01:55:26.720 --> 01:55:30.840
So, I think... Do you have our total leader?

01:55:30.939 --> 01:55:32.439
No, you don't want to say our total leader in

01:55:32.439 --> 01:55:35.880
the season. We need people to keep entering in

01:55:35.880 --> 01:55:38.220
to get these prizes you have coming. Like I said,

01:55:38.340 --> 01:55:42.220
we are going to do an overall leader. We're also

01:55:42.220 --> 01:55:45.300
going to do every time you play, you get an entry.

01:55:45.500 --> 01:55:49.279
So there will be a random chance drawing and

01:55:49.279 --> 01:55:52.800
an overall leader drawing. Beautiful. Yeah. And

01:55:52.800 --> 01:55:56.939
I think top prize is your unwashed gold booty

01:55:56.939 --> 01:56:01.819
shorts from... Two years ago? Public? The last

01:56:01.819 --> 01:56:05.579
time you were in public? I had those on the other

01:56:05.579 --> 01:56:07.899
day, actually. Yeah, I mean, they haven't been

01:56:07.899 --> 01:56:10.560
washed. At home alone. I mean, I think he wore

01:56:10.560 --> 01:56:12.779
them after they won the Shield this past week,

01:56:12.840 --> 01:56:15.479
right? Yeah, we did win the Shield, so... So

01:56:15.479 --> 01:56:17.039
it turned out it wasn't Aaron that was helping

01:56:17.039 --> 01:56:23.060
win the Shield. Fuck! I haven't found anything

01:56:23.060 --> 01:56:26.140
down here yet, guys. I'm bummed. But no, I...

01:56:27.369 --> 01:56:32.390
I think I can absolutely tell you for sure one

01:56:32.390 --> 01:56:35.789
of the prizes will be a team -signed jersey.

01:56:36.550 --> 01:56:42.130
I think I can definitely let the lid off on that

01:56:42.130 --> 01:56:45.630
one. That's a legit prize. I think that makes

01:56:45.630 --> 01:56:51.810
us, beyond our high volume of downloads, a legitimate

01:56:51.810 --> 01:56:55.170
podcast. Although, we need to get those Alliance

01:56:55.170 --> 01:56:57.890
Council people who keep entering into the contest

01:56:57.890 --> 01:57:04.409
to actually listen as well. Hey, you know, ultimately...

01:57:04.409 --> 01:57:06.909
We'll talk shit about you until you listen. Oh,

01:57:06.930 --> 01:57:09.409
yeah. Until you call us out on it. Wait a minute.

01:57:09.569 --> 01:57:13.170
Does that mean I need to stop talking shit about

01:57:13.170 --> 01:57:16.890
my wife? Yeah. She, at the very least, could

01:57:16.890 --> 01:57:18.949
download it and hit play on her phone so that

01:57:18.949 --> 01:57:21.869
we get to listen. Oh. Well, she's probably hearing

01:57:21.869 --> 01:57:25.810
me right now. I don't speak quietly. She's like,

01:57:25.869 --> 01:57:28.029
Nicholas, I hear enough of you in real life.

01:57:28.130 --> 01:57:30.350
The last thing I want to do is put you into my

01:57:30.350 --> 01:57:32.949
headphones while I'm driving to work or riding

01:57:32.949 --> 01:57:37.569
the light rail. That's 1 ,000 % fair. That's

01:57:37.569 --> 01:57:41.590
true, but just in case, hey, baby, you know,

01:57:41.649 --> 01:57:51.119
you know. I can't even. no no this would be a

01:57:51.119 --> 01:57:54.199
great time to remind everyone to rate us five

01:57:54.199 --> 01:57:59.119
stars rate us five stars uh subscribe uh smash

01:57:59.119 --> 01:58:04.750
that like button smash smash smash your past

01:58:04.750 --> 01:58:07.590
subscribe uh the more subscriptions we get the

01:58:07.590 --> 01:58:10.850
higher we end up in the uh you know uh the rankings

01:58:10.850 --> 01:58:12.750
the unincarcerated podcast that they've been

01:58:12.750 --> 01:58:14.689
doing uh which i was a part of the planning on

01:58:14.689 --> 01:58:17.029
is one of the top podcasts on itunes right now

01:58:17.029 --> 01:58:20.369
so let's get us and you owe us ten dollars for

01:58:20.369 --> 01:58:23.109
saying that and just a reminder if you want to

01:58:23.109 --> 01:58:25.970
add comments and when you when you do like and

01:58:25.970 --> 01:58:28.250
subscribe if you want to add comments and you

01:58:28.250 --> 01:58:30.310
could decide which of us is going to be you know

01:58:30.310 --> 01:58:35.890
kill mary yeah that would be great that would

01:58:35.890 --> 01:58:39.890
be great fmk nicholas aaron and cameron hey that's

01:58:39.890 --> 01:58:42.029
an ethical way of getting people to actually

01:58:42.029 --> 01:58:49.170
give reviews do it who would you kill Has to

01:58:49.170 --> 01:58:50.949
be a five -star review. If it's not, we're going

01:58:50.949 --> 01:58:54.689
to report you to the FCC. Should we do that for

01:58:54.689 --> 01:58:59.710
every opposing team we play now? FMK? FMK Minnesota.

01:59:00.350 --> 01:59:05.470
Wait, I actually was sending a reel for one of

01:59:05.470 --> 01:59:09.149
our listeners, and I will once in a while text

01:59:09.149 --> 01:59:13.380
each other Instagram stories. there's this girl

01:59:13.380 --> 01:59:16.939
who's basically doing like a smasher pass on

01:59:16.939 --> 01:59:20.439
she'll look at the rosters of soccer teams around

01:59:20.439 --> 01:59:23.840
the world and it came into my feed and it made

01:59:23.840 --> 01:59:27.000
me laugh so hard that i had to send it on like

01:59:27.000 --> 01:59:31.659
she would like sounders smash portland no no

01:59:31.659 --> 01:59:36.520
like specific players oh yeah oh so not wholesome

01:59:36.520 --> 01:59:42.880
oh Well, we're a podcast. We are. All the stuff

01:59:42.880 --> 01:59:46.039
we've talked about our travels to France in the

01:59:46.039 --> 01:59:48.079
beautiful city of love. You guys were Eiffel

01:59:48.079 --> 01:59:50.579
towering me before we even recorded the show.

01:59:51.680 --> 01:59:55.100
Please don't. Please. I mean, let's be noted.

01:59:55.140 --> 01:59:58.399
I am in San Diego. Yeah. From South Seattle to

01:59:58.399 --> 02:00:03.960
shoreline to San Diego. And, you know, Aaron,

02:00:04.119 --> 02:00:07.000
I would send you that video, except you're never

02:00:07.000 --> 02:00:10.140
on Instagram. No, just send it to Sounders Scuttlebutt

02:00:10.140 --> 02:00:13.359
and then what you can follow on Instagram. And

02:00:13.359 --> 02:00:15.560
eventually he'll see it in like two years. Where

02:00:15.560 --> 02:00:21.800
can they find you otherwise, Aaron? Never. No,

02:00:22.000 --> 02:00:24.399
no. Join the Discord. They can find you in the

02:00:24.399 --> 02:00:27.829
Discord. You shared your awesome. uh muppets

02:00:27.829 --> 02:00:31.649
video that's true i just don't want to be disingenuous

02:00:31.649 --> 02:00:34.710
you won't find me on on social media really anymore

02:00:34.710 --> 02:00:36.890
just haven't deactivated anything officially

02:00:36.890 --> 02:00:40.869
uh but yeah i i i do enjoy our discord a few

02:00:40.869 --> 02:00:42.770
times a week so yeah that's where you'll find

02:00:42.770 --> 02:00:47.090
me as the scuttlebutt that's right and nicholas

02:00:47.090 --> 02:00:49.289
you are cascades to see on instagram is that

02:00:49.289 --> 02:00:53.029
correct i am i am cascades to see and then on

02:00:53.029 --> 02:00:56.699
our discord i'm the aptly named nicholas Oh,

02:00:56.699 --> 02:00:59.300
yeah. Spelled the proper way. Not without the

02:00:59.300 --> 02:01:02.520
U, like these jerks all over the world. Hey.

02:01:02.800 --> 02:01:06.399
Nikolaus. Nikolaus. Like Santa Claus. That's

02:01:06.399 --> 02:01:10.979
right. I was born in Germany. Yeah. Sinterklaas?

02:01:12.199 --> 02:01:15.420
Nikolaus. Wait, is the German Sinterklaas the

02:01:15.420 --> 02:01:19.560
one that puts... Krampus? No, but kidnaps the

02:01:19.560 --> 02:01:28.090
kids and beats them if they aren't good? I cannot

02:01:28.090 --> 02:01:36.270
confirm or deny such atrocities. I've never thought

02:01:36.270 --> 02:01:38.489
of germaning atrocity in the same sentence before,

02:01:38.630 --> 02:01:41.770
huh? Yeah, that's so weird. I don't think anyone

02:01:41.770 --> 02:01:44.689
ever has. I don't think people have put two and

02:01:44.689 --> 02:01:47.250
two together. Listen, if you're not going to

02:01:47.250 --> 02:01:49.409
buy anything, you should get out of sprockets

02:01:49.409 --> 02:01:54.760
now. You can find me at LegalMindedPunk. all

02:01:54.760 --> 02:01:58.319
over social media, except for, you know, I don't

02:01:58.319 --> 02:02:00.859
think I'm on an LO anymore, but, or what was

02:02:00.859 --> 02:02:03.739
the other one? Mastodon. That had the coolest

02:02:03.739 --> 02:02:06.539
name. I wish that one had survived. Mastodon.

02:02:06.600 --> 02:02:10.079
What's your username on next videos? Oh, I don't

02:02:10.079 --> 02:02:12.279
have one of those. No, it was adult friend finder.

02:02:12.420 --> 02:02:17.439
Yeah, I do have one of those. No, but you can

02:02:17.439 --> 02:02:19.640
find me legal minded punk. Just search me. I'm

02:02:19.640 --> 02:02:24.250
there. What's up y 'all. I wonder if James is

02:02:24.250 --> 02:02:26.270
reconsidering having him at the end of the show.

02:02:26.270 --> 02:02:28.670
I think he probably is. He listens because he

02:02:28.670 --> 02:02:30.449
knew I was going to be very sad that I had to

02:02:30.449 --> 02:02:32.569
get up so early for that last one. I'm sorry,

02:02:32.649 --> 02:02:36.449
James. Adult Fred Finder and here's James Woolard.

02:02:37.630 --> 02:02:40.130
That was essentially just a dating site back

02:02:40.130 --> 02:02:42.850
in the day. That wasn't actually a... But James

02:02:42.850 --> 02:02:45.949
actually posts really great content from his

02:02:45.949 --> 02:02:49.300
trail cams in his yard and that. Absolutely.

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Definitely a great follow for sure. Many a doe.

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Many a doe to be seen. You talked about it, but

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Britvox USA. US. Yep. Britvox us. Yeah. We need

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to find out. Is it Britvox US or is it Britvox

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us? He says it. Do you listen to the show? I

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mean, I usually skip the credits. Oh. Not really.

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That's too bad because I still think we have.

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my good old buddy tour talking to alexa what

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about what about the very very tail end of the

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show nicholas wants to say something we need

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we need like an answer key for like what each

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sound bite is referencing to for those who aren't

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familiar like i want to know what that second

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uh that second seagull you know like where is

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that one from was that one like outside of dicks

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or was that outside of ivars It was definitely

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Ivers. Well, the fish bar. Yeah, yeah. The one

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down on the pier, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll

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let James take it away. And it was the Wenatchee,

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just so everyone's clear. It was the Wenatchee

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you hear honking. Oh, okay. Like the Alan Jackson

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song? Not the Tacoma. What is it? It's not USS

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Wenatchee. It was the Wenatchee. What's the letters

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before it for the fairies? I forget. MV. MV Wenatchee?

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Okay, so you ready? Everyone get ready. We're

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going to leave. I'm going to say two words. Aaron's

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going to respond, and then the show's over. Nate

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Jaqua? You can follow the Sounders Scuttlebutt

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MLS team of all time? Seattle Sounders are both

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unequivocally and irreparably the best MLS team

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of all time.