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

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

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a special World Cup Club Stuff Cup World Beer

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Time. Does that work? Yeah, that's good. Alright.

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Special Club World Cup edition of Sounders Scuttlebutt

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with Nicholas and Cameron. Aaron is not with

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us because A, we're recording late at night and

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B, he's got to be up at work at 5am. Yeah, he

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would have been really pissed off when we were

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like, oh, we'll record at 10 o 'clock, and it's

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now 11 o 'clock. Yeah, yeah. But, you know, the

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Mariners game ran long because they put up eight

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runs, and Wu had a no -hitter into the fifth

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inning, I think. Woo! And so that was super fun

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tonight. That's where I was. It was a long day

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of sports ball for me. Man, it was a fun day

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of sports balls. Great to see you at the Club

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World Cup game. We're going to talk a little

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bit about that. Why don't we start right there,

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actually? We'll do some relevant scuttlebutt

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today. That's right. We've completed, what, four

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days of the Club World Cup now? Yeah, this is

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the second match day in Seattle. So today was

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the Arawa Red Diamonds against River Plate. So

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Japan versus Argentina. Wow. And why don't we

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start with this? Well, let's just start with

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walking up the north steps and coming up from

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there to just kind of scope out everything. And

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the first thing we see is we're. in the what

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do they call that bar up there um whatever it

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is a name now but the one that's under the hawks

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nest yeah so the bar under the hawks nest and

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that's the river plate section and you've got

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all the river fans just really excited i didn't

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realize how full it was though until we got to

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the other side like i knew there was a lot of

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people there but i didn't realize that the entire

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section in front of us when we walked up there

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was all river plate fans Yeah, it was really

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well done, that entire north section. So they're

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having a great time, but what catches my eye

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is looking across into the Broem end and seeing

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the Urara red diamonds showing. That's my first

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takeaway. And the first thing I see is a big

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banner that says, this is Urara, and they took...

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Like a card TIFO where they basically take a

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two foot by one foot piece of plastic and they

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tape them on every chair in the brome end. So

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all you see is red down on that end. And it was

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very impressive. I was very, very impressed with

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that. Yeah, I mean, it was a... There was 11

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,000 people at the game and it felt like 60.

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Yeah, I was saying 30 just from recognizing that

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supporter sections are always going to sound

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a little bit louder. But the energy was great.

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I feel like it reminded me a bit of the Champions

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League final with Pumas in Seattle. It felt really

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good. It just made me happy for soccer. yeah

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yeah absolutely and it was just fun it was i

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mean we were all how many people ended up in

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our little group they're like 15 at one point

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it felt like yeah yeah it really did because

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i counted it out so it started off with you me

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and my daughter roma and then we were texting

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people that we knew were at the game and and

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and then ran into people that that that knew

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us and next thing we know our little pocket we

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we went and sat next to the red diamonds uh we

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wanted to be in their supporter section or next

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to their supporter section and next thing we

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know at one point we had 13 people in our pocket

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it was just and just a celebration of soccer

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we definitely the sickos if you will um and you

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got a scarf yeah yeah yeah so i brought a one

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of my scarves with a Red Diamonds fan. Lars mentioned

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he wasn't able to get anyone from Botafogo to

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trade, and I wasn't able to get anyone from River

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Plate. So I'm curious if that's a South American

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cultural thing, because I didn't see as many

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scarves on River Plate fans as I did with Red

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Diamonds fans. So just kind of a possibility

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there. The game actually very strongly mirrored

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the Sounders -Bodafoga game. Yeah, yeah. Other

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than the late goal. The third goal, yeah. Yeah,

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made it 3 -1. I mean, it was so much fun. And

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I just shout out to both groups of fans. Like

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when I was leaving, I think you saw the video

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I posted. Just walking through the tunnel. Not

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the tunnel, but like the... That little pen area

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where everyone gets pushed in together, right?

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Yeah, right outside the stairs. Yeah, and then

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the River Plate fans all singing. And it was

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just, the atmosphere was something. I mean, we

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have a good atmosphere in Seattle, but usually

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it's only one supporter group that's bringing

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it, right? You might have another supporter group,

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but there's just not enough fans. Like, we've

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never had a traveling fan have that many, fan

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base have that many fans in the stadium. oh as

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far as here in seattle yeah in seattle yeah portland

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doesn't bring that many people as as we saw from

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those two teams so we've never had that kind

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of true battle in seattle oh god i hate that

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i put those words together yeah that that i i

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will say the only two times the three times i've

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seen it mls cup 2019 with toronto fans uh pumas

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champions league final and then the chivas game

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from a number of years ago i wasn't at that one

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yeah and maybe the club america game uh the club

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america there weren't there weren't that many

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though i mean river plate had the entire north

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side plus people all 100 yeah and and anyways

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it it got me i was simultaneously excited for

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world cup next year yeah and really upset that

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fifa has bungled this roll out so badly that

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it's doing such a disservice yeah like if if

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so the two key points for me were that they when

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they put tickets on sale they won overpriced

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it but two only sold tickets in not desirable

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locations first yeah and so And people were like,

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OK, well, I'm going to hold off and I'm going

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to wait till, you know, you know, us sickos who

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like sitting in the supporter sections. We're

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like, great, we'll sit in those sections. Those

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are going to be the cheapest tickets anyways.

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Not that we had tickets there. I guess we did

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have tickets technically in the River Plate section,

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unbeknownst to us. But no, it's to everyone else.

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Speaking of which, Spaceballs 2 coming to movies.

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Okay, so ultimately they bungled that. And as

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a matter of fact, Cameron, you and I, we ran

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into the head of FIFA in Seattle. And I don't

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mean Johnny. I mean the Seattle FIFA office.

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Yeah, we ran into him. Super nice. Yeah, and

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we were having a really good conversation. And

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we talked a little bit about that and talked

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a little bit about that ticketing situation.

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And Cameron, you had a jersey on that you didn't

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bat an eye at. Nope, my free Palestine jersey

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on that at halftime, I was asked to turn inside

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out by security. So the head of FIFA, nothing.

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But security, the alcohol guy, yeah, made me

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turn it inside. He said, I agree with it, but

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we can't let you have anything political. I wonder

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if it had been different, if it would have been

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considered political, but that's neither here

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nor there for this podcast, I suppose. Yeah,

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I mean, yeah, yeah. Which actually brings me

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to a funny story from the Botafogi game. Botafogi?

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Botafogi. I am at the top of ECS, the bro amend,

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before the game, talking with my friends and

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talking with colleagues in ECS security and that.

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And one of the ECS members has a TIFO, a two

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pole that says we are all not here. And a FIFA

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lady comes up to me in an Italian accent. English

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was not her first language, but she comes up

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to me and says, I have a question about that

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TIFO over there. And she's clearly badged up.

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So, you know, in a suit. I have a question about

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that TIFO I need to ask you about. We are all

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not here. Is that a political TIFO? And without

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missing a beat. No, no, it's because here in

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the Brougham section, we normally have all three

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of these sections. And today we only have this

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one section. So this is a banner for all the

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people that couldn't make it today because of

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the... because they couldn't get tickets and

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so it's our way so that when they're watching

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on tv at home they know that we're here supporting

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in in their place she's like she's like oh okay

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and then she's like texting my answer to to someone

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else um i saw the t i saw the two pull up there

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for a while so i don't Think they took it down?

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No, the one they got upset about and called in

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the head of stadium. At the start of the second

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half? Yeah, that was the ice, the anti -ice banner.

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Yeah. I'd be curious to see what, if anything,

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that means. I don't know if you've heard, but

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what, if anything, that means for, is it Thursday

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when we play again? Yeah, we play Atletico. Well,

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to my knowledge, they didn't catch who had the

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banner. They were trying to find them. I mean,

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the Sounders would obviously know who it was,

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but they're not going to cooperate here in that

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situation because they don't. How do I put this?

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I can speak for former employees who do not like

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FIFA and will not work with them unless they're

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helping out the supporter group. So I'm assuming

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that. How about we say we could speak for former

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employees who have gone against FIFA during Champions

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League. multiple times so yeah so but we can't

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speak for i don't want to speak for current well

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not only that but i also don't want to speak

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directly for ecs on this one oh yes no of course

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i was just wondering if you had heard but it

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was an interesting it was an interesting moment

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but i have not heard of anything let's let's

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talk a little more club world cup but before

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we get there we have had mls games this week

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which is kind of weird right like uh Portland

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tied San Jose 1 -1 in Portland. San Jose had

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a red card. St. Louis and LA Galaxy tied 3 -3.

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I don't know. LA Galaxy back to their losing

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ways. It's not that weird. I mean, not everyone

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can be as cool as us and be in the Club World

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Cup. Cincinnati beat New England. Columbus beat

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Vancouver, doing us a solid. Philly beat Charlotte.

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Is there any other games of note? Houston lost

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to Montreal. That's huge. San Diego beat Minnesota.

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That's pretty great for us. Dallas beat supporting

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KC, unfortunately, and Orlando City beat Colorado.

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I mean, at the end of this, are we going to have

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a few games in hand with the rest of the league?

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We should, and it looks like the teams ahead

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of us are currently losing outside of, I guess,

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Portland Tide, but they're not winning outside

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of Dallas, who I assume is now ahead of us in

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the standings after that win. But I have not

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looked, but I know they were right near us. But

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this was a pretty beneficial score overall for

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the Sounders not playing. But let's go back to

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Club World Cup. I just wanted to touch on that

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real quick because we had some exciting games

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this evening after our match that we attended

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where, of course, we said it was 3 -1 River Plate

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with former... Austin FC player, Drew C. Drew

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C, yeah, he got it all. But the Mamelody Sundowns

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from South Africa beat Ulsan from Korea 1 -0.

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Their star player makes $39 ,000 a year. That's

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crazy. That's nothing. And interestingly, I saw

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a tweet with a picture of the stadium in Orlando

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at kickoff, and the person said there were 78

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people in the stadium. Yeah, I did see that.

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I'm just thrilled that... Okay, so let's talk

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about this for a second here. So you know the

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three... There are six games here in Seattle.

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You know the three that involve the Sounders

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are going to be well attended for obvious reasons.

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The Botafogo fans were in force and were great

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to see. i don't know what to expect from psg

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and atletico madrid fans but i suspect given

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that they're two of the top 20 teams in the world

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that they're going to show up um then looking

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at the other three games there are three games

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between three teams so uh river play Red Diamonds

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and Inter Milan. So those three teams will be

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playing permutations against each other over

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those other three games. Today was River Plate

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and Red Diamonds. Saturday will be Red Diamonds

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and Milan and Inter. And then the other game

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will be Inter versus River Plate. Yep. Red Diamonds,

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their fans are traveling and they're fantastic.

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River Plate, I've seen them all over. for the

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last week downtown have been traveling and are

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great. They were a bunch of River Plate fans

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at the Mariners game tonight. I can only imagine

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that Inter is going to show up as well. I'm really

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thrilled that Seattle fans are getting some really

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quality supporters coming out to these games.

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i hate doing this because i'm not a fan of fifa

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as an organization but the soccer fan in me is

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begging you buy a cheap ticket get in the door

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come to these games they come to one they are

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amazing they it's it's a truly i mean here's

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the thing is fifa fifa fifa is a there's no other

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option right there's no alternative to fifa this

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is what we've got yeah and it's just It's so

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exciting to see these fans, see these games.

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And to celebrate the sport. Yeah, yeah. The other

00:16:45.269 --> 00:16:49.629
games today, of course. Monterey Inter. Yeah,

00:16:49.789 --> 00:16:52.629
Monterey Inter tied 1 -1. Fluminesi and Dortmund

00:16:52.629 --> 00:16:55.870
tied 0 -0. And then I think the Flamengo game

00:16:55.870 --> 00:16:59.870
was last night, right? So Flamengo beat Tunis

00:16:59.870 --> 00:17:05.170
2 -0. And LAFC fans. were happy about their result

00:17:05.170 --> 00:17:07.950
against Chelsea. Lost 2 -0, but they thought

00:17:07.950 --> 00:17:09.569
they were the better team in the second half.

00:17:09.670 --> 00:17:11.470
I don't know if I'd say that, but they didn't

00:17:11.470 --> 00:17:14.670
look terrible. Hey, I will say this. The Sounders

00:17:14.670 --> 00:17:19.309
are the only MLS team to ever score in a Club

00:17:19.309 --> 00:17:21.849
World Cup. That's true. Inter -Miami tied Al

00:17:21.849 --> 00:17:26.390
-Ali 0 -0, and LAFC lost 2 -0. There hasn't been

00:17:26.390 --> 00:17:29.289
any total upsets. Bayern Munich winning 10 -0

00:17:29.289 --> 00:17:32.910
over Oakland City is... rough for them but they're

00:17:32.910 --> 00:17:35.970
not uh pros they are amateur players so you know

00:17:35.970 --> 00:17:38.490
what that is that is almost the equivalent of

00:17:38.490 --> 00:17:41.349
pub league all -stars playing the sounders yeah

00:17:41.349 --> 00:17:45.809
seriously like uh and and we'll get to that botafogo

00:17:45.809 --> 00:17:48.670
seattle sounders match uh next year before we

00:17:48.670 --> 00:17:50.369
move on and talk about other things but i do

00:17:50.369 --> 00:17:53.190
want to quote this is a quote i saw on twitter

00:17:53.190 --> 00:17:57.190
uh it doesn't say where it came from okay so

00:17:57.190 --> 00:18:01.470
it might not be true but it is from And it says

00:18:01.470 --> 00:18:03.950
it's from Thierry Henry. And he said, I think

00:18:03.950 --> 00:18:05.589
that what's going wrong is that there are too

00:18:05.589 --> 00:18:08.549
many smaller unheard of teams like Oakland City,

00:18:08.809 --> 00:18:11.769
Chelsea, and the Seattle Sounders that no one

00:18:11.769 --> 00:18:14.990
is interested in watching. I'm sorry. The shade

00:18:14.990 --> 00:18:18.789
is great. Yeah. The Arsenal fan bringing that

00:18:18.789 --> 00:18:22.309
up. I mean, because I think the Sounders, I mean,

00:18:22.309 --> 00:18:24.630
getting 30 ,000 for a game against Botafogo is

00:18:24.630 --> 00:18:26.970
pretty good. I think the next two will be, well,

00:18:27.089 --> 00:18:31.869
I think the... PSG match could potentially be

00:18:31.869 --> 00:18:33.849
bigger because it's PSG, but it's a Monday at

00:18:33.849 --> 00:18:35.450
noon. But it's a Monday at noon. And the other,

00:18:35.509 --> 00:18:38.970
is it Thursday at three? Thursday at three. I

00:18:38.970 --> 00:18:42.890
mean, the timing, do they, I know in other countries,

00:18:42.910 --> 00:18:46.150
people just leave work and go to jobs or leave

00:18:46.150 --> 00:18:48.170
their job and go to games. I've done, I lived

00:18:48.170 --> 00:18:49.890
in France. I know what that's like. I've been

00:18:49.890 --> 00:18:53.549
to weird match times, but I just feel like maybe

00:18:53.549 --> 00:18:57.730
FIFA has underestimated a few things like One,

00:18:57.750 --> 00:19:02.890
Americans work until 5 p .m. Two, the economy

00:19:02.890 --> 00:19:07.329
is fucking terrible right now. But, I mean, they're

00:19:07.329 --> 00:19:09.670
also trying to cater to the European market,

00:19:09.789 --> 00:19:12.190
the television audience. I get that. But, I mean,

00:19:12.250 --> 00:19:15.349
they could have done so much, even just by lowering

00:19:15.349 --> 00:19:19.029
ticket prices on the upper decks, to get the

00:19:19.029 --> 00:19:22.309
stadiums full. And I think the way they handled

00:19:22.309 --> 00:19:24.670
it, like you mentioned, only selling the top

00:19:24.670 --> 00:19:27.130
and charging way too much in the beginning. yeah

00:19:27.130 --> 00:19:32.289
uh and just it is created in a you know atlanta

00:19:32.289 --> 00:19:34.269
got a bunch of people in their stadium so that's

00:19:34.269 --> 00:19:36.170
awesome you know people have been showing up

00:19:36.170 --> 00:19:40.170
they showed up in miami but it it's just we could

00:19:40.170 --> 00:19:43.210
have easily gotten 60 000 in seattle for had

00:19:43.210 --> 00:19:44.849
it been handled right yeah had it been handled

00:19:44.849 --> 00:19:47.170
right yeah but but also keep this in mind as

00:19:47.170 --> 00:19:49.609
well keep in mind that these these start times

00:19:49.609 --> 00:19:52.789
uh obviously like we said are catered towards

00:19:52.789 --> 00:19:55.940
the european market for for obvious reasons but

00:19:55.940 --> 00:19:59.839
also that originally this tournament was supposed

00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:02.940
to be entirely on the East Coast. Yeah, that's

00:20:02.940 --> 00:20:06.259
true. So these 12 and 3 then would have been

00:20:06.259 --> 00:20:10.259
3 and 6, which sound a little bit more reasonable.

00:20:11.140 --> 00:20:14.119
It feels like maybe some rescheduling, so we're

00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:19.079
always the later window. Well, the Olympics did

00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:21.759
that for ice hockey when it was in Vancouver

00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:23.619
where they would be like, oh, the U .S. team

00:20:23.619 --> 00:20:27.859
always plays at 430. The other teams play at

00:20:27.859 --> 00:20:30.619
noon. And anyways, that's not either here nor

00:20:30.619 --> 00:20:37.180
there. I think where I'm really, you know, what

00:20:37.180 --> 00:20:42.019
I'm really looking forward to is. Again, I just

00:20:42.019 --> 00:20:44.200
recommend if you're on the fence, if you haven't

00:20:44.200 --> 00:20:46.400
gone to any of these games, come. Here's the

00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:48.579
reality. The Club World Cup, it's not going anywhere.

00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:53.700
It's going to continue to happen. It just is.

00:20:54.240 --> 00:20:59.319
It does make a lot of sense to me. I want a competition

00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:03.920
like this to see. Teams from all over the world.

00:21:04.019 --> 00:21:06.279
Playing against each other. I want that. Look

00:21:06.279 --> 00:21:08.720
at how seriously Botafogo took it. Look at how

00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:16.140
seriously. How do you say it? I believe. And

00:21:16.140 --> 00:21:20.599
River Plate too. Both Botafogo and River Plate.

00:21:20.660 --> 00:21:22.420
When the game ended. All fell to their knees.

00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:27.000
And were praising the skies. Let's not sell our

00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:29.279
own team short. The Sounders obviously are taking

00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:31.339
it seriously. I'm taking it seriously. But it's

00:21:31.339 --> 00:21:34.049
not. but they're not a serious contender yes

00:21:34.049 --> 00:21:37.549
and so they these other teams are potentially

00:21:37.549 --> 00:21:39.309
going could go through and so it's important

00:21:39.309 --> 00:21:41.630
to them the teams from brazil are usually they

00:21:41.630 --> 00:21:43.269
usually i feel like have one team in the final

00:21:43.269 --> 00:21:48.589
i mean yeah that and that's why i'm really really

00:21:48.589 --> 00:21:52.730
excited to watch that river plate uh inter milan

00:21:52.730 --> 00:21:54.730
game especially if they're intertied 1 -1 today

00:21:54.730 --> 00:21:58.960
against was it monterey yeah I mean, that's going

00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:01.180
to create a very interesting situation there.

00:22:01.220 --> 00:22:05.660
Could it be Monterey and River Plate that go

00:22:05.660 --> 00:22:09.299
through now? Anything can happen. It's World

00:22:09.299 --> 00:22:16.880
Cup things. Anything can happen. Yeah, so again,

00:22:17.059 --> 00:22:20.079
if you're on the fence, go. Get the cheapest

00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:23.059
ticket you can get. Take advantage of the fact

00:22:23.059 --> 00:22:27.619
that this... has growing pains so you can get

00:22:27.619 --> 00:22:30.579
in the door cheap and then just kind of go sit

00:22:30.579 --> 00:22:33.019
where you want so if you have a cheap seat in

00:22:33.019 --> 00:22:34.759
an area you don't want to sit in there will be

00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:39.259
options for you it reminds me a little bit of

00:22:39.259 --> 00:22:41.740
the 2015 Women's World Cup where I went to all

00:22:41.740 --> 00:22:45.000
nine games in Vancouver it was right on the cusp

00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:48.740
of women's soccer really taking off so I got

00:22:48.740 --> 00:22:54.539
all nine games and the final For like $250 per

00:22:54.539 --> 00:23:00.200
ticket. Like for nine games. What's that? $250

00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.900
per game per ticket? No, for all nine games total,

00:23:04.059 --> 00:23:06.640
including the final. That's not what I paid way

00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:08.779
more than that for my one ticket to USA Nigeria.

00:23:09.539 --> 00:23:12.380
I mean, not more than $250, but more per game.

00:23:12.539 --> 00:23:16.559
Yeah, but I bought the stadium passport. Nice.

00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:21.920
And then looking at the next World Cup after

00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:26.480
that was France and then Australia. And it's

00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:28.359
just the attendance have been going up and up

00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:30.619
and up and women's sports has been great. So

00:23:30.619 --> 00:23:32.720
I kind of feel like this is that kind of same

00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:37.119
thing where you're not going to get another opportunity

00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:40.640
like this. And there's been some great matches.

00:23:40.779 --> 00:23:43.720
That's the other thing I think is that if you

00:23:43.720 --> 00:23:48.029
think this is... just yeah i am i i was so thirsty

00:23:48.029 --> 00:23:51.069
i'm sorry do it i've been in the sun all day

00:23:51.069 --> 00:23:53.710
yeah that's true me too i uh i'll speak to that

00:23:53.710 --> 00:23:56.950
second but i mean boca jr has been fika 22 with

00:23:56.950 --> 00:23:59.009
uh i think was there three red cards in there

00:23:59.009 --> 00:24:02.609
like it was pretty pretty wild games i mean it's

00:24:02.609 --> 00:24:05.349
been some interesting stuff i have seemed to

00:24:05.349 --> 00:24:07.970
have developed and i talked to the skin doctor

00:24:07.970 --> 00:24:12.569
about this earlier this week uh or yeah last

00:24:12.569 --> 00:24:15.789
week, an allergy to the sun that you can't really

00:24:15.789 --> 00:24:19.509
see it on the screen here. It started, uh, in

00:24:19.509 --> 00:24:23.190
San Jose in April of last year, when I went down

00:24:23.190 --> 00:24:25.069
to give them the heritage cup. And ever since

00:24:25.069 --> 00:24:27.430
then, whenever it's sunny out, my hands start

00:24:27.430 --> 00:24:30.109
to break out in hives. Uh, if I'm out for any

00:24:30.109 --> 00:24:31.450
length of time, no matter how much sunscreen

00:24:31.450 --> 00:24:35.250
I use, you know, how much, uh, allocane or whatever

00:24:35.250 --> 00:24:38.230
solar cane or whatever I put on, uh, the doctor's

00:24:38.230 --> 00:24:39.599
just like, yup. you're going to have to deal

00:24:39.599 --> 00:24:42.059
with that now. And, uh, interesting. Cause I,

00:24:42.059 --> 00:24:44.039
I get the same thing where I'll get like a little

00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:47.279
bit of like, like almost like a, like a zit on,

00:24:47.380 --> 00:24:49.880
on, on the hand. Yeah. I get them all through

00:24:49.880 --> 00:24:51.960
here now. And in my right hand, it's bigger than

00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:54.500
on the left, but it's, it's pretty, it's pretty,

00:24:54.599 --> 00:24:57.980
uh, I'm very white is what I'm saying. I'm very

00:24:57.980 --> 00:24:59.859
Irish. It was Irish night at the Mariners game.

00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:01.380
I couldn't get those tickets cause they, they

00:25:01.380 --> 00:25:03.180
stopped selling them last night at five, but.

00:25:03.859 --> 00:25:05.819
It was Irish night and they're giving away the

00:25:05.819 --> 00:25:07.380
Irish jerseys. They were ugly. They were white.

00:25:07.420 --> 00:25:09.019
So I'm not mad. I didn't give it away. Yeah,

00:25:09.019 --> 00:25:11.259
it wasn't really particularly. Last year was

00:25:11.259 --> 00:25:14.019
green. And so that was the good one. I wish I

00:25:14.019 --> 00:25:16.559
had that one. Though later this year, think about

00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:23.829
during Ichiro's Hall of Fame weekend. uh they're

00:25:23.829 --> 00:25:27.289
doing japanese heritage night where it's in ichiro's

00:25:27.289 --> 00:25:31.390
number with jet with mariners and kanji across

00:25:31.390 --> 00:25:34.009
it it's gonna look and it's in like the city

00:25:34.009 --> 00:25:37.650
blue and yellow yeah that's amazing yeah uh so

00:25:37.650 --> 00:25:40.849
do that yeah even if it's the game i already

00:25:40.849 --> 00:25:42.589
have tickets to i'll just buy one and then go

00:25:42.589 --> 00:25:46.460
get the jersey yeah because exactly exactly there

00:25:46.460 --> 00:25:48.980
but but yeah i mean those giveaways we've talked

00:25:48.980 --> 00:25:51.359
about them before on here the the filipino ones

00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:54.480
uh they're they're awesome i have the taiwan

00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:57.640
jersey from uh when yes the super hawks went

00:25:57.640 --> 00:25:59.420
to the taiwan game oh that's right you were i

00:25:59.420 --> 00:26:01.900
met up i'm like so do i and i remember you were

00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:04.980
there with me yeah matter of fact i gotta give

00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:07.720
i gotta give the ticket to you ran into daniel

00:26:08.700 --> 00:26:12.380
at halftime of the Botafogo game. He's the one

00:26:12.380 --> 00:26:15.000
who I bought that for. He was in town from Amsterdam

00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:18.079
for the Club World Cup. Exactly. So why don't

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00:28:04.220 --> 00:28:06.220
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00:28:06.220 --> 00:28:09.240
out to our ultras. I let them know earlier tonight

00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:13.759
that I think it was your idea, Nicholas, but

00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:15.420
I'm going to work with them to come up with a

00:28:15.420 --> 00:28:19.299
new... What we're doing is good, and I like to

00:28:19.299 --> 00:28:21.160
get their voice on here, but it's wrong, right?

00:28:21.779 --> 00:28:26.200
Yeah, we want flow. Mini episodes. Mini episodes,

00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:29.039
and if we can get everyone together, cool. If

00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:32.750
not, we'll figure it out. and just record and

00:28:32.750 --> 00:28:35.710
have some great discussions and not just hit,

00:28:35.789 --> 00:28:37.809
you know, oh, what happened in the game? We can

00:28:37.809 --> 00:28:41.450
do that. But just the last, they're unaired because

00:28:41.450 --> 00:28:44.470
we didn't end up recording because Aaron wasn't

00:28:44.470 --> 00:28:47.829
available and then it just didn't work out. But

00:28:47.829 --> 00:28:52.190
we had a really great discussion on Club World

00:28:52.190 --> 00:28:55.799
Cup and pay for the Sounders. that we did on

00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:58.259
our episode, but it didn't really make it, the

00:28:58.259 --> 00:29:01.059
ultras didn't get their say. And I know both

00:29:01.059 --> 00:29:03.480
Cedar, we talked a little bit about Alex, but

00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:05.680
Cedar and I spent quite a bit of time on it.

00:29:05.740 --> 00:29:08.299
And then I think Dan and I talked about it for

00:29:08.299 --> 00:29:13.279
10 to 15 minutes. So super, super great combo

00:29:13.279 --> 00:29:16.359
that just didn't happen, which reminds me, I

00:29:16.359 --> 00:29:18.339
totally missed the Alliance Council meeting tonight.

00:29:18.420 --> 00:29:21.180
Did you go? We're not going to talk about that.

00:29:22.339 --> 00:29:24.539
It was the executive. Oh, my gosh. I was driving

00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:27.099
to the Mariners game, and I meant to pop on as

00:29:27.099 --> 00:29:32.599
soon as I got there. Yeah. Oops. I will have

00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:36.599
to call our glorious president and apologize.

00:29:37.220 --> 00:29:40.380
It was a weird day today. Yeah. A weird day.

00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:45.759
A lot of soccer. Speaking of soccer, speaking

00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:50.670
of fun stuff. We'll hit up the Botafogo Prediction

00:29:50.670 --> 00:29:53.730
Challenge to kind of talk about who got some

00:29:53.730 --> 00:29:57.849
points. We had four people tied with the most

00:29:57.849 --> 00:30:03.609
points this time around. Alex Diaz, super, super,

00:30:03.630 --> 00:30:08.430
super subscriber. And we sat with Alex at the

00:30:08.430 --> 00:30:13.569
game. Yeah. Bryson. Bryson was there. Bryce Tejefe,

00:30:13.650 --> 00:30:21.700
really good guy. Silo Tom. What is his... Paul.

00:30:22.140 --> 00:30:24.220
Paul also, who I think was at the game today,

00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:27.779
but I didn't run into him. Oh, yeah. So, Paul.

00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:32.519
And then some jackass named Cameron. Ooh, yeah.

00:30:32.660 --> 00:30:35.640
I think I got the score wrong, but I think I

00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:38.660
picked 3 -1 Botafogo. I had the score transposed.

00:30:38.660 --> 00:30:42.460
I had 2 -1 Sounders. That would have been nice.

00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:48.349
You know, it's... I'm an optimist. So talking

00:30:48.349 --> 00:30:52.990
about the game, what's your... Wait, how many

00:30:52.990 --> 00:30:56.269
points did we all tie with? Oh, two. Two, okay.

00:30:56.369 --> 00:30:58.809
It was a rough one, yeah. Oh, that's right, because

00:30:58.809 --> 00:31:01.170
I picked the wrong... I picked JP. I thought

00:31:01.170 --> 00:31:02.609
they were going to put JP in against his old

00:31:02.609 --> 00:31:06.970
team. I also boosted the over -under to 3 .5

00:31:06.970 --> 00:31:11.670
for this game. Yeah. Yep. I did the over, I think.

00:31:11.789 --> 00:31:15.519
I don't know. So... Yep. So from the aerial view,

00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:19.619
from up above, how do you think... Literally,

00:31:19.619 --> 00:31:23.180
I was on the 300 level for the first half. How

00:31:23.180 --> 00:31:30.700
did you think the game looked? I felt like in

00:31:30.700 --> 00:31:34.920
the first half, until they scored their goal,

00:31:35.160 --> 00:31:39.259
we were pretty equal and maybe slightly the better

00:31:39.259 --> 00:31:45.309
team. They obviously had better opportunities,

00:31:45.430 --> 00:31:47.930
but our XG at the end of that game was pretty

00:31:47.930 --> 00:31:52.130
high, if I recall. Very high. 2 .2 to .91. Yeah.

00:31:53.190 --> 00:31:56.190
And their goals, neither of them were flukes

00:31:56.190 --> 00:32:00.670
because they were both great goals, but absent

00:32:00.670 --> 00:32:04.509
a just kind of boneheaded play by Nuhu that gives

00:32:04.509 --> 00:32:06.430
him a foul in that position. Usually I feel like

00:32:06.430 --> 00:32:07.970
I'm mad at the ref for giving a foul in that

00:32:07.970 --> 00:32:10.910
position, but that was clearly Nuhu just losing

00:32:10.910 --> 00:32:14.150
his mind. the they knew i mean i think teams

00:32:14.150 --> 00:32:16.509
know to get him mad right teams know to get under

00:32:16.509 --> 00:32:22.089
his skin uh and it it it gave them a free kick

00:32:22.089 --> 00:32:24.190
in a dangerous spot that i think went against

00:32:24.190 --> 00:32:26.710
not totally against the run of play but i felt

00:32:26.710 --> 00:32:28.690
like maybe it was just because the sounders were

00:32:28.690 --> 00:32:31.210
hanging with them it felt like the sounders were

00:32:31.210 --> 00:32:32.869
playing better they had more sounders definitely

00:32:32.869 --> 00:32:35.539
had more possession at that point well Well,

00:32:35.619 --> 00:32:38.839
you could see in the momentum meter, my infamous

00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:42.259
momentum medium, Sounders had a lot of momentum

00:32:42.259 --> 00:32:45.660
throughout the match. I mean, the second half

00:32:45.660 --> 00:32:48.059
was definitely better for Sounders. Absolutely.

00:32:48.119 --> 00:32:51.960
Because Botafogo sat back and kind of took on

00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:54.759
that pressure and then were lucky to not give

00:32:54.759 --> 00:32:58.299
up. Four goals, if we're being honest. How many

00:32:58.299 --> 00:33:00.339
goals, right? Because we moved down and sat next

00:33:00.339 --> 00:33:02.440
to you, right? How many goals where the ball

00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:04.259
was just sitting there wide open in front of

00:33:04.259 --> 00:33:06.099
the goal? And if we had just gotten there first,

00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:09.900
maybe it goes in. Yeah, it was a little frustrating.

00:33:10.059 --> 00:33:11.859
A lot frustrating. It was a lot frustrating.

00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:14.660
I mean, you look at it. You finish the whole

00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:17.759
game. Botafogo had 12 shots, six on target. We

00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:20.559
had 23, five on target. We had possession 60

00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:25.890
-40. We had 183 more passes than them. Our pass

00:33:25.890 --> 00:33:29.130
accuracy was 87%. There's 82. We only had six

00:33:29.130 --> 00:33:32.390
fouls. They had 18 yellow cards each. And then

00:33:32.390 --> 00:33:35.470
we had four corners. They had zero. Yeah. I mean,

00:33:35.470 --> 00:33:40.589
the, the big thing for me, the big thing for

00:33:40.589 --> 00:33:45.630
me is they had eight blocks shots. So they were

00:33:45.630 --> 00:33:47.890
there putting themselves in that, that position

00:33:47.890 --> 00:33:51.089
really well. The, the big thing for me is when.

00:33:52.009 --> 00:33:56.769
the quality gets higher. And we're going to see

00:33:56.769 --> 00:33:58.589
this with Atletico Madrid. We're going to see

00:33:58.589 --> 00:34:04.029
this with PSG. When these quality of play gets

00:34:04.029 --> 00:34:08.010
higher, the differences are going to be found

00:34:08.010 --> 00:34:13.469
most in the execution of the key moments. So

00:34:13.469 --> 00:34:18.489
set pieces, finishing is going to be key. First

00:34:18.489 --> 00:34:26.010
touch. Eager Jesus. Eager Jesus. Eager Jesus.

00:34:26.570 --> 00:34:29.210
He's Eager Jesus. I wanted the Sounders to sign

00:34:29.210 --> 00:34:33.610
for a year, who now has been sold to Nottingham

00:34:33.610 --> 00:34:39.230
Forest. Now, that sale was announced yesterday.

00:34:39.309 --> 00:34:42.409
Do we know anything about it? Do we know if he

00:34:42.409 --> 00:34:44.110
gets to stay with Botafogo for the rest of the

00:34:44.110 --> 00:34:46.469
Club World Cup? Or is he gone now and has to

00:34:46.469 --> 00:34:49.699
move? My guess is he gets to stay with them.

00:34:50.420 --> 00:34:53.179
They probably would have negotiated that throughout

00:34:53.179 --> 00:34:55.760
this, but I do not know for sure. He did have

00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:57.559
the game -winning header in the match. Yeah,

00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:00.179
but that's the difference. I mean, when you've

00:35:00.179 --> 00:35:02.860
got these kind of players that can finish like

00:35:02.860 --> 00:35:07.380
that, you're going to run into problems. But

00:35:07.380 --> 00:35:09.639
I thought the Sounders played really well as

00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:19.599
a collective. This is one of those few moments

00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:25.639
where I am going to believe in the idea of a

00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:28.780
moral victory. Because realistically, we are

00:35:28.780 --> 00:35:31.980
not expected, never were expected to get out

00:35:31.980 --> 00:35:37.070
of the group stage. No, I agree. This was the

00:35:37.070 --> 00:35:39.010
game we needed three points in if that was ever

00:35:39.010 --> 00:35:42.130
going to happen. Without things getting really

00:35:42.130 --> 00:35:45.630
weird. Yeah, and I think without Jordan Morris,

00:35:45.929 --> 00:35:49.170
there was going to be zero possibility of us

00:35:49.170 --> 00:35:51.809
getting through. Because we've talked about it

00:35:51.809 --> 00:35:54.530
all season. We're short on forwards that can

00:35:54.530 --> 00:35:57.829
score. Danny's doing his spurts, but Danny's

00:35:57.829 --> 00:36:00.710
not playing against MLS caliber defenders here.

00:36:00.789 --> 00:36:02.789
He's playing also against a defender that was

00:36:02.789 --> 00:36:06.110
also sold to... to Nottingham Forest after the

00:36:06.110 --> 00:36:12.329
match. So it's tough out there. But we saw –

00:36:12.329 --> 00:36:18.349
I think – I thought Rusnak was the best player

00:36:18.349 --> 00:36:20.170
in the field for large swaths of that game. People

00:36:20.170 --> 00:36:22.710
were upset that he was missing shots. I don't

00:36:22.710 --> 00:36:25.110
have as much problem with that because he's –

00:36:25.110 --> 00:36:28.489
while he does score, his job should be putting

00:36:28.489 --> 00:36:30.650
the ball through to forwards and wingers to score

00:36:30.650 --> 00:36:33.539
if we're playing with – people up top who can

00:36:33.539 --> 00:36:37.460
score. Yeah. And we saw him have some great possession.

00:36:38.019 --> 00:36:40.840
Obed had a great game. Hopefully he's not hurt.

00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.260
Did you ever hear any more news? I know he was

00:36:44.260 --> 00:36:46.980
training on the side at, came out late, was training

00:36:46.980 --> 00:36:49.800
on the side at practice today. Did you read anything

00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:52.320
more on him? I have not. I have not seen any

00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.019
update on that. Hopefully it was precautionary.

00:36:54.960 --> 00:36:59.679
And we did hear today that Jordan was in practice,

00:36:59.880 --> 00:37:02.519
partially at least. I don't think. I don't think

00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:05.179
we see him for this next match, potentially PSG,

00:37:05.300 --> 00:37:06.960
but I don't think you rush him back for that

00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:10.099
match either unless somehow we get a result against

00:37:10.099 --> 00:37:18.639
Madrid. Exactly. Exactly. But I'm just laughing

00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:22.699
because it's only going to get tougher from here.

00:37:25.019 --> 00:37:29.780
But with that in mind, realistic expectations.

00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:35.699
I mean, When you look at the Sounders, our squad

00:37:35.699 --> 00:37:43.699
value is $55 million. If you look at PSG, their

00:37:43.699 --> 00:37:48.420
squad value is something like $1 .something billion.

00:37:53.049 --> 00:37:57.050
yeah like like they have one two three four five

00:37:57.050 --> 00:38:01.349
six seven eight nine ten players who have an

00:38:01.349 --> 00:38:04.309
individual value higher than our entire value

00:38:04.309 --> 00:38:10.469
yeah i mean in in botafogo even is much more

00:38:10.469 --> 00:38:13.429
i mean they were valued much higher than us even

00:38:13.429 --> 00:38:16.630
before i think they're at 15 million more than

00:38:16.630 --> 00:38:21.010
us maybe okay and that was even before they just

00:38:21.010 --> 00:38:24.969
sold one player for 20 million. And then the

00:38:24.969 --> 00:38:27.349
other two players went for 20 and one was from

00:38:27.349 --> 00:38:29.309
them. So it was about 10. So they sold 30 million

00:38:29.309 --> 00:38:31.809
worth of players that was hired. One was only

00:38:31.809 --> 00:38:34.829
15. So their value technically is even higher.

00:38:35.030 --> 00:38:38.789
Their value was 163 million. Geez, way more than

00:38:38.789 --> 00:38:43.449
us. Yeah. So, so, so that's kind of. for context

00:38:43.449 --> 00:38:45.909
and then and then just kind of just out of out

00:38:45.909 --> 00:38:49.670
of funness uh red diamonds for example uh their

00:38:49.670 --> 00:38:53.250
value was 19 million and and that felt about

00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:57.030
right from what i saw today um about 19 million

00:38:57.030 --> 00:38:59.570
that they could beat us and that's not a knock

00:38:59.570 --> 00:39:02.130
on the sounders no just the heart and fire they

00:39:02.130 --> 00:39:07.429
had this is these teams outside of auckland city

00:39:07.429 --> 00:39:12.840
any team that was in pot three and four are probably

00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:15.900
going to be able to beat each other. You know,

00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:18.679
it might be easier or harder, but it's doable.

00:39:18.820 --> 00:39:23.179
And River Plate's value is $114 million. So,

00:39:23.179 --> 00:39:26.239
for context. Yeah, I mean, that's almost $100

00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:29.800
million more. I mean, and that's not even talking

00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:34.360
about Atletico, which is our next opponent, which

00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:41.579
is, let's see, Atletico Madrid. They are... Let's

00:39:41.579 --> 00:39:49.800
see. 508 million. So, you know, 10 times our

00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:56.159
factor. But I love it. I love what I'm seeing

00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:59.260
because it's soccer. You know, the ball is a

00:39:59.260 --> 00:40:01.820
great equalizer sometimes and fun things can

00:40:01.820 --> 00:40:06.039
happen. I want to see what we do. I want to see

00:40:06.039 --> 00:40:12.940
how we perform. And we'll find out. I will say

00:40:12.940 --> 00:40:15.599
two things. One, we are not in last place in

00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:17.619
the group. We currently sit third out of four

00:40:17.619 --> 00:40:19.860
ahead of Atletico Madrid because they lost 4

00:40:19.860 --> 00:40:24.940
-0 to PSG. So if we can somehow get a point against

00:40:24.940 --> 00:40:28.500
them, maybe we can non -finish last in the group.

00:40:28.579 --> 00:40:31.679
Wouldn't that be incredible? I mean, yeah, let's

00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:36.409
get out of... Let's just show well. Yeah. I mean,

00:40:36.469 --> 00:40:38.090
I think that's the other team. Other thing is

00:40:38.090 --> 00:40:40.030
this team could have easily quit down to nothing.

00:40:40.269 --> 00:40:43.090
Yeah. To nothing against a Botafogo team with

00:40:43.090 --> 00:40:45.429
some real stars on it. Wouldn't have been shameful.

00:40:45.789 --> 00:40:48.070
And they didn't, they pushed. I mean, especially

00:40:48.070 --> 00:40:50.769
once Rothrock came on, I can't, Kent was playing

00:40:50.769 --> 00:40:53.510
well. That's not a knock on Kent. I enjoyed watching

00:40:53.510 --> 00:40:56.190
him a lot, but there's something about Rothrock

00:40:56.190 --> 00:41:02.159
where it almost feels like. He's got that Christian

00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:06.099
rolled on energy, extra fire. And I think partially

00:41:06.099 --> 00:41:09.380
it's because he's from here. This is his club,

00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:12.280
right? This is, this is him going out there and

00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:15.239
doing the little extra things that, that maybe

00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:17.579
not, not again, not a criticize of Ryan Kent.

00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:19.760
He's still coming back from having not played

00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:24.239
a lot, but we've seen Rothrock in the last year,

00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:29.019
just playing incredibly for where his ceiling

00:41:29.019 --> 00:41:35.039
was. You know, I mean, both things can be true.

00:41:35.099 --> 00:41:38.599
You can see Rothrock's do -not -quit attitude,

00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:41.880
which is in that vein of Brad Evans and Zach

00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:45.420
Scott and Christian Roldan. But you can also

00:41:45.420 --> 00:41:48.300
very much see that Ryan Kent's got this technical

00:41:48.300 --> 00:41:51.019
ability that Rothrock just doesn't have. Right.

00:41:51.019 --> 00:41:55.039
No. Rothrock is the... To date myself, and this

00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:58.429
is before your time, but... He's got that Joe

00:41:58.429 --> 00:42:01.030
Jarzynka, like University of Washington football,

00:42:01.309 --> 00:42:05.130
the little guy who becomes a star because he

00:42:05.130 --> 00:42:07.949
puts so much effort into it and so much work

00:42:07.949 --> 00:42:11.130
into it that it pays off. He's a workhorse. I

00:42:11.130 --> 00:42:14.650
love those kind of players. Yeah. By the way,

00:42:14.670 --> 00:42:17.409
we'd be remiss if we didn't mention how happy

00:42:17.409 --> 00:42:20.130
I am that the Oilers lost the Stanley Cup Finals

00:42:20.130 --> 00:42:22.849
because I hate the Oilers and how they ended

00:42:22.849 --> 00:42:26.210
the one best chance for the... uh sharks to win

00:42:26.210 --> 00:42:28.010
the stanley cup when they deliberately injured

00:42:28.010 --> 00:42:30.989
antonin niemi uh so i never want to see them

00:42:30.989 --> 00:42:34.150
ever win so uh oh did i ruin something for you

00:42:34.150 --> 00:42:36.909
were you waiting to watch the highlights no nope

00:42:36.909 --> 00:42:41.050
i was just going back to the other regular uh

00:42:41.050 --> 00:42:43.590
regular occurrence of this show is death watch

00:42:43.590 --> 00:42:47.329
yeah oh gosh and some we've had some big hits

00:42:47.329 --> 00:42:51.090
this year i mean there's so we didn't talk about

00:42:51.090 --> 00:42:53.429
any last episode when there was a bunch. So let's,

00:42:53.429 --> 00:42:55.369
let's put that on hold for a second. We'll get,

00:42:55.369 --> 00:42:57.869
we'll get to death watch because sadly there's

00:42:57.869 --> 00:43:00.090
way too much people to talk about too many people

00:43:00.090 --> 00:43:02.110
to talk about for death watch, but let's wrap

00:43:02.110 --> 00:43:06.650
up this Botafogo. Yeah. Versus Seattle match.

00:43:06.690 --> 00:43:10.489
Who, who do you was the best player on the sounder?

00:43:10.489 --> 00:43:13.170
So I was saying Russ snack was great, but Roth

00:43:13.170 --> 00:43:19.199
rock and Obed and Christian. really showed up

00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:23.880
for me down the stretch. Yeah, I mean, I thought

00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:26.500
the center of the field was great. I thought

00:43:26.500 --> 00:43:33.039
Roldan and Vargas were fantastic. And Roldan

00:43:33.039 --> 00:43:37.360
got the goal, so yay. An assist from Rothera?

00:43:37.539 --> 00:43:42.360
Yeah. At the same time, it's really hard to...

00:43:43.079 --> 00:43:47.679
did not give it yeah uh either obed or or christian

00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:52.440
um yeah it was just it was just so good so good

00:43:52.440 --> 00:43:57.980
what i'll leave it i'll leave the scratch until

00:43:57.980 --> 00:44:03.900
mailbag we'll go back to that one okay um what

00:44:03.900 --> 00:44:07.159
do you think we see the sounders do moving into

00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:09.840
the madrid match then I think the rest of the

00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:12.179
way, what we're going to see is a more defensive

00:44:12.179 --> 00:44:15.340
shell. I think so. So five in the back. Yeah.

00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:18.139
So I think that might change. I want to ask you

00:44:18.139 --> 00:44:21.739
a question, though. Now, I want to frame this

00:44:21.739 --> 00:44:26.920
by starting by saying that, hey, I have often

00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:31.460
championed knew who's defending. and I've even

00:44:31.460 --> 00:44:33.820
said this year that I thought he looked a lot

00:44:33.820 --> 00:44:36.059
better going into offense and made some more

00:44:36.059 --> 00:44:38.360
dangerous offensive sides. I was really impressed.

00:44:39.380 --> 00:44:45.599
I'm nervous to... Well, not nervous, because

00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:48.699
no skin off my back in the end. I want the best

00:44:48.699 --> 00:44:52.019
team we can put together. I'm curious, curious

00:44:52.019 --> 00:44:56.369
is the word I want, to see if... Knew who coming

00:44:56.369 --> 00:44:58.849
off at halftime, if that's a final straw type

00:44:58.849 --> 00:45:01.250
of situation or a message type of situation.

00:45:01.789 --> 00:45:05.289
Basically, I do believe that Reed Baker Whiting

00:45:05.289 --> 00:45:12.610
has an opportunity here to usurp. Knew whose

00:45:12.610 --> 00:45:17.869
role on that left back position, because I look

00:45:17.869 --> 00:45:22.329
at it as he's better. We've seen the stats. He's

00:45:22.329 --> 00:45:25.519
better moving forward. move, not moving forward

00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:27.880
as in moving forward from this moment on moving

00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:30.820
forward into the attack. Yeah. Just making sure

00:45:30.820 --> 00:45:33.159
that I understand that. Yeah. And that's actually

00:45:33.159 --> 00:45:35.300
the question I was going to say for mailbag.

00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.340
So this will seamlessly go right into it. Yeah.

00:45:37.900 --> 00:45:42.719
Yeah. I mean, here's, here's the thing. I think

00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:47.000
you're right. This is a chance. I think, you

00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:50.670
know, when I, when I was talking with. with our

00:45:50.670 --> 00:45:53.690
GM recently, and we sat and listened to him talk.

00:45:53.849 --> 00:45:57.349
And he said what he does during the game is he

00:45:57.349 --> 00:46:00.250
doesn't watch the TV camera. He sits at a TV

00:46:00.250 --> 00:46:03.269
and watches the above camera that shows everything

00:46:03.269 --> 00:46:07.050
to make sure our left back stays back and plays

00:46:07.050 --> 00:46:09.110
defense. And we saw time and time again in this

00:46:09.110 --> 00:46:14.269
game, Nuhu pushing forward, which is fine if

00:46:14.269 --> 00:46:16.050
everyone shifts when we do that three at the

00:46:16.050 --> 00:46:18.750
back. But then when Alex would push forward and

00:46:18.750 --> 00:46:21.420
Alex... I would say for the first half, was one

00:46:21.420 --> 00:46:23.480
of the best players on the field. Alex had a

00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:26.460
good game. The stats bear it out. The foot mob

00:46:26.460 --> 00:46:29.280
bears it out. Opta bears it out, but yes. Yep.

00:46:30.780 --> 00:46:33.719
Nuhu was slow getting back at times because he

00:46:33.719 --> 00:46:36.059
wanted the ball, and he was pushing a little

00:46:36.059 --> 00:46:40.719
bit further forward. I think we've seen, like

00:46:40.719 --> 00:46:43.840
against LA Galaxy in the Western Conference Final,

00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:48.630
when Nuhu stays back, he is... the best left

00:46:48.630 --> 00:46:52.010
back in the league. But he doesn't stay back.

00:46:52.530 --> 00:46:55.070
And so I think if we're doing five at the back,

00:46:55.210 --> 00:46:57.690
you throw him in as a third center back and then

00:46:57.690 --> 00:47:01.010
put Reid out wide, maybe that allows for it to

00:47:01.010 --> 00:47:07.730
happen a little easier. Interesting. I mean,

00:47:08.110 --> 00:47:10.210
if we're going to do four at the back, I don't

00:47:10.210 --> 00:47:12.210
want to see Niu Hu on the field for the rest

00:47:12.210 --> 00:47:15.030
of the season, in my opinion. Four at the back.

00:47:15.769 --> 00:47:17.860
What? With four in the back. With four in the

00:47:17.860 --> 00:47:20.440
back, yes. I would rather see RBW. For me, this

00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:22.659
is all of the things that we've been critical

00:47:22.659 --> 00:47:26.199
of Nuhu for. He keeps doing the same things.

00:47:26.440 --> 00:47:29.480
And sure, it was just two games in a row where

00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:32.320
he made mistakes. But I think it's more than

00:47:32.320 --> 00:47:36.260
that. You see the team regularly get frustrated

00:47:36.260 --> 00:47:38.679
with him on the field. You see their reactions

00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:40.340
to him. You see the way they talk to him. They

00:47:40.340 --> 00:47:41.719
don't talk to other players on the field like

00:47:41.719 --> 00:47:45.340
that. And so clearly... And they like him as

00:47:45.340 --> 00:47:46.820
a person. So you're talking about body language.

00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:49.239
Yeah. They like him as a person, obviously, because

00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:53.679
we've seen them interact together in public.

00:47:53.780 --> 00:47:55.840
We've been to events where he's talking to other

00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:59.039
players. So I don't think it's that. But we've

00:47:59.039 --> 00:48:02.519
had multiple players tell us in confidence that

00:48:02.519 --> 00:48:06.219
there is some frustration with Nuhu from other

00:48:06.219 --> 00:48:11.010
players. I don't want to go any further into

00:48:11.010 --> 00:48:13.269
that. I knew who, I don't want to create, I don't

00:48:13.269 --> 00:48:16.469
want to create drama. No, but if you watch Instagram

00:48:16.469 --> 00:48:18.730
reels, when they're doing like the team interview

00:48:18.730 --> 00:48:20.809
things like, Oh, who's the one that's most likely

00:48:20.809 --> 00:48:26.170
to do. He is a whipping boy. Yep. Whether it's

00:48:26.170 --> 00:48:29.190
all in good fun or if there's some level of truth

00:48:29.190 --> 00:48:31.730
to it, I don't know. I mean, and usually it's

00:48:31.730 --> 00:48:35.670
both right. Yeah. And so I think new, who is

00:48:35.670 --> 00:48:37.769
one of the most talented players on the team.

00:48:38.269 --> 00:48:40.150
But if he can't do what the coaches want, he

00:48:40.150 --> 00:48:46.489
shouldn't be out there. And I think this is Reid's

00:48:46.489 --> 00:48:49.550
chance to take that job. I also think if Nuhu

00:48:49.550 --> 00:48:53.230
starts staying back a little more and only going

00:48:53.230 --> 00:48:56.090
forward when it's opportunistic and learns to

00:48:56.090 --> 00:48:58.369
play better with whomever's on the left with

00:48:58.369 --> 00:49:03.449
him, I think he could have that job. for a long

00:49:03.449 --> 00:49:06.030
time. I just don't. He has had the job for a

00:49:06.030 --> 00:49:08.869
long time. He's had the job for a very long time.

00:49:09.010 --> 00:49:12.769
2018. Yeah, how good Brad Smith was before he

00:49:12.769 --> 00:49:16.150
basically wrestled it away from him. Yeah. I

00:49:16.150 --> 00:49:19.030
mean, we also had Joven, but Joven 2 .0 was not

00:49:19.030 --> 00:49:21.190
as good as Joven. No, but they also moved him

00:49:21.190 --> 00:49:24.050
up into the mid to try and keep him on the field

00:49:24.050 --> 00:49:26.269
and try and make that work. Even when they had

00:49:26.269 --> 00:49:28.570
him back there, it just wasn't the same. Yeah.

00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:31.019
You know, it's really fascinating. And, you know,

00:49:31.079 --> 00:49:34.739
what's really interesting is, so I think it's

00:49:34.739 --> 00:49:37.679
fair to say that New Who has a personality that

00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:44.340
can be considered somewhat eccentric. Would eccentric

00:49:44.340 --> 00:49:47.420
be the right word for you? Eccentric, and he's

00:49:47.420 --> 00:49:50.420
got a little bit of a hot head. He's a little

00:49:50.420 --> 00:49:52.260
bit of a hot head, too. I mean, here's the thing.

00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:53.880
I think one of the reasons I'm so critical of

00:49:53.880 --> 00:49:56.860
him is I would play like that, too. I do play

00:49:56.860 --> 00:49:59.239
like that. There's been multiple times in public

00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:01.199
where there's been discussions about me. Well,

00:50:01.300 --> 00:50:04.739
haven't you been – aren't you nominated for year

00:50:04.739 --> 00:50:07.440
-end award for most fun player to play with?

00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:10.159
Am I? I think so. I think you're the finalist

00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:12.340
for your team. I didn't see that. That's cool.

00:50:14.039 --> 00:50:17.519
Well, you are one of the – so you are the winner

00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:20.650
for your team, and you are one of the four. uh

00:50:20.650 --> 00:50:23.670
finalists for the league yeah well yeah and this

00:50:23.670 --> 00:50:25.510
this season was a lot better than last season

00:50:25.510 --> 00:50:27.929
i had some frustration early on learning you're

00:50:27.929 --> 00:50:30.050
learning the league you know it's a unique league

00:50:30.050 --> 00:50:33.429
but so with that in mind here's my theory we

00:50:33.429 --> 00:50:37.309
signed new who when he was what 17 yeah i mean

00:50:37.309 --> 00:50:42.510
yes so he came here from cameroon when he was

00:50:42.510 --> 00:50:45.710
17 didn't speak english didn't speak english

00:50:45.710 --> 00:50:48.630
fortunately we had jimmy triori there who's speaking

00:50:48.630 --> 00:50:52.039
french can And who else? We had another player

00:50:52.039 --> 00:50:55.860
who could speak French, Benazé for a bit, but

00:50:55.860 --> 00:50:58.300
also I feel like someone else. But anyways. And

00:50:58.300 --> 00:50:59.900
I'm sure some of the other Europeans spoke French

00:50:59.900 --> 00:51:06.460
as well. But context. So he's a little hard to

00:51:06.460 --> 00:51:08.760
figure out sometimes, personality -wise, I think.

00:51:12.679 --> 00:51:17.239
I'd be curious. I'm curious just on a psychological

00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:22.119
profile side. I'd be curious what that's like

00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:28.860
growing up in an area kind of by yourself. When

00:51:28.860 --> 00:51:31.559
you're trying to figure things out, figure out

00:51:31.559 --> 00:51:36.460
how to be an adult. We've heard people on the

00:51:36.460 --> 00:51:41.239
Sounders speak to how alienating it was for him

00:51:41.239 --> 00:51:43.340
to move to this country and know nobody. And

00:51:43.340 --> 00:51:46.440
there still may be some trust issues for him

00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:51.019
with just... Or even like personality development

00:51:51.019 --> 00:51:54.920
interrupted. So now reverting to personality

00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:58.059
traits that you might be when you're 17 to 24.

00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:04.900
Video game. And this is not a critical thing

00:52:04.900 --> 00:52:08.159
of New Who. It's more of an interesting, like

00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:10.780
when people look at him and can't figure him

00:52:10.780 --> 00:52:13.619
out. He was 19 when he came over to the Defiance.

00:52:14.139 --> 00:52:18.630
No, 18. So when you can't. When people are like,

00:52:18.650 --> 00:52:21.050
oh, I can't figure out his personality, thinking

00:52:21.050 --> 00:52:27.690
about that context is that he's been asked to

00:52:27.690 --> 00:52:32.989
kind of figure out how to be an adult through

00:52:32.989 --> 00:52:36.389
the lens of this. Of being a professional athlete.

00:52:36.710 --> 00:52:40.510
And let's not forget, I think it's easy to say,

00:52:40.650 --> 00:52:42.650
oh, he's 27. He's been here eight years on the

00:52:42.650 --> 00:52:48.190
team. He's a veteran now. I feel like I was 40

00:52:48.190 --> 00:52:52.809
before I figured myself out. Yeah. And so that's

00:52:52.809 --> 00:52:57.289
why I'm usually – I'm not as critical of his

00:52:57.289 --> 00:52:59.710
– and this is a long -winded version of me saying

00:52:59.710 --> 00:53:06.250
why I'm not so critical of his – when his personality

00:53:06.250 --> 00:53:10.489
shows up on the field. And I actually don't usually

00:53:10.489 --> 00:53:13.250
mind it. It was in this instance it led directly

00:53:13.250 --> 00:53:16.219
to a goal. And I'll call it out when that happens.

00:53:16.500 --> 00:53:19.380
Yeah. And those are things that I will call out.

00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:25.679
Now, the red card dog. So I'm not sure if he

00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:28.739
thought it was only going to be a yellow, you

00:53:28.739 --> 00:53:31.280
know, like if he thought the other people were.

00:53:31.360 --> 00:53:33.739
He may have not known exactly where in the field

00:53:33.739 --> 00:53:35.159
he was at that point because he was just trying

00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:39.019
to get back as well. So I'm actually really surprised

00:53:39.019 --> 00:53:41.260
they didn't overturn the John Bell red. In fact,

00:53:41.260 --> 00:53:45.780
they find him. Well, yeah, they find him for

00:53:45.780 --> 00:53:48.199
not leaving the field in a timely manner. But

00:53:48.199 --> 00:53:51.320
that was just, I don't even want to talk about

00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:54.679
that game. That was just, that was just. But

00:53:54.679 --> 00:53:59.019
yeah, I mean, I think I don't, I think knew who

00:53:59.019 --> 00:54:01.679
could easily earn his way back into the trust

00:54:01.679 --> 00:54:06.920
of the team. I just think it's. As he gets older

00:54:06.920 --> 00:54:10.300
opportunities for other people to. to take it

00:54:10.300 --> 00:54:12.519
over will be there. And this is one of those

00:54:12.519 --> 00:54:14.719
opportunities. I do think if we go to five at

00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:17.360
the back, though, he may still have the opportunity.

00:54:17.539 --> 00:54:19.559
I mean, he's great at center back when we have

00:54:19.559 --> 00:54:22.239
five at the back, right? And at the same time,

00:54:22.260 --> 00:54:25.000
this is also a situation where we're also short

00:54:25.000 --> 00:54:28.460
at the center back position right now. But opportunities

00:54:28.460 --> 00:54:31.719
are there. So I'm curious to see how it plays

00:54:31.719 --> 00:54:38.000
out. Yeah. And I was just noting. that, uh, where,

00:54:38.119 --> 00:54:42.719
where did I see? I'm looking at his, uh, contract.

00:54:42.860 --> 00:54:45.380
It expires at the end of the season. I don't

00:54:45.380 --> 00:54:46.780
know if there's an option. Oh yeah. There's a

00:54:46.780 --> 00:54:49.699
club option for one more year. Okay. So, but

00:54:49.699 --> 00:54:51.800
it does expire at the end of the season. So it,

00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:54.619
they're going to have to have some serious conversation.

00:54:54.699 --> 00:54:56.360
So I think actually, if you're the Sounders,

00:54:56.400 --> 00:54:58.539
you want Reed to have a little more time to see

00:54:58.539 --> 00:55:01.380
if that's a position he could, could potentially

00:55:01.380 --> 00:55:03.719
start at one day. And, and so this really is

00:55:03.719 --> 00:55:07.570
his chance, uh, In multiple ways. In multiple

00:55:07.570 --> 00:55:09.530
ways. And Nuhu left that door open, unfortunately.

00:55:10.530 --> 00:55:13.989
People get mad because I rag on Nuhu, but it's

00:55:13.989 --> 00:55:18.690
because... I mean, I have a Nuhu jersey. Who

00:55:18.690 --> 00:55:22.670
knew? I want him to... It never gets old. Oh,

00:55:22.670 --> 00:55:24.730
yeah, that's right. I wish he had come for us

00:55:24.730 --> 00:55:26.349
after Minnesota, though. Then we'd have Who Knew

00:55:26.349 --> 00:55:30.010
and Nuhu. But I want him to be successful, but

00:55:30.010 --> 00:55:34.920
it's the stupid little things that... get you

00:55:34.920 --> 00:55:37.699
in the end and that's why yeah we the sounders

00:55:37.699 --> 00:55:40.179
don't need to beat themselves right they there's

00:55:40.179 --> 00:55:43.300
enough talent on the other teams we play regularly

00:55:43.300 --> 00:55:48.119
to to we don't need to beat ourselves yeah so

00:55:48.119 --> 00:55:52.380
uh why don't we jump into the mailbag here yeah

00:55:52.380 --> 00:55:56.199
let's do that before we finish up the show because

00:55:56.199 --> 00:56:04.420
i know we had uh some stuff There was some questions

00:56:04.420 --> 00:56:06.679
before this date. There's so much conversation

00:56:06.679 --> 00:56:09.539
in there, though, so it's hard to stay up with

00:56:09.539 --> 00:56:14.860
it. So let's start with Dan the Bastard, one

00:56:14.860 --> 00:56:16.519
of our ultras, asking, is Jordan Morris coming

00:56:16.519 --> 00:56:18.500
back from injury like getting a new DP signing?

00:56:20.380 --> 00:56:24.179
Depends on what version of Jordan we get. Potentially,

00:56:24.199 --> 00:56:28.119
yeah. I mean... If he can go up there and score,

00:56:28.260 --> 00:56:34.150
yes, absolutely. Yeah. And will he play against

00:56:34.150 --> 00:56:38.550
PSG? We don't know. My money is on no. Yeah.

00:56:39.969 --> 00:56:44.809
Because that is only, what, six days away? Yeah,

00:56:44.829 --> 00:56:47.969
Monday. So, yeah. So it comes up fast. I know

00:56:47.969 --> 00:56:50.349
he wants to play, but I think it's one of those

00:56:50.349 --> 00:56:53.710
things. He had the setback in training last week.

00:56:53.869 --> 00:56:57.829
So the thing is, he was on track to play. Yeah.

00:56:58.409 --> 00:57:00.190
He probably would have played all three matches.

00:57:01.960 --> 00:57:05.340
you probably not full, not starting. Yeah. Yeah.

00:57:05.340 --> 00:57:07.880
But you're potentially right there. He would

00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:10.659
have subbed on if we needed him to score. Yeah.

00:57:11.920 --> 00:57:16.579
Yeah. So I think I want, I, Jordan Morris is

00:57:16.579 --> 00:57:18.659
such a great story and he's a good dude. You

00:57:18.659 --> 00:57:20.780
know, I think I've said this before, but he went

00:57:20.780 --> 00:57:23.420
to high school with my cousin, my cousin who

00:57:23.420 --> 00:57:28.539
is on the spectrum and he was so wonderful to

00:57:28.539 --> 00:57:32.710
my cousin. Like, just such a good dude and and

00:57:32.710 --> 00:57:36.429
maybe it's because uh jordan i mean he is just

00:57:36.429 --> 00:57:38.329
a good dude in general but you know he's he's

00:57:38.329 --> 00:57:43.110
got family members with disabilities and it just

00:57:43.110 --> 00:57:46.050
knowing that and knowing what how successful

00:57:46.050 --> 00:57:50.269
he's been i want a local player to succeed like

00:57:50.269 --> 00:57:53.789
him and it's just frustrating but he has i mean

00:57:53.789 --> 00:57:58.389
like let's also keep in mind that he's had a

00:57:59.380 --> 00:58:02.320
He's had one of those careers where he's quietly

00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:07.360
just been putting away goals. He's our club's

00:58:07.360 --> 00:58:10.099
all -time leading goal scorer. But I also feel

00:58:10.099 --> 00:58:13.880
like he's Ken Griffey Jr. at the Reds. He is...

00:58:13.880 --> 00:58:18.699
If he didn't have injuries, he would have reached

00:58:18.699 --> 00:58:21.079
such higher levels. Even if he just stayed in

00:58:21.079 --> 00:58:23.099
Seattle. But he probably wouldn't have, right?

00:58:23.199 --> 00:58:25.320
He would have been at Swansea and moved on from

00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:28.599
there. He would have been like... I just think

00:58:28.599 --> 00:58:33.940
that it's frustrating to see how injuries can

00:58:33.940 --> 00:58:38.579
sideline such a high -flying career. Speaking

00:58:38.579 --> 00:58:45.300
of Ken Griffey Jr., I ran into him on Sunday

00:58:45.300 --> 00:58:51.079
for Father's Day at Pier 62 because Roma and

00:58:51.079 --> 00:58:54.139
I, you are looking at a Guinness Book of World

00:58:54.139 --> 00:58:58.579
Record holder. Yeah. I am a full -fledged Guinness

00:58:58.579 --> 00:59:00.780
Book of World Record holder, which is such a

00:59:00.780 --> 00:59:05.420
dad thing to do on Father's Day. I mean, yeah,

00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:13.380
it really is. So we did the record for world's

00:59:13.380 --> 00:59:19.480
largest soccer clinic. I was actually surprised

00:59:19.480 --> 00:59:24.460
that only 1 ,000 people showed up, roughly a

00:59:24.460 --> 00:59:28.099
little more. Didn't beat by San Jose as much

00:59:28.099 --> 00:59:30.860
as I thought they would. Largest football soccer

00:59:30.860 --> 00:59:36.039
lesson. Great crowd. It was really, really good

00:59:36.039 --> 00:59:41.159
to see. A lot of fun. You'd be surprised how

00:59:41.159 --> 00:59:43.980
big a thousand people to try and organize a soccer

00:59:43.980 --> 00:59:48.179
lesson is. So big shout out to the Rave Foundation

00:59:48.179 --> 00:59:54.219
and their team for really putting this together.

00:59:55.279 --> 01:00:01.059
It came out really well. Roma looked at me about

01:00:01.059 --> 01:00:03.239
halfway through and was getting a little frustrated

01:00:03.239 --> 01:00:07.559
because we were doing drills. We were doing soccer

01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:13.539
drills. They would explain what the drill was

01:00:13.539 --> 01:00:15.420
going to be, and then we'd do it, and then we'd

01:00:15.420 --> 01:00:17.340
do it again and try and beat our score from the

01:00:17.340 --> 01:00:20.820
previous time. And once we started getting to

01:00:20.820 --> 01:00:23.489
some advanced stuff like... Bounce it off your

01:00:23.489 --> 01:00:25.829
knee. Let it hit the ground. Flip it up with

01:00:25.829 --> 01:00:30.030
your foot. Catch it. Lather, rinse, repeat. And

01:00:30.030 --> 01:00:31.650
Rowan would get really frustrated because she'd

01:00:31.650 --> 01:00:33.550
bounce off her knee and they'd go flying and

01:00:33.550 --> 01:00:37.250
she'd have to go chase it. I'm not good at this.

01:00:37.789 --> 01:00:39.989
Is that why she's been so violent the last four

01:00:39.989 --> 01:00:42.349
days? I've been beaten to a pulp by her with

01:00:42.349 --> 01:00:47.489
that little Coca -Cola clappy loud thing. She's

01:00:47.489 --> 01:00:52.920
been a rare form lately. i don't know i don't

01:00:52.920 --> 01:00:56.539
know but yeah yeah i heard it was even pretty

01:00:56.539 --> 01:01:00.400
repetitive for adults who were not regular soccer

01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:02.659
players like that that ended up leaving because

01:01:02.659 --> 01:01:04.659
they were like cool it's the same thing over

01:01:04.659 --> 01:01:06.739
and over again well that's the thing but the

01:01:06.739 --> 01:01:09.599
thing is so there were actually more than the

01:01:09.599 --> 01:01:13.960
announced crowd you had to participate for the

01:01:13.960 --> 01:01:18.280
entire session to count towards the record. That

01:01:18.280 --> 01:01:21.679
makes sense. So we probably lost somewhere in

01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:26.380
the neighborhood of maybe three to 500 people

01:01:26.380 --> 01:01:31.900
through attrition on that. But great event, great

01:01:31.900 --> 01:01:38.529
times, had a lot of fun. Yeah, that's cool. And

01:01:38.529 --> 01:01:45.210
I got down there and I watched Travis Thompson.

01:01:45.670 --> 01:01:48.530
Yeah, Travis Thompson. And the rapper who was

01:01:48.530 --> 01:01:50.909
before him was pretty good, too. Local kid. I

01:01:50.909 --> 01:01:52.769
forget his name right now. I want to say Nelly,

01:01:52.869 --> 01:01:55.409
but that's clearly not right. No, no, he's Atlanta.

01:01:56.690 --> 01:02:00.489
But it was something like that. So it was a fun

01:02:00.489 --> 01:02:02.989
time down there. And they had the Club World

01:02:02.989 --> 01:02:05.530
Cup trophy down there. And at the 90, they, of

01:02:05.530 --> 01:02:09.119
course, had. Not the Club World Cup trophy, the

01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:10.239
Champions League trophy. The Champions League

01:02:10.239 --> 01:02:12.679
trophy, correct. And they had the four Western

01:02:12.679 --> 01:02:15.039
Conference finals and the two MLS Cup championship

01:02:15.039 --> 01:02:19.239
trophies over at the 90. Yeah. Where if you do

01:02:19.239 --> 01:02:21.800
want to get a Sounders kit with a Club World

01:02:21.800 --> 01:02:25.619
Cup patch on it, you can do that. They are for

01:02:25.619 --> 01:02:27.820
sale there. Which looks really good. Oh, you

01:02:27.820 --> 01:02:32.219
know, a big thing to note, there is no pro shops

01:02:32.219 --> 01:02:36.199
during Club World Cup. pro shop is not open there

01:02:36.199 --> 01:02:39.619
are fifa club world cup little sections where

01:02:39.619 --> 01:02:42.840
you get like little scarves and they refill those

01:02:42.840 --> 01:02:45.199
because they had a ton the first match they didn't

01:02:45.199 --> 01:02:50.940
have today that honestly that's kind of one of

01:02:50.940 --> 01:02:53.619
those lessons you learn um that's kind of what

01:02:53.619 --> 01:02:55.940
happened for all the women's world cup games

01:02:55.940 --> 01:02:58.559
in vancouver i went to the nigerian match they

01:02:58.559 --> 01:03:02.360
had nothing But yeah, I got a really cool scarf

01:03:02.360 --> 01:03:04.940
that has all the nations that were in the Women's

01:03:04.940 --> 01:03:08.780
World Cup. That was only available on match day

01:03:08.780 --> 01:03:12.639
one. They never replenished it. For such an organization

01:03:12.639 --> 01:03:15.559
that's basically only about making money more

01:03:15.559 --> 01:03:17.840
than the integrity of the game, you think they

01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:20.460
would be better at that? You would. You would

01:03:20.460 --> 01:03:29.940
think that. They were not. The Occidental Park

01:03:29.940 --> 01:03:34.420
was nice. I did a really nice walk from Pier

01:03:34.420 --> 01:03:39.019
62 to the stadium. Man, that waterfront is just...

01:03:39.019 --> 01:03:40.820
I haven't been there since they opened up the

01:03:40.820 --> 01:03:44.579
new part. it's nice it's really nice but then

01:03:44.579 --> 01:03:46.579
they went ahead and put that five lane freeway

01:03:46.579 --> 01:03:48.519
right through the middle of it that that took

01:03:48.519 --> 01:03:50.679
the place of like they put the tunnel and then

01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:52.199
it was supposed to be like there's cool stuff

01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:54.260
on top it's not going to be oh no there's just

01:03:54.260 --> 01:03:57.099
five lanes of driving now that was the that was

01:03:57.099 --> 01:04:01.480
my that was my snarky feeling until i walked

01:04:01.480 --> 01:04:05.280
it when i walked it i was like oh okay because

01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:08.280
driving it i'm i'm a little bummed and and also

01:04:08.829 --> 01:04:10.769
They basically built it so that you can't ride

01:04:10.769 --> 01:04:12.130
a bike on it when it was supposed to have its

01:04:12.130 --> 01:04:15.989
own bike lane. But you could definitely bike

01:04:15.989 --> 01:04:20.369
along the waterfront. Because the way they angled

01:04:20.369 --> 01:04:23.389
everything, it's not even a full sidewalk's length

01:04:23.389 --> 01:04:27.650
at times. Just, again, trust me on this. Walk

01:04:27.650 --> 01:04:29.690
it. It's frustrating that they didn't make it

01:04:29.690 --> 01:04:34.369
more pedestrian -friendly, considering. Yes,

01:04:34.369 --> 01:04:38.210
but also... Yes, but... It's very pedestrian

01:04:38.210 --> 01:04:42.690
-friendly. Walking from Pier 62, where I think

01:04:42.690 --> 01:04:44.989
they're going to have some World Cup events all

01:04:44.989 --> 01:04:49.929
the way down. It had me going, oh, it's been

01:04:49.929 --> 01:04:52.710
a long time since I've been down here. This is

01:04:52.710 --> 01:04:57.570
actually much cooler than I thought it was, for

01:04:57.570 --> 01:04:59.369
what that's worth. The last time I was down there,

01:04:59.429 --> 01:05:01.150
I think, was when they announced that we got

01:05:01.150 --> 01:05:04.530
the World Cup. Yeah, when we went to that party.

01:05:05.030 --> 01:05:08.360
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, much different. Which does

01:05:08.360 --> 01:05:13.400
remind me that, let me see here if I can pull

01:05:13.400 --> 01:05:16.739
it up here. Oops, I think I clicked the wrong

01:05:16.739 --> 01:05:23.199
thing. I saw some pretty cool announcement of

01:05:23.199 --> 01:05:26.159
things that neighborhoods are doing. So I'm going

01:05:26.159 --> 01:05:30.940
to type in my neighborhood here, or at least

01:05:30.940 --> 01:05:33.119
the gathering hall in my neighborhood and see.

01:05:34.440 --> 01:05:38.429
Nope. So I'll just type it. For next year for

01:05:38.429 --> 01:05:40.730
the World Cup? No, for the World Cup. They're

01:05:40.730 --> 01:05:44.090
showing the final. Here we go. They are having

01:05:44.090 --> 01:05:49.190
Seattle Parks and Rec are having three watch

01:05:49.190 --> 01:05:53.429
parties for the Club World Cup this year for

01:05:53.429 --> 01:05:56.409
the quarterfinal, the semifinal, and the final.

01:05:57.230 --> 01:06:00.690
Quarterfinal on July 5th up at Bitter Lake. July

01:06:00.690 --> 01:06:05.940
9th for the semifinal down in South Park. probably

01:06:05.940 --> 01:06:08.280
five -minute or less walk from me just across

01:06:08.280 --> 01:06:12.579
a greenway here. The final will be at Van Asselt

01:06:12.579 --> 01:06:15.039
Community Center just right up the road on July

01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:17.400
13th. Food trucks, activities, games, prizes

01:06:17.400 --> 01:06:21.059
all put on by Seattle Parks and Rec. So pretty

01:06:21.059 --> 01:06:25.059
fun. I think I might go check that out. Yeah,

01:06:25.079 --> 01:06:29.800
I saw for this game, Roma and I got our picture

01:06:29.800 --> 01:06:31.460
in front of the Champions League trophy. Then

01:06:31.460 --> 01:06:33.840
we got pictures in front of the MLS Cup trophies

01:06:33.840 --> 01:06:37.099
for her. We got balloon animals made for her

01:06:37.099 --> 01:06:42.400
for free, tip situation. I think there are artists

01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:45.079
doing caricatures, which I imagine were also

01:06:45.079 --> 01:06:49.079
free. Occidental Park was really done really

01:06:49.079 --> 01:06:51.980
well for this. And the stage wasn't in the park

01:06:51.980 --> 01:06:54.260
area where it usually is. It was in the next

01:06:54.260 --> 01:06:58.320
block up in between all the restaurants and galleries.

01:06:59.519 --> 01:07:06.539
Yeah, it's a good dry run. For next year. Yeah,

01:07:06.579 --> 01:07:10.380
and I will say nice beer gardens, including booze.

01:07:10.380 --> 01:07:12.519
Yeah, I saw how they did that. They did those

01:07:12.519 --> 01:07:16.559
little bands in that, right? They did in the

01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:18.420
one in the main Occidental Park, and then they

01:07:18.420 --> 01:07:22.019
had people in home team gear bartending at the

01:07:22.019 --> 01:07:24.300
other one where they had both beer and booze.

01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:26.159
You could buy mixed drinks. They didn't have

01:07:26.159 --> 01:07:27.880
Diet Coke, which is weird, so I had to drink

01:07:27.880 --> 01:07:32.309
soda water and vodka. able to sit there, watch

01:07:32.309 --> 01:07:34.409
Travis Thompson perform while drinking some vodka.

01:07:34.530 --> 01:07:38.690
It was really nice. Very cool. Yeah, so definitely

01:07:38.690 --> 01:07:41.869
thumbs up to the Sounders for putting that together.

01:07:42.050 --> 01:07:44.610
Inside is mainly FIFA, but outside, that's all

01:07:44.610 --> 01:07:49.230
Sounders. And the Downtown Association, the Downtown

01:07:49.230 --> 01:07:51.349
Seattle Association was also doing some really

01:07:51.349 --> 01:07:53.809
good stuff with that, so I want to make sure

01:07:53.809 --> 01:07:58.590
I properly acknowledge that. So why don't we

01:07:58.590 --> 01:08:01.760
hit these other... questions in them yeah before

01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:03.480
we get out of here i really like this one from

01:08:03.480 --> 01:08:06.360
cedar uh which i think you will like as well

01:08:06.360 --> 01:08:09.800
uh shout out cedar i think cedar's coming up

01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:13.159
for a match soon we should find out uh when that

01:08:13.159 --> 01:08:15.320
is although it might be the one you have to work

01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:20.539
for so oh uh found out today that bernie was

01:08:20.539 --> 01:08:24.619
offered three free tickets to saturday's game

01:08:24.619 --> 01:08:28.560
so you're gonna go after all I think I am going

01:08:28.560 --> 01:08:31.199
to go after all, especially with the big thing

01:08:31.199 --> 01:08:34.939
was I wasn't going to get out of work, go up

01:08:34.939 --> 01:08:38.279
north, then turn around and come back. But if

01:08:38.279 --> 01:08:41.300
we're able to go and Bernie wants to come, then

01:08:41.300 --> 01:08:44.460
I can just meet up with them down there. So that

01:08:44.460 --> 01:08:47.579
changes the narrative completely. Because I just

01:08:47.579 --> 01:08:50.220
have a solo ticket for that match. Yeah, so I'll

01:08:50.220 --> 01:08:53.359
keep you posted, but it's looking like we will

01:08:53.359 --> 01:08:57.020
be there for the Red Diamonds Inter Milan game.

01:08:57.640 --> 01:08:59.840
Bernie said, hey, do you think it's okay if I

01:08:59.840 --> 01:09:02.899
wear my Roma jersey? I'm like, well, as long

01:09:02.899 --> 01:09:05.479
as you don't mind pissing off some of the Milan

01:09:05.479 --> 01:09:08.479
fans. Don't sit in the intersection. No, I think

01:09:08.479 --> 01:09:12.000
that might be another Red Diamonds night. Yeah.

01:09:12.060 --> 01:09:14.239
Oh, I mean, I love sitting with the Red Diamonds

01:09:14.239 --> 01:09:18.079
fans. That was such a blast. It definitely reminded

01:09:18.079 --> 01:09:21.439
me of the Women's World Cup in Vancouver, where

01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:28.760
I think Japan played at least four games. But

01:09:28.760 --> 01:09:31.659
I think they played five of the nine games I

01:09:31.659 --> 01:09:35.859
went to in Vancouver because they played a knockout

01:09:35.859 --> 01:09:38.920
stage game. Super fun at that time. Oh, yeah,

01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:41.439
definitely. And Naho Kawasumi was on that team,

01:09:41.579 --> 01:09:45.539
and they were great. They made the final, and

01:09:45.539 --> 01:09:49.699
then they just, it was almost, it was definitely

01:09:49.699 --> 01:09:52.699
anticlimactic, but you almost felt bad for them.

01:09:53.159 --> 01:09:56.220
Was it the Olympics that they won? When they

01:09:56.220 --> 01:09:58.479
surprised everyone after the, or was it the club?

01:09:58.500 --> 01:10:02.479
No, they won the previous World Cup against US.

01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:04.720
Yeah, I don't remember if it was the Olympics,

01:10:04.760 --> 01:10:08.029
but it was after the Fukushima disaster. Yeah.

01:10:08.310 --> 01:10:13.409
Um, but yeah, so, so that team was great and

01:10:13.409 --> 01:10:16.029
I got to watch a lot of them. Um, but I also

01:10:16.029 --> 01:10:19.649
got to sit, I was sitting in the, basically the

01:10:19.649 --> 01:10:23.670
supporter section area. Uh, so I was like 10

01:10:23.670 --> 01:10:27.109
rows behind the net for all the games. That's

01:10:27.109 --> 01:10:29.829
amazing. That's way up on the top. Oh, except

01:10:29.829 --> 01:10:31.590
for the final, the final, I was in the front

01:10:31.590 --> 01:10:34.680
row of the 300 section. Because the thing was

01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:37.260
with the – Didn't the U .S. dominate that one?

01:10:37.399 --> 01:10:39.079
Yeah, that was where we scored three goals in

01:10:39.079 --> 01:10:41.079
15 minutes. Including one from like the halfway

01:10:41.079 --> 01:10:44.359
line. Yep. Carly Lloyd put one in and it was

01:10:44.359 --> 01:10:48.100
4 -0. I think it was 4 -0. Actually, no. Yeah,

01:10:48.180 --> 01:10:51.939
it was 4 -0 within the first 20 minutes. And,

01:10:51.939 --> 01:10:57.520
yeah. But yeah, so it was one of those things

01:10:57.520 --> 01:11:00.579
where if you bought a stadium passport, you would

01:11:00.579 --> 01:11:02.979
get tickets to all the games at that stadium

01:11:02.979 --> 01:11:07.079
and you would have the ability to purchase tickets

01:11:07.079 --> 01:11:10.680
to the final. So even though the final was in

01:11:10.680 --> 01:11:13.880
Vancouver and I bought tickets there, I didn't

01:11:13.880 --> 01:11:16.539
get guaranteed access to those same seats for

01:11:16.539 --> 01:11:19.380
the final. But they did put me in the front row

01:11:19.380 --> 01:11:23.619
of the 300 section. zero complaints about that

01:11:23.619 --> 01:11:26.739
whole experience. It was amazing. But yeah, so

01:11:26.739 --> 01:11:29.720
I got to see, I think, five games with Japan.

01:11:31.140 --> 01:11:37.439
And I got to really take in their supporters.

01:11:37.739 --> 01:11:41.880
It was great. They were so cool. They would hand

01:11:41.880 --> 01:11:49.060
out those Karate Kid Japan headbands. I saw some

01:11:49.060 --> 01:11:51.529
kids wearing them today. They would hand those

01:11:51.529 --> 01:11:53.909
out to anyone that was in the sections before

01:11:53.909 --> 01:11:58.250
the games that wanted to wear them. So welcoming.

01:11:58.770 --> 01:12:03.289
This was pre -Roma. Yeah. And they did exactly

01:12:03.289 --> 01:12:06.770
what you think they did, which was clean up that

01:12:06.770 --> 01:12:11.550
section after the games. And then last year we

01:12:11.550 --> 01:12:17.189
went to Japan and we went to a Kyoto game. um

01:12:17.189 --> 01:12:19.909
and sat in the supporter section and then today

01:12:19.909 --> 01:12:23.430
so every time the japan supporter culture is

01:12:23.430 --> 01:12:25.630
exactly the kind of supporter culture that i

01:12:25.630 --> 01:12:29.289
like to participate in it's wonderful so yeah

01:12:29.289 --> 01:12:31.930
um highly highly recommend please this is an

01:12:31.930 --> 01:12:34.010
advertisement for you come on out to the games

01:12:34.010 --> 01:12:37.550
as you know this week yeah once once in a lifetime

01:12:37.550 --> 01:12:39.210
opportunity i don't think we'll get the club

01:12:39.210 --> 01:12:41.710
world cup again in seattle anytime soon And it's

01:12:41.710 --> 01:12:44.789
going to expand and it is going to hit and it

01:12:44.789 --> 01:12:46.850
is going to be harder to go to. So you won't

01:12:46.850 --> 01:12:48.829
be able to get to a game for 30 bucks in the

01:12:48.829 --> 01:12:54.729
future. So make it happen. Yeah. So Cedar asks,

01:12:54.869 --> 01:12:59.289
if Salute to the Olympians by Henry Mancini wasn't

01:12:59.289 --> 01:13:02.550
our goal slash victory song, what would each

01:13:02.550 --> 01:13:10.909
of you want it to be? Wrong answers only. Man,

01:13:11.789 --> 01:13:16.649
that Uraro Red Diamond song today was very anticlimactic.

01:13:16.750 --> 01:13:20.270
Did you hear that? Yeah, yeah. I took a video

01:13:20.270 --> 01:13:25.149
of it, actually. Very Perry Cuomo, but not upbeat

01:13:25.149 --> 01:13:27.909
like the Seattle song. It was like a crooner

01:13:27.909 --> 01:13:32.569
song. Hey, can I let in a little bit of a confession

01:13:32.569 --> 01:13:36.289
here? Our 74th minute anthem, Sounders Till I

01:13:36.289 --> 01:13:39.170
Die, sounds like a horrible church hymn. it's

01:13:39.170 --> 01:13:42.850
just musically not an interesting song oh yeah

01:13:42.850 --> 01:13:44.989
i mean and it's hard to say it's different than

01:13:44.989 --> 01:13:51.430
a recorded crooner singing red diamonds i'm in

01:13:51.430 --> 01:13:56.670
the club singing to you in las vegas a lounge

01:13:56.670 --> 01:14:00.710
singer you know um now with that in mind maybe

01:14:00.710 --> 01:14:09.779
oh no um maybe Maybe it should be a really cool

01:14:09.779 --> 01:14:12.479
cover of Diamonds Are Forever, Shirley Bassey.

01:14:12.659 --> 01:14:18.560
We want the Sounders victory song. Here's the

01:14:18.560 --> 01:14:22.420
thing. It can't be this because, number one,

01:14:22.960 --> 01:14:24.899
It's associated with hockey. And number two,

01:14:24.979 --> 01:14:27.079
we don't like Gary Glitter because he's a pedophile.

01:14:27.199 --> 01:14:29.020
But this is where I was originally going with

01:14:29.020 --> 01:14:31.819
when I said wrong answers only. I knew you were

01:14:31.819 --> 01:14:33.880
going to go with Mr. Pedophile. Just because

01:14:33.880 --> 01:14:37.319
the ability to chant Portland sucks, no matter

01:14:37.319 --> 01:14:40.920
who we're playing during the breakdown, is worth.

01:14:41.479 --> 01:14:44.920
it for me. You can fit a Portland sucks in just

01:14:44.920 --> 01:14:46.819
about anything, including one of those red diamond

01:14:46.819 --> 01:14:50.180
chance today, which you did quite, you did quite

01:14:50.180 --> 01:14:54.859
beautifully. I might add. So, so let's not make

01:14:54.859 --> 01:14:57.399
that be the, you know, let's not make that be

01:14:57.399 --> 01:15:00.460
the, I mean, here's the thing. Kraken use a Nirvana

01:15:00.460 --> 01:15:03.060
song that is, which is great. And it, it, it

01:15:03.060 --> 01:15:08.119
works great. I don't like that. It goes up, up,

01:15:08.119 --> 01:15:12.380
it goes up, up, up, down, up, up, down when it

01:15:12.380 --> 01:15:14.739
should be up, up, B -A -B -A select start 30,

01:15:14.760 --> 01:15:18.300
30 lives. Yeah. It does. It's too much. Select

01:15:18.300 --> 01:15:21.340
start is if you're doing the two players. Contra.

01:15:21.399 --> 01:15:26.100
Yeah. But, but musically that one does bother

01:15:26.100 --> 01:15:27.880
me because it should be altered in the second

01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:33.079
one, but it's still fun. One of my favorite things

01:15:33.079 --> 01:15:35.180
happened ever at a Mariners game where someone

01:15:35.180 --> 01:15:37.840
came up to bat and they played that Dr. Dre song.

01:15:38.539 --> 01:15:41.300
And it only happened every once because I think

01:15:41.300 --> 01:15:43.399
the Mariners nixed it after this. And it went,

01:15:43.520 --> 01:15:47.300
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. And it cut off. And

01:15:47.300 --> 01:15:50.359
the entire crowd smoked weed every day. And then

01:15:50.359 --> 01:15:54.819
the Mariners never did it again. Yeah. Okay.

01:15:55.779 --> 01:15:58.460
I mean, I guess the question is, do you go with

01:15:58.460 --> 01:16:00.619
like a rock song, a pop song, or do you go with

01:16:00.619 --> 01:16:05.060
something more instrumental? Do you change the

01:16:05.060 --> 01:16:08.449
lyrics? Do you go with something relevant? Don't

01:16:08.449 --> 01:16:13.390
go full jock jams. Here, I can tell you what

01:16:13.390 --> 01:16:16.649
I don't want it to be, and just saying this makes

01:16:16.649 --> 01:16:18.890
me really angry. My least favorite song of all

01:16:18.890 --> 01:16:23.149
time, not sung by Ace of Base, Cotton Eye Joe.

01:16:24.500 --> 01:16:27.800
rednecks yeah the original 2x yeah oh no i've

01:16:27.800 --> 01:16:29.399
heard that song way too many times they did they

01:16:29.399 --> 01:16:31.659
did the seahawks were for a while playing like

01:16:31.659 --> 01:16:33.539
a country cover of it which the rednecks are

01:16:33.539 --> 01:16:36.600
kind of metal country but uh they were they played

01:16:36.600 --> 01:16:39.680
it hero dance but yeah but i mean the the way

01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:42.060
they look yeah uh but they were playing like

01:16:42.060 --> 01:16:45.399
a country version of it for a while at seahawks

01:16:45.399 --> 01:16:48.159
games and it it drove me mad i hate that song

01:16:48.989 --> 01:16:51.350
But, yeah, I mean, I feel like there's got to

01:16:51.350 --> 01:16:53.310
be some good jock jam. Is there a Seattle band

01:16:53.310 --> 01:16:58.010
that we should be? I mean, Magic Man by heart.

01:16:59.170 --> 01:17:02.409
I mean, I always like the guitar intro of Barracuda,

01:17:02.550 --> 01:17:04.590
but that's not necessarily something you chant.

01:17:06.729 --> 01:17:09.369
I mean, you don't really need to chant. It's

01:17:09.369 --> 01:17:11.149
just like because you don't chant along with

01:17:11.149 --> 01:17:15.630
salute to the Olympians. I mean, I guess I go.

01:17:19.980 --> 01:17:23.979
I made Lodero's on fire. Your defense is terrified.

01:17:24.680 --> 01:17:29.220
No, but it's a good question. No diggity was

01:17:29.220 --> 01:17:32.819
considered a jock jam. That's crazy. No, no,

01:17:32.920 --> 01:17:35.960
no doubt. No, I don't. I don't think I would

01:17:35.960 --> 01:17:39.539
like a no doubt song. No, I was. No diggity.

01:17:39.560 --> 01:17:42.600
No doubt. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Don't make me do

01:17:42.600 --> 01:17:47.909
that. Oh, I mean, it harkens back to Griffey,

01:17:47.909 --> 01:17:49.869
Hip Hop Hooray. He used to come up to bat to

01:17:49.869 --> 01:17:52.810
that. That would be fun. I mean, if I'm being

01:17:52.810 --> 01:17:56.010
honest, an even better Naughty by Nature summer

01:17:56.010 --> 01:18:00.949
jam is Feel Me Flow. What album is that? I didn't

01:18:00.949 --> 01:18:03.189
even know that one. It's not on the first album.

01:18:03.210 --> 01:18:06.850
Oh, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is.

01:18:07.090 --> 01:18:09.590
I mean, Jamboree is another great one. Naughty

01:18:09.590 --> 01:18:11.729
by Nature had some great... They were great because

01:18:11.729 --> 01:18:15.720
they would balance... the street cred. I would

01:18:15.720 --> 01:18:18.899
want them to do ghetto bastard. No, but, but,

01:18:18.899 --> 01:18:23.479
but both feel me flow and jamboree, I think are

01:18:23.479 --> 01:18:27.579
vastly superior songs. What about every time

01:18:27.579 --> 01:18:30.300
there's an own goal, they play. It wasn't me.

01:18:33.460 --> 01:18:36.600
Thought I caught it as a header. It wasn't me.

01:18:39.619 --> 01:18:42.539
Tried to clear it, but I failed. It wasn't me.

01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:49.539
oh my goodness that's great oh my god uh did

01:18:49.539 --> 01:18:51.859
you know that that's not even shaggy's voice

01:18:51.859 --> 01:18:57.000
oh no yeah it's not like he was um he was using

01:18:57.000 --> 01:19:01.600
that voice to mock someone for mr boom bostic

01:19:01.600 --> 01:19:04.619
yeah but but that story of that song do you know

01:19:04.619 --> 01:19:06.800
the story it's incredible it got yeah it got

01:19:06.800 --> 01:19:10.699
it was a flop yeah and then some radio dj in

01:19:10.699 --> 01:19:14.420
hawaii downloaded it from LimeWire illegally

01:19:14.420 --> 01:19:17.840
and played it, and people liked it so much that

01:19:17.840 --> 01:19:19.380
he ended up playing it four times a day. You're

01:19:19.380 --> 01:19:22.760
talking about it wasn't me or Mr. Boombastic?

01:19:22.979 --> 01:19:25.500
It wasn't me. Okay. I'm like, Mr. Boombastic

01:19:25.500 --> 01:19:28.520
is a decade earlier than LimeWire, so yeah, okay.

01:19:28.760 --> 01:19:33.380
Yeah, no. No, it was his first single. No, his

01:19:33.380 --> 01:19:35.560
first single was Mr. Boombastic, Summertime.

01:19:36.319 --> 01:19:41.810
No, no, no, no. That was 1993. well then maybe

01:19:41.810 --> 01:19:44.529
he was getting, maybe, but he had his resurgence

01:19:44.529 --> 01:19:47.390
with, it wasn't me. That was around the same

01:19:47.390 --> 01:19:50.149
time as Cisco's song song. And yeah, but okay.

01:19:50.229 --> 01:19:52.270
Yeah. So he was getting dropped, but they didn't

01:19:52.270 --> 01:19:54.250
even send out promos to radios. That's why the

01:19:54.250 --> 01:19:58.069
guy had to legally download it. That I watched

01:19:58.069 --> 01:20:00.029
a whole documentary on it. Actually. It was pretty

01:20:00.029 --> 01:20:03.649
interesting. Yeah. Yeah. I don't, I don't, you

01:20:03.649 --> 01:20:09.869
know, this sounds funny, but I don't, to me,

01:20:10.380 --> 01:20:14.500
The salute to the Olympians has been associated

01:20:14.500 --> 01:20:19.279
with the Sounders and NASL since the 70s. So

01:20:19.279 --> 01:20:22.300
it's hard to think of a song like any other song

01:20:22.300 --> 01:20:24.100
because we don't really have a goal celebration

01:20:24.100 --> 01:20:26.199
song. You know what I mean? It's more just like

01:20:26.199 --> 01:20:29.520
that's the Sounders song. That was the TV broadcast

01:20:29.520 --> 01:20:32.420
song leading into every game for the NASL Sounders.

01:20:36.119 --> 01:20:40.250
Hmm. I mean... I feel like it would have to be

01:20:40.250 --> 01:20:43.489
a Seattle band, though. Oh, 100%. And that's

01:20:43.489 --> 01:20:46.010
where I'm kind of thinking about, like, you know,

01:20:46.010 --> 01:20:47.890
Presidents of the United States of America. Thinking

01:20:47.890 --> 01:20:51.050
about, you know, bands that... Supersounders.

01:20:51.090 --> 01:20:58.430
Oh, yeah. Going, you know... Dicks is the place

01:20:58.430 --> 01:21:01.930
where the cool hang out. I mean, I am a... I

01:21:01.930 --> 01:21:05.710
mean, I created a public team around Posse on

01:21:05.710 --> 01:21:09.199
Broadway. So... Yeah, so you're not going to

01:21:09.199 --> 01:21:10.979
get an argument from me on that. Buttermilk biscuits,

01:21:11.140 --> 01:21:13.180
here we go. Sip the flour, roll the dough, feels

01:21:13.180 --> 01:21:18.039
good. Oh, you could do Seattle Ambulsion. I was

01:21:18.039 --> 01:21:20.880
raised in the S -E -A -T -T -L -E. Seattle, born

01:21:20.880 --> 01:21:23.220
in the C -D. 19th and yes, aboard the Pippin

01:21:23.220 --> 01:21:25.640
was hard. Cadillac was the car and I'm rolling.

01:21:27.779 --> 01:21:30.100
In sixth grade, my mom used to let us drive around

01:21:30.100 --> 01:21:32.260
just blasting that on the speakers because she

01:21:32.260 --> 01:21:34.699
didn't like censoring me. You got some swaths

01:21:34.699 --> 01:21:38.340
right there. I mean, I think you've got to go

01:21:38.340 --> 01:21:43.220
something classic like Sir Mix -a -Lot. You know

01:21:43.220 --> 01:21:46.039
what? UCS should do like a Geordie Got Back or

01:21:46.039 --> 01:21:53.260
something. Oh, my God. Geordie, look at him.

01:21:53.460 --> 01:21:57.800
Oh, speaking of looking at his butt. Whoa. No,

01:21:57.979 --> 01:22:02.289
I am actually going there. um reed baker whiting

01:22:02.289 --> 01:22:05.989
oh my god yeah i texted i texted him he was like

01:22:05.989 --> 01:22:08.949
i can't unsee this now what was up with his 70s

01:22:08.949 --> 01:22:13.630
booty shorts reed baker whiting is pulling out

01:22:13.630 --> 01:22:17.310
the ghosts of john stockton who's not dead um

01:22:17.310 --> 01:22:21.329
but might as well be he is going with oh yeah

01:22:21.329 --> 01:22:26.310
he did he did but um Going with the super short,

01:22:26.449 --> 01:22:29.890
who wears short shorts? Reed wears short shorts.

01:22:30.170 --> 01:22:35.329
Did he lose a bet? Because did the trainers accidentally

01:22:35.329 --> 01:22:39.369
give him a youth large instead of an adult large?

01:22:39.590 --> 01:22:43.069
I don't know what was going on there, but something

01:22:43.069 --> 01:22:46.729
was very, very wrong with his shorts. They were

01:22:46.729 --> 01:22:50.510
so high. I've never seen any player. consistently

01:22:50.510 --> 01:22:53.649
had and it wasn't like oh he slid tackled and

01:22:53.649 --> 01:22:56.229
uh and it went up and then he could pull it back

01:22:56.229 --> 01:22:58.750
down you know both were like yeah sitting up

01:22:58.750 --> 01:23:02.329
booty short height and and I am not one to criticize

01:23:02.329 --> 01:23:04.869
the booty shorts I have worn gold booty shorts

01:23:04.869 --> 01:23:10.390
to public yeah so so I am not kink shaming um

01:23:10.390 --> 01:23:13.609
but he did it on purpose I'm all for it but it

01:23:13.609 --> 01:23:18.880
was very surprising it it was a choice And you

01:23:18.880 --> 01:23:21.300
know what? He played well, so maybe he needs

01:23:21.300 --> 01:23:24.680
to keep doing it now. I mean, Javi had the tuck.

01:23:24.840 --> 01:23:29.439
Yeah. Reed's got the stuff. I think he had a

01:23:29.439 --> 01:23:31.140
different tuck going on, considering how high

01:23:31.140 --> 01:23:34.220
those shorts were. He's got the right stuff.

01:23:34.819 --> 01:23:37.800
Oh, my goodness. All right, what song do you...

01:23:37.800 --> 01:23:39.420
Just pick a song. What do you think you would

01:23:39.420 --> 01:23:49.340
do? Okay. Let me see here. I... Yeah, it's tough,

01:23:49.500 --> 01:23:52.000
right? I mean, you can go with some funk. You

01:23:52.000 --> 01:23:54.220
can go with some Quincy Jones stuff. You can

01:23:54.220 --> 01:23:58.560
go with some MC5. That's Detroit. You can go

01:23:58.560 --> 01:24:01.380
with the Sonics, the punk rock band. You can

01:24:01.380 --> 01:24:03.479
go with Louie Louie, which I think the Mariners

01:24:03.479 --> 01:24:09.359
kind of have. And they went back to it when they

01:24:09.359 --> 01:24:12.340
got rid of Macklemore. And no one gets hyped

01:24:12.340 --> 01:24:14.819
up for it. And it's an awful techno remix of

01:24:14.819 --> 01:24:21.920
Louie Louie. It's just. Yeah. Um, so I think

01:24:21.920 --> 01:24:24.399
I would just be happy if all of a sudden we were,

01:24:24.420 --> 01:24:30.520
we were singing, uh, uh, like, like the lost

01:24:30.520 --> 01:24:32.760
verse, the lost verse. I would say the last verse

01:24:32.760 --> 01:24:35.380
of this land is your land. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

01:24:36.340 --> 01:24:39.760
Yeah. No, uh, fascists are bound to lose every

01:24:39.760 --> 01:24:44.060
time we score. I mean, there you go. You know,

01:24:44.100 --> 01:24:47.180
that's one that I'm going to have to maybe think

01:24:47.180 --> 01:24:49.000
about. Yeah, we'll think about it. This is a

01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:50.619
great question, Cedar, and you asked the right

01:24:50.619 --> 01:24:53.880
people. Oh, I mean, we've already name -dropped

01:24:53.880 --> 01:24:55.619
how many bands. I think we've just spent like

01:24:55.619 --> 01:25:01.560
20 minutes without deciding. So maybe Soundgarden,

01:25:01.680 --> 01:25:05.119
maybe... Well, the thing is, I'm trying to think

01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:09.760
of alternative that... That isn't the obvious,

01:25:09.880 --> 01:25:12.300
so that's where I'm coming up with heart, coming

01:25:12.300 --> 01:25:13.739
up with Presidents of the United States of America,

01:25:13.859 --> 01:25:16.319
trying to stay away from the Nirvana, Pearl Jam,

01:25:16.560 --> 01:25:19.340
which I love, but I want to kind of stay away

01:25:19.340 --> 01:25:26.180
from that. Nick, Jeff Aument at the Oklahoma

01:25:26.180 --> 01:25:30.840
City Thunder game wearing an OKC hat. No. So

01:25:30.840 --> 01:25:34.359
frustrating. No. He's not a Seattleite anymore.

01:25:34.420 --> 01:25:37.119
We were sending him back to Montana. Oh, no,

01:25:37.220 --> 01:25:42.039
no, no, no. So frustrating. No. Yeah, I mean,

01:25:42.060 --> 01:25:46.399
I think there's a lot. I would love any of Adam

01:25:46.399 --> 01:25:49.319
Sizer's bands would be really good. There's some

01:25:49.319 --> 01:25:52.140
good stuff there. Maybe some Pedro the Lion.

01:25:53.039 --> 01:25:57.260
I would say Flagpole Sitter. Ooh. You know? Man,

01:25:57.640 --> 01:26:01.119
Sean Nelson used to hit on my ex from that time

01:26:01.119 --> 01:26:02.979
period. So anytime we were at a show, it was

01:26:02.979 --> 01:26:06.930
so funny. um she was like oh there's the harvey

01:26:06.930 --> 01:26:09.229
danger singer again looking at me all creepy

01:26:09.229 --> 01:26:15.710
do you know who i am uh yeah so we'll get back

01:26:15.710 --> 01:26:18.949
to that cedar uh summer signings do we expect

01:26:18.949 --> 01:26:22.109
anyone i i think we should but i'm not including

01:26:22.109 --> 01:26:25.930
the we are promised to you 22 i don't think the

01:26:25.930 --> 01:26:30.630
expected u22 has lived up to the hype maybe at

01:26:30.630 --> 01:26:32.409
the defiance level so i don't know if he's coming

01:26:32.409 --> 01:26:42.510
in I don't think that's exactly what we're having

01:26:42.510 --> 01:26:46.130
in mind when we're expecting a summer signing.

01:26:46.890 --> 01:26:49.069
Well, we don't, but I think that's what the Sounders

01:26:49.069 --> 01:26:52.029
might have in mind. We'll see. I mean, we could

01:26:52.029 --> 01:26:54.270
have signed someone already. Only LAFC made any

01:26:54.270 --> 01:26:57.850
signing in this window between us and Miami and

01:26:57.850 --> 01:27:00.569
them. Yeah, but it's kind of one of those things

01:27:00.569 --> 01:27:05.520
where if LAFC made that signing... That tells

01:27:05.520 --> 01:27:07.720
me they're already ready to go for it with the

01:27:07.720 --> 01:27:10.300
summer transfer window, and they just bumped

01:27:10.300 --> 01:27:12.460
up the timetable. Well, also, Under's hurt, right?

01:27:12.520 --> 01:27:14.340
His loan was ending, and he got hurt, so he's

01:27:14.340 --> 01:27:16.180
definitely not coming back. So they had to replace

01:27:16.180 --> 01:27:18.399
him. Yeah. And so that's what that move was.

01:27:19.479 --> 01:27:21.479
So, I mean, that's what I mean, is they're already

01:27:21.479 --> 01:27:24.159
kind of prepared to do that. But I think we should

01:27:24.159 --> 01:27:30.909
be... We got extra room in the cap. for it and

01:27:30.909 --> 01:27:33.130
i hope that money continues through to the summer

01:27:33.130 --> 01:27:36.010
window i hope it wasn't just an open window for

01:27:36.010 --> 01:27:40.569
this cup uh no wait wait wait we got extra money

01:27:40.569 --> 01:27:44.710
for qualifying for a club world cup we use that

01:27:44.710 --> 01:27:48.010
money as part of the trade to bring in jesus

01:27:48.010 --> 01:27:53.010
ferreira and and also paul areola so that money

01:27:53.010 --> 01:27:56.449
is pretty that money's been spent okay so that

01:27:56.449 --> 01:27:59.069
money was spent but so they were but lafc and

01:27:59.069 --> 01:28:03.460
and Miami didn't spend it, though, then. Well,

01:28:03.619 --> 01:28:06.140
I don't know if Miami did. They said all three

01:28:06.140 --> 01:28:08.060
teams have this extra money to spend in this

01:28:08.060 --> 01:28:11.680
window. It was national writers. No, but they

01:28:11.680 --> 01:28:14.119
didn't understand that they were given this money.

01:28:14.750 --> 01:28:16.590
LAFC is the only one who unexpectedly – Then

01:28:16.590 --> 01:28:18.529
we have no money to bring in anyone this summer.

01:28:18.649 --> 01:28:21.189
No, no, that's not entirely true. That's where

01:28:21.189 --> 01:28:23.649
we can bring in an under 22 because that counts

01:28:23.649 --> 01:28:26.810
against the cap differently. Sure. So that's

01:28:26.810 --> 01:28:30.989
why the under 22 is where we have the money because

01:28:30.989 --> 01:28:36.810
a normal senior roster slot, we've already spent

01:28:36.810 --> 01:28:39.710
that money. We don't have the money to bring

01:28:39.710 --> 01:28:41.710
in that. I just can't see us doing it because

01:28:41.710 --> 01:28:44.229
– Other teams are already doing it. They already

01:28:44.229 --> 01:28:45.890
have announced who that player is going to be

01:28:45.890 --> 01:28:48.750
that they're bringing in in the summer window.

01:28:49.310 --> 01:28:51.529
Multiple teams have now, it's come out who they're

01:28:51.529 --> 01:28:53.350
signing. There's some big, big players coming

01:28:53.350 --> 01:28:57.350
over and we need, we need a fucking forward.

01:28:57.750 --> 01:29:02.750
Well, I don't know if you can announce. I mean,

01:29:02.750 --> 01:29:04.609
they may not have announced it, but it's public

01:29:04.609 --> 01:29:06.470
because they've already pre -signed the contract.

01:29:06.510 --> 01:29:09.180
So someone leaked it. Well, that's the thing.

01:29:09.180 --> 01:29:11.600
The Sounders have, to their credit, been pretty

01:29:11.600 --> 01:29:15.659
tight under control. They still haven't had any

01:29:15.659 --> 01:29:18.420
leaks of our third jersey that's coming out within

01:29:18.420 --> 01:29:23.079
the next month. I think the only one that I'm

01:29:23.079 --> 01:29:27.220
aware of... Yeah, because today, I think another

01:29:27.220 --> 01:29:30.520
one got leaked today. At least one got teased

01:29:30.520 --> 01:29:34.829
today, for sure. So to their credit, they've

01:29:34.829 --> 01:29:37.489
gotten a lot better. And honestly, this goes

01:29:37.489 --> 01:29:41.510
back for 10 years because the Sounders were basically

01:29:41.510 --> 01:29:44.930
a chance encounter away from surprise dropping

01:29:44.930 --> 01:29:49.529
Clint Dempsey. A chance encounter at an airport

01:29:49.529 --> 01:29:53.229
is the only reason that didn't get leaked. But

01:29:53.229 --> 01:29:55.489
ever since then, we've known in advance of pretty

01:29:55.489 --> 01:29:57.310
much every player. There's been like no surprise.

01:29:58.770 --> 01:30:01.380
Because we'll see people. at the airport and

01:30:01.380 --> 01:30:03.239
also usually their agents leak it because they're

01:30:03.239 --> 01:30:05.100
using us as leverage to get more money from another

01:30:05.100 --> 01:30:12.960
team. Yeah. Yes. No. Um, but, but so I guess

01:30:12.960 --> 01:30:18.199
what I'm saying is, is I, I am not getting upset

01:30:18.199 --> 01:30:22.920
and I am not getting excited. I am staying neutral

01:30:22.920 --> 01:30:26.779
on the idea of a U 22 signing and what that signing

01:30:26.779 --> 01:30:31.699
might look like. So I'm not, frustrated at lack

01:30:31.699 --> 01:30:34.060
of rumor. Oh, I'm not frustrated at lack of rumor.

01:30:34.140 --> 01:30:37.060
I just don't see... There's no thing that tells

01:30:37.060 --> 01:30:40.520
me they're going to do anything. I don't anticipate

01:30:40.520 --> 01:30:46.920
seeing a $5 million signing. I expect... Because

01:30:46.920 --> 01:30:48.840
what did we get Leo Chu for? Like $2 million?

01:30:49.020 --> 01:30:51.680
I think we paid for a transfer fee somewhere

01:30:51.680 --> 01:30:55.319
around that neighborhood. Yeah, but then all

01:30:55.319 --> 01:30:57.279
the money they put into him made his value up

01:30:57.279 --> 01:31:06.079
around $5 or $6. Exactly. And so I think best

01:31:06.079 --> 01:31:11.140
-case scenario, you'll see someone who has an

01:31:11.140 --> 01:31:16.539
upside like a Leo Chu will probably be able to

01:31:16.539 --> 01:31:19.539
contribute for the first team, hopefully a little

01:31:19.539 --> 01:31:23.460
more than a Leo Chu. But in that kind of vein,

01:31:23.560 --> 01:31:26.340
you're not going to be getting a lockdown starter.

01:31:26.619 --> 01:31:29.220
I don't anticipate. Oh, I wouldn't either. But

01:31:29.220 --> 01:31:31.960
I would expect it to be someone who would develop

01:31:31.960 --> 01:31:35.279
into a starter for sure. I mean, I would expect

01:31:35.279 --> 01:31:37.880
it to be someone better than Danny Mazovsky.

01:31:38.560 --> 01:31:43.939
Yeah. Yeah. I think that's a good. I think that's

01:31:43.939 --> 01:31:49.140
a good target of what a realistic expectation

01:31:49.140 --> 01:31:52.670
can be. I want a Will Bruin. level player not

01:31:52.670 --> 01:31:56.710
the year he started yeah yeah like when we first

01:31:56.710 --> 01:31:58.649
brought him in when he came just from houston

01:31:58.649 --> 01:32:01.430
yeah yeah someone who could come off the bench

01:32:01.430 --> 01:32:05.750
and score goals that's fair i think i think that's

01:32:05.750 --> 01:32:08.909
fair um now depending on what they're going to

01:32:08.909 --> 01:32:11.149
do with other contracts maybe they don't do it

01:32:11.149 --> 01:32:13.350
with a forward because it because i don't know

01:32:13.350 --> 01:32:17.840
maybe maybe you view this year as muddle through

01:32:17.840 --> 01:32:19.880
it. And then next year, when you have more flexibility,

01:32:20.140 --> 01:32:22.220
you can do a lot more. We don't know what they're

01:32:22.220 --> 01:32:25.279
going to do. Yeah. But we've needed a forward

01:32:25.279 --> 01:32:28.220
for the last two years now in terms of goal scoring.

01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:31.619
So if we don't sign one, I think the fans are

01:32:31.619 --> 01:32:37.399
going to be pretty upset. Probably. But. But

01:32:37.399 --> 01:32:39.720
just because we sign one doesn't mean, I mean,

01:32:39.739 --> 01:32:41.840
you got to be careful because now you're setting

01:32:41.840 --> 01:32:45.340
expectations on that person. I mean, we'll cross

01:32:45.340 --> 01:32:48.619
that bridge when it comes, but we'll see what

01:32:48.619 --> 01:32:51.939
happens there. I just want people to have a realistic

01:32:51.939 --> 01:33:00.340
expectation of what to potentially expect. Yeah,

01:33:00.359 --> 01:33:05.359
absolutely. I would not expect anyone. That's

01:33:05.359 --> 01:33:07.060
going to blow your mind. I would expect it to

01:33:07.060 --> 01:33:10.460
be. I mean, I wish it was going to be a JP level

01:33:10.460 --> 01:33:13.500
player, but it won't. So we got some, we got

01:33:13.500 --> 01:33:15.899
some fast and furious things coming down the

01:33:15.899 --> 01:33:18.279
pipeline. So we've got the Atletico Madrid game

01:33:18.279 --> 01:33:22.899
coming up on Thursday. We've got the PSG game

01:33:22.899 --> 01:33:28.670
coming up on Monday. We're going to try to maybe

01:33:28.670 --> 01:33:30.970
feel if we can figure out a recording in between

01:33:30.970 --> 01:33:33.369
those two games. But with everything that's going

01:33:33.369 --> 01:33:36.949
on, including going to another game at Lumen

01:33:36.949 --> 01:33:39.590
in between those, it could be a little tricky.

01:33:39.890 --> 01:33:43.909
Yeah. What do you think is going to happen for

01:33:43.909 --> 01:33:47.529
Atlético Madrid? I mean, I would expect them

01:33:47.529 --> 01:33:52.359
to right the ship. I don't. Them being Atletico

01:33:52.359 --> 01:33:55.640
Madrid? Yeah, they dropped 4 -0 to PSG in the

01:33:55.640 --> 01:33:59.760
first match. I would expect the Sounders to lose

01:33:59.760 --> 01:34:03.260
somewhere around 3 or 4 -0 if I were just a betting

01:34:03.260 --> 01:34:05.140
man right now. I don't know. We'll see what the

01:34:05.140 --> 01:34:08.399
rosters look like the day of. But the Sounders

01:34:08.399 --> 01:34:10.039
are going to need to play some dolo ball. They're

01:34:10.039 --> 01:34:13.899
going to need to... counter attack based off

01:34:13.899 --> 01:34:16.920
of strong defense and hope they can get a good

01:34:16.920 --> 01:34:18.739
cross in there and score some goals and if they

01:34:18.739 --> 01:34:21.039
can do that then you know they have a shot to

01:34:21.039 --> 01:34:24.760
i mean these next two games these next two games

01:34:24.760 --> 01:34:26.680
the sounders are going to have to kind of develop

01:34:26.680 --> 01:34:34.779
a a late 2000s usa style of attack against you

01:34:34.779 --> 01:34:37.039
know the brazils and the spains of the world

01:34:37.039 --> 01:34:40.460
yeah Weird, weird comparison, but that's the

01:34:40.460 --> 01:34:42.939
best I can come up with where we aren't expected

01:34:42.939 --> 01:34:45.880
to get a result. But I would say against Atletico

01:34:45.880 --> 01:34:50.720
Madrid that you can put the odds of getting a

01:34:50.720 --> 01:34:55.720
result around maybe 25%. Maybe at the best, like

01:34:55.720 --> 01:34:59.260
if we're playing like very cynical bunkering.

01:34:59.300 --> 01:35:02.140
I think that maybe against Atletico Madrid, but

01:35:02.140 --> 01:35:05.899
PSG's third squad would destroy our starters.

01:35:06.260 --> 01:35:10.039
They're just... So there's so much depth there.

01:35:10.079 --> 01:35:15.579
It's insane. Again, like I mentioned, like I

01:35:15.579 --> 01:35:20.340
mentioned what the first 10 team, the 10 players

01:35:20.340 --> 01:35:24.579
on the roster all have salaries, values higher

01:35:24.579 --> 01:35:27.560
than our entire team. And I'm just going to read

01:35:27.560 --> 01:35:33.460
the next level of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,

01:35:33.520 --> 01:35:35.500
10. I'm going to read the next 10. So we're talking

01:35:35.500 --> 01:35:39.880
about the 20 deep. So the next 10, $40 million,

01:35:40.039 --> 01:35:44.140
$40 million, $40 million, $35, $25, $25, $25,

01:35:44.180 --> 01:35:54.199
$20, $15. Triple our highest paid player. Exactly.

01:35:54.220 --> 01:36:03.760
So their 21st highest player is still having

01:36:03.760 --> 01:36:08.689
a higher market value than our best player. And

01:36:08.689 --> 01:36:12.689
I mean, my God. Okay, can I be honest here for

01:36:12.689 --> 01:36:17.130
a second? Watching PSG destroy Inter Milan in

01:36:17.130 --> 01:36:21.449
Champions League Final made me happy because

01:36:21.449 --> 01:36:27.149
that 100 % means house money. There is literally,

01:36:27.470 --> 01:36:31.310
I'm going to not say literally, there is practically

01:36:31.310 --> 01:36:35.710
no result. That is going to make me disappointed

01:36:35.710 --> 01:36:41.989
as a Sounders fan. Even, let's just say, the

01:36:41.989 --> 01:36:46.829
10 -0 Auckland result. I mean, that's kind of

01:36:46.829 --> 01:36:50.609
like the high end of bad. I don't see a game

01:36:50.609 --> 01:36:52.609
going to that level. I wouldn't want to give

01:36:52.609 --> 01:36:55.930
up more than six. I'm going to say that. Agreed.

01:36:55.930 --> 01:36:57.989
I don't want to touch down. If we give up seven.

01:36:58.680 --> 01:37:00.399
I think Adrian needs to give us all our money

01:37:00.399 --> 01:37:06.039
back for the whole season. Oh, stop. Stop. I

01:37:06.039 --> 01:37:11.619
could feel his eyes rolling right now. But I

01:37:11.619 --> 01:37:18.840
think that's probably about right. Again, this

01:37:18.840 --> 01:37:23.380
team beat Milan in the Champions League final

01:37:23.380 --> 01:37:29.350
5 -0. Yeah. um not like weeks ago this isn't

01:37:29.350 --> 01:37:34.630
like oh back in 2024 no like back in like three

01:37:34.630 --> 01:37:37.649
weeks ago i don't even think it was three weeks

01:37:37.649 --> 01:37:43.869
ago um i think it was two weeks ago but so with

01:37:43.869 --> 01:37:46.909
that in mind it kind of works to our advantage

01:37:46.909 --> 01:37:51.390
because because we can play somewhat looser knowing

01:37:51.390 --> 01:37:56.869
that hey we're going to do our best to keep it

01:37:56.869 --> 01:38:02.250
tight, and to see if we can make something happen.

01:38:03.029 --> 01:38:07.529
This isn't hyperbole to say that the difference

01:38:07.529 --> 01:38:11.529
between these two teams is not so dissimilar

01:38:11.529 --> 01:38:13.989
to the miracle on ice where a bunch of college

01:38:13.989 --> 01:38:18.869
teenagers from the U .S. played against seasoned

01:38:18.869 --> 01:38:26.220
pros in the Soviet Union. um not so dissimilar

01:38:26.220 --> 01:38:29.039
but this is why i love sports things can happen

01:38:29.039 --> 01:38:34.859
so get this the bottom six players in terms of

01:38:34.859 --> 01:38:38.060
pay on their roster are the only ones within

01:38:38.060 --> 01:38:40.800
sounders price range yeah you have their third

01:38:40.800 --> 01:38:43.800
goalie who's 24 he's worth around three million

01:38:43.800 --> 01:38:49.539
yep you have uh their 17 year old last center

01:38:49.539 --> 01:38:53.390
back who's worth two million yep you have Their

01:38:53.390 --> 01:38:55.689
19 -year -old right back is worth $2 .5 million.

01:38:57.010 --> 01:39:01.149
You have… 17 -year -old right back. Yeah, him.

01:39:01.229 --> 01:39:02.890
Yeah, 17 -year -old right winger who's worth

01:39:02.890 --> 01:39:07.109
$3 million. And then I saw… Who was it? It was

01:39:07.109 --> 01:39:11.529
Kempembe. Yeah, center back. Is their center

01:39:11.529 --> 01:39:14.829
back who's worth $5 million. And he's been around

01:39:14.829 --> 01:39:18.520
a long time. He's a solid… I could see him coming

01:39:18.520 --> 01:39:21.680
to the MLS soon. He's a solid player who can

01:39:21.680 --> 01:39:24.920
continue to have a career. He's played for the

01:39:24.920 --> 01:39:27.340
Congo and France in his 28 appearances with the

01:39:27.340 --> 01:39:31.560
national team. His highest value is 2021. Or

01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:34.960
even 2022, he's still worth 40 million euros.

01:39:35.220 --> 01:39:38.739
He's dropped a lot in the last three years. And

01:39:38.739 --> 01:39:43.800
he's at 5 million. So for context, our highest

01:39:43.800 --> 01:39:46.979
market value... Using the same metrics as Obed

01:39:46.979 --> 01:39:50.319
Vargas, that's 6 million. Jordan Morris at 4

01:39:50.319 --> 01:39:54.340
million. Yeah. And I think Jesus might be at

01:39:54.340 --> 01:39:58.260
5 as well, is he? 4. He went down, so he may

01:39:58.260 --> 01:40:02.020
have updated it. Okay. We have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

01:40:02.020 --> 01:40:06.180
players at 4. Pedro, Alex, Jesus, Christian,

01:40:06.279 --> 01:40:08.500
and Jordan. Right. So take with a grain of salt.

01:40:08.699 --> 01:40:15.239
So other than Kipembe, they have... five 19 year

01:40:15.239 --> 01:40:18.279
old or younger that four 19 year old or younger

01:40:18.279 --> 01:40:20.979
players that would be on our roster value -wise

01:40:20.979 --> 01:40:24.539
like This team is so good and we're not meant

01:40:24.539 --> 01:40:27.000
to compete against them But it doesn't mean we

01:40:27.000 --> 01:40:29.319
can't have fun and watch like we did today. Yeah

01:40:29.319 --> 01:40:38.000
Yeah, and so so enjoy it for what it is In the

01:40:38.000 --> 01:40:41.039
World Cup you always got those teams are the

01:40:41.039 --> 01:40:43.800
happy to be their teams they're not expected

01:40:43.800 --> 01:40:46.020
to be finalists or not expected to be that i

01:40:46.020 --> 01:40:49.060
mean that's us and that knowing our role in world

01:40:49.060 --> 01:40:54.000
soccer right now um oh he had a ruptured achilles

01:40:54.000 --> 01:40:56.659
for the first half of the season so he only played

01:40:56.659 --> 01:40:59.279
two games the whole the whole season that's why

01:40:59.279 --> 01:41:01.819
his values dropped so much but with that said

01:41:01.819 --> 01:41:04.539
i could tell you there are 27 teams that would

01:41:04.539 --> 01:41:08.300
change places with us in a heartbeat yep yep

01:41:09.100 --> 01:41:11.060
Actually, I'm probably going to say 29 teams.

01:41:11.140 --> 01:41:12.899
I would say every team would change places with

01:41:12.899 --> 01:41:15.380
us because even Miami's not getting all three

01:41:15.380 --> 01:41:18.100
games as home games. Oh, really? I didn't realize

01:41:18.100 --> 01:41:22.079
that. No. Yeah, we're the only ones getting all

01:41:22.079 --> 01:41:26.060
three games as home games. Cool. I think that's

01:41:26.060 --> 01:41:29.319
a good place to leave it other than to say...

01:41:29.319 --> 01:41:31.260
I don't even want to make a prediction, to be

01:41:31.260 --> 01:41:32.939
honest. Oh, no, I was going to say Cal Raleigh

01:41:32.939 --> 01:41:36.949
should be the MVP of baseball. He is... He's

01:41:36.949 --> 01:41:39.289
having a year. Leads the major leagues in home

01:41:39.289 --> 01:41:44.270
runs. Which is crazy. Yep. He's been the last

01:41:44.270 --> 01:41:46.890
three years. I think he's fourth in baseball

01:41:46.890 --> 01:41:49.090
in total home runs over the last two years and

01:41:49.090 --> 01:41:51.630
however far we are into the season, almost halfway.

01:41:52.630 --> 01:42:00.489
So go Seattle sports. Yay. Where can they find

01:42:00.489 --> 01:42:04.489
you on the internet? Yeah. come find me on Instagram

01:42:04.489 --> 01:42:09.590
at cascades to see. Um, and yeah, just kind of

01:42:09.590 --> 01:42:12.010
adds up. Yeah. The Miami Porto game will be in

01:42:12.010 --> 01:42:16.989
Atlanta. Um, but yeah, so cascades to see, uh,

01:42:17.130 --> 01:42:20.609
what about you, Mr. Legal minded bunk. Yep. That's

01:42:20.609 --> 01:42:23.649
it. You can find me at legal minded punk everywhere.

01:42:24.250 --> 01:42:28.750
Uh, the internet is, uh, located now earlier

01:42:28.750 --> 01:42:31.149
today, I showed you the mountains to CFC that

01:42:31.149 --> 01:42:34.359
actually is located. In Cary, North Carolina,

01:42:34.520 --> 01:42:38.239
where the TST just took place and was so much

01:42:38.239 --> 01:42:39.619
fun. I don't think we really talked about it

01:42:39.619 --> 01:42:42.000
much on the show, but I loved watching all those

01:42:42.000 --> 01:42:44.939
TST matches. I watched some live on YouTube and

01:42:44.939 --> 01:42:48.619
I watched the replays as well. But it was a lot

01:42:48.619 --> 01:42:50.479
of fun. And seeing Hope Solo out there again

01:42:50.479 --> 01:42:54.399
was super cool. I know she's a lightning rod,

01:42:54.539 --> 01:42:59.840
but I do enjoy a good old -fashioned Seattle

01:42:59.840 --> 01:43:06.109
athlete. There you go. Let's let James take it

01:43:06.109 --> 01:43:08.949
away. You're going to fall asleep. No, I mean,

01:43:08.970 --> 01:43:10.949
I was just about to make a comment about how

01:43:10.949 --> 01:43:15.489
maybe we can get James to lead us into a chant

01:43:15.489 --> 01:43:20.930
with some song and dance and kind of take in

01:43:20.930 --> 01:43:24.289
some inspiration to what FIFA is doing for their

01:43:24.289 --> 01:43:25.970
in -stadium announcing. Yeah, he already said

01:43:25.970 --> 01:43:31.060
he won't be dancing. God. In stadium announcer,

01:43:31.380 --> 01:43:34.479
I do not like. I would prefer James. I mean,

01:43:34.560 --> 01:43:38.840
we're creatures of habit. Yeah, the walk -ins.

01:43:38.979 --> 01:43:40.520
I don't mind the walk -in. I was saying that

01:43:40.520 --> 01:43:43.340
today. My problem with the walk -in is that they

01:43:43.340 --> 01:43:44.859
don't do anything. They just walk in and mean

01:43:44.859 --> 01:43:47.520
mug the camera. Like James said, well, how about

01:43:47.520 --> 01:43:49.319
this? And he showed me a video of Chris Farley

01:43:49.319 --> 01:43:56.239
entering on Letterman Show. Yes, it would be

01:43:56.239 --> 01:43:59.560
amazing. But even just hype up, jump up and get

01:43:59.560 --> 01:44:01.399
the crowd going, especially if you were like

01:44:01.399 --> 01:44:02.979
the Red Diamonds or the Sounders where you're

01:44:02.979 --> 01:44:05.199
coming in right in front of your fans. Yeah,

01:44:05.220 --> 01:44:07.779
yeah. None of them did that. Although I noticed

01:44:07.779 --> 01:44:09.800
the Red Diamonds afterwards came and stood in

01:44:09.800 --> 01:44:14.119
front of their fans and like didn't. make too

01:44:14.119 --> 01:44:15.779
much they just kind of stood there respectfully

01:44:15.779 --> 01:44:21.000
it was interesting cultural differences i suppose

01:44:21.000 --> 01:44:29.880
yeah um you know it was really fun today to just

01:44:29.880 --> 01:44:33.199
sit and bullshit with a whole bunch of good people

01:44:34.039 --> 01:44:37.119
To watch the game, but to not have the emotional

01:44:37.119 --> 01:44:39.880
investment in it where something bad happened

01:44:39.880 --> 01:44:42.500
that you're frustrated. You just watch for the

01:44:42.500 --> 01:44:45.479
chaos, watch for the fun. Like we were literally

01:44:45.479 --> 01:44:49.000
Waldorf and Statler from the Muppets making our

01:44:49.000 --> 01:44:51.500
comments. We were Mystery Science Theater 3000

01:44:51.500 --> 01:44:54.100
-ing the game. It was brilliant. It was fun.

01:44:54.279 --> 01:44:56.560
And you know what? Despite the team that we were

01:44:56.560 --> 01:44:58.899
rooting for losing, it didn't ultimately matter

01:44:58.899 --> 01:45:01.260
to us because we were just able to just enjoy

01:45:01.260 --> 01:45:05.800
it. Indeed. Well, that's the perfect place. James,

01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:08.680
take it away. See you soon, Nick. All right.

01:45:12.880 --> 01:45:15.880
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01:45:53.000 --> 01:45:57.850
Alexa, who's the best MLS team of all time? Seattle

01:45:57.850 --> 01:45:59.970
Sounders are both unequipped and are arguably

01:45:59.970 --> 01:46:02.090
the best MLS team of all time.