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It's time for Scuttlebutt Ultras. Quick takes

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from our Patreon Ultras, sharing their soundest

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thoughts straight from the heart. Your voice,

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your moment. Hello and welcome to Sounders Scuttlebutt

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Ultras Edition. I am Cameron Collins, one of

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your hosts, and I am here with the one and only

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Dan the Bastard, with Cedar Banks, and with Alex

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Ferreria. Is that your last name on your jersey,

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man? We don't talk about that. Oh, man. Team

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Store doesn't know how to spell Ferreria. as

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it turns out, but Alex Diaz is here as well.

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Welcome, gentlemen, to another week of Sounders

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soccer. How are y 'all feeling right now? I'm

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pretty good. Yeah, I'm feeling like we're less

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than 24 hours away from being tied for third.

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Yeah, it's all good in Sounders land. And who's

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good at speaking Spanish? I know Alex is. Anyone

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else? Let me check my Duolingo. You want to read

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us the thing I posted in the Sounders Scuttlebutt

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there, Alex? I don't speak Spanish. Yeah, I'll

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read it. You can translate it for us. Because

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it is quite the deal, so it is the place where

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we should start off because not this weekend,

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but on Wednesday, the Sounders are playing back

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in the League's Cup against Puebla, who's actually

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playing right now. But the Sounders have a deal

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for members of the Vamos Sounders Club. All right.

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Disclaimer, I was born and raised in the U .S.

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Never been to Mexico in my life, so don't hate

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my Spanish. You still speak it better than us,

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I think. So, nuestro estreno de Jesús está lleno.

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Yeah. Gracias por tu interés. I don't know what

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it means, but I know how to pronounce it. Pronto

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habrá más invitaciones para miembros de Vamos

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Sanders Club. Thank you for your interest. Right

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now, we have more invitations for members of

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the Vamos Sounders Club. Is that the gist of

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it? Is that what Google Translate told you? No,

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I'm using my French skills and my five years

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of living in California to use Latin languages

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to figure it out. Yeah, pretty much is that they're

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appreciative of the people that are interested

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in joining the Vamos Sounders Club. That's my

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fault. Sorry, listeners. And that there's more

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things to come. Sweet. So, no te olvides. Este

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miércoles 20 de agosto enfrentamos a Club Puebla

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and Leagues Cup. Por fiesta especial, seis boletos

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a 1964. Yep. You can get up to six tickets for

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a flat fee of $19 .74 for the match on Wednesday

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against Puebla, which is part of the league.

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With taxes and fees, it's like $23. You're paying

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$24 a ticket. No, that's total. Not per ticket,

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that's total. $19 .74 and you can get six tickets

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for just that flat fee. What? Put them in ECS.

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Or Gorilla. I think they're sitting behind ECS

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or in the... corners or in the club. What's the

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Hawks nest? The green zone. Yeah, the bleachers

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that don't have the backs yet. Yeah. And then

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it says, Unforgettable. An unforgettable Wednesday?

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Yeah. That's the one thing I learned from Duolingo.

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I was doing Duolingo Spanish for a little bit

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when I was dating someone who was a Spanish first

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speaker. Then I went back to French since I have

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a degree in it and I thought, well, I should

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probably be able to speak a language that I have

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a degree in. You would hope, right? But yeah,

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so we will make sure that it is in the show notes

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for this. Man, what a deal. Come out Wednesday,

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August 20th, which is we're recording on Friday

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the 15th. So five days from now, almost to the

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minute. I think the match starts around 7, right?

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I think it's 8. 8? Oh, okay. Yeah, Wednesday,

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8 p .m. kickoff. So probably 8, 07, actual. Yeah,

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8 or 9, depending on how they flex that out.

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But get up to six tickets for a... a total of

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$19 .74. You can get two at that price, or you

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can get six, or you can get one, but why not

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get six and give them to your friends and get

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them to come out to the stadium? Yeah. Oh, no.

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I'm looking at the website right now. They're

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$22 per ticket. No, you're not looking at the

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right thing then. It says get up to six tickets

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for just $19 .74 each. Oh, well, we should start

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this whole show over because... That was very

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confusing. I had it. It's still a great deal.

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I had it right at the beginning. You were like,

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no, no, no, no. Yeah, you did. Well, I don't

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speak Spanish, apparently. I misunderstood. No,

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I mean, come on. Do you think they're going to

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give out six tickets for $20? Yeah. There's going

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to be no one there. They damn well should. They

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should give out free tickets. Well, you should

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still get a ticket for $19 .74. That's a good

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price. If I was in the Seattle area, I'd for

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sure go to that game. Same. Dan? Yeah, maybe

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you should just be in the Seattle area. I was

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talking about you being in the Seattle area.

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That's Tacoma's official name. Seattle area.

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But yeah, definitely go get that. $19 .74. You

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can buy up to six tickets. They'll all be together.

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And looking at it, you can get them. Let's see

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if we just click through it here. I can tell

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you. Yeah. Corner of the 200 level and upper

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south end zone, 100 level north corners or the

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green zone, which is the what we were talking

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about, the hawks nest, the grandstand seats with

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no backs. So definitely get those. To put it

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in perspective, you know, 19 bucks for a ticket.

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And if you go to Ticketmaster right now, you're

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looking at 45 per ticket. to be an ECS. So that's,

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uh, my ticket, my ticket was a hundred bucks

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a piece. No. Yeah. For that. I mean, it was 50

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for the last match, but this one hundred bucks.

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So double the price from the last round. No,

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I think, you know, it breaks all the rules of

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supply and demand with the ticket prices for

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these, but, uh, yeah, at least they're rolling

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out some deals for you to get in with a, uh,

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with a good price ticket. Yeah. Yeah. So don't

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listen to me. I'm a dumb ass. Listen to everyone

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else in this, in this, uh, podcast. Buy a ticket

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and then go sit with Nicholas and ECS. If he'll

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be there, yeah. That's a good question. I think

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Dan will be there. Yeah, probably. Good chance

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I'll be there. Now if you can just convince your

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little one to... enjoy club seats instead of

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sitting with ECS. Yeah. No, she was not about

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it. We were offered a chance to go to the club.

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She's like, nope, I want to go sing and dance.

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And you can sing and dance from anywhere in the

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stadium. It's just, you don't feel like your

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ears are getting beat out by those drums. Maybe

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I'm just sensitive since I got a concussion and

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then the next week punched in the head and popped

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my eardrum. But man, those drums, I had to wear

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earplugs last time I sat down there. They're

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a lot. Huh? Yeah, exactly. Also, they sent an

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exclusive invitation out to Bamos Sounders members.

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So if you are a member, go check it out. It's

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a pretty cool event taking place. I believe next

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Friday. Next Friday. So two days after that match,

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they're having members. And it's first come,

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first serve. So if you are a member, go out and

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look at it right now. And remember, being a member

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is free. So you can join at any time. In the

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show notes, we have, of course, the link for

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it. But they are doing a thing where you get

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to go to training down there at the center, the

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training center where they all practice and everything.

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And then they're going to be screening the new

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mini -docu -series episodes that they have done

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about Jesus Ferreria. Ferreria. Are we going

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to explain why we call you that? Yeah. So I ordered

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the Orca kit with Jesus as the name and, you

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know, the number nine. And I did it through the

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phone because I was like, I'm not going to drive

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two and a half hours to go place an order. So

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I do it over the phone, this and that. The guy's

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like, all right, it takes two weeks. I'm like,

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okay, for sure. Give him my card information.

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He charges me. two weeks passed by i come home

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from work i'm excited because you know i got

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the jersey in i open it the r's are messed up

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and then they spelled his name wrong i'll put

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a picture i'll put a picture in the discord too

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nice and my rothrock's supposed to be mailed

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out today so i imagine it'll arrive in the next

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day don't be surprised if it says pop rocks i'm

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gonna keep that one though that'd be a good no

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i'm getting it from uh i got it directly from

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the fanatics folks rather than from the sounders

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offices because uh through them you can pay over

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four payments like every two weeks and so let

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me earn some some time to earn some extra money

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and spend it on a jersey instead of bills so

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it worked out the things that i do to help out

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the club i'm trying to help us get up the budget

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but so you bought that from the club and not

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timu and they still spot it wrong yeah Yeah.

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And then the lettering was off center, too. I

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mean, they tried to spell your other jersey you

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got from them wrong, too. Yeah, they wanted to

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do Rothrock number two. Or they wanted the wrong

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number. Yeah. Rothrock number two? Yeah. No,

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not a second Rothrock. Just they were giving

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him number two. We could take a second Rothrock.

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Hell yeah. Yeah, that would be great. I feel

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like Schmetzer would love that, right? Is there

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a baby Rothrock he can bring in? Can he play

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the six? That would be great. That would be great.

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But lots of fun stuff going on right now around

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Sounder stuff. So, yeah, we have a match this

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Saturday. Is it Saturday night? Yeah, tomorrow

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night. 5 .30. 5 .30 p .m.? Yeah, that's nighttime.

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On the East Coast. It's nighttime here, too.

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Just early evening. And then Wednesday we play

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Puebla in the... probably the easiest match of

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the knockout stages that we're going to see or

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any team's going to see. So let's hope Sounders

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can prevail in that one. Yeah, don't say it's

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easy. No, I didn't say it's easy. It should be

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the easiest. Currently, Puebla is losing to San

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Luis, 1 -0 at halftime on a penalty in the 45th

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plus five. But they do have seven shots on goal

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and have 54 % of possession. I'm not sure. It'll

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be interesting to see if they started their...

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starters, which I want to get to a discussion

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about that. But before we get to that, I also

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want to say that last time I checked, the Mariners

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were up 11 -9. And it looks like they still are.

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What inning is it? Oh, no, they won 11 -9. So

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they gave up a three -run dong in the eighth

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to make it from 11 -6 to 11 -9. But they beat

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the Mets today. Uh, currently Baltimore is no

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hitting Arizona. So the Mariners have a chance

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to get back into a tie for first place. And let's

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hope they do it because, uh, after losing two

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straight to Baltimore, they kind of, they gave

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us those couple of days of hope before they fell

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off like a typical Seattle sports team, like

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a typical Mariners team, like someone that cheated

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on you in the past. And then you, everything

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was wonderful. And then you caught them texting

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some other random person flirting with them.

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And you're just like, Oh, it's like this again.

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Okay, Mariners. I don't know if you were meant

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to say Mariners at the end. I thought you were

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about to say Maryland or something. No, I do

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think the Mariners is the most toxic relationship

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I have in my life. I mean, that's fair. That's

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fair. Have you guys seen the John Blod documentary?

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So good. The history of the Seattle Mariners.

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Oh, it's phenomenal. It's funny because there's

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not real video or stuff like that. It's graphics

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for most of it and pictures. I think the whole

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thing ends up being eight hours long if you watch

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all the parts. It's truly a must -watch film

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for anybody who's a fan of the Mariners or just

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a baseball fan in general because he really lays

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out a great... Just all the reasons why the Mariners

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are... Even if we're not, you know, it's such

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an up and down story. But he makes the point

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that they're the protagonists of baseball. And

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that's a really, really interesting lens to put

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them in. And it makes me feel a little bit better

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about, you know. Yeah. So you and I have the

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Mariners. Dan has the Cowboys. What does Alex

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have that lets him down regularly? His brothers?

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Yeah, my brother filled his baseline concussion

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test. Jesus. He's lucky that it got cleared.

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So whoever's doing the stuff at MLS Next is not

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doing their job. Hey, no, it's the baseline.

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You could be forgetful and just a dumbass, and

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that's your base. So that means if he gets a

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concussion, they'll know whether or not they

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got to start with where his brain actually is

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at. And you know what's crazy is that he's, out

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of the two brothers, he's the one that's more

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talented. Yeah, at soccer. At learning, I guess.

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Or life in general. He's like, when we see him,

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he's the more responsible one, but the test says

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something different. That's got to be rough to

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be. It's rough enough to be, I think, to compare

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yourself to your siblings and realize that you're

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lesser than. I've never really experienced that

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in my life, but I hope my sister's not listening.

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But when it's a twin. That is what blows my mind.

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When it's a twin, how do you handle with your

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twin being more talented than you? Oh, they just

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start socking each other up. You just let them

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be sometimes. What do we have? Any other non

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-soccer stuff we want to talk or non -sounders

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specific stuff we want to talk about before we

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get into sounders? Oh, I don't know if the listeners

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can hear that, but my neighbor's dog is barking

00:16:01.049 --> 00:16:03.710
so loud that I can hear it through my mic and

00:16:03.710 --> 00:16:05.889
that's not. a thing that normally happens in

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my studio. I think we should give a little shout

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-out to Liverpool. Cedar with the Liverpool hat.

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Yeah, shout -out to Liverpool for being maybe

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the ninth or tenth best team in the Premier League.

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Hey, I mean, all the pressure's on, right? I

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mean, they have to win the league again this

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year. Anything else is just a complete failure

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with all the money they've spent. Liverpudlins,

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that's about all. You can't understand what they

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say there. They're kind of like... They always

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walk alone. They're the Fresno, California, or

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maybe Modesto of England. That's, that's funny.

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My mom is from Modesto. No, but she would, she

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would agree with any. Unfortunately, I've spent

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enough time in Modesto to know this is not a

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place you want to spend time in. Unless you're,

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you're just there for the dry heat and swimming

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in a pool outside some good taco trucks. Oh yeah.

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Keep it simple and you're having a great, great

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time. But yeah, that's. Those are the highlights

00:17:13.609 --> 00:17:17.369
for sure. They start and stop there. But, yeah,

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good for Liverpool. A nice win over Bournemouth

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to kick things off. We'll see what happens. Was

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that the first official match of the season or

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was that Carabao Cup? Well, no, that was the

00:17:29.329 --> 00:17:32.589
first official match of the league season. They

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had the community shield, which they lost to

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Crystal Palace on penalties. So good for Crystal

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Palace. They've been kind of dealt. You know,

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all the fans have been dealt a crappy hand with

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the whole, you know, relegation from making whatever

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it was, Champions League. Yeah, Europa, right.

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They were even kicked out of that because of

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all the stupid ownership crap going on. I don't

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know if you've seen that they say that the teams

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that win the Community Shield, they don't win

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the league. So they're saying Liverpool dropped

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the ball on purpose so they could win the league

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again. I mean, you could see that Crystal Palace,

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their players were much more juiced up for that

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game. They were playing with a lot more energy.

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I can't remember what Community Shield is set

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at now. Is it FA Cup winner versus Carabao Cup

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winner? I believe it's FA Cup winner versus League

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winner. Yeah, it's a glorify friendly. Yeah,

00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:41.359
of course. But I mean, it goes to charity. So,

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I mean, we had that before. The Sounders played

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Colorado one year in the Community Shield in

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Seattle. And then I think we were supposed to

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be in it another year because I think it was

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U .S. Open Cup versus winner of the league. And

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they ended up canceling it the next preseason.

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I can't remember why. Maybe snow in Colorado

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or wherever it was supposed to be played. Sounds

00:19:05.259 --> 00:19:09.470
about right. I want to look more into that. That's

00:19:09.470 --> 00:19:11.630
kind of a cool idea that I wish we had, Community

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Shield. Well, I like the fact that the Premier

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League is back. This weekend, they had all the

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matches for the Carabao Cup where Chelsea advanced,

00:19:20.890 --> 00:19:22.789
Wrexham advanced. Wrexham, that match, you see

00:19:22.789 --> 00:19:26.349
the highlights for that? Down 2 -0 in the 90th

00:19:26.349 --> 00:19:28.950
minute. Sorry, 4 -2 in the 90th minute. They

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scored two goals to tie it and then won on penalties.

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Damn. Good for them. So that was super fun to

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see them. have some success in the, in the championship.

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I'm sure it's going to be a long season for them

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though. Seattle's up 7 -0 against the Chiefs.

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Oh yeah. I gave away my tickets. I was, I wanted

00:19:50.789 --> 00:19:53.190
to record with y 'all instead of go watch a preseason.

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Go see the thirst ringers. Yeah. Yeah. Totally.

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In other, in other non -sounders news, I am going

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to see. I've got tickets for next weekend. I'm

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going to go see Bay FC, the local NWSL team.

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They're hosting Washington Spirit at Oracle Park

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where the San Francisco Giants play. And I'm

00:20:19.099 --> 00:20:21.599
really excited because I will get to see, hopefully,

00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:26.019
get to see Trinity Rodman play in person. Yeah.

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He is fun to watch. So I'm looking forward to

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that. Where does Bay FC usually play? Down in

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San Jose? Mm -hmm. But I like that they were

00:20:36.059 --> 00:20:41.460
like, hey, we're calling ourselves Bay FC. Their

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inaugural season, I mean, I live in San Francisco.

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I would see ads for them on bus stops and stuff.

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They market all over the Bay, it seems like,

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whereas San Jose Earthquakes, they do not market.

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No. Up in the city or North Bay or East Bay,

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I don't think. The Santa Clarita 49ers do, though.

00:21:04.690 --> 00:21:07.990
Yeah, oh, boy. I know. It's like, yeah, yeah,

00:21:08.269 --> 00:21:12.529
yeah. That's a whole other – Jesus. So it's cool

00:21:12.529 --> 00:21:14.230
that BFC is like, yeah, we're going to go play

00:21:14.230 --> 00:21:18.009
here. I'm sure that they have or will play at,

00:21:18.089 --> 00:21:21.569
you know, Oakland Coliseum. I just like that.

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They're, you know. coming up and uh it's just

00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:29.039
a quick uh train ride away until oracle park

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which is actually not a bad place to watch a

00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:34.059
soccer game i went there a couple of summers

00:21:34.059 --> 00:21:37.880
ago to watch a la liga showcase and uh yeah it

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was kind of cool it was fun so yeah i'm looking

00:21:40.579 --> 00:21:45.400
forward to that that's super cool yeah i um the

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only thing that would have been better and actually

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this is probably better but i kind of wish you

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were going to kizar oh man yeah that would be

00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:55.480
great i mean they've got a bunch of renovations

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slated like we talked about an episode or two

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ago so that would be fun especially once they

00:22:01.779 --> 00:22:05.319
get an mls next team have the tacoma defiance

00:22:05.319 --> 00:22:09.180
come down love to go see them uh yeah i would

00:22:09.180 --> 00:22:12.900
man i would love it if the actual city of san

00:22:12.900 --> 00:22:16.599
francisco of san francisco would get a uh mls

00:22:16.599 --> 00:22:19.519
team i think it'd be I think it would really

00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:22.819
take off here. It's a big soccer city, but it

00:22:22.819 --> 00:22:28.500
doesn't have a dedicated pro team. And San Jose

00:22:28.500 --> 00:22:32.000
is just so far away. I guess San Jose owns the

00:22:32.000 --> 00:22:35.700
rights to soccer in the region. Same way Portland's

00:22:35.700 --> 00:22:37.559
trying to have a baseball team. And I'm just

00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:40.960
like, why would the Mariners ever agree to let

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Portland have a baseball team? That's Seattle

00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:46.440
area. In fact, when the Mariners were good in

00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:49.529
like 2001, Seattle was the number two baseball

00:22:49.529 --> 00:22:51.390
market in America and Portland was number nine.

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So the Mariners had two of the top nine baseball

00:22:54.769 --> 00:22:57.269
markets. So there's no reason for the Mariners

00:22:57.269 --> 00:23:00.890
ever to give it up. Money, I guess, but you'd

00:23:00.890 --> 00:23:05.869
have to give a lot of money. Well, more money

00:23:05.869 --> 00:23:10.650
to buy some yachts, right? Not players. Well,

00:23:10.849 --> 00:23:14.289
Trailblazers sold. Oh, yeah. I was just going

00:23:14.289 --> 00:23:17.750
to find out who bought it. Owner of the Carolina

00:23:17.750 --> 00:23:21.890
Hurricanes. But his wife used to live and work

00:23:21.890 --> 00:23:25.069
in Oregon. And there's a clause in there that

00:23:25.069 --> 00:23:29.650
you cannot move the team. Oh, that's good. I'm

00:23:29.650 --> 00:23:36.470
just calling it right now. The Sonics are never

00:23:36.470 --> 00:23:38.009
coming back. They're not going to expand the

00:23:38.009 --> 00:23:41.640
league. Well, there are teams that are talking

00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:43.960
about this, but we're the boogeyman, right? We

00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:47.359
are the useful idiot. We are like, hey, look

00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:49.720
what we did to Seattle. If you don't make yourself

00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:51.400
a brand new stadium, we're going to do it to

00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:53.920
you. And so as long as they – I mean, I feel

00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:55.619
like it's still as effective if they're like

00:23:55.619 --> 00:23:59.579
they didn't have a team for 20 years. But still,

00:23:59.660 --> 00:24:04.660
just give us a damn team. Go Thunder. I can mute

00:24:04.660 --> 00:24:06.940
you, you know. I can just cut you off right here.

00:24:09.350 --> 00:24:12.710
No more. Those are fighting words. I think half

00:24:12.710 --> 00:24:15.730
the people just turned off the podcast. Fuck

00:24:15.730 --> 00:24:20.390
Oklahoma City. Years ago, my family and I were

00:24:20.390 --> 00:24:22.349
driving through. We were moving across country

00:24:22.349 --> 00:24:25.369
and we were like, all right, we got to spend

00:24:25.369 --> 00:24:28.230
the night in Oklahoma City. We could not find

00:24:28.230 --> 00:24:31.519
a single hotel room within the city limits. Because

00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:35.480
there was a goddamn Rascal Flats concert in town.

00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:39.160
And so we had to stay on the outskirts in a Motel

00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:44.700
6. And this was after the whole Thunder debacle.

00:24:44.779 --> 00:24:46.920
It was just like, you know what? Fuck this place.

00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:49.920
There was nothing redeeming about this city.

00:24:50.220 --> 00:24:54.079
Have you ever been to Oklahoma City, Alex? I

00:24:54.079 --> 00:24:57.140
barely go out. The farthest I've gone is to Salt

00:24:57.140 --> 00:25:05.400
Lake City. I'm sorry. That's not a fun place

00:25:05.400 --> 00:25:07.319
to go. I mean, there's some cool stuff. What

00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:10.180
was it? The whole Mormon? Yeah. Mormon squared

00:25:10.180 --> 00:25:13.720
thing. That block was interesting. I was like,

00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:15.900
when I seen some of the Mormons they had, I was

00:25:15.900 --> 00:25:17.660
like, that's interesting. I didn't know they

00:25:17.660 --> 00:25:24.200
came in this colors. Hey, I'm a Latino. I could

00:25:24.200 --> 00:25:28.339
say that. Dan, where's the furthest you have

00:25:28.339 --> 00:25:32.859
gone? Have you got to go overseas? I had an assignment

00:25:32.859 --> 00:25:35.900
when I was in the military to England, and they

00:25:35.900 --> 00:25:41.039
took it away from me. Yeah. We did not get –

00:25:41.039 --> 00:25:44.519
I don't know. Is that something I can talk about?

00:25:45.460 --> 00:25:49.500
Sure. Okay, so my oldest kid is non -binary.

00:25:49.579 --> 00:25:52.220
They're 15, and they took away the assignment

00:25:52.220 --> 00:25:55.720
from me because my oldest kid, according to the

00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:58.599
United States military, did not meet the exceptional

00:25:58.599 --> 00:26:00.259
family member, and they were afraid they wouldn't

00:26:00.259 --> 00:26:03.279
be able to get care right outside of London.

00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:07.059
So I am still here now, like five, six years

00:26:07.059 --> 00:26:11.039
later, bitter as fuck about that. Yeah, that's

00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:15.119
insane. Especially, I mean, I know plenty of

00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.619
military folk. So even like students of mine

00:26:18.619 --> 00:26:22.619
that were Republicans who were like, yeah, if

00:26:22.619 --> 00:26:24.539
you're serving next to me, I don't care if you're

00:26:24.539 --> 00:26:26.339
trans, if you're straight, if you're gay, it

00:26:26.339 --> 00:26:29.359
doesn't matter. You know, if you're cishet, whatever,

00:26:29.619 --> 00:26:32.680
like you're my brethren and we're fighting together.

00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:36.069
So the notion that then like. Somehow, yeah,

00:26:36.230 --> 00:26:38.690
it drives me crazy. That's your child. That's

00:26:38.690 --> 00:26:42.769
your family. Absolutely. And we can't go to England.

00:26:42.890 --> 00:26:44.789
And what's really messed up is we were living

00:26:44.789 --> 00:26:49.490
in Texas at the time. And in Texas, doctors could

00:26:49.490 --> 00:26:53.650
deny health care. And we were being denied health

00:26:53.650 --> 00:26:56.250
care and having to go to Oklahoma City, actually,

00:26:56.289 --> 00:27:00.519
to get health care. It would be okay if you were

00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:03.059
a Thunder fan. Go Thunder, baby. Not a Thunder.

00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:06.119
I wish I remembered the name, but there was a

00:27:06.119 --> 00:27:08.500
really good vegan pizza joint in Oklahoma City

00:27:08.500 --> 00:27:11.400
that we made a point to go to. But besides that,

00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:13.539
there's not a lot of redeeming factors in Oklahoma

00:27:13.539 --> 00:27:17.940
City or North Texas, in my opinion. I was always

00:27:17.940 --> 00:27:20.220
disappointed they didn't name the team the Bombers.

00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:30.259
I like the Bombers. They just changed their name.

00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:37.279
Yeah, that's quite disgusting to me. That's just

00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:43.180
absurd. Although now, London even is a place

00:27:43.180 --> 00:27:45.160
you probably don't want to be if you're trans

00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:46.920
based on the laws that are being passed. There's

00:27:46.920 --> 00:27:49.759
some really draconian shit that's way worse than

00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:51.420
anything in the United States happening in the

00:27:51.420 --> 00:27:54.059
UK right now. It's just not a good environment

00:27:54.059 --> 00:28:00.440
right now all the way around. And then one of

00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.119
the things for me is you lose a childhood hero

00:28:03.119 --> 00:28:06.160
being a millennial growing up with that debate

00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:10.339
too. So yeah, it's just pretty disappointing.

00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:12.500
Then you – I know this isn't a political podcast.

00:28:12.700 --> 00:28:14.660
I don't want to turn it into one, but you see

00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:18.880
the military is denying – for the trans people

00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:20.819
they're kicking out, they're denying those that

00:28:20.819 --> 00:28:22.900
are over 15 years of service retirement too.

00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:26.410
And so to point, it's – It's just becoming cruel.

00:28:26.750 --> 00:28:29.250
And that's the point of it is to be cruel to

00:28:29.250 --> 00:28:31.430
people that don't look like you or act like you

00:28:31.430 --> 00:28:35.190
or fit gender norms. And it gets me all fired

00:28:35.190 --> 00:28:41.849
up. It should. I mean, it should anyway, but

00:28:41.849 --> 00:28:45.869
it's especially personal for you. And that's

00:28:45.869 --> 00:28:48.289
one of the things that attracted me to the Seattle

00:28:48.289 --> 00:28:50.930
Sounders is how supportive they are of all their

00:28:50.930 --> 00:28:56.269
communities. Very cool. Not that you had to get

00:28:56.269 --> 00:28:58.829
there, but still. It's cool that the Sounders

00:28:58.829 --> 00:29:05.750
are. So I mentioned earlier, Puebla, whether

00:29:05.750 --> 00:29:08.329
or not they were starting their starters. What

00:29:08.329 --> 00:29:09.690
do you think the Sounders should do this weekend?

00:29:10.009 --> 00:29:12.930
Sounders are playing against Minnesota on Saturday,

00:29:12.990 --> 00:29:17.670
and then four days later are playing in a meaningful

00:29:17.670 --> 00:29:22.750
match in Leagues Cup versus Puebla. I think Minnesota's

00:29:22.750 --> 00:29:26.480
probably a better team than Puebla. But which

00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:29.579
game are you rotating players? Or do we rotate

00:29:29.579 --> 00:29:31.339
at all because we've had this week off between

00:29:31.339 --> 00:29:36.099
matches, which is a change for us lately? I think

00:29:36.099 --> 00:29:39.200
you don't have to rotate. In Minnesota, they're

00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:41.119
going to give us the ball, so we're not going

00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:44.359
to have to run as much unless we lose the ball

00:29:44.359 --> 00:29:46.200
and then transition. That's when we really got

00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:52.500
to sprint to get back. So I think you have to...

00:29:53.420 --> 00:29:56.299
Play Minnesota hard because if you beat them,

00:29:56.380 --> 00:29:59.359
then you're basically going to be tied on points

00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:02.599
and you have a game in hand. And then you have

00:30:02.599 --> 00:30:06.640
four days rest or three days rest until you play

00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:10.740
Puebla at home so you don't have to travel. Whereas

00:30:10.740 --> 00:30:18.299
they have to travel down from Mexico. Yeah. What

00:30:18.299 --> 00:30:23.069
about you, Cedar? uh yeah i i would agree with

00:30:23.069 --> 00:30:28.509
that assessment i mean i mean and and honestly

00:30:28.509 --> 00:30:31.509
the the whole thing about you know rotation and

00:30:31.509 --> 00:30:35.170
i mean i don't have any numbers up with me right

00:30:35.170 --> 00:30:37.369
now about like oh you know how many different

00:30:37.369 --> 00:30:39.690
starting 11s we'd have had this year it's probably

00:30:39.690 --> 00:30:42.630
quite a few right with just with all the injuries

00:30:42.630 --> 00:30:46.710
and all that but i mean we it would just echo

00:30:46.710 --> 00:30:50.759
something that nicholas was saying in the Discord,

00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:56.940
it feels like we have the deepest roster of definitely

00:30:56.940 --> 00:31:02.700
any current MLS team this season. I just feel

00:31:02.700 --> 00:31:06.960
like I trust whoever we put out there because

00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:14.180
so far it's been working. I would say... You

00:31:14.180 --> 00:31:17.180
know, we can switch out a few people for Minnesota

00:31:17.180 --> 00:31:20.559
or not. I think it's going to end up being okay.

00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:24.380
Especially if Puebla isn't the most, you know,

00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:27.400
formidable team that we've faced in the League's

00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:31.519
Cup tournament so far, right? I mean, we dismantled

00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:38.380
Cruz Azul. And then, I mean, for a little bit

00:31:38.380 --> 00:31:40.799
there, Tijuana was looking scarier than Cruz

00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:45.210
Azul. So, you know. It's all relative, but yeah,

00:31:45.309 --> 00:31:49.470
I'm fine with whatever they roll out. I don't

00:31:49.470 --> 00:31:51.990
care. I'm just ready to watch whoever's out there.

00:31:54.970 --> 00:31:58.609
I'm glad I don't have to make the decision. This

00:31:58.609 --> 00:32:01.690
Minnesota game is really important for the standings.

00:32:01.690 --> 00:32:05.650
We're coming into the home stretch. you know,

00:32:05.670 --> 00:32:08.450
have a chance if we win to be tied with Minnesota

00:32:08.450 --> 00:32:11.190
for third place. And I believe we will have a

00:32:11.190 --> 00:32:13.630
game at hand as well. So the standings are important.

00:32:13.789 --> 00:32:16.529
We've been, we've been good since club world

00:32:16.529 --> 00:32:18.109
cup, but all year we've been better at home than

00:32:18.109 --> 00:32:20.069
we've been on the road, which is, which, which

00:32:20.069 --> 00:32:23.690
is normal. And I think having those home playoff

00:32:23.690 --> 00:32:26.230
games is super important to increase our chances

00:32:26.230 --> 00:32:32.809
to get to a cup final for MLS, but it's Minnesota

00:32:32.809 --> 00:32:36.250
plays a game that we struggle with. We struggle

00:32:36.250 --> 00:32:38.750
against teams that put everybody in the box and

00:32:38.750 --> 00:32:43.269
then counter super fast. And that scares me.

00:32:43.329 --> 00:32:45.369
I mean, that's why we looked worse against Tijuana

00:32:45.369 --> 00:32:47.109
than we did against Cruz Azul, because that's

00:32:47.109 --> 00:32:48.990
exactly what Tijuana did. They played chicken

00:32:48.990 --> 00:32:52.990
shit soccer and defend, defend, defend, go. And

00:32:52.990 --> 00:32:56.549
it came back and it bit us. I think there's a

00:32:56.549 --> 00:32:58.390
chance Puebla is going to play that way as well.

00:32:59.419 --> 00:33:01.759
I'm glad that we have somebody like Brian to

00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:03.920
make those decisions instead of somebody like

00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:08.160
me. And hopefully he gets it right. But as far

00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:09.779
as, you know, he also was talking about this

00:33:09.779 --> 00:33:11.440
week in one of his press conferences, something

00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:13.579
that's concerning is De La Vega. He said he's

00:33:13.579 --> 00:33:18.000
dealing with some tendonitis. And so, I mean,

00:33:18.059 --> 00:33:19.740
you want to play somebody, it depends on how

00:33:19.740 --> 00:33:22.359
bad the tendonitis is. But with the way that

00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.619
our injury bench looks, you know, playing him

00:33:25.619 --> 00:33:28.480
60 minutes Sunday and then again Wednesday is.

00:33:29.019 --> 00:33:31.400
Is that something that's even in the cards with

00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:38.740
his status? So we'll probably see some rotation

00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:43.140
against Puebla, would be my guess. But, you know,

00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:45.900
hopefully we're able to withstand whatever counters

00:33:45.900 --> 00:33:49.200
that both Puebla and Minnesota do, and we can

00:33:49.200 --> 00:33:50.900
continue to dominate because this has been a

00:33:50.900 --> 00:33:55.079
really fun month, hasn't it? Yeah, and I think...

00:33:55.740 --> 00:33:57.960
We can say, because we haven't had an episode

00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:01.119
since the news has come out, but we got some

00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:05.259
good news that the Rusnak injury is only three

00:34:05.259 --> 00:34:10.719
to four weeks from the injury itself. So he's

00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:13.380
going to be back sooner rather than later. They're

00:34:13.380 --> 00:34:22.239
saying 10 weeks, 10 to 12 for Ryan. I would be

00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:24.440
surprised just based on how bad that injury is

00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:26.300
when, since they're not doing surgery on it,

00:34:26.340 --> 00:34:28.599
but we'll see. I mean, these are the same people

00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:32.059
that said that JP was done for the year and he's

00:34:32.059 --> 00:34:35.219
turned out not to be. Well, but that's different.

00:34:35.300 --> 00:34:38.280
That, that was because the images showed that

00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:40.719
there wasn't, I mean, when they went in there,

00:34:40.739 --> 00:34:44.079
there wasn't actually a tear. That's not, that's

00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:45.559
not the kind of injuries we have here though.

00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:48.219
So yeah, it's correct me if I'm wrong, but Brian.

00:34:48.969 --> 00:34:51.909
Ken, he tore the muscle from bone, right? Isn't

00:34:51.909 --> 00:34:54.809
that the basic nature? The muscle tore in half

00:34:54.809 --> 00:34:59.130
and it came off the ligament. Oh, my God. Or

00:34:59.130 --> 00:35:02.429
sea tear. So it's a bad one. It's a long road

00:35:02.429 --> 00:35:04.690
to come back from. And just the way it is, is

00:35:04.690 --> 00:35:07.610
we've probably seen, I would be surprised if

00:35:07.610 --> 00:35:10.929
we see him playing as a sounder again. I mean,

00:35:10.989 --> 00:35:13.429
I'd love, what kind of contract did we sign him?

00:35:13.869 --> 00:35:16.750
to the club option? Yeah, there's a club option,

00:35:16.889 --> 00:35:19.429
but I think the club option makes them a little

00:35:19.429 --> 00:35:23.150
bit expensive, you know, with some of our cap.

00:35:23.429 --> 00:35:26.690
And then, you know, and we're using Areola's

00:35:26.690 --> 00:35:30.030
cap space this year to pay for Ryan Kent, and

00:35:30.030 --> 00:35:31.869
we're going to lose that next year and we'd have

00:35:31.869 --> 00:35:34.949
to find a new, and that's a hard sell for me

00:35:34.949 --> 00:35:36.510
if you're talking about your third or fourth

00:35:36.510 --> 00:35:39.170
best winger. And maybe best isn't the right word,

00:35:39.210 --> 00:35:40.969
but sitting on the depth chart, your third or

00:35:40.969 --> 00:35:47.199
fourth winger. Yeah. Although, talent -wise,

00:35:47.380 --> 00:35:50.320
he may be the best. Yeah, he was really starting

00:35:50.320 --> 00:35:54.420
to look good. I don't know. How do you feel about

00:35:54.420 --> 00:35:55.599
that, Alex? Do you think he's the best winger?

00:35:55.820 --> 00:35:58.780
Oh, no. You know where I stand. Or is there somebody

00:35:58.780 --> 00:36:02.039
you want to free? No, I think... I'll probably

00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:04.739
get hate for this, but I mean, if you're telling

00:36:04.739 --> 00:36:06.639
me to pick Kent or Georgie, I'm taking Kent.

00:36:08.539 --> 00:36:10.599
No, I think that's accurate, because Georgie...

00:36:11.279 --> 00:36:14.260
George is good. His ceiling isn't as high. George,

00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:16.860
he's probably done more for the club. Not, I

00:36:16.860 --> 00:36:20.679
think not based on minutes, but based on actual,

00:36:20.739 --> 00:36:22.780
just like things he's done. I think Ryan Kent's

00:36:22.780 --> 00:36:24.460
probably been more productive based on minutes,

00:36:24.539 --> 00:36:28.800
but played, but I mean, George, he's never going

00:36:28.800 --> 00:36:33.860
to be playing for top teams in Europe. Ryan Kent

00:36:33.860 --> 00:36:36.260
can, if he can get his form back. No. Yeah. And

00:36:36.260 --> 00:36:39.420
I think, I don't know if you guys have been seeing

00:36:39.420 --> 00:36:42.739
like areolas. posting some clips of him, like,

00:36:42.739 --> 00:36:45.219
you know, rehabbing. Like, he looks like he's

00:36:45.219 --> 00:36:48.079
ready to go. Like, I think he's going to be a

00:36:48.079 --> 00:36:51.639
monster next season. And, like, he has to come

00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:53.960
earn his place back because you have four other

00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:56.840
wingers that are, you know, playing ahead of

00:36:56.840 --> 00:37:02.280
him now. He can play as a back, though, as well.

00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:15.679
Over New Who? I mean, I would. Yeah. So you think

00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:18.000
a little rotation in some of the matches. A De

00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:21.900
La Vega injury is a little concerning. I think

00:37:21.900 --> 00:37:24.159
you rest him on Saturday and you play him on

00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:29.199
Wednesday. Yeah, I guess it depends on where

00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:31.480
he's at because if you want him to play the following

00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:33.119
weekend, you probably don't want to play him

00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:34.840
on Wednesday. You want to give him a week between

00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:37.440
matches. Of course, Schmetzer doesn't really

00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:40.579
care about that kind of stuff. At least he didn't

00:37:40.579 --> 00:37:42.519
when Garth was here. Garth had laid out a very

00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:45.280
strict plan for when Nico Lodero could play based

00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:47.820
on his knee injury in order to make it so his

00:37:47.820 --> 00:37:50.059
career would last longer. And then Brian would

00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:51.539
be like, nope, I'm playing him because I don't

00:37:51.539 --> 00:37:56.860
want to lose. So I don't know that any injury

00:37:56.860 --> 00:38:00.019
plan would be followed, but we'll see. We have

00:38:00.019 --> 00:38:02.739
seen more of a conservative approach with Pedro.

00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:05.480
I don't think he's played a 90 -minute game for

00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:11.409
the Sounders yet in his career. No. No, I think

00:38:11.409 --> 00:38:13.829
he might be right. But still, but even if he

00:38:13.829 --> 00:38:16.690
has, it's minimal. I mean, and I think part of

00:38:16.690 --> 00:38:17.829
that is probably because they brought him back

00:38:17.829 --> 00:38:20.849
too early from his original injury, and he had

00:38:20.849 --> 00:38:22.889
a setback. And ever since then, they've had to

00:38:22.889 --> 00:38:29.590
be a little bit careful with him. Yeah. And in

00:38:29.590 --> 00:38:33.409
fairness, you know, Brian did mention that Pedro

00:38:33.409 --> 00:38:35.730
was dealing with some tinnitus, but Brian also

00:38:35.730 --> 00:38:37.789
mentioned that if he could do it again, he would

00:38:37.789 --> 00:38:42.210
have kept him in longer. So that's a good sign

00:38:42.210 --> 00:38:45.269
that maybe this isn't very serious as far as

00:38:45.269 --> 00:38:48.690
the tendonitis goes, and we'll get to see Pedro

00:38:48.690 --> 00:38:50.929
Saturday and Wednesday. That would be exciting.

00:38:52.590 --> 00:38:56.409
Personally, I think we should prioritize Leafs

00:38:56.409 --> 00:39:00.369
Cup a little bit more because if we win on Wednesday

00:39:00.369 --> 00:39:06.369
and we're given a 50 -50 chance to get the CONCACAF

00:39:06.369 --> 00:39:08.940
Champions League berth. Because even if we lose,

00:39:09.059 --> 00:39:11.440
we just have to win the third place game. And

00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:15.860
more than likely, we will host. We host everything

00:39:15.860 --> 00:39:20.920
but LA. Yeah, but I think LA is going to crapshoot

00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:25.699
against Pachuca. I don't know. I kind of feel

00:39:25.699 --> 00:39:28.000
like going to play at LA would be better for

00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:29.900
us than having to play Pachuca. What do you all

00:39:29.900 --> 00:39:32.440
think? I mean, that's a tough one. I never like

00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:37.190
to anger the soccer gods. You know, we whooped

00:39:37.190 --> 00:39:40.030
LA's ass, what, last Saturday, Sunday, whatever

00:39:40.030 --> 00:39:43.530
day it was. Yeah, last Sunday. And, you know,

00:39:43.570 --> 00:39:45.530
it's not a guarantee that we go back in and we

00:39:45.530 --> 00:39:47.429
do it again. You can see what a fired up team

00:39:47.429 --> 00:39:49.690
can do whenever Cruz Azul came in and we just

00:39:49.690 --> 00:39:54.889
smashed them. So, you know, that to me feels

00:39:54.889 --> 00:39:57.769
like I'm tempting fate. I'm superstitious as

00:39:57.769 --> 00:40:00.690
all hell. I think it's just really hard to beat

00:40:00.690 --> 00:40:02.409
a team multiple times throughout the season.

00:40:03.259 --> 00:40:05.840
Like we've seen it with LAFC. They beat us all

00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:07.719
through the regular season. Then we got down

00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:11.500
to LA and we beat them in the playoffs. Sure.

00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:14.559
But that was like five matches. We've only played

00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:16.460
LA Galaxy, what, twice this year? And then we

00:40:16.460 --> 00:40:19.460
got to play them again later on. Yeah, I'm fine

00:40:19.460 --> 00:40:21.280
with losing that later on one if we can beat

00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:24.719
them in League's Cup. In a knockout round, yeah.

00:40:25.219 --> 00:40:29.360
Yeah. I think either way, like getting the first...

00:40:29.769 --> 00:40:31.730
The number one seed really helped us as far as

00:40:31.730 --> 00:40:36.590
putting us in a favorable bracket. Yeah, I just

00:40:36.590 --> 00:40:39.929
don't like the rule that because LA Galaxy won

00:40:39.929 --> 00:40:45.130
MLS, they can supersede the position that we

00:40:45.130 --> 00:40:47.050
are in in this tournament. I think it's good

00:40:47.050 --> 00:40:49.210
for seeding to get in the tournament, but if

00:40:49.210 --> 00:40:51.170
you're going to reseed once you're getting into

00:40:51.170 --> 00:40:54.369
the knockout rounds, it just seems stupid to

00:40:54.369 --> 00:40:58.239
me. Yeah, that part is weird. It was weird. So

00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:01.079
that's definitely somebody, some genius in MLS

00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:05.219
cooked that up. I mean, it's because they want

00:41:05.219 --> 00:41:07.820
the big money teams with the shot, especially

00:41:07.820 --> 00:41:10.119
like I think it was probably because Cruz Azul

00:41:10.119 --> 00:41:12.199
had that as well. Not that it affects us anymore.

00:41:12.340 --> 00:41:14.739
St. Louis just went up 2 -0 on Puebla. You know

00:41:14.739 --> 00:41:16.780
what? Maybe Puebla's resting their starters to

00:41:16.780 --> 00:41:19.980
get them ready for Wednesday. I mean, they weren't

00:41:19.980 --> 00:41:22.340
resting their starters. They're resting a few,

00:41:22.380 --> 00:41:23.900
but not most of their starters in their last

00:41:23.900 --> 00:41:27.059
match. They lost 7 -1. I think they're just a

00:41:27.059 --> 00:41:29.980
really bad team. I think they're LA Galaxy, a

00:41:29.980 --> 00:41:33.619
bad team that showed up for the tournament. Yeah,

00:41:33.659 --> 00:41:38.460
they're 16th right now in their standings. They

00:41:38.460 --> 00:41:40.599
have their starting goalie in. They have their

00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:45.860
starting left back. I don't know if they're playing

00:41:45.860 --> 00:41:47.980
three center backs or whatever it is, but at

00:41:47.980 --> 00:41:50.239
least two of those three defenders are starters.

00:41:53.179 --> 00:41:54.960
Two midfielders are definitely starters. Their

00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:58.139
forward is a starter. And then they've subbed

00:41:58.139 --> 00:42:01.199
on, it looks like, their other starters. So they

00:42:01.199 --> 00:42:05.900
were slightly rotated, but yeah, they're getting

00:42:05.900 --> 00:42:07.679
their butts beat now. No, I think they're going

00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:09.579
to make that game really frustrating for us.

00:42:11.179 --> 00:42:13.360
I think, yeah, I think lots of teams can make

00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:14.940
the games frustrating for the Sounders because

00:42:14.940 --> 00:42:18.699
we don't have the ability to... I say this noting

00:42:18.699 --> 00:42:21.519
how many goals we've scored over the last month,

00:42:21.619 --> 00:42:23.510
but... Traditionally, we don't have the ability

00:42:23.510 --> 00:42:25.650
to score goals, and without a number nine out

00:42:25.650 --> 00:42:27.829
there who can score, you've got to figure out

00:42:27.829 --> 00:42:29.289
other ways to do it, which we've been doing.

00:42:29.349 --> 00:42:37.809
Shoot outside the box. Yeah. That's how you beat

00:42:37.809 --> 00:42:40.389
a bunker. I think that's how you beat a team

00:42:40.389 --> 00:42:41.750
that's bunker. You just take shots from outside

00:42:41.750 --> 00:42:43.949
the box, so they have to respect it and start

00:42:43.949 --> 00:42:46.730
pushing up and closing down on that space, and

00:42:46.730 --> 00:42:48.389
then that's when you're able to slip impasses

00:42:48.389 --> 00:42:53.619
into the premises. It's the same reason you cross

00:42:53.619 --> 00:42:55.639
the ball into the box constantly from the wings,

00:42:55.679 --> 00:42:57.239
though. It's that when the ball is in the box,

00:42:57.320 --> 00:42:59.380
anything can happen. Yeah, as long as you have

00:42:59.380 --> 00:43:03.059
the numbers. And the more bodies bouncing around,

00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:06.219
just put it in the box as many times as possible.

00:43:06.559 --> 00:43:08.840
And I think we've got to give credit to the Messiah

00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:12.539
that he's able to be in the right position for

00:43:12.539 --> 00:43:18.369
those rebounds to get those easy tap -ins. Like

00:43:18.369 --> 00:43:20.570
they're considered easy tap -ins, but you have

00:43:20.570 --> 00:43:23.989
to look at the run that he made to get to that

00:43:23.989 --> 00:43:26.909
position. It's kind of like Dennis Rodman. He

00:43:26.909 --> 00:43:28.889
knew where the rebound was going to be just based

00:43:28.889 --> 00:43:31.969
off the way the ball hit off the rim. Were you

00:43:31.969 --> 00:43:33.210
even born when Dennis Rodman was playing? Hey,

00:43:33.210 --> 00:43:37.329
I watched the documentary. Okay. I watched that

00:43:37.329 --> 00:43:41.070
documentary. Michael Jordan is my goat. Yeah.

00:43:41.329 --> 00:43:42.969
I mean, if you've never heard of LeBron, that

00:43:42.969 --> 00:43:46.380
makes sense. Why don't we take a break right

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00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:24.079
Off mic here, Alex said, Dan, you've been a little

00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:25.659
quiet. That's how you know the Sounders have

00:46:25.659 --> 00:46:28.780
been playing well. But I feel like that's Dan

00:46:28.780 --> 00:46:34.840
of June. Dan of July. That's not Dan of August.

00:46:35.099 --> 00:46:38.179
No, I'm pretty positive right now. I'm actually

00:46:38.179 --> 00:46:40.340
coming up with this whole idea that I'm selling

00:46:40.340 --> 00:46:44.360
myself on that the offseason excitement or the

00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:47.599
roster construction excitement is more about

00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:50.239
what badass young player we're going to bring

00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:52.840
up next from Tacoma and integrate them in than

00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:55.679
if we're going to bring in Noah Ohio and let

00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:57.780
him ride third after paying a transfer fee for

00:46:57.780 --> 00:47:01.739
him. Yeah, he's done anyways. He was set the

00:47:01.739 --> 00:47:04.860
same year. Well, yeah, that's over. So I'm trying

00:47:04.860 --> 00:47:06.940
to get excited about, well, hey, okay, so we

00:47:06.940 --> 00:47:09.900
didn't get Noah Ohio, but Niter Brunel came in

00:47:09.900 --> 00:47:12.000
on his first appearance and scored a goal. And

00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:15.199
that was just as exciting to me as getting in

00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:20.159
an unknown player. Sure. Although he was a player

00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:22.380
that I think they definitely planned on bringing

00:47:22.380 --> 00:47:25.460
up at some point this season. Just weren't very

00:47:25.460 --> 00:47:29.679
public about it. I have not heard anything that

00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:31.519
lets me believe that there's someone who's next

00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.019
up in line because the next two up in line were

00:47:34.019 --> 00:47:39.099
Georgie and Snyder. And I think just our injury

00:47:39.099 --> 00:47:41.159
concerns is how we ended up with Osaze. And then

00:47:41.159 --> 00:47:43.019
Osaze took the bull and ran with it. Looking

00:47:43.019 --> 00:47:44.800
good. Grabbed the bull by the horns. I'm going

00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:48.340
to make some metaphors. And you know what? I'm

00:47:48.340 --> 00:47:51.500
going to do this. He looks like the type of center

00:47:51.500 --> 00:47:53.900
forward that we need on the field with the way

00:47:53.900 --> 00:47:58.599
that we want to play ball. I think so. I think

00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:01.380
especially if he had a second person next to

00:48:01.380 --> 00:48:04.699
him to be able to make the quick runs, to draw

00:48:04.699 --> 00:48:07.199
players away from him, and then he can utilize

00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:10.639
his size, I think he's perfect for what we want

00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:13.440
to do. So speaking of... No, I think I remember

00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:17.940
when we were in the offseason, we're like, we

00:48:17.940 --> 00:48:20.360
want a nine that's tall, physical, and fast.

00:48:21.260 --> 00:48:24.639
That's what I'll say. He's not that great technical,

00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:27.239
but I think there's a lot of room. for improvement

00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:31.019
like he's showing flashes of what he can turn

00:48:31.019 --> 00:48:35.099
into it does feel like the ball gets lost to

00:48:35.099 --> 00:48:38.139
the feet at times and that whenever he's in traffic

00:48:38.139 --> 00:48:42.519
he just maybe controlling the ball in traffic

00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:46.079
isn't his greatest skill but that's something

00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:49.440
that playing with the pace that mls has is is

00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:51.159
something that hopefully can continue to develop

00:48:57.039 --> 00:48:59.760
Yeah. Now, you had something that I was like,

00:48:59.780 --> 00:49:03.659
no. Yeah, okay. Here is, yeah, let's get some

00:49:03.659 --> 00:49:07.199
instant reaction. We'll go around. I'm going

00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:08.679
to give a statement. Young, just give me true

00:49:08.679 --> 00:49:12.199
or false. Okay, you ready for this? Danny Musoski

00:49:12.199 --> 00:49:14.139
is having a better year this year than Jordan

00:49:14.139 --> 00:49:16.559
Morris did last year whenever he reached his

00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:21.960
DP accelerators in his contract. Is there any

00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:24.940
other caveats to that? No. Danny Musoski is having

00:49:24.940 --> 00:49:31.820
a better year. I'd say true. True. Based on the

00:49:31.820 --> 00:49:34.420
opportunities he's gotten, right? He hasn't started

00:49:34.420 --> 00:49:38.000
all the time, but he seemed to have made the

00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:43.219
most of it. Yeah, true. You can just look at

00:49:43.219 --> 00:49:46.079
the stats and see that they're pretty similar.

00:49:46.920 --> 00:49:49.539
It's also a matter of expectation, right? I mean,

00:49:49.599 --> 00:49:53.320
he was, what, second or third string forward

00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:58.579
coming into the season? And now he's like, he's

00:49:58.579 --> 00:50:01.500
our first choice because he has to be. And he's

00:50:01.500 --> 00:50:05.039
playing well. And he's not a DP. Yeah, I remember

00:50:05.039 --> 00:50:07.599
last year, people were mad at Craig. Why did

00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:09.500
we bring in Danny Masovsky? He's not doing anything.

00:50:09.739 --> 00:50:14.179
I bet they're happy this year. Yeah. He might

00:50:14.179 --> 00:50:17.679
be saving our bacon. Dope. The Messiah for a

00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:21.809
reason. So last year. Jordan Morris and MLS play

00:50:21.809 --> 00:50:25.250
only had 13 goals, five assists. Right now Moose

00:50:25.250 --> 00:50:28.230
is sitting on 10 goals and two assists. So just

00:50:28.230 --> 00:50:31.889
taking those with – hold on, I've got to do math

00:50:31.889 --> 00:50:35.449
in public. With 18 goal contributions for Jordan

00:50:35.449 --> 00:50:37.869
Morris last year and 12 right now for Moose,

00:50:37.869 --> 00:50:41.469
does he have more goal contributions by the end

00:50:41.469 --> 00:50:46.469
of the year MLS play? It depends on if Jordan

00:50:46.469 --> 00:50:48.530
comes back. I mean, my thoughts on it are most

00:50:48.530 --> 00:50:50.389
of those goals by Jordan were not at a forward.

00:50:50.550 --> 00:50:52.309
This is my whole problem with thinking of him

00:50:52.309 --> 00:50:54.369
as a nine where 11 of those goals came from the

00:50:54.369 --> 00:50:58.150
wing after he had someone subbed in at forward

00:50:58.150 --> 00:51:01.670
and he moved over to the wing. So if we're just

00:51:01.670 --> 00:51:03.610
talking about goal contributions in general,

00:51:03.650 --> 00:51:06.210
I think Jordan may end up with more just because

00:51:06.210 --> 00:51:09.030
I think opportunities, especially if Osase continues

00:51:09.030 --> 00:51:12.460
to play like he is. I mean. But you could say

00:51:12.460 --> 00:51:14.119
the same thing about Moose. I think they may

00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:18.340
not be as many if Jordan comes back. That being

00:51:18.340 --> 00:51:21.139
said, he's certainly a better number nine for

00:51:21.139 --> 00:51:23.820
us right now than Jordan was last year. Yeah,

00:51:23.820 --> 00:51:31.039
I think so too. Well, I mean, if you think that

00:51:31.039 --> 00:51:35.119
Jordan is better on the wing, which I don't disagree

00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:38.079
with, I mean, how complicated does that make

00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:41.829
it? Because we do... obviously if everybody's

00:51:41.829 --> 00:51:46.409
healthy we have so many options on the wing does

00:51:46.409 --> 00:51:49.389
that just make it just such a bottleneck it's

00:51:49.389 --> 00:51:52.690
like you know who plays where right do you put

00:51:52.690 --> 00:51:57.130
Jordan at his at his position of you know not

00:51:57.130 --> 00:51:59.190
his greatest strength just because there's so

00:51:59.190 --> 00:52:02.570
many good options out on the wing too or I mean

00:52:02.570 --> 00:52:05.650
what what's what's the what's the calculus there

00:52:05.650 --> 00:52:08.840
when he comes back Yeah, I mean, they went all

00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:12.840
in on wings already, right? But I think it depends

00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:16.159
on if Ryan Kent comes back. Or you'll look him

00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:21.000
back. Or, I mean, it leaves an odd player out.

00:52:22.280 --> 00:52:25.800
Georgie. Oh, Georgie's so far down the list.

00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:28.980
I don't see him. If we're healthy, he just gets

00:52:28.980 --> 00:52:31.179
zero minutes. There's no reason for him to even

00:52:31.179 --> 00:52:34.869
be on the 18. Other than chaotic injuries. I'm

00:52:34.869 --> 00:52:37.150
thinking more along the lines of if you only

00:52:37.150 --> 00:52:38.909
play one center defensive mid, you can play two

00:52:38.909 --> 00:52:40.610
forwards. You can play Jordan as forward with

00:52:40.610 --> 00:52:44.050
another real forward. Yeah, but I think in our

00:52:44.050 --> 00:52:47.530
system, the double pivot is very fundamental

00:52:47.530 --> 00:52:50.510
to the way that we're trying to play. The thing

00:52:50.510 --> 00:52:52.690
is, is that are you willing to bench Morris?

00:52:53.389 --> 00:52:55.349
No, not bench. Are you willing to play Morris

00:52:55.349 --> 00:52:59.260
over a Pedro de la Vega or a Rothrock? That's

00:52:59.260 --> 00:53:02.179
my problem. I don't want to beat him. Well, I

00:53:02.179 --> 00:53:03.880
think in our system, Rothrock can play on the

00:53:03.880 --> 00:53:06.460
right, and we've seen what being on the left

00:53:06.460 --> 00:53:09.559
in our system does for Pedro, and Morris in our

00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:13.099
system is going to be on the left. I know he's

00:53:13.099 --> 00:53:15.699
had some last year and the year before previously

00:53:15.699 --> 00:53:17.900
on the right, but I think he looks best on the

00:53:17.900 --> 00:53:19.940
left kind of doing what Pedro does as a wide

00:53:19.940 --> 00:53:22.800
winger and then coming in inverted and scoring

00:53:22.800 --> 00:53:26.820
goals that way off of his right foot. So, yeah,

00:53:26.940 --> 00:53:29.599
but he said as much that, I mean, I think Jordan,

00:53:29.699 --> 00:53:33.340
I mean, I think you have to have Pedro de la

00:53:33.340 --> 00:53:35.059
Vega on the left. To me, that's the only lock

00:53:35.059 --> 00:53:37.460
position on the team. Yeah. Pedro on the left.

00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:39.320
You see the way that he bends the ball in that

00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:42.719
side netting. Like what other player hits the

00:53:42.719 --> 00:53:48.159
ball the way that Pedro does? Yeah. I mean, that's

00:53:48.159 --> 00:53:53.170
the thing is I, I, I mean, I own Jordan Morris

00:53:53.170 --> 00:53:55.130
jerseys. I love Jordan Morris. Jordan Morris

00:53:55.130 --> 00:53:57.789
has been, when he was in high school, was so

00:53:57.789 --> 00:54:02.210
kind to my cousin. You know, like, such a good

00:54:02.210 --> 00:54:06.869
dude. Means everything, but... To me, he's another

00:54:06.869 --> 00:54:09.289
dude on the team. He is not our superstar player

00:54:09.289 --> 00:54:12.389
because he can't stay on the field. We need to

00:54:12.389 --> 00:54:14.769
bring in some real superstars to play alongside

00:54:14.769 --> 00:54:17.210
De La Vega, and then he becomes a piece of the

00:54:17.210 --> 00:54:19.630
puzzle, just like Rothrock, just like Georgie,

00:54:19.630 --> 00:54:22.269
just like any of these other players. Yeah, his

00:54:22.269 --> 00:54:25.969
DP tag is doesn't play. Right, well, I think

00:54:25.969 --> 00:54:27.909
they need to figure out how to move on from that

00:54:27.909 --> 00:54:29.889
DP tag or they're going to be in trouble. Yeah,

00:54:29.969 --> 00:54:32.389
I think it's either you drop them back down to

00:54:32.389 --> 00:54:35.469
a TAM. Or you sell Pedro. I think that's the

00:54:35.469 --> 00:54:37.170
only way they make it work is you sell Pedro,

00:54:37.269 --> 00:54:40.610
play him on the wing. The drop -off there is

00:54:40.610 --> 00:54:44.570
incredible. It is. That, to me, that's why I

00:54:44.570 --> 00:54:46.550
hate the idea. You just made me very sad when

00:54:46.550 --> 00:54:50.510
you were saying sell Pedro. I mean, I know. Yeah,

00:54:50.510 --> 00:54:53.230
that's the opposite of free Pedro. I know it's

00:54:53.230 --> 00:54:55.110
going to happen. You're going to set him free.

00:54:55.869 --> 00:54:58.909
Yeah. It's just like the way that I see it is

00:54:58.909 --> 00:55:01.610
that we want to become a top 10 league in the

00:55:01.610 --> 00:55:05.239
world. But we're not trying to retain our best

00:55:05.239 --> 00:55:09.880
players. Yeah, I just don't think Pedro's getting...

00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:11.739
I don't think they're getting offers for Pedro

00:55:11.739 --> 00:55:13.659
that'll be worth selling him yet. I think next

00:55:13.659 --> 00:55:16.260
season, maybe in the summer, once he's had a

00:55:16.260 --> 00:55:20.519
full year of starting without injuries, yes.

00:55:20.639 --> 00:55:22.880
But I don't think he's back to a position where

00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:25.300
they would jump on selling him just yet based

00:55:25.300 --> 00:55:27.500
on what they've invested in him in the first

00:55:27.500 --> 00:55:29.880
place. I don't think they would get nearly enough

00:55:29.880 --> 00:55:33.559
to make up for... Their initial fee plus the

00:55:33.559 --> 00:55:35.260
amount of money they've already invested in him.

00:55:35.360 --> 00:55:37.619
So I don't think he is – same reason they haven't

00:55:37.619 --> 00:55:40.280
sold Obeg. They're not offering enough. I mean

00:55:40.280 --> 00:55:42.360
both those players in theory could have been

00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:44.900
gone by now had they played well enough leading

00:55:44.900 --> 00:55:47.739
up to now. No, I think if it's not more than

00:55:47.739 --> 00:55:50.579
$20 million, I'm hanging up the phone. How about

00:55:50.579 --> 00:55:56.460
– We let Pedro lift the League Cup trophy this

00:55:56.460 --> 00:55:58.940
year, MLS Cup trophy this year, and then Cockacaff

00:55:58.940 --> 00:56:01.050
next year. and then we can talk about selling

00:56:01.050 --> 00:56:06.590
them in the summer. Love it. Yeah, as long as

00:56:06.590 --> 00:56:10.909
he goes to Europe or South America. If he stays

00:56:10.909 --> 00:56:12.190
in the league, then we're going to have an issue.

00:56:12.730 --> 00:56:14.769
No, they're not going to. I mean, they're not

00:56:14.769 --> 00:56:16.309
setting him anywhere in the league, and no one's

00:56:16.309 --> 00:56:18.429
going to offer that much in the league. I don't

00:56:18.429 --> 00:56:20.550
know. Atlanta might come in. I don't know. This

00:56:20.550 --> 00:56:22.570
front office gets very excited when Gam's mentioned.

00:56:25.369 --> 00:56:27.889
Pedro's current value on transfer market, which

00:56:27.889 --> 00:56:33.429
is obviously not, but it's usually in the realm

00:56:33.429 --> 00:56:35.989
of possibility has his value at 4 million euros.

00:56:36.269 --> 00:56:39.769
So if someone's offering 20 million. Yeah, I'm

00:56:39.769 --> 00:56:42.710
taking it. Yeah, of course you are, but no one's

00:56:42.710 --> 00:56:44.570
offering 20 million. I mean, when he came in,

00:56:44.610 --> 00:56:46.510
he was worth 6 .5. I mean, I got an offer for

00:56:46.510 --> 00:56:54.250
30 on FIFA. Well, yeah, on FIFA, I signed both

00:56:54.250 --> 00:56:57.610
Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo to free transfers

00:56:57.610 --> 00:57:00.750
to join the Sounders. Smart move. I mean, technically,

00:57:00.989 --> 00:57:05.010
Messi did come on a free. Yeah. He just went

00:57:05.010 --> 00:57:08.570
to the Pink Phone Club. I mean, they seem to

00:57:08.570 --> 00:57:11.250
be the realest club around right now, except

00:57:11.250 --> 00:57:13.269
for against Orlando. Orlando has their number.

00:57:13.349 --> 00:57:15.389
And if they beat Toluca, they have to play Orlando

00:57:15.389 --> 00:57:18.849
if Orlando wins. Yeah, it's a lot of ifs. A lot

00:57:18.849 --> 00:57:23.469
of ifs. I mean, I worry about the future of the

00:57:23.469 --> 00:57:25.590
Sounders. I mean, yeah, you want to sell players,

00:57:25.690 --> 00:57:27.750
but the point of that is to invest money in new

00:57:27.750 --> 00:57:29.489
players. If you're selling Pedro and you're not

00:57:29.489 --> 00:57:33.929
investing it in another young player at his level

00:57:33.929 --> 00:57:37.630
when he came in, then what are you doing? They're

00:57:37.630 --> 00:57:39.309
going to invest it in research of hamstrings.

00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:46.920
What was it? Curtains, Dan? Yeah, curtains. That's

00:57:46.920 --> 00:57:49.699
my euphemism is we're going to get new curtains.

00:57:50.659 --> 00:57:55.639
And the gold -plated toilets. But right now,

00:57:55.659 --> 00:57:59.320
it's super hard to complain with what Craig has

00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:02.619
done in building the team, building depth. If

00:58:02.619 --> 00:58:05.179
he'd have listened to me, we'd have went out

00:58:05.179 --> 00:58:07.579
and got a big name. then we would have been in

00:58:07.579 --> 00:58:10.039
a situation where we'd have a lot of people injured.

00:58:10.099 --> 00:58:12.780
We wouldn't have the depth to cover it. So, you

00:58:12.780 --> 00:58:15.179
know, we just lost Rusnak. Maybe. Depends on

00:58:15.179 --> 00:58:16.920
what position. Yeah, well, I mean, bring it in

00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:19.179
Jesus, for example, right? He's really been able

00:58:19.179 --> 00:58:20.900
to come into his own and hold down that right

00:58:20.900 --> 00:58:23.139
wing. And I thought that him playing at the 10

00:58:23.139 --> 00:58:26.000
was one of the best games he's had for us. I

00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:28.320
thought he looked really good this last Sunday.

00:58:28.420 --> 00:58:29.900
And, you know, when he's not the starter there,

00:58:29.940 --> 00:58:35.579
Rusnak is. So we lose our – DP that has the most

00:58:35.579 --> 00:58:37.559
minutes on the field, and we're able to just

00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:40.679
seamlessly, without an issue, slot Jesus over

00:58:40.679 --> 00:58:45.820
and be fine. I think that, you know, we have

00:58:45.820 --> 00:58:51.699
good depth when we lose our top goal scorer and

00:58:51.699 --> 00:58:55.719
one of our highest goal production from Rusnak,

00:58:55.780 --> 00:59:00.300
and you don't really see the drop -off. Yeah,

00:59:00.300 --> 00:59:03.280
I mean, I think we're seeing Ferreira actually

00:59:03.690 --> 00:59:06.349
At the 10 before, he was okay. But really, when

00:59:06.349 --> 00:59:08.170
he was on the right is when he started picking

00:59:08.170 --> 00:59:10.170
it up. And now, being back at the 10, clearly

00:59:10.170 --> 00:59:13.409
it worked. He has confidence. He's playing with

00:59:13.409 --> 00:59:16.769
confidence. He's trying things. Yeah, he gave

00:59:16.769 --> 00:59:20.869
some passes that maybe if he takes a touch or

00:59:20.869 --> 00:59:24.110
he plays it differently, it's a better opportunity.

00:59:24.389 --> 00:59:26.949
But he's willing to try those things. He's not

00:59:26.949 --> 00:59:30.389
playing scared. You've got to try the pass to

00:59:30.389 --> 00:59:34.909
complete the pass. Yeah. So Ferreria's playing...

00:59:34.909 --> 00:59:38.170
He's playing... I think he's playing... He's

00:59:38.170 --> 00:59:41.090
playing great. Like, there's... Like, I was a

00:59:41.090 --> 00:59:43.429
fan of the move when it first... Like, when it

00:59:43.429 --> 00:59:45.550
first got announced, I was excited for that move.

00:59:46.469 --> 00:59:48.030
But we all thought he was going to play the 9,

00:59:48.150 --> 00:59:52.590
but... Clearly, he's a playmaker and not a finisher.

00:59:53.809 --> 00:59:58.610
Which I have no issue with. Yeah, I mean, he...

00:59:59.289 --> 01:00:01.409
The fact that he can step in the 10 makes it

01:00:01.409 --> 01:00:03.710
really easy when you have an injury. But I don't

01:00:03.710 --> 01:00:05.670
know what you do when he comes back, when Rusnak

01:00:05.670 --> 01:00:08.110
comes back, if Ferreira continues to play. I

01:00:08.110 --> 01:00:11.090
think that Brian will be loyal to Rusnak and

01:00:11.090 --> 01:00:15.170
move Roos back to the 10 and then slot Jesus

01:00:15.170 --> 01:00:17.389
back to the right. You know, but talking about

01:00:17.389 --> 01:00:19.550
our depth, there's a really good chance that

01:00:19.550 --> 01:00:23.230
either tomorrow or Wednesday, we're going to

01:00:23.230 --> 01:00:26.110
play a game without any of our DPs on the field.

01:00:26.750 --> 01:00:29.489
You know, if Pedro can't go both days, and I

01:00:29.489 --> 01:00:30.829
think that we have a chance to win both those

01:00:30.829 --> 01:00:35.630
games, even with all three DPs sidelined. Yeah.

01:00:36.650 --> 01:00:39.809
I think, because what, you have Rothrock and

01:00:39.809 --> 01:00:42.630
you have Georgie. You play Georgie on Wednesday.

01:00:43.590 --> 01:00:48.230
I'll give him the start against Puebla. And I'll

01:00:48.230 --> 01:00:50.429
play Pedro on Saturday and then have him come

01:00:50.429 --> 01:00:52.630
off the bench. Rothrock can play both games.

01:00:52.690 --> 01:00:56.050
Why would you worry about... You mean on the

01:00:56.050 --> 01:00:58.010
left? Yeah, on the left. I'll play. I'll bench.

01:00:58.269 --> 01:01:01.510
I mean, he has played on the left a few times

01:01:01.510 --> 01:01:04.329
lately. Or you just swap them either way. But

01:01:04.329 --> 01:01:06.030
you play Georgia on Wednesday and you start them.

01:01:06.349 --> 01:01:08.949
You've seen the past couple weeks, whenever Georgie

01:01:08.949 --> 01:01:11.889
does come on, that Brian is moving him to the

01:01:11.889 --> 01:01:13.909
left and wanting him to do the role that Pedro

01:01:13.909 --> 01:01:16.510
is doing over there and try to take the ball

01:01:16.510 --> 01:01:20.110
and dribble in. So I just wonder if Brian is

01:01:20.110 --> 01:01:22.710
kind of settling into that attacking pattern

01:01:22.710 --> 01:01:27.070
where he wants to have a goal -dangerous person

01:01:27.070 --> 01:01:32.230
on the left that's good at dribbling. Oh yeah,

01:01:32.309 --> 01:01:34.809
Georgie's goal came off the left. It did. where

01:01:34.809 --> 01:01:37.929
he took his shirt off. Pedro taught him how to

01:01:37.929 --> 01:01:40.809
do it. It was the Pedro move. It was the Pedro

01:01:40.809 --> 01:01:45.630
move. Question. So, Georgie Celebration, before

01:01:45.630 --> 01:01:49.969
he took his shirt off, well, okay, before he

01:01:49.969 --> 01:01:51.710
lifted his shirt and you could see the shirt

01:01:51.710 --> 01:01:55.309
underneath and possibly... It's because he pulled

01:01:55.309 --> 01:01:56.750
it over his head. If he just pulled it up to

01:01:56.750 --> 01:01:58.170
his neck, it would have been fine. This has been

01:01:58.170 --> 01:02:01.170
a rule in soccer for decades. The fact that he

01:02:01.170 --> 01:02:05.360
didn't know or... I mean, he knew. The fact that

01:02:05.360 --> 01:02:08.420
anyone – that he did it is frustrating. But regardless,

01:02:08.699 --> 01:02:11.599
before that though, did he cover his eye? I think

01:02:11.599 --> 01:02:13.679
his celebration before that was he ran up to

01:02:13.679 --> 01:02:16.980
the stands and covered his eye. I look like he

01:02:16.980 --> 01:02:21.900
did. I think he covered his ears. I'm going to

01:02:21.900 --> 01:02:23.159
have to go back and look at it because I thought

01:02:23.159 --> 01:02:24.840
that was his celebration with him covering his

01:02:24.840 --> 01:02:26.880
eye because that's one or the other. What did

01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:29.619
his shirt say? Jesus is king. I think it's at

01:02:29.619 --> 01:02:32.139
Christ's King. Yeah, he was talking about Jesus.

01:02:32.460 --> 01:02:36.500
Or was he talking about Jesus Christ? Yeah, I

01:02:36.500 --> 01:02:38.079
think it's at Christ's King. Yeah, he always

01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:43.619
wears that shirt. Who? Oh, the Christian guy.

01:02:44.460 --> 01:02:46.900
Oh, yeah. The guy that's outside the Mariner's

01:02:46.900 --> 01:02:50.739
stadium. No, not that guy. He's about as anti

01:02:50.739 --> 01:02:52.519
-Christian as they come. He's never even read

01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:55.179
the Bible based on the hate he preaches. Have

01:02:55.179 --> 01:02:57.659
you seen the guy standing next to him? Take a

01:02:57.659 --> 01:03:01.579
big dump for him. All I got to say about that

01:03:01.579 --> 01:03:05.360
is like, you know, and I'm not I'm not I do find

01:03:05.360 --> 01:03:07.300
Christianity fascinating. I'm not a Christian

01:03:07.300 --> 01:03:10.639
myself. I just find it really funny. Like if

01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:14.139
if you truly believe that your God is omnipotent.

01:03:14.139 --> 01:03:19.079
Right. And is the one. Right. Like. why do you

01:03:19.079 --> 01:03:21.300
need to help him out with your shitty fucking

01:03:21.300 --> 01:03:24.039
sign and your you know like your loudspeaker

01:03:24.039 --> 01:03:26.440
like how little faith do you have in him right

01:03:26.440 --> 01:03:29.300
if it takes you doing that to like spread the

01:03:29.300 --> 01:03:32.619
word like come on that's ridiculous clearly we're

01:03:32.619 --> 01:03:35.960
not operating with uh all a full set of marbles

01:03:35.960 --> 01:03:38.639
here part of it is to make money because they

01:03:38.639 --> 01:03:42.000
have been removed by police uh off of the uw

01:03:42.000 --> 01:03:45.039
campus and one time down by the stadium and they

01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:46.980
sued the city and the city settled each time

01:03:46.980 --> 01:03:50.420
so That's why the police won't touch them. They're

01:03:50.420 --> 01:03:52.440
clearly violating the law. What I've learned

01:03:52.440 --> 01:03:55.039
to see is that because of the reports on the

01:03:55.039 --> 01:03:58.860
news lately, the public is pushing back against

01:03:58.860 --> 01:04:01.840
them and calling them out. I mean, I once, this

01:04:01.840 --> 01:04:04.380
guy, that guy was out there, and I once reminded

01:04:04.380 --> 01:04:07.239
him that in Leviticus, it says that you cannot

01:04:07.239 --> 01:04:09.500
have multi -blend fabrics. And he was wearing

01:04:09.500 --> 01:04:12.500
jeans, which is a multi -blend fabric. And for

01:04:12.500 --> 01:04:15.099
three years after that, he went to wearing cotton

01:04:15.099 --> 01:04:17.940
pants because he couldn't wear jeans. And then

01:04:17.940 --> 01:04:20.860
finally he went back to it. And clearly someone

01:04:20.860 --> 01:04:23.019
convinced him because I was like, hey, man, you're

01:04:23.019 --> 01:04:25.320
wearing jeans. What's up? You're preaching hatred

01:04:25.320 --> 01:04:26.960
from the Old Testament. Why aren't you listening

01:04:26.960 --> 01:04:30.360
to Leviticus? And this this dude said, that's

01:04:30.360 --> 01:04:32.719
rabbinical law. I'm not a Jew. And I was just

01:04:32.719 --> 01:04:34.920
like, oh, cool. You're a bigot, too. All right.

01:04:35.059 --> 01:04:39.030
Good job, man. um so uh the thing that these

01:04:39.030 --> 01:04:41.449
people don't like uh all my years of catholic

01:04:41.449 --> 01:04:44.510
school have paid off for me is that uh they are

01:04:44.510 --> 01:04:47.369
hypocrites and uh i would say just be careful

01:04:47.369 --> 01:04:51.250
uh the bulge that you see behind his uh back

01:04:51.250 --> 01:04:53.610
is because he carries a gun so he's he's not

01:04:53.610 --> 01:04:56.849
uh he's packing i haven't seen him pull it but

01:04:56.849 --> 01:04:59.269
he is packing but i did also see him tell a homeless

01:04:59.269 --> 01:05:00.670
man he was going to hell once and the homeless

01:05:00.670 --> 01:05:03.179
man went over took off his shirt, ran all the

01:05:03.179 --> 01:05:05.199
way across the parking lot and had a flying fist

01:05:05.199 --> 01:05:08.800
and knocked him out. Just like, and the entire

01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:13.940
crowd cheered. So, and the funny thing is probably

01:05:13.940 --> 01:05:16.059
99 % of those people are Christian. It's not

01:05:16.059 --> 01:05:17.559
because they're anti -Christian. They're anti

01:05:17.559 --> 01:05:19.780
this asshole who's out there barking at the top

01:05:19.780 --> 01:05:21.719
of his lungs. Breaking the sound. What is it?

01:05:22.039 --> 01:05:28.440
Oh God. I'm of the opinion. This was my opinion.

01:05:28.480 --> 01:05:31.039
That's not being a true Christian. like doing

01:05:31.039 --> 01:05:34.059
being a fucking asshole in public you know i'm

01:05:34.059 --> 01:05:36.820
sorry that's not whatever being a true christian

01:05:36.820 --> 01:05:39.559
is i like it we've hit politics and yeah yeah

01:05:39.559 --> 01:05:45.800
this will be a patreon exclusive how many losers

01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:49.340
are gonna piss off all the people all the all

01:05:49.340 --> 01:05:53.340
the people in pedo land oh hey no no no muted

01:05:53.340 --> 01:05:56.639
whoa whoa whoa yeah hold on are you bringing

01:05:56.639 --> 01:06:00.090
up the trump files No, we're talking about Portland.

01:06:01.010 --> 01:06:07.250
Okay. No, I mean, none of that is a political

01:06:07.250 --> 01:06:10.769
statement. It is a read your damn Bible statement.

01:06:11.429 --> 01:06:15.510
It's do your research. Yeah. You're entitled

01:06:15.510 --> 01:06:18.860
to your own opinion. We are living in a society,

01:06:19.099 --> 01:06:23.940
right? Of entitlement. We all got to do this

01:06:23.940 --> 01:06:27.139
thing together, right? That's a good question,

01:06:27.219 --> 01:06:29.500
though, based on what Alex just said. I've always

01:06:29.500 --> 01:06:33.800
been frustrated with Sounders fans because they

01:06:33.800 --> 01:06:39.260
tend to live in these fits of entitlement. That

01:06:39.260 --> 01:06:43.099
we're owed this, we're owed that. They overreact

01:06:43.099 --> 01:06:47.989
to everything. And I don't, and I'm not saying

01:06:47.989 --> 01:06:50.570
that about people who necessarily, like we haven't

01:06:50.570 --> 01:06:53.449
signed a summer, you know, we haven't had a DP

01:06:53.449 --> 01:06:55.889
transfer in forever or whatever. Like I actually,

01:06:55.969 --> 01:06:59.469
if it's a thoughtful critique, I have no problem

01:06:59.469 --> 01:07:03.309
with it. But do you think that as, as fans of

01:07:03.309 --> 01:07:06.789
the Sounders, we expect to win all the time and

01:07:06.789 --> 01:07:10.989
that's why we get so pissed off when they don't

01:07:10.989 --> 01:07:12.969
make, go out and make moves to keep us as one

01:07:12.969 --> 01:07:14.550
of the halves in the league with the top four

01:07:14.550 --> 01:07:20.369
or five teams? I think that we get this new toy,

01:07:20.510 --> 01:07:23.309
and it's like when you're little or you give

01:07:23.309 --> 01:07:26.369
your kid or your nephew or your niece, you buy

01:07:26.369 --> 01:07:28.789
them a new toy. Ooh, they play with it for about

01:07:28.789 --> 01:07:30.670
a week, and then they just toss it. They get

01:07:30.670 --> 01:07:34.849
tired of it. And then they see their friend at

01:07:34.849 --> 01:07:37.030
school, show and tell they bring a new toy. Oh,

01:07:37.110 --> 01:07:38.769
now they want that because it's shiny and new.

01:07:39.989 --> 01:07:41.989
I feel like that's how we are as a fan base.

01:07:42.050 --> 01:07:46.070
We see LAFC go out and drop $26 million. on human

01:07:46.070 --> 01:07:50.369
son why can't we do that whereas like if we only

01:07:50.369 --> 01:07:52.969
got four million dollars i'd rather save it because

01:07:52.969 --> 01:07:55.150
you're not going to go get a player that's going

01:07:55.150 --> 01:07:57.369
to walk into the starting 11 for four million

01:07:57.369 --> 01:08:02.610
dollars especially a u22 you're not for 16 million

01:08:02.610 --> 01:08:04.309
you're going to have a player that's still not

01:08:04.309 --> 01:08:07.250
going to start every game no and i mean if we're

01:08:07.250 --> 01:08:10.050
broke just like be honest we're broke like we

01:08:10.050 --> 01:08:12.989
dropped the bag on pedro he didn't pan out the

01:08:12.989 --> 01:08:15.920
first year because we rushed him back The fan

01:08:15.920 --> 01:08:18.659
base is calling him a bust, and now they're calling

01:08:18.659 --> 01:08:24.880
him a king. Thanks to the free Pedro move, of

01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:26.920
course. I've been saying that since day one.

01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:30.920
I've been on the Pedro hype train since day one.

01:08:31.399 --> 01:08:33.279
That's why it makes me happy that he's performing

01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:35.659
at this level, at the position that I wanted

01:08:35.659 --> 01:08:39.840
him from the beginning. When he was in Argentina,

01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:42.279
he was on the left wing. When we were scouting

01:08:42.279 --> 01:08:45.090
him, he was cooking on the left wing. We bring

01:08:45.090 --> 01:08:46.710
him in, and now we want to play him on the right

01:08:46.710 --> 01:08:49.550
wing. And he can play the right. He can play

01:08:49.550 --> 01:08:52.510
the center. We know that, but obviously the left

01:08:52.510 --> 01:08:54.449
is where he has had the most success. Now, I

01:08:54.449 --> 01:08:56.609
want to hear from Dan, because you came in after

01:08:56.609 --> 01:08:59.390
the Sounders had been successful from day one.

01:08:59.510 --> 01:09:01.630
You were not here when they won their first championship.

01:09:01.890 --> 01:09:03.930
I turned around a little bit, the question a

01:09:03.930 --> 01:09:07.659
little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm less concerned

01:09:07.659 --> 01:09:09.739
about what other fans think and more concerned

01:09:09.739 --> 01:09:12.279
about what the owner thinks since he's the one

01:09:12.279 --> 01:09:15.220
that holds the key to the lockbox where we keep

01:09:15.220 --> 01:09:19.779
the $3 or $4 we have for a transfer. And I worry

01:09:19.779 --> 01:09:27.079
that he, the organization, they... Like, hey,

01:09:27.100 --> 01:09:29.159
we're the Sounders. We always win. We're going

01:09:29.159 --> 01:09:31.359
to continue to win. And therefore, we don't need

01:09:31.359 --> 01:09:34.119
to make the investments that we need. Again,

01:09:34.439 --> 01:09:37.819
I have, you know, I left the NFL as a diehard

01:09:37.819 --> 01:09:41.140
fan, but I still have Jerry Jones PTSD, where

01:09:41.140 --> 01:09:43.140
you have somebody that thinks they're the smartest

01:09:43.140 --> 01:09:46.100
person in the room and they are going to do it

01:09:46.100 --> 01:09:47.720
their way regardless. And they think that their

01:09:47.720 --> 01:09:51.060
success is all about what they've done. And whenever

01:09:51.060 --> 01:09:53.640
you're talking about soccer, there's there's

01:09:53.640 --> 01:09:57.859
a. The line between beating Cruz Azul 7 -0 and

01:09:57.859 --> 01:10:00.760
losing 4 -1 to them is pretty thin, and there's

01:10:00.760 --> 01:10:03.420
a lot of ball bounces that go into affecting

01:10:03.420 --> 01:10:06.680
how that happens. Like Brian says, goals score

01:10:06.680 --> 01:10:09.020
games. So I worry that our organization, that's

01:10:09.020 --> 01:10:12.159
where a lot of my angst comes from when we sit

01:10:12.159 --> 01:10:14.579
on the sidelines during these transfer windows,

01:10:14.779 --> 01:10:16.800
is that, hey, does the Sounders organization

01:10:16.800 --> 01:10:19.560
think that they're going to continue to win because

01:10:19.560 --> 01:10:24.340
they're Sounders and they've always won? Yeah.

01:10:25.220 --> 01:10:28.819
I mean, that's a real question. We were just

01:10:28.819 --> 01:10:31.039
discussing this with the head of the World Cup

01:10:31.039 --> 01:10:35.000
Seattle, Peter Tomozawa, who used to be the president

01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:36.640
of the club. I had this conversation with him

01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:42.319
three days ago. Because part of it is that fans

01:10:42.319 --> 01:10:43.819
aren't showing up to the games like they used

01:10:43.819 --> 01:10:47.000
to. And there's a lot to that. I think COVID

01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:49.739
killed professional sports for a lot of people,

01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:54.260
especially in a place like Seattle. that's a

01:10:54.260 --> 01:10:57.159
great question uh and because and then cedar

01:10:57.159 --> 01:10:58.699
i'll throw it over you because you have to balance

01:10:58.699 --> 01:11:03.359
this notion of we have built a youth system maybe

01:11:03.359 --> 01:11:05.539
better than anyone else in the league based on

01:11:05.539 --> 01:11:07.340
the success we're seeing from our youth players

01:11:07.340 --> 01:11:11.319
so should we be complementing them with higher

01:11:11.319 --> 01:11:15.460
level players or is the way we're doing it what

01:11:15.460 --> 01:11:19.710
what is the ultimate way to succeed now Without

01:11:19.710 --> 01:11:21.829
a name like Dempsey, without a name like Oba,

01:11:21.869 --> 01:11:23.770
without a name like some of these other players,

01:11:24.289 --> 01:11:26.689
you're never going to have... I mean, Nico Lodero

01:11:26.689 --> 01:11:31.289
was a superstar, but he never is going to be

01:11:31.289 --> 01:11:35.949
a household name like Dempsey. So should we be

01:11:35.949 --> 01:11:37.710
going after players of that caliber? Because

01:11:37.710 --> 01:11:39.130
that's something the Sounders don't do anymore.

01:11:40.810 --> 01:11:44.289
But even with Oba, even with Dempsey, we didn't

01:11:44.289 --> 01:11:47.869
make the playoffs with... We made the playoffs,

01:11:47.989 --> 01:11:50.489
but Oba never scored in the playoffs, right?

01:11:50.649 --> 01:11:55.850
We didn't do anything in 2015. That was the first

01:11:55.850 --> 01:11:58.850
year that I was conscious in following the Sounders.

01:11:58.909 --> 01:12:02.109
Then in 2016, you have a guy like Ladera come

01:12:02.109 --> 01:12:05.630
in, super gritty, completely reset the culture

01:12:05.630 --> 01:12:09.510
in the locker room from day one, turning off

01:12:09.510 --> 01:12:12.770
the pregame music. He's like, why are we listening

01:12:12.770 --> 01:12:14.430
to music right now? We need to be locked in.

01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:18.939
and going from such a low in that season to making

01:12:18.939 --> 01:12:22.819
the playoffs. But that whole run in 2016, it

01:12:22.819 --> 01:12:25.079
was so magical because it was just the thinnest

01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:28.739
of margins. I mean, we had, what, Nelson Valdez,

01:12:28.739 --> 01:12:31.800
right? Who was supposed to be like, oh, man,

01:12:31.939 --> 01:12:34.420
he's going to be scoring goals, blah, blah, blah.

01:12:34.420 --> 01:12:37.250
Did not do anything. during the season. And then

01:12:37.250 --> 01:12:39.989
he scored what? It was like two. One goal. I

01:12:39.989 --> 01:12:42.670
think he's a big one that won the game. Come

01:12:42.670 --> 01:12:45.390
back against right. Dallas. Right. Was it? And,

01:12:45.489 --> 01:12:48.250
you know, and watching that as a fan, like, you

01:12:48.250 --> 01:12:52.109
know, a new fan, I was like, that is like, that

01:12:52.109 --> 01:12:54.909
was, that was pure magic. I mean, that was amazing.

01:12:55.250 --> 01:12:58.050
And then, you know, making it to MLS cup, winning

01:12:58.050 --> 01:13:00.729
it on penalties after not having a single shot,

01:13:00.810 --> 01:13:05.090
you know, I mean, that's, that's insane. Right.

01:13:05.109 --> 01:13:07.970
So it's I mean, knowing knowing the history of

01:13:07.970 --> 01:13:11.729
like, you know, where the success generates from,

01:13:11.850 --> 01:13:15.630
it's it's like, well, you know, sometimes it

01:13:15.630 --> 01:13:18.069
takes a lot of just hard work and luck. Right.

01:13:18.189 --> 01:13:20.789
I mean, the big names are fun to watch. And,

01:13:20.850 --> 01:13:24.069
you know, is there anybody who's as talented

01:13:24.069 --> 01:13:27.270
a pairing as as Clint and Nova were? I mean,

01:13:27.270 --> 01:13:30.300
fun to watch. Probably not. But. That didn't,

01:13:30.300 --> 01:13:32.619
that's not what won us the MLS cup. And I think,

01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:34.619
I think it's, I think it's interesting to balance

01:13:34.619 --> 01:13:36.880
like, okay, you know, they're not the richest

01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:39.340
owners in the world, right. Our ownership group,

01:13:39.399 --> 01:13:43.159
but you do have to give them credit in that the

01:13:43.159 --> 01:13:46.119
youth Academy that's been built up and, you know,

01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:49.079
they do spend money, right. It's just, it has

01:13:49.079 --> 01:13:52.520
to be a lot more targeted. And if those things

01:13:52.520 --> 01:13:54.840
can align, I mean, I'm, you know, looking at

01:13:54.840 --> 01:13:57.140
the roster for the Sounders right now, we only

01:13:57.140 --> 01:14:02.210
have two, teenagers, current teenagers who have

01:14:02.210 --> 01:14:04.229
played games for us this year, Snyder Brunel

01:14:04.229 --> 01:14:08.069
and Stuart Hawkins. Obed is now, he's now 20

01:14:08.069 --> 01:14:10.970
and he's been around for what years, right? It's

01:14:10.970 --> 01:14:15.609
incredible. The same way. They're veterans at

01:14:15.609 --> 01:14:18.109
this point and they're 20 years old. It's, it's,

01:14:18.109 --> 01:14:21.069
it's really, yeah. And they're really good players.

01:14:21.149 --> 01:14:23.750
And we're talking about Obed, you know, potentially,

01:14:23.810 --> 01:14:27.590
I mean, you know, money aside, like just the

01:14:27.590 --> 01:14:30.899
fact that he has that, the the talent and the

01:14:30.899 --> 01:14:34.060
ceiling and his age like to potentially make

01:14:34.060 --> 01:14:38.180
a move to atletico madrid i mean that's not outside

01:14:38.180 --> 01:14:40.659
of the realm of possibility i think that's that's

01:14:40.659 --> 01:14:44.079
huge uh in terms of you know where our academy

01:14:44.079 --> 01:14:46.939
is at so i think i think it's a pretty good setup

01:14:46.939 --> 01:14:50.779
for what it is for the money that they have to

01:14:50.779 --> 01:14:54.260
spend i think you know they just they they have

01:14:54.260 --> 01:14:57.479
to be smart right we don't have I mean, it wouldn't

01:14:57.479 --> 01:15:00.039
even take oil state backing, but like, you know,

01:15:00.060 --> 01:15:02.420
they're, they're not the wealthiest ownership

01:15:02.420 --> 01:15:05.319
group in the league and they have to, you know,

01:15:05.319 --> 01:15:08.079
use the rules, the MLS roster rules to their

01:15:08.079 --> 01:15:10.619
advantage. That's why we always sell what international

01:15:10.619 --> 01:15:14.220
roster spots. Right. And, you know, we have to

01:15:14.220 --> 01:15:16.359
do, we have to use all the tricks of the trade

01:15:16.359 --> 01:15:20.039
to, to stay competitive. And we do, but, but

01:15:20.039 --> 01:15:22.739
yeah, it is, it is kind of fun to fantasize about

01:15:22.739 --> 01:15:26.300
like. Oh yeah. Getting, getting all sunny. That

01:15:26.300 --> 01:15:28.539
would be fun, but it would be a lot of money,

01:15:28.640 --> 01:15:34.079
you know? And again, is it, is he, is he worth

01:15:34.079 --> 01:15:36.399
the money based on the players that we already

01:15:36.399 --> 01:15:39.100
have in that position? Right. Isn't it pretty

01:15:39.100 --> 01:15:42.899
crowded there already? Like, I mean, I mean,

01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:45.399
LAFC is operating on a different, you know, they're

01:15:45.399 --> 01:15:47.560
on a different stratosphere. I'd rather have

01:15:47.560 --> 01:15:49.880
two 12 million, 13 million players than him.

01:15:49.939 --> 01:15:54.859
Right. Like I'd rather have two, players that

01:15:54.859 --> 01:15:57.739
are as good as Pedro de la Vega, who's not even

01:15:57.739 --> 01:16:00.920
worth close to that. He's worth $8 million less

01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:03.680
than that. And Sun's fun to watch, right? And

01:16:03.680 --> 01:16:05.859
he's going to sell a ton of shirts, right? I

01:16:05.859 --> 01:16:09.239
hear what you did. I think they sold out. Give

01:16:09.239 --> 01:16:13.239
me two Gabriel Pecs rather than one Sun. So,

01:16:13.260 --> 01:16:16.100
I mean, I'm not totally sold. I'm not totally

01:16:16.100 --> 01:16:18.979
against the Sounders' methods. I just think...

01:16:19.279 --> 01:16:21.340
They can do things in an economical way while

01:16:21.340 --> 01:16:24.960
spending a little more money on our DPs. No,

01:16:25.000 --> 01:16:27.800
and I think also, too, to add back to the LAFC,

01:16:28.100 --> 01:16:32.800
welcome to the Bay. Mute. I don't know how to

01:16:32.800 --> 01:16:36.460
mute myself here. But I think you have Dennis

01:16:36.460 --> 01:16:38.960
Buonga as a left winger, and Son is also a left

01:16:38.960 --> 01:16:41.800
winger. So do you want to play him out of position?

01:16:41.819 --> 01:16:45.680
You dropped over $25 million, and you're paying

01:16:45.680 --> 01:16:47.939
him. However much you're going to pay him. Are

01:16:47.939 --> 01:16:51.000
you willing to play him out of position? Or are

01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:54.520
you going to move off Buonga? And then guess

01:16:54.520 --> 01:16:56.020
what? Their coach is gone at the end of the year.

01:16:58.119 --> 01:17:00.539
I think that's why they're making moves. They

01:17:00.539 --> 01:17:01.880
probably already know who they're going to hire.

01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:04.479
Yeah, but the thing is, you want Son to be your

01:17:04.479 --> 01:17:06.819
number nine? He could play it, but that's not

01:17:06.819 --> 01:17:10.539
the position he excels at. To me, it's all about

01:17:10.539 --> 01:17:13.460
where's the drop -off, right? If you can play

01:17:13.460 --> 01:17:15.539
someone in their secondary position and they're

01:17:15.539 --> 01:17:17.380
still better than anyone else you have on the

01:17:17.380 --> 01:17:19.319
roster, I'm playing them in the secondary position.

01:17:19.560 --> 01:17:22.220
I mean, it's not that hard to top Giroud's numbers.

01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:27.079
Giroud's tearing it up now that he's back at

01:17:27.079 --> 01:17:30.380
Lille. So clearly it's an LAFC problem. I think

01:17:30.380 --> 01:17:32.340
it's an MLS problem and just the talent's so

01:17:32.340 --> 01:17:35.939
good that they were able to shut him down. I

01:17:35.939 --> 01:17:38.930
think it was just the traveling so much. It is

01:17:38.930 --> 01:17:41.069
traveling. It is his family was unhappy. There's

01:17:41.069 --> 01:17:42.890
a lot to it. But I also think they didn't play

01:17:42.890 --> 01:17:46.329
him the way they didn't play the ball. They didn't

01:17:46.329 --> 01:17:48.229
have players play him the ball the way he needs

01:17:48.229 --> 01:17:50.069
to have it played to. If you watch how he played

01:17:50.069 --> 01:17:52.710
at Chelsea, if you watch how he plays for France,

01:17:52.789 --> 01:17:55.189
that they weren't using him correctly. And that's

01:17:55.189 --> 01:17:57.369
what kind of drives me crazy about what we were

01:17:57.369 --> 01:17:58.970
doing with Pedro before. Now we're seeing him

01:17:58.970 --> 01:18:01.170
used correctly and he excels. His family's in

01:18:01.170 --> 01:18:04.689
town. I think his brother still might be in town.

01:18:06.689 --> 01:18:10.369
Yeah. So, I mean, the real lesson is here, don't

01:18:10.369 --> 01:18:12.630
throw a subway sandwich at cops and you won't

01:18:12.630 --> 01:18:15.289
get arrested is what we're talking about today.

01:18:15.289 --> 01:18:16.329
Right. If you're going to attack a cop, make

01:18:16.329 --> 01:18:18.550
sure that you're on state capital grounds and

01:18:18.550 --> 01:18:21.890
you have a Donald Trump American flag in your

01:18:21.890 --> 01:18:25.970
hand. That's the way to attack a cop. Do it in

01:18:25.970 --> 01:18:30.170
an interesting way. Unless they're from Yakima.

01:18:31.920 --> 01:18:37.359
Oh, gosh. That's insane. The cop shot up a car

01:18:37.359 --> 01:18:39.579
there, and Alex sent me the picture, and I counted

01:18:39.579 --> 01:18:44.140
73 bullets, I think. Wow. I think it's, what,

01:18:44.180 --> 01:18:48.100
15 officers are on leave? Including the chief

01:18:48.100 --> 01:18:50.880
of police. Yeah, the chief made sure to get his

01:18:50.880 --> 01:18:52.819
in. And what's crazy, too, is right in front

01:18:52.819 --> 01:18:55.920
of the police station. Yeah, that's wild. Dan,

01:18:56.039 --> 01:18:57.779
are you still with us? Because you froze on our

01:18:57.779 --> 01:19:02.260
screen. Well, we'll let him come back and we'll

01:19:02.260 --> 01:19:03.899
just keep talking Sounders for a few minutes

01:19:03.899 --> 01:19:06.260
here until we can get him back into the scene

01:19:06.260 --> 01:19:09.560
of it. So we're talking about transfers. We're

01:19:09.560 --> 01:19:11.260
talking about the future. Let's talk about now.

01:19:11.380 --> 01:19:13.500
What are we expecting this weekend against Minnesota?

01:19:13.720 --> 01:19:16.079
We already talked about the lineup a little bit,

01:19:16.119 --> 01:19:18.800
but do you think this is something we can do,

01:19:18.859 --> 01:19:21.340
something we can win on? I think so. Look, we're

01:19:21.340 --> 01:19:24.819
in a better. We're in a better spot now than

01:19:24.819 --> 01:19:27.319
we were the last time we played Minnesota, I

01:19:27.319 --> 01:19:29.680
would say. I mean, I think everybody would probably

01:19:29.680 --> 01:19:33.020
agree with that. I feel like everybody who's

01:19:33.020 --> 01:19:34.479
on the field, they're playing with a lot more

01:19:34.479 --> 01:19:37.359
confidence. We've got some really good performances

01:19:37.359 --> 01:19:40.119
under our belt, whether it's playing well in

01:19:40.119 --> 01:19:42.060
the Club World Cup against some of the best teams

01:19:42.060 --> 01:19:45.600
in the world or just kicking the shit out of,

01:19:45.600 --> 01:19:48.520
you know, the former Kings of CONCACAF, Cruz

01:19:48.520 --> 01:19:51.619
Azul. Everybody knows that they can do the thing

01:19:51.619 --> 01:19:54.909
and they know. kind of the highest gear, that

01:19:54.909 --> 01:19:59.489
extra level that they can hit. And I think it's

01:19:59.489 --> 01:20:02.189
like why, you know, earlier in the season, I

01:20:02.189 --> 01:20:04.489
would be like, you know, the first time we played

01:20:04.489 --> 01:20:05.989
Minnesota, I'm like, yeah, Minnesota's good.

01:20:06.149 --> 01:20:09.050
This is going to be a tough one. If we don't

01:20:09.050 --> 01:20:12.050
make silly mistakes, right, and we don't take

01:20:12.050 --> 01:20:14.930
ourselves out of the game, we're just as good

01:20:14.930 --> 01:20:19.149
and probably better than Minnesota is. We just

01:20:19.149 --> 01:20:22.909
have to play like it. I think we can. So I'm

01:20:22.909 --> 01:20:25.270
not scared. I don't care who's out on the pitch

01:20:25.270 --> 01:20:29.590
for us. I think we're going to take it to them.

01:20:30.170 --> 01:20:33.090
With the caveat being that, yes, our Achilles

01:20:33.090 --> 01:20:36.329
heel, the bunkering, being hit in transition,

01:20:36.529 --> 01:20:39.810
that's always there. So we have to be aware of

01:20:39.810 --> 01:20:46.350
that. And hopefully the coaching staff has come

01:20:46.350 --> 01:20:50.630
up with some ways to combat that. because we've

01:20:50.630 --> 01:20:53.449
seen it time and time again be a real thorn in

01:20:53.449 --> 01:20:56.050
our side. What's your score prediction then?

01:20:58.649 --> 01:21:03.090
Are we home? No, it's at Minnesota. It's at Minnesota.

01:21:04.109 --> 01:21:14.050
I'm going to say we win 3 -2. Nice. Alex? I guess

01:21:14.050 --> 01:21:15.590
I got to switch it up. I was going to say 3 -2.

01:21:16.340 --> 01:21:19.039
No, you can keep the same. I think, you know

01:21:19.039 --> 01:21:23.279
what? I'll go 3 -1, Saunders. Oh, yeah, there

01:21:23.279 --> 01:21:26.020
we go. What's leading you to that? I feel like

01:21:26.020 --> 01:21:28.960
we're going to learn from our mistakes. We're

01:21:28.960 --> 01:21:31.479
not going to give up a PK. They're going to score

01:21:31.479 --> 01:21:34.560
off a set piece. We're not going to get a red

01:21:34.560 --> 01:21:39.119
card. Rothrock will get a goal, and then he's

01:21:39.119 --> 01:21:42.640
going to smack someone with his club. And the

01:21:42.640 --> 01:21:48.170
Moose will get a brace. Or Ozaze. Ozaze will

01:21:48.170 --> 01:21:51.609
score. Depends what the minutes look like. But

01:21:51.609 --> 01:21:56.090
I think we'll learn from our mistakes. And I

01:21:56.090 --> 01:21:58.770
say if Minnesota doesn't want the ball, you just

01:21:58.770 --> 01:22:02.590
give them the ball. And we'll play bunkered.

01:22:03.069 --> 01:22:07.109
We've done it before. We should do the PSG kickoff

01:22:07.109 --> 01:22:11.770
where we just punt it to them. Yeah, just play

01:22:11.770 --> 01:22:14.729
it. Here, here you go. Take it. All right, Cameron,

01:22:14.829 --> 01:22:18.340
make the call. Tell them. I got an idea. And,

01:22:18.359 --> 01:22:21.359
I mean, they're playing at home. The onus is

01:22:21.359 --> 01:22:23.899
on them to entertain the home crowd, right? And

01:22:23.899 --> 01:22:27.220
they just lost to Colorado at home. Yeah, we're

01:22:27.220 --> 01:22:29.560
not obligated. The pressure's on them to take

01:22:29.560 --> 01:22:32.560
the ball and dominate the game, right? They're

01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:34.319
supposed to be the ones putting on a show for

01:22:34.319 --> 01:22:35.880
their fans. They're the ones in third. It's not

01:22:35.880 --> 01:22:38.460
our responsibility. Exactly. We're in fourth,

01:22:38.520 --> 01:22:40.579
so we're under them. They already beat us, right?

01:22:40.939 --> 01:22:42.960
Yeah, they beat us. All the pressure's on them.

01:22:43.360 --> 01:22:46.560
Yeah, I think the one -way pressure is on us

01:22:46.560 --> 01:22:48.340
because usually a point is okay on the road,

01:22:48.479 --> 01:22:50.460
but with the standings the way they are, I think

01:22:50.460 --> 01:22:52.000
we've got to go in and get these three points

01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:53.840
with the way we've been playing. I'll take a

01:22:53.840 --> 01:22:55.600
draw. You've got to beat the teams ahead of you.

01:22:57.579 --> 01:23:00.760
I mean, I'll take a point. It's true. No, it's

01:23:00.760 --> 01:23:06.119
true. But I also think that, I mean, if I had

01:23:06.119 --> 01:23:08.539
to choose right now which competition to focus

01:23:08.539 --> 01:23:12.020
on, obviously League's Cup. With MLS, like, look.

01:23:13.469 --> 01:23:17.989
everybody makes the playoffs knock on wood we're

01:23:17.989 --> 01:23:20.029
gonna make the playoffs right it would be way

01:23:20.029 --> 01:23:23.050
more advantageous to get the second or third

01:23:23.050 --> 01:23:28.810
spot but like winning leagues cup even winning

01:23:28.810 --> 01:23:32.130
the third place game that gets us back into the

01:23:32.130 --> 01:23:34.350
competition that we really want to be in and

01:23:34.350 --> 01:23:37.409
i i know we're gonna make the playoffs in mls

01:23:37.409 --> 01:23:42.140
so I, I'm like, I'm so, I'm so, I'm very, I'm

01:23:42.140 --> 01:23:44.579
much more concerned about Pueblo than I am Minnesota.

01:23:45.000 --> 01:23:48.899
Yeah. I'm looking, I'm looking forward to Wednesday's

01:23:48.899 --> 01:23:51.739
game more than I am Saturday's. I really want

01:23:51.739 --> 01:23:54.300
them to win league's cup. Like, and then like

01:23:54.300 --> 01:23:57.439
we'll complete North American football. Yeah.

01:23:57.500 --> 01:23:59.899
I mean, everything like that we could win, we

01:23:59.899 --> 01:24:03.140
won. But really I just want top three. Give me,

01:24:03.140 --> 01:24:05.239
give me that champions league spot. That's what

01:24:05.239 --> 01:24:08.199
I'm worried about. Yeah. I mean, you just have

01:24:08.199 --> 01:24:11.560
to win two games and you get top three. Yep.

01:24:11.960 --> 01:24:15.800
Yep. So let's keep it going there. We may be

01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:17.779
back before then since we usually record on Sundays.

01:24:17.840 --> 01:24:20.500
We'll see how everyone's schedule is. But I will

01:24:20.500 --> 01:24:24.439
say two to one Seattle and Minnesota. I'll give

01:24:24.439 --> 01:24:28.020
us the win too. I hope that happens. And just

01:24:28.020 --> 01:24:30.060
want to say to everyone before we leave, happy

01:24:30.060 --> 01:24:34.739
Felix Day. Yes. Today is the anniversary of Felix

01:24:34.739 --> 01:24:39.020
Hernandez pitching a perfect game. Let's see,

01:24:39.039 --> 01:24:42.500
how many years ago was it? 13. 13, yeah. So 13

01:24:42.500 --> 01:24:44.819
years ago tonight, I thought I was going to a

01:24:44.819 --> 01:24:47.619
Mariners game, and I didn't because it was a

01:24:47.619 --> 01:24:50.039
day game, and so I had tickets and ended up missing

01:24:50.039 --> 01:24:52.380
out on the Felix Hernandez perfect game. You

01:24:52.380 --> 01:24:55.199
were at the dentist, no? Yeah, I was at the dentist.

01:24:55.220 --> 01:24:59.260
That's okay. That's important. I was like chromosomes

01:24:59.260 --> 01:25:05.380
or cells probably. You're older than that, thankfully.

01:25:05.659 --> 01:25:07.640
I looked at the box score and I was like, man,

01:25:07.680 --> 01:25:10.140
that is such a classic Mariners -Felix game.

01:25:10.220 --> 01:25:15.340
We had one run on five hits. I was like, man,

01:25:15.420 --> 01:25:18.300
that's prime Felix Hernandez Mariners baseball.

01:25:20.220 --> 01:25:23.399
So happy Felix Day to all who celebrate. You

01:25:23.399 --> 01:25:27.180
can catch Cedar and Alex on the Discord. And

01:25:27.180 --> 01:25:29.680
Alex, you're also on Instagram, yes? Yeah, but

01:25:29.680 --> 01:25:31.739
I'm... You guys can catch me on the Discord.

01:25:32.340 --> 01:25:35.359
Oh, not promoting it anymore. All right. You

01:25:35.359 --> 01:25:38.119
can find me at LegalMindedPunk on all social

01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:42.859
medias that I'm active on. And yeah, take it

01:25:42.859 --> 01:25:56.050
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01:26:34.890 --> 01:26:39.300
MLS team of all time? Seattle Sounders are both

01:26:39.300 --> 01:26:41.920
unequivocally and intuitively the best MLS team

01:26:41.920 --> 01:26:42.680
of all time.