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

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can't say it's cheating. And welcome to Sounders

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Scuttlebutt. I am your co -host for this evening.

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If you're listening in the evening, that's when

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we are recording is the evening. Cameron Collins

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and I am here with Nicholas Biela. Hello, hello.

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Yeah, coming from an abandoned soccer match.

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Not something you see very often. No, no. That

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was a weird, scary moment for the rain game tonight

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against Racing Louisville. Yeah, let's talk about

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it. Let's talk about it. But first, I think you

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deserve a beer. You know, I do. It's a day. Let

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me do that. Nice. Nice. How about you? What are

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you drinking? Oh, I'm just drinking root beer.

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Nothing fancy, and it's already open, and I only

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have one can, so no fancy sounds from me today.

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I guess I could pretend I'm drinking the whiskey

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again. Ooh, that was nice. That was cartoonish.

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What are you wearing? What is that jersey? Oh,

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it's a team from, I believe it's from Chile,

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marking the 50th anniversary of the time they

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went to Cuba and played a game. So it's the Cuban

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flag, and then it's got a check. Okay, that looks

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like something you'd see at a random merch stand

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on the streets of... of some small village just

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got an email saying 109 washington ohio state

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tickets in tonight i'm not paying 109. the huskies

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get their ass beat by ohio state you might because

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you prefer ohio state no i do not prefer ohio

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state ohio state are my my second favorite team

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don't get me wrong um i'm i married into huskies

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Matter of fact, by the time some people are listening

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to this episode, I will have been married 10

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years. Wow. My anniversary is coming up this

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week. Well, my parents just had their 49 -year

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anniversary. Nice. My parents hit 50 this spring.

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That's awesome. Very cool. I'm at zero. So if

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anyone would like to get married, you know where

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to find me. We can make it happen. Start the

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clock. Yeah. Start the clock. I mean, I figure

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I've got at least – I could make it to – like

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if I got married tomorrow, I could probably make

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it to 40 anniversaries. Maybe. Yeah, I think

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so. We can work on it. So, yeah, rain match.

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But let's start there because it's a pretty unique

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situation, I think. Yeah, just a really random,

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random thing. I mean, unfortunately, like the

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rain, we're getting housed pretty good in the

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first half. Racing Louisville were 10 shots to

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Seattle's three. But right around stoppage time

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of the first half, the Racing Louisville center

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mid, Savannah DeMello, goes down. And no one

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saw contact. No one saw injury from us around

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us in the stands. And one of my friends who...

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uh, normally goes to the games, but we're, we're

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watching from TV. Like we didn't see anything

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happen. Um, seizure seizure. Is that, is that

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where, where it came out? Cause I know she, I

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do know that she, um, had something similar happen,

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uh, previously and that she has Graves disease.

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Last time this happened, it found out. Um, but

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yeah, it just seems like, something went really

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really wrong the ambulance is there she was down

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on the field for probably about 15 minutes jeez

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you know 15 minutes before they they carted her

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away so and she's she's up and doing well so

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that's good looks like everything worked out

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but i think it probably was the right thing to

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stop the match is bethany bolster playing for

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them She was not playing today. I don't remember

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seeing her in the lineup. It looks like she was

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in town, though, because I'm now seeing a picture

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of her with Sofia Huerta. So she's still on the

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team. I remember when they traded her to there.

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She was like, I don't know. What am I going to

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do in Louisville? That's crazy. Yeah. So what

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was the score at the time that the match was

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suspended? It was zeros. Okay. So it sounds like

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they will. um at a later date they were scheduled

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at a later date uh just the second half of the

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match so it'll only be played i suppose if it's

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needed um maybe we'll see i mean yeah so balser

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was in the 18 for racing louisville um interestingly

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enough did you know that their coach is beverly

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yanas i don't know who that is former rain player

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Was it Hope Solo days or after? Right around

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later than that, I think. Yeah, see, I was an

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early Rain fan, and then I didn't pay attention

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for a little bit. And then once I moved from

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Tacoma back to Seattle, I started actually watching

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again. Okay. But yeah, she was with the Rain

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from 2014 to 2019. So, okay. Yeah. It was right

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in that time. Well, that was still hopes. That

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was the end of hopes. Yeah. Cause that was, yeah,

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but yeah, I don't know her. That's cool. Wow.

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This is interesting that they, Twitter's just

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posting false information on still on, on. The

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political assassination, if you want to call

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it that this past weekend, we won't talk about

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it. Obviously it's outside the scope of this

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or not this weekend, but whenever it was this

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week outside the scope of this podcast, but I'm

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not on Twitter. As we know anyone who listened

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to the last episode, the ultras, they talked

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about how I'm still suspended for getting hacked,

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which seems like a stupid reason not to be able

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to use my account. And I even wrote them and

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sent them all my information, but. Yeah, so how

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are the Reign doing lately? I mean, I feel like

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early on they looked good, but they just couldn't

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really get it together. Well, they're still young.

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I mean, they're still trying to figure it out.

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I think trading away Balser and making some moves

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to try and get themselves back to where they

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were, but it's tough to do when you lose a legend.

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But they're currently in mid -table. They're

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7th out of 14. So right on the playoff line,

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ironically enough, with Racing Louisville. Louisville's

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an eighth one point behind them. So today was

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an important match. But Racing Louisville was

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really looking good. Seven wins, seven draws,

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and six losses. Yeah, I mean, early on, I went

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to all those games with you. And then just as

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the summer has gone on, there's been too much

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going on. I haven't been able to watch them as

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much as I would like. And I follow their scores,

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but it's one thing to see the score, and it's

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another thing to realize where they are in the

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standings. I feel like, despite the fact they're

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higher in the standings, they do feel like they're

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having a similar season to the Sounders pre -Club

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World Cup. That's not entirely inaccurate. Yeah,

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I would say it's not entirely inaccurate. Talent,

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you're just not seeing all the wins that you'd

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hope to get. Yeah, I'm trying to think. Oh, yeah,

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yeah, there's other. So today Salt Lake made

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a statement. This was 2 p .m. They removed the

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Make America Great Again hat from a fan, and

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they have apologized to the fan and invited him

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and his family back to attend Real Salt Lake

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matches in the future. Of course, this is a fan

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who... Fan, I don't even know if that's the exact...

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This is someone who was at the match who added

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professors to the Charlie Kirk database that

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needed to be killed and tweeted that he was going

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to kill them, has also used the N -word in tweets.

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Multiple times, I'm seeing a ton of them here.

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So maybe don't just put out statements before

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realizing who you're talking about. Yeah, calling

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fans, calling players biracial slurs. I guess

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I'm not surprised given RSL's history. And the

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fact that they played America first field. You've

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known multiple people that have come from that

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organization and all of them have nothing but

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the greatest things to say about that organization.

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It's too bad. Salt Lake has apparently become

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one of the coolest cities in America, despite

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everything that you would think goes on there.

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I think it has created this huge undercurrent

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of just awesome underground. like music and art

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and culture that some cities don't have. And

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so it's, it's too bad. Yeah. I just feel bad

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for Yedlin. Who's there. Is that where he is

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now? Yeah. I forgot where he went, but yeah.

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So maybe this is like, this is the same guy who

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tweeted. Fuck you. Racial slur and word. Send

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every last foreign player home. Yeah. That's

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a direct tweet from this fan. That's one of the

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ones I was referencing. It's pretty bad. Maybe

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we don't. I don't really want to give more. You

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know what? Here's the thing. I will say this.

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This is what we're up against. This is why the

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Sounders. I have a fan base who has always Seattle,

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anti -fascist, anti -racist, always Seattle.

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This is why you have a fan base whose TIFO yesterday

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at the game was a TIFO in Spanish using butterflies

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in support and solidarity of our immigrant community.

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We fight our fight to make sure that it's clear

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from the get -go that racism, intolerance is

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not going to be acceptable here. And I'm very

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proud of that. And the Sounders are very supportive

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of that as well, which is great. I don't think

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we'd be supporting the team otherwise. It would

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be... It would be heartbreaking for me to have

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something like this happen from the club. Yeah.

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I mean, and it's not to say they've never made

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missteps, but it's been a while since they've

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had one that egregious. Okay. So here is the

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level of missteps that we have regarding something

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like that. Last year. the club uses latinx instead

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of latino or latina uh for their their pronouns

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in the um not the pronouns but the um the description

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yeah which description which is unfair to them

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because that is a on it's a widely used but also

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within uh people from the that culture those

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cultures as well so it's it's not a It's a, it's

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much different than what's happened. But part

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of that, the club listens, the club brings together

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a, a group to have open discussions about how

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they can be better aware and, and, and do things

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better. And that led to things like the Vamo

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Sounders club. And that leads to things like

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the, these, these, these true. measurable impacts

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that don't feel like the equivalent of, Oh, it's

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it's pride months. So I guess we'll put the rainbow,

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the rainbow banner for a month and then take

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it down for the another 11 months. You know,

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it doesn't feel token. It feels legit. Cancel

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it because it's raining like they do in Dallas.

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Yeah. So, so it's really, I'm really proud of

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the club always trying to evolve and always trying

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to learn. But it's just such a bummer when this

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happens around the league because, believe it

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or not, I actually really like the league. I

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want the league to be really good. And here's

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a great example of that. This weekend, Friday

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and Saturday, I spent a good amount of time with

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a whole bunch of LA Galaxy supporters who are

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up and down. You were on their podcast, in fact,

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last week. Yeah. So some of them, Edgar reached

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out to me knowing that his co -host Eddie was

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coming up. And I'm like, yeah, send them my way.

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Give them my contact information. I'll show them

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around the city. We'll have some fun times. Spent

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all afternoon on Friday doing some touristy stuff

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and checking out some of the local haunts. We

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met up pregame on Saturday. had a really good

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um get together at flat stick pub we had good

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conversations with fellow sounders fans and just

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all of us having a great time talking soccer

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and just just having a really fun time game if

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you know the game was what it was we'll talk

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about the game in a bit but um these are the

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things that make this soccer community is so

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great. And I want to thank all of the scuttlebutt

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listeners that were, were there either at flat

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stick or, or, you know, who had interactions

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with, with them before, after the game. And,

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and, you know, I thought, I thought we went and

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we represented really well. And thank you very

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much for Eddie and Tony and the group to, for

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coming on up and, and coming out to, to see our

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city. Yeah. Good times. I wish I had been feeling

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better so I could have partaken in the festivities.

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I did watch the game. I probably should have

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just stayed home in the end. Have you ever read

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the book Among the Thugs by Bill Buford? I have

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not. Sorry, you caught me just as I was trying

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to get another sip of a drink. um i have not

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why don't you summarize for us so uh it's a book

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that i read in high school and college and then

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i'm currently listening to it um and it was uh

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basically bill buford was living in england and

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decided he wanted to write about um what it was

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like why was there fan culture and lad culture

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leading to violence in england you know he's

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from the united states to this day for the most

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part, when you go to a game, you have your seat,

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right. And you're going to go sit in your seat.

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And that's, that's how it goes. Like, uh, that

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wasn't, I mean, even when I lived in Paris, that

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was not the case in Paris. It wasn't in, uh,

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in England and London when I went, but, um, in

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Paris, you just kind of sat near your seat. You

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got shoved down a lot. We had, we had to run

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from the police, um, because they were, uh, throwing

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tear gas, uh, even though we didn't do anything,

00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:42.539
we were just walking. Um, so I think the, the,

00:17:42.970 --> 00:17:45.950
crackdown on fan culture happened a lot longer

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ago i mean later there i should say but bill

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buford followed him around and he follows around

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uh originally the manchester united fans and

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the english national team fans and uh then a

00:17:57.130 --> 00:17:58.809
little bit of west ham and then just goes to

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a bunch of other clubs and talks to people and

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ends up spending time with the national front

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and and just like trying to figure out why is

00:18:08.809 --> 00:18:12.809
this culture so dedicated to violence And I'm

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right at the end now, and it's culminating in

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the 1990 World Cup and a clash that occurred

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there. But he didn't go to, but was listening

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to on the radio in the FA Cup semifinal in 89

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when the Hillsborough disaster happened. And

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I mean, I've read the book twice. I know all

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about the Hillsborough disaster anyway. There's

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a great documentary about that as well. Which

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they can't show in England because they don't

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have the same First Amendment there. So you get

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sued if you give a lot of the information in

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there. Although accurate, they will not let you

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do because the government will sue you for going

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after the police. The way he writes... uh actually

00:19:07.240 --> 00:19:10.920
real quick it wasn't initially allowed it has

00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:15.079
subsequently been uh been quite some time it

00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:17.599
was i mean correct it was for a few years for

00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:22.839
for a few years yeah but sorry yeah so his description

00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:26.940
of what happens there is so brutal and so heart

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-wrenching and beautiful uh in the in the prose

00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:34.960
he's using not in what's happening and it's just

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It's this really fascinating look at this culture

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that I think a lot of United States soccer supporters

00:19:42.490 --> 00:19:49.690
lionize and make seem like it's super cool. And

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I don't think it is. And that's not saying I

00:19:53.029 --> 00:19:54.430
don't like supporter culture, but the violent

00:19:54.430 --> 00:19:56.490
aspects of it. And I think for the most part,

00:19:56.589 --> 00:20:00.630
Sounders fans don't fall into this. So I'm thankful

00:20:00.630 --> 00:20:03.819
that we have a club like that. That's not to

00:20:03.819 --> 00:20:05.660
say there aren't fans who don't try to start

00:20:05.660 --> 00:20:07.779
fights. There aren't fans. I mean, even something

00:20:07.779 --> 00:20:13.779
like... Individuals can be, on an individual

00:20:13.779 --> 00:20:16.079
basis, can be assholes. Yeah, yeah. And groups.

00:20:16.680 --> 00:20:19.279
And there's still things I don't like. I mean,

00:20:19.299 --> 00:20:21.160
I'm not in charge, so I'm never going to change

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it. But like the no one likes us, we don't care

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chant that came from Millwall. Millwall fans

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chanted that during the moment of silence for

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people who died in the Hillsborough disaster.

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So to me, that's something that no one should

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ever be saying in the stadiums. Like, that's

00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:37.859
fucked up. But I'm not in charge. I don't make

00:20:37.859 --> 00:20:39.839
chants. We do different stuff in Guerrilla FC.

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So there's stuff like that that I think is kind

00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:44.960
of silly. And I hate the mockney stuff because

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it kind of makes us a laughingstock around the

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world with other fans, cultures in the United

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States. I'm not saying us as fans. I'm saying

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across the United States, the mockney stuff that

00:20:56.119 --> 00:20:59.880
fans do. Can you give me an example? Who are

00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:04.240
ya? Who are ya? Why are we talking in a mock

00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:08.220
Cockney accent? We're Americans. Stuff like that.

00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:11.859
But it is very interesting. Would you prefer,

00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:16.339
who are you? Even though that's also British,

00:21:16.420 --> 00:21:18.140
yes. Who the fuck are you? Yeah, I know. I know.

00:21:18.220 --> 00:21:21.680
But we claimed it with CSI. So that's now our

00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:26.190
song. is that the same song or did they ever

00:21:26.190 --> 00:21:28.869
arrive i think they're definitely no because

00:21:28.869 --> 00:21:31.769
that's won't get fooled again they use multiple

00:21:31.769 --> 00:21:37.829
they use the who on multiple um csi shows but

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now with that all in mind yeah i mean well that's

00:21:41.369 --> 00:21:45.009
the thing supporter culture is i i love supporter

00:21:45.009 --> 00:21:48.990
culture i love the things i love about it are

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Things like this weekend, getting to hang out

00:21:51.680 --> 00:21:54.180
with other people who love soccer, who are passionate

00:21:54.180 --> 00:21:56.839
as us, who also run podcasts, who are also very

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involved. And Jerry ended up being in our group

00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:03.180
as well. Jerry, one of our colleagues on the

00:22:03.180 --> 00:22:05.319
Alliance Council, also a very, very passionate

00:22:05.319 --> 00:22:10.839
soccer fan. And so we all just, it was just great.

00:22:11.019 --> 00:22:14.460
It's like going traveling for a concert and you're

00:22:14.460 --> 00:22:17.539
all fans of the same band. you know it's just

00:22:17.539 --> 00:22:19.819
in this particular case we're all fans of the

00:22:19.819 --> 00:22:23.700
same sport but then we maybe have different you

00:22:23.700 --> 00:22:25.920
know oh i like this album more than that album

00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:29.359
i guess i mean it's funny i would generally not

00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:32.359
uh you know there's other mls teams i do not

00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:34.160
like and i would not associate with their fans

00:22:34.160 --> 00:22:37.579
in general but like Uh, I mean, I wouldn't not,

00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:38.759
but you know what I mean? Like if there's a whole

00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:40.019
group of them, I wouldn't go up and be like,

00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:42.599
Hey, what's up guys. But if I'm somewhere outside

00:22:42.599 --> 00:22:45.299
of Seattle and I see another MLS fan, I will

00:22:45.299 --> 00:22:47.319
always, it's, it's like if I see someone wearing

00:22:47.319 --> 00:22:49.680
like my college sweatshirt, because there's not

00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:51.259
a lot of people around here that went to San

00:22:51.259 --> 00:22:53.000
Francisco. If I'm in Bay area, that's a different

00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:55.279
story. But you know, it's, it's suddenly you

00:22:55.279 --> 00:22:56.940
see MLS fans. You're like, Oh, what's up? What's

00:22:56.940 --> 00:22:59.859
up fellas. Yeah. And especially if neither of

00:22:59.859 --> 00:23:03.079
you are in the city of the teams that are being

00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:06.900
repped. If we're in Denver and you see someone

00:23:06.900 --> 00:23:11.039
wearing a LAFC shirt, you know, I'm just throwing

00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:12.799
a name out there. In Vegas, I often run into

00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:14.619
other MLS fans and I'm always talking to them.

00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:16.720
Like, yeah, it's been a while, but punk rock

00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:18.160
bowling, especially there would always be some

00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:20.319
cool people there from the support other teams.

00:23:20.380 --> 00:23:22.039
And that's the other thing. There's some great

00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:25.660
supporter groups around this league, you know,

00:23:25.680 --> 00:23:28.359
including, and I hate to say this, including

00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:31.819
Timbers Army. I don't like a lot of the stuff

00:23:31.819 --> 00:23:34.109
that. I don't like some of the people that run

00:23:34.109 --> 00:23:36.029
it. I don't like a lot of stuff they do, but

00:23:36.029 --> 00:23:38.569
I also really like some of the people that are

00:23:38.569 --> 00:23:41.109
run some parts of it. You know what I mean? Like

00:23:41.109 --> 00:23:42.769
that just because they're an opposing team doesn't

00:23:42.769 --> 00:23:45.349
mean they're a bad person. Yeah. I mean, Tony

00:23:45.349 --> 00:23:49.509
from LA galaxy, he designs these really awesome

00:23:49.509 --> 00:23:53.789
enamel pins and his cousin makes them up there.

00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:57.380
uh simpsons related and each one in the series

00:23:57.380 --> 00:23:59.940
has like a different simpsons character holding

00:23:59.940 --> 00:24:02.200
a different one of the trophies they've won in

00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:05.339
their history and it they looked really great

00:24:05.339 --> 00:24:08.200
you know and and and i know timber's army do

00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:10.960
a really good merchandise line of of stuff for

00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:14.400
them um we all have things that we do really

00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:20.380
well and and i i will always respect that kind

00:24:20.380 --> 00:24:24.799
of stuff but i have no respect for things like

00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:29.119
what went down in rsl yesterday so um i have

00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:34.799
no respect for miami fans coming to start a fight

00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:38.839
i have no respect for and i'm gonna i'm gonna

00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:41.299
believe that we talked about the fights outside

00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:43.599
we didn't talk about the fact that there were

00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:45.680
miami fans in the stadium trying to start fights

00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:49.220
that were stopped Now, I didn't see that report,

00:24:49.380 --> 00:24:52.279
but I do know that we generally do not have problems

00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:55.220
with fighting in Seattle. No, but ECS security

00:24:55.220 --> 00:24:58.440
stopped several fights back behind you during

00:24:58.440 --> 00:25:02.079
that match. Well, I know we are always not allowing

00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:07.319
opposing colors. Absolutely. You know, it's okay.

00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:11.559
Hey, if you're wanting to take in a game in the

00:25:11.559 --> 00:25:14.440
supporters section and you're not a Sounders

00:25:14.440 --> 00:25:17.200
fan. You're just not allowed to wear colors of

00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:18.839
the other teams. You're not allowed to openly

00:25:18.839 --> 00:25:24.880
support the other team in our section. You just

00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:28.140
don't do that. I wouldn't go into another supporter

00:25:28.140 --> 00:25:31.240
section wearing Sounders colors. That's not how

00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:32.539
that works. I mean, even when I used to go up

00:25:32.539 --> 00:25:34.680
and go to Raiders games when I lived in the Bay

00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:37.880
Area against the Seahawks, I wasn't wearing Seahawks

00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:39.920
clothes in that stadium because that entire stadium

00:25:39.920 --> 00:25:42.079
was like a supporter section. You were going

00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:44.849
to get your ass beat. And especially in certain

00:25:44.849 --> 00:25:47.269
eras of that, of those, of those. So they knew,

00:25:47.410 --> 00:25:49.630
they knew I was in my section that I was a Seahawks

00:25:49.630 --> 00:25:51.890
fan and I was probably harder on the Seahawks

00:25:51.890 --> 00:25:53.529
than they were because I'm a Seattle sports fan.

00:25:54.130 --> 00:25:58.289
So, but yeah, I mean, totally. So be smart, don't

00:25:58.289 --> 00:26:00.210
be stupid and every, everything should work out.

00:26:01.490 --> 00:26:05.750
I will say I had way more to, like, I did not

00:26:05.750 --> 00:26:10.970
bring Roma to this game. Uh, and the, I, I had

00:26:10.970 --> 00:26:13.250
way more to drink than I normally do. So I was,

00:26:13.269 --> 00:26:16.250
I was having a rough go of it at public this

00:26:16.250 --> 00:26:19.390
morning. Oh, how early was your game? Eight o

00:26:19.390 --> 00:26:24.609
'clock. Yeah. And I struggled to get to my 1250.

00:26:24.890 --> 00:26:27.549
I guess we didn't start to one 10, but 1250 is

00:26:27.549 --> 00:26:30.970
time. Yeah. Yeah. It was a little rough, a little

00:26:30.970 --> 00:26:34.009
rough, but, uh, we won the game. I was in goal

00:26:34.009 --> 00:26:38.759
one, nothing. And then we lost. the game where

00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:42.140
i was in the field won nothing so i lost both

00:26:42.140 --> 00:26:44.920
my games um first game i was forward second game

00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:46.720
i moved back to defender played center back and

00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:50.019
right back first game was not fun um there's

00:26:50.019 --> 00:26:51.740
someone who was on our opposing team that is

00:26:51.740 --> 00:26:55.220
too good for uh okay and it was the least fun

00:26:55.220 --> 00:26:57.940
game that i've ever played in public like if

00:26:57.940 --> 00:26:59.599
every game was like that i wouldn't come back

00:26:59.599 --> 00:27:01.539
thankfully every game is not like that in fact

00:27:01.539 --> 00:27:04.400
the one after it was more fun interesting um

00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:07.640
but the person is too isn't doesn't have the

00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.039
um what do you call it the stamina to be able

00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:14.779
to play up in in premiere so or kind of in the

00:27:14.779 --> 00:27:16.740
middle there's that that little weird middle

00:27:16.740 --> 00:27:19.619
ground you know where it's like okay maybe you're

00:27:19.619 --> 00:27:22.000
not allowed to play in an attacking phase well

00:27:22.000 --> 00:27:23.680
that's the problem he played defense instead

00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:25.740
of attacking phase and when he plays when he's

00:27:25.740 --> 00:27:27.380
an attacker and i used to play defense i could

00:27:27.380 --> 00:27:29.779
shut him down every time but now that he's in

00:27:29.779 --> 00:27:32.140
defense we could not get the ball past him we

00:27:32.140 --> 00:27:34.500
couldn't do anything it was one of the most frustrating

00:27:34.500 --> 00:27:37.299
games i've ever played like He would just steal

00:27:37.299 --> 00:27:39.700
the ball and spin around and go like doing spin

00:27:39.700 --> 00:27:42.019
moves and kickbacks and all these other things.

00:27:42.099 --> 00:27:45.740
Like it was, it was very frustrating. Okay. But

00:27:45.740 --> 00:27:48.319
you know, it's, that's the nice thing about the

00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:51.359
league is you kind of figure out and people can

00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:53.000
talk to, you know, if someone's playing too well,

00:27:53.019 --> 00:27:56.000
it's like, okay, tamp it down a little bit because

00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:57.880
there's people who are first timers and there

00:27:57.880 --> 00:27:59.400
was several first timers out there today, but

00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:00.859
a great time, which is the beauty of public.

00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:05.230
Yeah. I got to say, I'm very pleased with the

00:28:05.230 --> 00:28:07.569
way our jerseys came out. That's for sure. Y

00:28:07.569 --> 00:28:10.369
'all were the morning games. So I did not see

00:28:10.369 --> 00:28:11.950
them. They were, and I did not see anyone wearing

00:28:11.950 --> 00:28:14.509
them once I got there, but I was happy with mine

00:28:14.509 --> 00:28:17.109
too. Oh, you got it behind you. Yeah. Yeah, I

00:28:17.109 --> 00:28:20.349
do. We, we just have that right there. It's perfect

00:28:20.349 --> 00:28:25.049
for an audio medium podcast. Oh yeah. So we are

00:28:25.049 --> 00:28:29.230
fallout themed and we are the wasteland wanderers.

00:28:29.230 --> 00:28:33.289
I designed that. I designed the kit. to look

00:28:33.289 --> 00:28:38.450
like a Vault -Tec suit. With a beer. Yeah, yeah.

00:28:38.609 --> 00:28:41.990
Vault 111. Is everyone 111 or does people get

00:28:41.990 --> 00:28:50.390
juice? No, I went 111. I also have a Fallout

00:28:50.390 --> 00:28:53.470
Vault suit track suit that I bought for cheap

00:28:53.470 --> 00:28:55.430
on Amazon. So that's like my warm -up stuff.

00:28:56.410 --> 00:28:59.690
And I got a fun beanie that I wear for the games.

00:29:00.430 --> 00:29:03.170
also got um let me see if i can yeah you got

00:29:03.170 --> 00:29:06.369
yours no but what i do have do you see back there

00:29:06.369 --> 00:29:12.670
next to my mic uh that is an entire um oh i see

00:29:12.670 --> 00:29:15.549
it yeah the power power armor helmet t60 helmet

00:29:15.549 --> 00:29:18.349
and i also have the the gun that comes with it

00:29:18.349 --> 00:29:21.569
next to it so very nice maybe you need to not

00:29:21.569 --> 00:29:25.289
play in it but wear it to one of the well so

00:29:25.289 --> 00:29:28.269
i bought a whole bunch of nuka cola caps nice

00:29:29.289 --> 00:29:32.490
and a cap 10 as well so basically what i'm doing

00:29:32.490 --> 00:29:36.309
is as a way to celebrate the team is at the end

00:29:36.309 --> 00:29:39.650
of each game almost like pride stickers or spirit

00:29:39.650 --> 00:29:43.950
stickers every goal or assist that someone gets

00:29:43.950 --> 00:29:46.470
they get a cap and then i also give them out

00:29:46.470 --> 00:29:49.650
for you know good play that that players have

00:29:49.650 --> 00:29:52.269
had so trying to make sure that by the end of

00:29:52.269 --> 00:29:54.210
the year every everyone on the team has a few

00:29:54.210 --> 00:29:58.160
few caps and Just another way to make the league

00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:00.859
and to make the team more fun. So let me ask

00:30:00.859 --> 00:30:08.480
you something. Yeah. Vault 111 is from the year

00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:14.480
2287. Okay. So after this last Sounders match,

00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:18.779
this looked like an unimpressive team because

00:30:18.779 --> 00:30:22.059
they did not have Pedro, who doesn't belong in

00:30:22.059 --> 00:30:25.029
the top. four or five in the West and is going

00:30:25.029 --> 00:30:27.250
to get an early exit from the playoffs. Since

00:30:27.250 --> 00:30:30.509
you're from the future, uh, is it just because

00:30:30.509 --> 00:30:32.250
we were tired or we came in thinking we were

00:30:32.250 --> 00:30:34.009
better than LA galaxy, the worst team in the

00:30:34.009 --> 00:30:35.170
league, you know, where we played down their

00:30:35.170 --> 00:30:38.329
level or, uh, is, is this, uh, do we turn it

00:30:38.329 --> 00:30:42.630
around and win the MLS cup? Well, you know what?

00:30:42.910 --> 00:30:45.329
I'm going to tell you exactly about that. And

00:30:45.329 --> 00:30:47.130
you know, when I'm going to tell you that after

00:30:47.130 --> 00:30:49.190
a break, right after these breaks, right after

00:30:49.190 --> 00:31:09.779
this message, we'll be back. Hey, everybody.

00:31:09.859 --> 00:31:12.279
This is one of your hosts, Cameron Collins. Now,

00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:14.779
I know we said this time's time for a break.

00:31:14.920 --> 00:31:17.900
But really, it's a time for me to talk to you

00:31:17.900 --> 00:31:20.140
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00:31:20.140 --> 00:31:23.079
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-M. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

00:32:48.970 --> 00:32:52.170
And we're back. Shout out to your Seattle Seahawks

00:32:52.170 --> 00:32:54.230
on becoming the first team to beat Aaron Rodgers

00:32:54.230 --> 00:32:57.029
playing for both the Packers, the Jets and the

00:32:57.029 --> 00:32:58.609
Steelers. I mean, all three teams he's played

00:32:58.609 --> 00:33:01.650
for as they won today and the Mariners for winning

00:33:01.650 --> 00:33:03.950
their ninth in a row now alone in first place.

00:33:04.029 --> 00:33:07.609
What is happening right now in Seattle? The Mariners

00:33:07.609 --> 00:33:11.910
got good and that's why the Sounders did not

00:33:11.910 --> 00:33:13.750
win the game. We can't have both things good

00:33:13.750 --> 00:33:17.069
at the same time. I am not betting on the Mariners.

00:33:17.710 --> 00:33:19.789
I'm not betting on the Mariners. Just that simple.

00:33:20.589 --> 00:33:24.589
12 games left. When they eventually win it all,

00:33:24.750 --> 00:33:27.150
then I will gladly say congratulations. I was

00:33:27.150 --> 00:33:30.609
wrong. Until they do that, I am not ever going

00:33:30.609 --> 00:33:33.509
to get my hopes up. Yep. That makes sense to

00:33:33.509 --> 00:33:37.650
me. I mean, Blue Jays, who'd you root for growing

00:33:37.650 --> 00:33:41.910
up? Honestly, it was a wide variety of teams.

00:33:42.230 --> 00:33:47.700
The late 80s, it was the New York Mets. I was,

00:33:47.700 --> 00:33:51.920
that 86 team was kind of the first baseball team

00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:53.660
that I ever followed. So the Keith Hernandez,

00:33:54.200 --> 00:34:00.799
Dwight Gooden, Mookie Wilson. Davey. Hernandez

00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:04.519
was the coach, I believe. Davey Jones. Davey,

00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:08.099
what was his last name? The manager's died this

00:34:08.099 --> 00:34:14.579
week. Yeah. Dave Hernandez, right? No. D -A -V

00:34:14.579 --> 00:34:24.000
-Y. D -A -V -Y. Yeah. Thank you. Yes. And I think

00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:27.400
he was a player manager too. I miss player managers,

00:34:27.619 --> 00:34:30.559
including in soccer. Wouldn't it be great to

00:34:30.559 --> 00:34:33.480
see Schmetzer out there playing right now? Number

00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:36.739
25 running around, which another question real

00:34:36.739 --> 00:34:39.559
quick for you before we get into the game. Christian

00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:41.119
Roldan got called up at the U .S. National Team.

00:34:41.219 --> 00:34:43.579
War, number 24. I've not seen any interviews

00:34:43.579 --> 00:34:45.699
about it with him. Do you think he chose that

00:34:45.699 --> 00:34:48.699
because of Griffey? No, I think he chose it because

00:34:48.699 --> 00:34:51.659
he was the last person called up. And that was

00:34:51.659 --> 00:34:54.420
the... I mean, but there's going to be a million

00:34:54.420 --> 00:34:57.500
numbers. I don't know. Yeah, you could have picked

00:34:57.500 --> 00:35:01.559
any number. It wasn't taken, so... Maybe. I wonder.

00:35:02.300 --> 00:35:05.659
Honestly? You know why he might have chose it?

00:35:06.510 --> 00:35:10.190
His co -captain, Stephen Fry. Maybe he wanted

00:35:10.190 --> 00:35:12.769
to, you know, I don't know. Who the hell knows?

00:35:14.030 --> 00:35:16.590
So, yeah, Sounders played against LA Galaxy.

00:35:17.530 --> 00:35:19.989
Yeah, so first off, prediction challenge. Let's

00:35:19.989 --> 00:35:25.630
go over that. So we do have a sole winner. And,

00:35:25.710 --> 00:35:29.269
of course, the sole winner just so happens to

00:35:29.269 --> 00:35:33.710
not be on the podcast today. Aaron. Aaron actually

00:35:33.710 --> 00:35:36.369
won. Aaron wins the wins, and it's one of those

00:35:36.369 --> 00:35:38.590
rare wins for him. So I would have loved for

00:35:38.590 --> 00:35:40.630
him to take his victory lap. Did he pick a draw?

00:35:41.750 --> 00:35:46.329
I could look that up, but he must have. I had

00:35:46.329 --> 00:35:48.670
picked it 2 -1, so I was on my way to winning

00:35:48.670 --> 00:35:53.329
until the late goal. Yeah, it was rough. but

00:35:53.329 --> 00:35:56.409
I also picked a moose to score and he had the

00:35:56.409 --> 00:35:57.949
assist. He didn't get that shot. And I was like,

00:35:57.989 --> 00:36:00.309
come on, shoot the ball. Moose. Actually, just

00:36:00.309 --> 00:36:03.309
a quick reminder. You do have actually before

00:36:03.309 --> 00:36:08.949
our next episode airs, you have until the 19th

00:36:08.949 --> 00:36:11.889
to sign up for the world cup ticket lottery.

00:36:12.969 --> 00:36:15.510
Now keep this in mind. I was looking at the terms

00:36:15.510 --> 00:36:18.230
and conditions because I was curious and shocker.

00:36:18.250 --> 00:36:21.250
I looked at the terms and conditions shucking,

00:36:21.269 --> 00:36:25.960
but. You need a Visa card to sign up. However,

00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:29.820
it does not need to be the same Visa card you

00:36:29.820 --> 00:36:35.199
use to pay if you get selected. So if you're

00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:38.579
trying to balance your checkbooks or your credit

00:36:38.579 --> 00:36:43.420
cards, debt, and whatever, just make sure you

00:36:43.420 --> 00:36:45.760
sign up. The other thing is it's only one per

00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.820
household. So you cannot have multiple people

00:36:48.820 --> 00:36:52.119
within the same mailing address sign up. Do you

00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:54.420
have to be 18 or older just as a heads up there?

00:36:54.699 --> 00:36:56.440
Maybe I should have my dad sign up. I signed

00:36:56.440 --> 00:37:00.019
up live during the NAG podcast the other day,

00:37:00.139 --> 00:37:07.440
the LA Galaxy podcast that I was on. So that

00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.119
was the news across the galaxy. They told me

00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:12.119
about it and I'm not on social media anymore

00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:14.619
right now. And so I was like, whoa, okay, I'll

00:37:14.619 --> 00:37:16.420
sign up. And it was instant for me, no waiting.

00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:19.739
But I also am stupid and forgot to put Vancouver.

00:37:20.300 --> 00:37:22.860
So the only way for me to do it again would be

00:37:22.860 --> 00:37:26.059
to cancel my already one I put in there and then

00:37:26.059 --> 00:37:28.139
start over. So I can only get a chance to get

00:37:28.139 --> 00:37:29.639
Seattle tickets. I'm not going to get a chance

00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.539
to get Vancouver tickets, unfortunately. Oh,

00:37:32.539 --> 00:37:39.619
interesting. Okay. Yeah. You said which, I mean,

00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:42.300
maybe they'll give you other options, but when

00:37:42.300 --> 00:37:47.039
you signed up, you said which. you were interested

00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:49.179
in. Yeah, and you could select multiple ones.

00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:51.719
Yeah, yeah. And I just selected Seattle. I don't

00:37:51.719 --> 00:37:52.920
know. I mean, I do know what I was thinking.

00:37:52.980 --> 00:37:55.239
I was not because I was busy being on a podcast.

00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:58.800
Okay. Yeah, but I'm interested in Seattle, Toronto,

00:37:58.900 --> 00:38:06.059
Vancouver, and Mexico City. Nice, nice. So back

00:38:06.059 --> 00:38:12.500
to the game. Sounders come out looking like world

00:38:12.500 --> 00:38:15.619
beaters again. Yeah. dominate play for the first

00:38:15.619 --> 00:38:18.460
five minutes almost score a goal and then do

00:38:18.460 --> 00:38:21.420
score a goal was that about fifth minute yep

00:38:21.420 --> 00:38:25.360
uh when uh danny running down the right side

00:38:25.360 --> 00:38:28.960
of the box sees uh jesus running behind him and

00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:33.449
basically two on one like It's a FIFA on beginner

00:38:33.449 --> 00:38:36.409
goal. We had two of those. The second one was

00:38:36.409 --> 00:38:40.349
the same. But don't lay off on Alex Roldan starts

00:38:40.349 --> 00:38:43.510
us off. Oh, the pass up. Well, he intercepts

00:38:43.510 --> 00:38:45.809
a pass around the Galaxy's final third. Galaxy

00:38:45.809 --> 00:38:49.530
are trying to enter our final third. He intercepts,

00:38:49.530 --> 00:38:51.489
takes a few touches up to midfield, and puts

00:38:51.489 --> 00:38:53.469
a beautiful through ball to Danny. It's bringing

00:38:53.469 --> 00:38:58.670
him. Danny going 1v1 with the last CB. You've

00:38:58.670 --> 00:39:02.820
got... In the middle of that through ball, one

00:39:02.820 --> 00:39:05.960
of Galaxy's CBs tries to make a sliding tackle

00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:10.260
to block it, which brings Jesus Ferreira as the

00:39:10.260 --> 00:39:15.539
first player for any potential pass, and he takes

00:39:15.539 --> 00:39:17.659
advantage of that. So just really well done.

00:39:17.659 --> 00:39:19.619
Right down the middle of the field. Really well

00:39:19.619 --> 00:39:25.780
done. So then we do score again on the 44th.

00:39:28.490 --> 00:39:32.170
Before that, or I'm sorry, the 41st minute. However,

00:39:32.210 --> 00:39:35.949
before that, we had two huge chances. In the

00:39:35.949 --> 00:39:39.550
35th minute, Reed Baker Whiting puts in a great

00:39:39.550 --> 00:39:43.030
ball to Rothrock. And Rothrock's all alone against

00:39:43.030 --> 00:39:46.190
the keeper. Michovic makes a good kick save.

00:39:46.690 --> 00:39:50.989
And Rothrock, I mean, he put a good shot in.

00:39:51.730 --> 00:39:56.269
Just sometimes keeper makes a save. Two minutes

00:39:56.269 --> 00:40:00.710
later. Danny's 1v1 against Mitrovic again. Danny

00:40:00.710 --> 00:40:03.789
showing a burst of speed that I didn't see. He

00:40:03.789 --> 00:40:09.110
made that burst from well outside the box. Mitrovic

00:40:09.110 --> 00:40:12.590
comes way out of his net to make that save. That

00:40:12.590 --> 00:40:15.469
was one of his seven saves on the night. What

00:40:15.469 --> 00:40:18.269
was interesting, though, is prior to that, when

00:40:18.269 --> 00:40:21.949
we actually scored the second goal, that game

00:40:21.949 --> 00:40:26.769
felt very much like... we took our foot off the

00:40:26.769 --> 00:40:28.889
gas pedal to me after we scored the first goal.

00:40:29.030 --> 00:40:33.050
And LA dominated most of that game until we,

00:40:33.170 --> 00:40:35.949
I mean, which happens. We have times where we're

00:40:35.949 --> 00:40:38.050
not in possession, but they looked like the better

00:40:38.050 --> 00:40:40.289
team after that goal. They were the ones who

00:40:40.289 --> 00:40:42.989
went, okay, if we lose, we are knocked out of,

00:40:43.030 --> 00:40:45.610
we're eliminated from the playoffs. We have to

00:40:45.610 --> 00:40:48.630
play for our lives. And they did. And they looked

00:40:48.630 --> 00:40:50.989
much better than us, even though we kept having

00:40:50.989 --> 00:40:53.050
these really good chances, mainly because their

00:40:53.050 --> 00:40:59.170
defense is so poor. You know, it's tough to tell

00:40:59.170 --> 00:41:01.449
on that because, yeah, the first half was interesting.

00:41:02.010 --> 00:41:06.949
We gave up a lot of possession in that first

00:41:06.949 --> 00:41:09.610
half, but then we got some really good quality

00:41:09.610 --> 00:41:14.070
scoring chances. Yeah. As usual, this is where

00:41:14.070 --> 00:41:16.389
you and I always differ. You view that as a positive.

00:41:16.449 --> 00:41:19.429
I view it as just another game where we have

00:41:19.429 --> 00:41:24.429
left four to five goals on the table. I would

00:41:24.429 --> 00:41:30.389
rather get many opportunities to score and convert

00:41:30.389 --> 00:41:33.570
on a lower percentage than to get few opportunities

00:41:33.570 --> 00:41:35.710
to score and convert on a higher percentage.

00:41:35.989 --> 00:41:39.429
More chances. Yes, but to me, in the end, it

00:41:39.429 --> 00:41:42.909
makes no difference. They didn't go in. The score's

00:41:42.909 --> 00:41:46.070
the score. Well, like, you know, our XG in the

00:41:46.070 --> 00:41:51.730
game was 3 .47 to 177. But again, I think both

00:41:51.730 --> 00:41:55.150
of those opportunities in the 35th and the 37th

00:41:55.150 --> 00:41:57.869
minute were definitely what I would call big

00:41:57.869 --> 00:42:02.789
chances. Yeah, absolutely. And I feel like, I

00:42:02.789 --> 00:42:04.989
hate to say this because Danny's been so good

00:42:04.989 --> 00:42:06.929
this year, but we come to expect Moose not to

00:42:06.929 --> 00:42:08.789
make a one -on -one shot like that because he

00:42:08.789 --> 00:42:13.090
hasn't all season long. His goals have been more...

00:42:13.090 --> 00:42:16.630
Putting himself in good positions for the finishers.

00:42:17.440 --> 00:42:20.940
Right, not being one of the – Again, the Wondolowski

00:42:20.940 --> 00:42:25.199
comparison. Yeah, yeah. Doing the hard work to

00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:27.780
get into the good spots. And Rothrock, you expect

00:42:27.780 --> 00:42:29.340
him to put that in, although he didn't against

00:42:29.340 --> 00:42:31.900
Miami in the first – he had that chance in the

00:42:31.900 --> 00:42:34.019
first – before he later came back and scored.

00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:36.480
I think I do expect Rothrock to put that in.

00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:39.360
I don't know. I don't know about that specific

00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:43.539
one. I mean in general. Yeah, I get it. But let's

00:42:43.539 --> 00:42:45.679
talk about the second goal. Second goal, 41st

00:42:45.679 --> 00:42:51.960
minute. Vargas does a nice one -two with... I'm

00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:53.260
not entirely sure. It might have been Christian.

00:42:53.420 --> 00:42:55.940
I'm not sure who, but does a nice give -and -go,

00:42:56.099 --> 00:42:58.840
and then he sends Rothrock into the box with

00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:02.280
a nice pass, and Rothrock just squares a dead

00:43:02.280 --> 00:43:06.929
center to a wide -open Danny. There's no goalie

00:43:06.929 --> 00:43:08.650
in front of him. He's got literally the entire

00:43:08.650 --> 00:43:12.690
net. It's literally FIFA on beginner where you

00:43:12.690 --> 00:43:15.070
get the goalie to draw out to challenge you.

00:43:15.150 --> 00:43:17.110
And then, oh, I guess I'll just pass it straight

00:43:17.110 --> 00:43:21.070
across. It was just very nice. Yep. And they

00:43:21.070 --> 00:43:27.110
told me on news across the galaxy that the defense

00:43:27.110 --> 00:43:29.829
was bad. But I was not expecting it to be that

00:43:29.829 --> 00:43:33.920
bad. Those were... And what Edgar said when we

00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:35.219
were talking about it during the game is the

00:43:35.219 --> 00:43:37.119
defense for the Galaxy has been that bad for

00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:38.980
years, maybe a decade. It's just they usually

00:43:38.980 --> 00:43:41.820
score a lot of goals to make up for it. Yeah.

00:43:42.579 --> 00:43:46.619
I think that's fair. It definitely was one of

00:43:46.619 --> 00:43:53.380
those things where I got out at halftime. Well,

00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:55.980
we haven't even gotten to halftime. Let's get

00:43:55.980 --> 00:44:00.800
to halftime. Two minutes later. uh la galaxy

00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:06.360
scores on a set piece um i think the the foul

00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:10.179
felt oh wait i'm i think i'm getting my goals

00:44:10.179 --> 00:44:14.159
mixed up um but the foul that was that was uh

00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:18.739
a foul that felt a little soft for me but i still

00:44:18.739 --> 00:44:21.659
think the sounders should have stopped that like

00:44:21.659 --> 00:44:26.780
that was bad defensive marking yeah they allowed

00:44:26.780 --> 00:44:30.059
they allowed yoshida to get to the ball first

00:44:30.059 --> 00:44:38.059
on that looping cross. And it wasn't great. No,

00:44:38.059 --> 00:44:40.440
no. And it's something we've come to, I think

00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:43.300
we've come to not expect, but experience from

00:44:43.300 --> 00:44:46.460
the Sounders quite a bit where there's just these,

00:44:46.539 --> 00:44:49.679
you watch throughout a game, just perfect defending

00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:53.400
for 99 % of that game, right? But then there's

00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:55.340
just these individual errors that they'll make

00:44:55.340 --> 00:44:57.579
where you're just like, huh, that was a boneheaded

00:44:57.579 --> 00:45:00.469
play. And I don't know what it is, but we've

00:45:00.469 --> 00:45:02.369
seen it more from players this year than we don't

00:45:02.369 --> 00:45:04.389
usually expect it from. I think that was that

00:45:04.389 --> 00:45:07.909
read that time though. On the second goal, the

00:45:07.909 --> 00:45:10.690
one who was supposed to be marking him. Yeah,

00:45:10.789 --> 00:45:13.630
I don't think so. I can't remember who it was

00:45:13.630 --> 00:45:16.969
that time, but it was, it's just a thing where

00:45:16.969 --> 00:45:20.789
two to one though. I hate it because it feels

00:45:20.789 --> 00:45:23.829
like the Sounders were the far better team, but

00:45:23.829 --> 00:45:28.460
it gave LA that hope they needed. yeah going

00:45:28.460 --> 00:45:31.920
into halftime it was like okay we're definitely

00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:34.159
getting a lot of chances we're getting a lot

00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:36.739
of offense and that's been that's been a big

00:45:36.739 --> 00:45:39.559
part of the team since the club world cup is

00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:41.699
that we've been scoring at ridiculous levels

00:45:41.699 --> 00:45:45.960
yeah um and so and so i mean i definitely don't

00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:48.059
want to lose sight of that that's really important

00:45:48.059 --> 00:45:51.420
there i mean to me though we didn't look dangerous

00:45:51.420 --> 00:45:53.820
like we have in every other game that in that

00:45:53.820 --> 00:45:59.269
first half we looked My comparison is to what

00:45:59.269 --> 00:46:01.070
the Sounders looked like before, so I'm not comparing

00:46:01.070 --> 00:46:03.230
it to other teams in the league. This team looked

00:46:03.230 --> 00:46:05.849
pedestrian compared to when they're firing on

00:46:05.849 --> 00:46:10.230
all cylinders. Not having Pedro out there was

00:46:10.230 --> 00:46:14.250
rough. I will say real quick, just the cross

00:46:14.250 --> 00:46:19.730
on the first goal for the Galaxy. Jackson's taking

00:46:19.730 --> 00:46:25.940
the near post guy. Obed and Alex are... on the

00:46:25.940 --> 00:46:28.940
other side of fries are covering his back door

00:46:28.940 --> 00:46:32.860
and the ball comes up there's two potential galaxy

00:46:32.860 --> 00:46:36.699
members who can get to it and they just they

00:46:36.699 --> 00:46:39.960
just they get beat to it uh alex gets beat on

00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:41.639
that unfortunately because he was having a pretty

00:46:41.639 --> 00:46:46.920
good game uh in a lot of ways so yeah so we get

00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:48.699
to the halftime we get out to the second half

00:46:48.699 --> 00:46:54.369
and Right away, 50 first -minute Rothrock scores

00:46:54.369 --> 00:46:58.130
on a header, called back for offsides. I think

00:46:58.130 --> 00:47:00.510
looking at the replay, the frustrating part there

00:47:00.510 --> 00:47:05.510
is if he lets that go, if he ignores that, realizes,

00:47:05.610 --> 00:47:09.030
oh, I did not get back, and he was nowhere near

00:47:09.030 --> 00:47:13.130
being onside. But if he lets that go, reads behind

00:47:13.130 --> 00:47:18.309
him, ready to get a opportunity. It's not a clear

00:47:18.309 --> 00:47:22.670
goal because of the angle. But definitely in

00:47:22.670 --> 00:47:25.889
a really high big chance scoring position. And

00:47:25.889 --> 00:47:28.110
I mean, he was clearly off size. No question.

00:47:28.550 --> 00:47:34.510
But yes, you're right. 78th minute, Alex gets

00:47:34.510 --> 00:47:41.530
a great play to jump a pass. He beats the Galaxy

00:47:41.530 --> 00:47:44.869
defender in the air. And the way he heads it

00:47:44.869 --> 00:47:47.250
down, he heads it to the center to himself. And

00:47:47.250 --> 00:47:53.110
he basically gets dead center. Gets a somewhat

00:47:53.110 --> 00:47:56.829
weak shot off, but the rebound comes out anyways,

00:47:57.070 --> 00:47:59.449
and it just doesn't go to where it needs to go.

00:47:59.690 --> 00:48:03.050
So that was a little bit of a bummer. Another

00:48:03.050 --> 00:48:05.929
highlight later on in the 81st minute, right

00:48:05.929 --> 00:48:09.710
after we bring on Jordan Morris. We also brought

00:48:09.710 --> 00:48:12.929
on Albert Rusnak, so we had some good appearances

00:48:12.929 --> 00:48:15.170
from some of our players that haven't had a chance

00:48:15.170 --> 00:48:18.150
to play recently. So I was very, very positive.

00:48:19.690 --> 00:48:23.329
georgie manungu gets a bike attempt in the 81st

00:48:23.329 --> 00:48:25.710
and that was that was like would have been legendary

00:48:25.710 --> 00:48:28.949
up there with uh was it patty iani who did it

00:48:28.949 --> 00:48:31.610
for the sounders back in the day yeah i mean

00:48:31.610 --> 00:48:35.070
it it was it was quite nice yeah that was so

00:48:35.070 --> 00:48:37.070
close that i mean it would have been fun yeah

00:48:37.070 --> 00:48:41.329
and then and then their second goal 87th minute

00:48:41.329 --> 00:48:47.530
ah it's just a broken play It's just a broken

00:48:47.530 --> 00:48:54.030
play where it's a public chaos ball. Yeah. I

00:48:54.030 --> 00:48:56.550
mean, that's why you run at them. I mean, I got

00:48:56.550 --> 00:48:58.429
an assist today on that. I kicked it into the

00:48:58.429 --> 00:49:01.530
box. It bounced around, and my forward picked

00:49:01.530 --> 00:49:04.789
it up and kicked it in. I mean, that's why you

00:49:04.789 --> 00:49:07.349
kick it into the box. And the worst part is that

00:49:07.349 --> 00:49:12.889
basically from the 52nd to that moment, to the

00:49:12.889 --> 00:49:17.309
87th, la did nothing i mean we just we just had

00:49:17.309 --> 00:49:19.670
everything like the first half we were up to

00:49:19.670 --> 00:49:24.070
one um but la actually had quite a bit of possession

00:49:24.070 --> 00:49:27.250
in that first half first half they actually outpossessed

00:49:27.250 --> 00:49:31.610
us 51 to 49 um they got 10 shots four on target

00:49:31.610 --> 00:49:34.190
we got six shots five on targets we had four

00:49:34.190 --> 00:49:36.769
big chances and missed two at one at one point

00:49:36.769 --> 00:49:40.500
though they had uh like eight shots and we had

00:49:40.500 --> 00:49:43.039
like two like they they they were until the end

00:49:43.039 --> 00:49:46.000
of the second the first half excuse me uh they

00:49:46.000 --> 00:49:48.260
they were dominating the run of play for a little

00:49:48.260 --> 00:49:53.900
bit there um in a a team that is last in the

00:49:53.900 --> 00:49:56.400
west and i hate playing down to those teams levels

00:49:56.400 --> 00:50:00.469
but also they had a roster that was not their

00:50:00.469 --> 00:50:02.250
regular starting roster. They had young players

00:50:02.250 --> 00:50:04.429
in there who were hungry and wanted a chance.

00:50:04.570 --> 00:50:06.750
Well, that's exactly it because they're at a

00:50:06.750 --> 00:50:08.429
spot of the season where they're thinking about

00:50:08.429 --> 00:50:13.210
next season. So they are playing the kids to

00:50:13.210 --> 00:50:16.769
see, hey, are we going to keep you for next season?

00:50:16.869 --> 00:50:19.110
This is your chance to showcase what you've got

00:50:19.110 --> 00:50:24.440
because... we've got roster decisions to make

00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:26.559
at the end of the season. So, of course, they're

00:50:26.559 --> 00:50:28.559
going to come out hungry. But then the second

00:50:28.559 --> 00:50:31.059
half is a complete flip. We kind of recognize

00:50:31.059 --> 00:50:34.860
and weather their breaks. And then we've got

00:50:34.860 --> 00:50:37.980
possession for 67 % of the second half. We've

00:50:37.980 --> 00:50:41.800
got 13 shots to their five. The big difference,

00:50:41.860 --> 00:50:44.639
though, is that we didn't get any big chances

00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:48.280
in the second half. So we just struggled a little

00:50:48.280 --> 00:50:54.610
bit to get that flow going. um yeah so so overall

00:50:54.610 --> 00:50:58.730
i'm not angry about the game i don't think i

00:50:58.730 --> 00:51:04.489
think uh i think it's two points that we could

00:51:04.489 --> 00:51:09.690
have had absolutely but you know i i mean some

00:51:09.690 --> 00:51:13.099
people are like oh We got to bench Steph and

00:51:13.099 --> 00:51:17.119
Fry because – I agree 1 ,000%. They're not going

00:51:17.119 --> 00:51:20.139
to, but Andy's better. I don't think they probably

00:51:20.139 --> 00:51:22.280
should because of the message it sends to the

00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:28.599
team. I don't think – On that one goal, Fry should

00:51:28.599 --> 00:51:31.820
have known where that – I mean, the way the ball

00:51:31.820 --> 00:51:34.500
went over the top of the box, he should have

00:51:34.500 --> 00:51:36.320
known that that was the only place that ball

00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:39.239
could have gone in. I mean, he should have been

00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:45.360
trying to get that. I love Steph, and I think

00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:47.539
that he has earned a chance to start. I also

00:51:47.539 --> 00:51:49.420
do not think he's the best goalie on our team

00:51:49.420 --> 00:52:01.340
anymore. I think that the difference between

00:52:01.340 --> 00:52:07.730
Fry and Thomas is not large enough. to cost you

00:52:07.730 --> 00:52:15.949
points. I don't. But going back to what you were

00:52:15.949 --> 00:52:18.409
saying, the message to the team is the issue

00:52:18.409 --> 00:52:19.690
here. I think it costs us two points in that

00:52:19.690 --> 00:52:23.610
game. But I think the message to the team that

00:52:23.610 --> 00:52:27.570
it sends maybe costs more points. Yes. I don't

00:52:27.570 --> 00:52:30.949
think it costs us points today. I don't think

00:52:30.949 --> 00:52:34.039
that. I mean, I think he also lost his points

00:52:34.039 --> 00:52:36.039
in the Minnesota game. I mean, I think we've

00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:40.539
dropped three points now because of Fry. And

00:52:40.539 --> 00:52:42.980
I don't necessarily think it's his fault. I think

00:52:42.980 --> 00:52:46.659
that he's not at full speed yet. This is why

00:52:46.659 --> 00:52:50.000
I want to know, and I will ask next time I see

00:52:50.000 --> 00:52:52.519
Craig, why we don't send players coming back

00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:54.340
from injury down to Tacoma to get some real -time

00:52:54.340 --> 00:52:55.840
game action so they can get into full speed.

00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:03.010
We have in the past. Have we? Yeah. Roman Torres,

00:53:03.110 --> 00:53:06.070
Will Bruin have played for Tacoma for one game.

00:53:07.309 --> 00:53:09.289
We'd love to see Steph be down there and to get

00:53:09.289 --> 00:53:11.750
back into full – because he's played two games

00:53:11.750 --> 00:53:18.690
in the last, what, six, eight weeks? Something

00:53:18.690 --> 00:53:23.030
like that. Maybe longer. So, I mean, I think

00:53:23.030 --> 00:53:26.789
it's just – I don't think that he's a liability

00:53:26.789 --> 00:53:28.409
out there. I just think he's not at full speed.

00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:35.239
Yeah, I really hesitate to talk much more about

00:53:35.239 --> 00:53:37.420
this because I really don't want to manifest

00:53:37.420 --> 00:53:39.780
a goalkeeping controversy because I don't think

00:53:39.780 --> 00:53:41.760
there is one. I don't think there is one either,

00:53:41.860 --> 00:53:46.199
but it's also why, I mean, I don't, to me, that's

00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:47.940
a totally different thing, right? Like, I also

00:53:47.940 --> 00:53:50.280
don't think there's a number nine controversy,

00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:53.739
but I think there should be. I think Danny should

00:53:53.739 --> 00:53:56.840
be starting over Morris. I don't know. I mean,

00:53:56.860 --> 00:53:59.730
right now he is. Right now he is, but you also

00:53:59.730 --> 00:54:03.050
have a game on Saturday, a game on Tuesday. So

00:54:03.050 --> 00:54:05.329
you're managing minutes, you know? Yeah, for

00:54:05.329 --> 00:54:07.449
sure. Especially that's weird having a game on

00:54:07.449 --> 00:54:10.190
Tuesday after a Saturday game. That is a lot

00:54:10.190 --> 00:54:15.750
weird if I'm being completely honest. But at

00:54:15.750 --> 00:54:20.150
least Miami also had a game. So that's good.

00:54:20.210 --> 00:54:25.440
By the way, Miami got smoked 3 -0. They also

00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:29.719
had Lionel Messi miss a penalty. They also had

00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:34.320
Tomas Alvarez get two yellow cards, so he is

00:54:34.320 --> 00:54:39.340
out against us. So yet another one. I mean, Messi

00:54:39.340 --> 00:54:41.599
looked great for Argentina, so it's interesting

00:54:41.599 --> 00:54:43.480
that he's come back and looked poor again for

00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:50.460
Miami. Well, it's funny because I mentioned last

00:54:50.460 --> 00:54:55.949
game that the Sounders... In the last 50 games

00:54:55.949 --> 00:55:00.050
that Messi has played, the Sounders held him

00:55:00.050 --> 00:55:04.750
to his third lowest rating in the last 50 games,

00:55:04.809 --> 00:55:08.329
all competitions. And what's interesting about

00:55:08.329 --> 00:55:14.610
that is the second lowest was a game against

00:55:14.610 --> 00:55:17.949
New York City FC back in last September. The

00:55:17.949 --> 00:55:21.670
lowest was against Cincinnati in July, a 3 -0

00:55:21.670 --> 00:55:28.130
loss. Last night's game, he was a 6 .0, which

00:55:28.130 --> 00:55:34.309
is 0 .1 lower than against us. So three of his

00:55:34.309 --> 00:55:44.190
four lowest games in his last 50 have been within

00:55:44.190 --> 00:55:47.969
the last month. Interesting. Now, we'll talk

00:55:47.969 --> 00:55:49.829
more about Miami in a second, but I do want to

00:55:49.829 --> 00:55:55.059
finish up on this LA Galaxy where... To me, I'm

00:55:55.059 --> 00:55:57.139
hoping this is an anomaly. I'm not saying the

00:55:57.139 --> 00:55:59.300
Sounders are going to be this team moving forward,

00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:01.440
but they look like a fifth place team in that

00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:05.000
game versus LA. And that's going to be our positioning

00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:09.840
based on LAFC's game in hand. So, I mean, LAFC

00:56:09.840 --> 00:56:16.980
looks incredible. Major FOMO on Sun because he

00:56:16.980 --> 00:56:21.130
continues to... uh play well and to go in and

00:56:21.130 --> 00:56:24.630
score three goals in what 17 minutes in san jose

00:56:24.630 --> 00:56:26.489
a team that's been playing well lately is is

00:56:26.489 --> 00:56:29.449
pretty rough on san jose san jose of course then

00:56:29.449 --> 00:56:31.710
answered like the 19th minute made it 3 -1 but

00:56:31.710 --> 00:56:38.250
um that's that's all negative things let's talk

00:56:38.250 --> 00:56:41.150
about positive things because if the sounders

00:56:41.150 --> 00:56:42.909
can get back to how they've been since the club

00:56:42.909 --> 00:56:46.130
world cup this is one of the best teams in the

00:56:46.130 --> 00:56:52.079
mls and it The numbers bear that out. Again,

00:56:52.179 --> 00:56:55.719
we only lost one game since Club World Cup ended,

00:56:55.840 --> 00:57:01.599
and that was in June. Yep. In September. The

00:57:01.599 --> 00:57:08.579
Sounders... Let's see. I just read these numbers

00:57:08.579 --> 00:57:14.780
a second ago. So... Sounders only two defeats

00:57:14.780 --> 00:57:16.579
at home in the regular seasons occurred when

00:57:16.579 --> 00:57:24.280
they gave up the opening goal. And they have,

00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:29.380
looking at it, since exiting the Club World Cup

00:57:29.380 --> 00:57:31.940
in June, the Rave Green have suffered just one

00:57:31.940 --> 00:57:34.500
loss in their last 16 competitive features, which

00:57:34.500 --> 00:57:36.199
was the 1 -0 Minnesota loss you're talking about.

00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:38.300
And they are unbeaten in their previous five

00:57:38.300 --> 00:57:41.489
matches across all competitions. points in 13

00:57:41.489 --> 00:57:45.230
of their last 15 matches uh more importantly

00:57:45.230 --> 00:57:48.329
this is the third time we've played miami in

00:57:48.329 --> 00:57:51.070
history right yeah do you remember uh do you

00:57:51.070 --> 00:57:52.309
remember what the score was in the least cup

00:57:52.309 --> 00:57:54.809
final three nothing do you remember what the

00:57:54.809 --> 00:57:57.030
score was uh the other time we played down there

00:57:57.030 --> 00:57:59.969
i don't i don't either but they didn't score

00:57:59.969 --> 00:58:04.309
any goals so uh no they no no because last time

00:58:04.309 --> 00:58:06.030
we played that the first time we played them

00:58:06.030 --> 00:58:08.929
they beat us oh that was in seattle i was in

00:58:08.929 --> 00:58:12.739
seattle but they beat us because we were in the

00:58:12.739 --> 00:58:15.619
middle of our champions league run and literally

00:58:15.619 --> 00:58:18.920
we didn't play a single starter this is our first

00:58:18.920 --> 00:58:23.599
visit to fort lauderdale now but um yeah so we've

00:58:23.599 --> 00:58:26.199
never conceded a goal against them in our previous

00:58:26.199 --> 00:58:31.340
ones according to uh sportsmall .co .uk so miami's

00:58:31.340 --> 00:58:34.710
in all competitions is uh win -win -draw -win

00:58:34.710 --> 00:58:37.010
-loss -loss, and we are win -draw -win -loss

00:58:37.010 --> 00:58:39.769
-win -draw. So Sounders definitely looking better,

00:58:39.889 --> 00:58:41.530
especially when you look across all competitions

00:58:41.530 --> 00:58:46.889
where we're loss -win -win -win -draw. We should

00:58:46.889 --> 00:58:50.349
see the return of Pedro de la Vega. He traveled,

00:58:50.489 --> 00:58:53.909
yeah. Yeah. Jao Paulo, I believe, also traveled.

00:58:53.949 --> 00:58:56.090
Is that right? That might have been a reward

00:58:56.090 --> 00:58:58.210
for, hey, you want to go to Miami for a day?

00:58:58.670 --> 00:59:04.030
Yeah, yeah. And so we very well could see a mostly

00:59:04.030 --> 00:59:07.070
full lineup depending on who they want to start

00:59:07.070 --> 00:59:10.909
up top. I mean, I think we will probably see

00:59:10.909 --> 00:59:14.130
all four at the back. They already rotated for

00:59:14.130 --> 00:59:19.010
LA Galaxy. So you're going to see probably Ferreira

00:59:19.010 --> 00:59:21.889
on the right, Rusnak in the center and Pedro

00:59:21.889 --> 00:59:25.269
on the left. And then, you know, whoever's up

00:59:25.269 --> 00:59:31.289
top. What are you feeling in terms of, where

00:59:31.289 --> 00:59:33.590
Jesus Ferreira should play. I mean, to me, this

00:59:33.590 --> 00:59:38.489
is an interesting debate. I don't see what Schmetzer

00:59:38.489 --> 00:59:40.769
sees in him on the right. I think once he was

00:59:40.769 --> 00:59:43.070
on the right in the second half there, when they

00:59:43.070 --> 00:59:45.610
moved him over, once Rusnak came on, he looked

00:59:45.610 --> 00:59:49.110
pretty ineffectual. He's been fantastic at center

00:59:49.110 --> 00:59:53.030
attacking mid. And I think the drop off from...

00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:56.880
And Rusnak to Jesus. I think Rusnak is better

00:59:56.880 --> 00:59:58.639
at both positions. But I think for me, the drop

00:59:58.639 --> 01:00:00.539
off from Rusnak to Jesus at center attacking

01:00:00.539 --> 01:00:04.219
mid is less than at right mid. And so I actually

01:00:04.219 --> 01:00:05.960
would be interested in seeing Rusnak on the right

01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:10.460
and Jesus at center attacking mid. How are you

01:00:10.460 --> 01:00:14.059
feeling about that? Well, I don't know if that's

01:00:14.059 --> 01:00:18.300
completely fair. I mean, Albert comes on in the

01:00:18.300 --> 01:00:23.530
59th minute for Kosarienzi. Knew who comes on

01:00:23.530 --> 01:00:29.289
at the same time for Reed Baker Whiting. So right

01:00:29.289 --> 01:00:37.429
there, you're changing up your dynamic a little

01:00:37.429 --> 01:00:39.409
bit. You're losing a little bit of offense by

01:00:39.409 --> 01:00:43.730
pulling. Oh, sure. But I think Rusnak, I just

01:00:43.730 --> 01:00:46.489
think Jesus doesn't seem to – he doesn't wow

01:00:46.489 --> 01:00:51.139
me on the right. He's not – doing paul rothrock

01:00:51.139 --> 01:00:53.440
things he's not doing gabriel peck things he's

01:00:53.440 --> 01:00:56.880
not doing pencil things he's not doing uh georgie

01:00:56.880 --> 01:01:01.260
things so i don't know i feel like he's i feel

01:01:01.260 --> 01:01:03.980
like he's creating a lot of opportunities i think

01:01:03.980 --> 01:01:06.460
i think he is a center attacking mid i think

01:01:06.460 --> 01:01:08.440
he's not i don't see that when he's on the right

01:01:08.440 --> 01:01:16.780
though uh this last match i think my ideal lineup

01:01:16.780 --> 01:01:20.300
has jesus on the right albert on the center and

01:01:20.300 --> 01:01:22.800
Pedro on the left. That's my ideal band of three.

01:01:23.139 --> 01:01:24.840
I mean, I think that's what they're going to

01:01:24.840 --> 01:01:27.760
do, for sure. But you don't. You think it's Rothrock

01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:30.619
over Jesus? Yeah, I think I would start Rothrock

01:01:30.619 --> 01:01:32.739
over Jesus. So you think Jesus starts on the

01:01:32.739 --> 01:01:35.480
bench? I think that's what I would do at present,

01:01:35.539 --> 01:01:37.599
just based on how they're playing. I mean, it's

01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:41.159
a rough decision, though. I think at the center

01:01:41.159 --> 01:01:44.599
attacking mid, Jesus has been fantastic and has

01:01:44.599 --> 01:01:47.440
been a major reason why this team has been...

01:01:47.880 --> 01:01:51.539
uh so dangerous on offense i mean it's really

01:01:51.539 --> 01:01:54.880
something that we have these spoil the choice

01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:57.320
that's where the depth when we're healthy that's

01:01:57.320 --> 01:01:59.000
where the depth comes in and that's always been

01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:01.380
one of the things of oh man when we're healthy

01:02:01.380 --> 01:02:03.940
brian's gonna have decisions to make and and

01:02:03.940 --> 01:02:08.480
yeah he's got decisions to make but i think um

01:02:08.480 --> 01:02:11.539
i think we're gonna have moments of okay well

01:02:11.539 --> 01:02:15.000
we got short week this week so so that's gonna

01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:18.300
there's not many games left We're coming down

01:02:18.300 --> 01:02:20.360
the stretch here. We have, what, six games left?

01:02:22.000 --> 01:02:24.079
Yeah. Maybe seven. I think it's only six, though.

01:02:25.639 --> 01:02:29.900
And we got some big ones. I mean, we've got a

01:02:29.900 --> 01:02:32.800
chance. We play Miami. We play Vancouver. We

01:02:32.800 --> 01:02:36.699
play Portland. And then three others. I mean,

01:02:36.719 --> 01:02:39.360
we still have the Cascadia Cup on the line. I

01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:41.360
think all three of those games that we could

01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:43.000
easily win and there are three games we could

01:02:43.000 --> 01:02:44.719
easily lose because I think you have to throw

01:02:44.719 --> 01:02:47.199
out record and scale out the window in all three

01:02:47.199 --> 01:02:50.079
of those games. Because Messi could have some

01:02:50.079 --> 01:02:53.139
Messi magic out of nowhere. You know that. Vancouver

01:02:53.139 --> 01:02:56.179
is incredible. Look what they just did to Philly

01:02:56.179 --> 01:02:57.940
this weekend. They just absolutely demolished

01:02:57.940 --> 01:03:00.940
them. And Portland just seems to always have

01:03:00.940 --> 01:03:03.860
our number. Except for when they don't. You know,

01:03:03.860 --> 01:03:10.389
I appreciated your... on the LA Galaxy podcast,

01:03:10.409 --> 01:03:15.250
and it was really interesting to kind of hear

01:03:15.250 --> 01:03:19.150
your take on teams you don't want to play in

01:03:19.150 --> 01:03:25.409
the playoffs. Spoiler alert, it's Portland. We've

01:03:25.409 --> 01:03:28.010
never beat Portland in the playoffs, right? At

01:03:28.010 --> 01:03:31.150
least not as an MLS team. I don't think we have.

01:03:31.230 --> 01:03:32.670
I think they've beaten us the few times we've

01:03:32.670 --> 01:03:38.219
matched up against them. So we'll see. We'll

01:03:38.219 --> 01:03:40.059
see what happens. Right now, I think we're still

01:03:40.059 --> 01:03:42.539
a point ahead of LAFC, so we would be hosting

01:03:42.539 --> 01:03:46.139
LAFC. I mean, it's a home and away, but we would

01:03:46.139 --> 01:03:48.519
be the technical home field advantage for that.

01:03:48.760 --> 01:03:52.119
We've only met the Timbers in the playoffs once.

01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:55.820
Oh, I thought it was twice. We had the one crazy

01:03:55.820 --> 01:04:00.019
one that was the home and away where they thought

01:04:00.019 --> 01:04:02.340
that they had won it. Yeah, that was the car

01:04:02.340 --> 01:04:04.940
show game. That was 2018. And then I thought

01:04:04.940 --> 01:04:06.440
we had one other, but maybe we didn't. Well,

01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:08.360
maybe we do. Wait, was that Mexico when I was

01:04:08.360 --> 01:04:11.320
in Mexico? That was the, the Charlie Joseph game.

01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:14.800
Yeah, that was, that was, uh, yeah. Was that

01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:18.460
playoffs? Yeah. Yeah. Cause we, we lost here,

01:04:18.579 --> 01:04:23.179
uh, and then had to go down there and play. Yeah.

01:04:23.340 --> 01:04:26.239
My friend who was from Olympia was rooting for

01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:27.980
Portland and I wouldn't have brought him to the

01:04:27.980 --> 01:04:29.420
game with me if I'd known that was going to happen.

01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:35.099
Yeah, we played them four times in the playoffs.

01:04:35.360 --> 01:04:39.380
So the car show games and then the 2013 conference

01:04:39.380 --> 01:04:43.340
semifinals. Yeah. So I'd rather not play them

01:04:43.340 --> 01:04:46.019
if we can. No, you know what? Fuck that. I want

01:04:46.019 --> 01:04:49.219
them because they're so cocky. No, last year

01:04:49.219 --> 01:04:52.179
we took care of our LAFC boogeyman. This year,

01:04:52.239 --> 01:04:55.400
fuck them. Let's take them out the first round

01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:57.840
and just destroy their asses and then leave them.

01:04:58.480 --> 01:05:01.559
leave them crying after crashing out 5 -0 against

01:05:01.559 --> 01:05:03.739
Vancouver one year and then the next year just

01:05:03.739 --> 01:05:07.300
getting smoked by us. Yeah, 5 -0 again in two

01:05:07.300 --> 01:05:08.760
straight games because I think it's a home and

01:05:08.760 --> 01:05:11.039
away. I don't know if it's the first round or

01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:13.480
the second round, right? Yeah, they change their

01:05:13.480 --> 01:05:16.780
format every time, right? They have the play

01:05:16.780 --> 01:05:18.579
-in game, the 8 -9 play -in game, and I don't

01:05:18.579 --> 01:05:20.199
know if that counts as a round or not. Yeah,

01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:22.980
tell them it's the 8 -9 play -in game. We'll

01:05:22.980 --> 01:05:25.260
win the first leg, and then they won't show up

01:05:25.260 --> 01:05:26.780
for the second leg because they'll think it was

01:05:26.780 --> 01:05:31.400
a one -game series. and they're just – Good times,

01:05:31.519 --> 01:05:35.579
good times. Just going to be one guy on the timbers

01:05:35.579 --> 01:05:38.639
trying to – on the field looking around for his

01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:41.059
teammates and counting one, two, three. It will

01:05:41.059 --> 01:05:44.699
be great. Well, you need to go to sleep soon.

01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:48.320
I do. You have a few more weeks of working night

01:05:48.320 --> 01:05:51.599
shift. I do, but those days are ending. Those

01:05:51.599 --> 01:05:54.460
days are ending. Very exciting. Very good news.

01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:57.860
getting back into career mode and getting back

01:05:57.860 --> 01:06:02.920
into a normal office hours. So that'll, that'll

01:06:02.920 --> 01:06:07.820
free up a lot of flexibility for us. I think

01:06:07.820 --> 01:06:10.679
that'll be, that'll be good for everything. Although

01:06:10.679 --> 01:06:13.880
I do believe there was a good comment. I don't

01:06:13.880 --> 01:06:15.739
think I would be able to find it on the fly,

01:06:15.800 --> 01:06:19.599
but there was a comment about, Oh no, it was.

01:06:19.659 --> 01:06:24.699
So Paul, shout out to Paul. who was saying, I

01:06:24.699 --> 01:06:27.420
think this was indeed talking about Aaron, not

01:06:27.420 --> 01:06:30.920
about me, but sorry, but you have to sign off

01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:33.579
every episode with a sleepy, sloppy, drunk declaration

01:06:33.579 --> 01:06:36.099
of your love for everyone now. Oh yeah, that

01:06:36.099 --> 01:06:38.880
was talking about Aaron, but you know what? They

01:06:38.880 --> 01:06:43.159
can talk about you too. Wait, Bono or The Edge

01:06:43.159 --> 01:06:47.320
or Adam Clayton? Which member? Which member of

01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:50.800
you two? Adam Clayton, because we don't talk

01:06:50.800 --> 01:06:54.699
about the other jerks. Who am I missing? Larry

01:06:54.699 --> 01:06:57.239
Mullins. There we go. Are you still on your iPod?

01:06:57.880 --> 01:07:02.780
Wow, you're still bitter about that. I mean,

01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:04.500
shout out to everyone who's been active on the

01:07:04.500 --> 01:07:08.239
Discord. Of course, come join us there. Episodes

01:07:08.239 --> 01:07:13.300
release an hour or an hour, a day early, ad free.

01:07:14.380 --> 01:07:18.400
Yeah, on Patreon. But you know what? This one

01:07:18.400 --> 01:07:20.440
won't because I don't have access. We are going

01:07:20.440 --> 01:07:23.519
to put it up. Yeah. Yeah, because of the game.

01:07:23.599 --> 01:07:25.820
But usually that's the case. And there's some

01:07:25.820 --> 01:07:27.400
other fun stuff coming there. Join the Discord.

01:07:27.579 --> 01:07:31.360
Talk to us. It's all good times. The Ultras apparently

01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:33.199
said I was a big Liverpool supporter on their

01:07:33.199 --> 01:07:36.460
episode. They did. I did. I heard that. It was

01:07:36.460 --> 01:07:38.380
a good shout out for that. They're having some

01:07:38.380 --> 01:07:44.159
fun. I think they did a good job of moving the

01:07:44.159 --> 01:07:47.039
conversation through the episode. So shout out

01:07:47.039 --> 01:07:53.820
to them on that. Fun times. Yeah, yeah. So we're

01:07:53.820 --> 01:07:55.519
going to leave with you telling me what you think

01:07:55.519 --> 01:07:57.820
the Miami versus Seattle score is going to be.

01:07:57.920 --> 01:08:00.300
Well, there's not going to be any Luis Suarez.

01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:03.940
There's not going to be any Aviles. And he was

01:08:03.940 --> 01:08:09.579
a big part of that League's Cup final. So that's

01:08:09.579 --> 01:08:16.500
going to be interesting there because they suck

01:08:16.500 --> 01:08:20.689
defensively. I mean, I don't know how to say

01:08:20.689 --> 01:08:25.989
it other than they suck defensively. And, and

01:08:25.989 --> 01:08:29.970
I feel like, like he didn't start in the league's

01:08:29.970 --> 01:08:35.789
cup final. But I thought he was someone that

01:08:35.789 --> 01:08:41.029
probably should have. So I don't, I don't know.

01:08:41.149 --> 01:08:44.750
I feel like, I feel like that's only going to

01:08:44.750 --> 01:08:54.220
be good for, for us. This is really interesting

01:08:54.220 --> 01:08:59.479
because Miami obviously crashes out against us

01:08:59.479 --> 01:09:03.579
in leagues cup and get into a fight. They got

01:09:03.579 --> 01:09:06.720
just worked in their last game against Charlotte.

01:09:06.800 --> 01:09:08.460
So they've lost their last two games, three,

01:09:08.539 --> 01:09:13.380
nothing, three, nothing. Yeah. I mean, I think

01:09:13.380 --> 01:09:15.420
little leagues cup hangover, maybe for both of

01:09:15.420 --> 01:09:22.859
us. It also could be that they are. they, they

01:09:22.859 --> 01:09:27.279
are just blowing up. Like it could be a situation

01:09:27.279 --> 01:09:29.180
where you have the haves and the have nots. You

01:09:29.180 --> 01:09:35.239
have the, the, the messy DePaul, Busquets, Albas,

01:09:35.300 --> 01:09:39.840
and then everyone else. And it's like, people

01:09:39.840 --> 01:09:42.760
might be getting tired of the narrative. I don't

01:09:42.760 --> 01:09:46.220
know, but I'm here for the drama. And honestly,

01:09:47.390 --> 01:09:50.909
There's not, outside of a 7 -0 Cruz Azul ass

01:09:50.909 --> 01:09:56.609
-kicking, there's not really a result. It's house

01:09:56.609 --> 01:10:00.989
money. We're traveling cross -country, short

01:10:00.989 --> 01:10:06.670
rest. Play who you think you want to play, and

01:10:06.670 --> 01:10:11.970
let's go with this. This could be a game where

01:10:11.970 --> 01:10:17.460
Brian Schmetzer... It rewards some players with

01:10:17.460 --> 01:10:19.720
some playing time, people that maybe haven't

01:10:19.720 --> 01:10:24.420
gotten to play in League's Cup. I don't know

01:10:24.420 --> 01:10:29.000
if I see Jordan Morris starting. It might be

01:10:29.000 --> 01:10:31.979
too soon. I know Schmitz doesn't like rushing

01:10:31.979 --> 01:10:34.720
players back, generally. And he got some time,

01:10:34.819 --> 01:10:41.920
as did... but I have a feeling Albert is more

01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:45.140
likely to get a start in this game. Yeah, I think

01:10:45.140 --> 01:10:48.199
so. I could see both of them going 45, but the

01:10:48.199 --> 01:10:50.600
opposite 45. Well, the other side about that

01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:54.659
is that in both positions, you've got people

01:10:54.659 --> 01:10:57.359
waiting in the wings that can play those roles.

01:10:57.680 --> 01:11:02.560
You've got Osase. You've got Danny for Jordan.

01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:08.000
You've got Danny Leyva. You've got Jesus Ferreira.

01:11:08.569 --> 01:11:15.229
for for um albert so this is the time of year

01:11:15.229 --> 01:11:18.510
as we get healthy where it's going to be really

01:11:18.510 --> 01:11:22.350
interesting to see how brian schmetzer manages

01:11:22.350 --> 01:11:26.949
this team and i'm here for it so let's go my

01:11:26.949 --> 01:11:29.989
prediction on this one this is really maybe the

01:11:29.989 --> 01:11:32.210
toughest prediction because we really don't know

01:11:32.210 --> 01:11:34.829
what our lineup's going to look like yeah so

01:11:36.619 --> 01:11:44.039
I just don't believe that Miami... I do believe

01:11:44.039 --> 01:11:46.119
the narrative that Miami's going to come in hard

01:11:46.119 --> 01:11:49.600
because they're so frustrated. But I think that

01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:53.720
that may bite them in the ass. And I think they

01:11:53.720 --> 01:11:58.039
may get a red in this game. I'd like that. But

01:11:58.039 --> 01:12:00.899
it might also be one of those situations where

01:12:00.899 --> 01:12:03.779
we see Miami with a red and they somehow play

01:12:03.779 --> 01:12:07.189
better. Why does it always have a no sounder

01:12:07.189 --> 01:12:10.430
sound? Well, with Miami, it's almost like, well,

01:12:10.510 --> 01:12:16.109
then teams get a little too offensive in a way

01:12:16.109 --> 01:12:18.229
where they shirk their defensive responsibilities

01:12:18.229 --> 01:12:22.930
and that opens up Messi to do something. With

01:12:22.930 --> 01:12:25.270
all that said, I think we're going to get a 2

01:12:25.270 --> 01:12:29.829
-1 victory on this one. What about you? Yeah,

01:12:29.890 --> 01:12:33.819
I mean, they've obviously been struggling. I

01:12:33.819 --> 01:12:35.899
think Messi still shows that he's a brilliant

01:12:35.899 --> 01:12:38.579
player. Maybe he just doesn't have it every game.

01:12:40.380 --> 01:12:43.279
If you watch the first of those Argentina matches,

01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:46.420
he was off sides for the other goal. He easily

01:12:46.420 --> 01:12:49.279
could have had a hat trick in that one. So I

01:12:49.279 --> 01:12:52.300
don't think you can count him out. I do think

01:12:52.300 --> 01:12:55.640
Schmetzer already rotated the squad in anticipation

01:12:55.640 --> 01:12:59.840
of playing at Miami. So I think Miami is going

01:12:59.840 --> 01:13:03.390
to come in a little hungrier. The Sounders, I

01:13:03.390 --> 01:13:05.430
think, will hold on, and it'll be a 2 -2 draw.

01:13:05.770 --> 01:13:09.050
I can't count Miami out until they're officially

01:13:09.050 --> 01:13:12.430
counted out, right? And we're going there. Sounders,

01:13:12.449 --> 01:13:14.409
it's been a while to me since the Sounders have

01:13:14.409 --> 01:13:17.930
looked good on the road, where we are a dominating,

01:13:18.090 --> 01:13:20.869
fun team to watch at home, generally. Are you

01:13:20.869 --> 01:13:24.350
figuring the LA Galaxy away game? That's the

01:13:24.350 --> 01:13:26.829
LA Galaxy, though. They're garbage, which is

01:13:26.829 --> 01:13:30.550
why this last game was so painful. LA Galaxy

01:13:30.550 --> 01:13:32.850
is literally the worst team in the league. So

01:13:32.850 --> 01:13:36.550
you're thinking a ballerina game? I'm going 2

01:13:36.550 --> 01:13:41.789
-2. The ballerina game. Yeah. Yeah. So I just,

01:13:41.890 --> 01:13:44.850
until Miami's going to come in wanting to prove

01:13:44.850 --> 01:13:47.369
something, and I think we're good enough to prevent

01:13:47.369 --> 01:13:50.109
them from winning. But also I think they could

01:13:50.109 --> 01:13:52.109
go crazy, like you said, and fall off and get

01:13:52.109 --> 01:13:54.569
a card and change it into our favor. I think

01:13:54.569 --> 01:13:56.869
the Sounders could also get punched in the mouth

01:13:56.869 --> 01:13:58.649
and it's going to see how it's going to have

01:13:58.649 --> 01:14:02.329
to. see how we react. So, and I mean, figuratively,

01:14:02.369 --> 01:14:04.789
not literally, because we already know Obed just

01:14:04.789 --> 01:14:07.130
kind of laughs and points because he's the man.

01:14:08.010 --> 01:14:12.350
I mean, someone compared that real housewives

01:14:12.350 --> 01:14:16.109
meme where the lady's pointing at the cat. I

01:14:16.109 --> 01:14:19.189
don't even know what the origin of that actually

01:14:19.189 --> 01:14:21.710
is. It's actually a really messed up thing. So

01:14:21.710 --> 01:14:24.010
it's stupid to me that the internet took this.

01:14:24.090 --> 01:14:26.850
That lady had every right to be mad. And it makes

01:14:26.850 --> 01:14:29.029
me sad that she got turned into a joke because

01:14:29.029 --> 01:14:33.149
she was right in that situation. But I know exactly

01:14:33.149 --> 01:14:35.609
the meme you're talking about. But that photo

01:14:35.609 --> 01:14:41.359
of... uh, Suarez angry at him and Obed laughing

01:14:41.359 --> 01:14:44.840
and pointing. It's very much. It's the personification

01:14:44.840 --> 01:14:49.300
of that. It's so great. So great. So, so good.

01:14:49.399 --> 01:14:52.359
Well, this has been a sounder scuttle, but where

01:14:52.359 --> 01:14:54.119
can they find you on the internet? You know,

01:14:54.140 --> 01:14:59.539
come on out to, uh, Instagram where I'm at cascades

01:14:59.539 --> 01:15:04.359
to see, or come join me. I'm blue sky where I'm

01:15:04.359 --> 01:15:08.100
simply Nicholas. Um, not simply Nicholas. I am

01:15:08.100 --> 01:15:12.380
Nicholas, Nicholas, Nicholas dot B sky dot app,

01:15:12.460 --> 01:15:15.359
whatever that is. But yeah. What about you, Mr.

01:15:15.760 --> 01:15:17.899
By the way, everyone seems to be having so much

01:15:17.899 --> 01:15:21.800
fun hearing about your, your Twitter issues.

01:15:22.279 --> 01:15:26.859
Everyone's just dunking on you. It's very frustrating

01:15:26.859 --> 01:15:31.340
considering that's my main news source. for better

01:15:31.340 --> 01:15:34.020
meaning like i didn't remember that we had to

01:15:34.020 --> 01:15:36.939
sign up for the visa pre -sale because that's

01:15:36.939 --> 01:15:39.800
where i would have found out about it uh so i'm

01:15:39.800 --> 01:15:42.020
not getting proper information but you can get

01:15:42.020 --> 01:15:44.359
me on the two you talked about blue sky and instagram

01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:48.300
at legal minded punk um yeah and maybe one day

01:15:48.300 --> 01:15:51.300
i'll be on x again but um as far as i'm concerned

01:15:51.300 --> 01:15:53.960
this has just proven what a ridiculous platform

01:15:53.960 --> 01:15:59.220
it is that i was the victim and uh in the end

01:15:59.689 --> 01:16:04.310
I'm still getting fucked by X. Yeah. But yeah.

01:16:04.489 --> 01:16:06.850
So you can get me there. Join the, is it, is

01:16:06.850 --> 01:16:13.010
it, is it, is it John Doe? No. Wrong, wrong member

01:16:13.010 --> 01:16:20.069
of X. Yeah. Not, uh, X scene. Yeah. That, and

01:16:20.069 --> 01:16:23.149
that, that John Doe is the John Doe, right? Yeah.

01:16:23.250 --> 01:16:25.930
Yeah. The, the member of the member of X. Yeah.

01:16:26.069 --> 01:16:29.909
Yeah. Yeah. I haven't seen them before. But you

01:16:29.909 --> 01:16:34.170
did not get fucked by John Doe. I did not. Just

01:16:34.170 --> 01:16:39.170
checking. I did not. Join the Patreon. Join the

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01:16:42.489 --> 01:16:45.770
You go get some rest. Have dreams of me and John

01:16:45.770 --> 01:16:50.069
Doe. And we will see everybody next time. Oh,

01:16:50.069 --> 01:16:57.409
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