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

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can't say he's cheating! Hello, welcome to Sounders

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Scuttlebutt. We are recording post -match reactions

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to Game 1 against the Loons. I'm here, Aaron

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Lingley, and believe it or not, I'm joined by

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the other two OGs. We got Nicholas Biela and

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Cameron Collins. Nick, how you doing? Cameron,

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how you doing? Doing good. How are you? I'm good.

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A little sleepy, but I'm up for the match and

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I'm up for this. I think Nick's ready to open

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that beer. Yeah, he is. What is it before you

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open it? Well, it is... Oh, Patrick Marlowe.

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So you can say it louder because I totally talked

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over you. Yeah, it's my Sam Adams Oktoberfest

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in my Patrick Marlowe Seattle Thunderbirds jersey

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koozie. Ooh, that was weak. You failed. Didn't

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even open it. Totally fucked that up. Well, for

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the sound effect, I'll open my LaCroix, but I'm

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actually drinking a whiskey, an apple whiskey.

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It's called Northern Revelry. It's Canadian whiskey,

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and Minnesota is basically Canadian, so I decided

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to drink and pee out Canadian stuff. It's actually

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pretty good, but the reason I have this is I

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don't normally have liquor at home. We have what's

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called BevMo. I don't remember them in Seattle.

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BevMo is like total wine. Yeah, exactly. In California,

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they've been there for a long time. It's literally

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one minute from my house. Instead of going to

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7 -Eleven and paying that extra 20 % on a six

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-pack, I just go to the place that specializes

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in alcohol. As soon as you walk in the door,

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there's a table that says, buy one, get one for

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five cents. It's basically their clearance rack.

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They had Jack Daniels and a bunch of other flavors.

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And then they had this Canadian revelry. Buy

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one, get one for five cents. Their standard whiskey,

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apple and peach. And I decided to get their standard

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just to get a baseline and their apple. It was

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$10. Okay. So I have two fifths. Incredible.

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It's pretty dangerous. I shouldn't be doing this,

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but here I go. But first I'll just open my LaCroix

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for the sound effect. Drink it. That's good.

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That's a commercial quality right there. Yeah.

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I was just at Total Wine and BevMo getting stuff

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for a Halloween party the other day. For the

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kid -centric Halloween party that you were talking

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about out there? For the parents, yes. Oh, okay.

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Yeah, because getting the kids drunk will knock

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them out. So it worked like a charm, I guess.

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How you counter the sugar high, right? Yeah,

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they definitely were running around like mad

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people, as children are wont to do. I have a

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Guinness. I went up to get a water, and I said,

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you know what? This deserves a Guinness. Oh,

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I thought that was liquid death. You know, you're

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lucky it's there, because I saw it in your fridge,

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and I almost took it. There was two in there,

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so I would have grabbed one out of the back.

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But yes, you could have taken it. It was there

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for you. Oh. Instead, we had malorts. That was

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loud and messy. Because the nitro inside kept

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going after I opened it. We had three very different

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openings. Mine was perfect. Nick, you. I failed.

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Yeah. I did drink. You didn't drink Malort. I

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drank Malort, though, after your wife tried it,

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Nicholas. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. I did not.

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I've had Malort, and I prefer to, you know, not

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drink liquid ass. It's an interesting taste.

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I bought it on purpose because I want to grow

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some more hair on my chest, I think. I thought

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Hagrid said we shouldn't say that word. Malort.

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Malort? Your pants won't show themselves. Oh,

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no, that's... Oh, yeah. Volmalort. Volmalort?

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Voldemort? Someone didn't play Hogwarts Legacy.

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I actually did. That game was pretty fun. I just

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started it, actually. It's on Game Pass. It's

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really tough. It's tough to enjoy the world when

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you know J .K. Rowling is getting money from

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it. She's already a billionaire. Exactly. Oh,

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I still do. I just don't feel great about it.

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Maybe I'm a hypocrite. I will consume Harry Potter

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stuff, but I won't watch Kevin Spacey movies.

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I thought you were going to say Kevin Smith.

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I was going to be like, what? I don't know. Kevin

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Smith is a good dude by all accounts from what

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I understand. Yeah, yeah. Anyways, let's talk

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about some Scuttlebutt. Yeah, there's some big

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Scuttlebutt. There is some very big Scuttlebutt.

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Would you say big dumper Scuttlebutt? We haven't

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all discussed. We're not going to talk about

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it. I was at Scuttlebutt Brewery yesterday. Yeah.

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I know you talked about Mariners last episode.

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Was that during the series or was that after?

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Like the ALCS? Yeah. It was during. It was during.

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There was a really big Scuttlebutt, though, where

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a U .S. Open Cup match has to be replayed. Have

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you heard about this? did. Shark the Puss FC

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versus Bellevue Athletic. Which team am I getting

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a jersey from? Bellevue Athletic. Shark the Puss

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FC. Get me that jersey right now. I'll send you

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the picture. I don't care about the picture.

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They've had, I guess, four now. And Olive and

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York makes them. They are incredible jerseys.

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Shark the Puss. Shark the Puss. I prefer mine.

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Yeah, I know. I get it. I just prefer mine. Yeah,

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but the referee in the 4 -3 match between Bellevue

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Athletic and Sharktopus was a Bellevue Athletic

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2 player and has previously played over 20 matches

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for Bellevue Athletic's first team, most recently,

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I think, 2023 or 2022. And so you can't... do

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that you can't i mean i don't i mean think about

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they get that ref in miami got in trouble just

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for wearing a messy jersey i mean the optics

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of it were bad and and while and while they the

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open cup basically said we don't think anything

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untoward happened we're going to replay the match

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just because the optics are bad yeah it's the

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right thing yeah i don't think it's about whether

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my guess is your mouth my guess and what i really

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hope happened was that shark to puss i can't

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protested but played under protest. Like, we're

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going to continue to play because we don't want

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to forfeit, but we are filing our protest before

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the game started. I don't know when they found

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out. I'm not sure of the timeline, but you know

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what? It's a story. It's not... I don't think

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of it as a sore losers thing. I am... No. I have

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not watched any of the game. It's the right call.

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Here's the thing. Sharktopus is a league below.

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the other team. Bellevue Athletic plays... Should

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be winning. Yeah, they play semi -pro in leagues

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around in Seattle. And Sharktopus is a rec league

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team who last year, I think it was, made it one

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game away from the Open Cup. So the fact that

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they're in the Open Cup this year is pretty incredible.

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Yeah. I mean, they're in the last round of the

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qualifiers because I think they had to play Ballard

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FC who had to go through the qualifiers. Yeah,

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yeah. And Ballard beat Sharktopus. Which they

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should now. I'm confused. We won't talk too much

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about... This further, but open cup replay when

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the open cup is done? No, no qualifiers. Because

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keep in mind, MLS teams, they get automatic bids

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into the open cup. That's true. Okay, that makes

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sense because you also said Bellevue Athletic

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2, which I'm like, how is there two? That's like

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Sounders 2. No, I understand. Okay, just remember

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that low of a tier. The beginning of Pub League

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and ECSFC was with the idea that we could enter

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ECSFC into the Open Cup. Oh, yeah. In theory,

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my Pub League team could play in Open Cup. If

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I move back to Seattle, then I could probably

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help us get into that. I honestly kind of feel

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like we need to do it one year. just to do it.

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Yeah. Like it would be like that game against

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the Irish team. Y 'all had. Yeah. Yeah. I mean,

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as a matter of fact, now that I'm thinking about

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this, like, you know what, if the Sounders aren't

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going to be in the open cup, well, fuck it. Public

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is going to be in the open cup. You know what?

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We, we, we're onto something here. We're onto

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something. It would be mighty fun. Yeah. My,

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my speaking of after a very poor start to the

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season, my team, which is Hellmouth FC. By the

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way, I've been watching Buffy. I just finished

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season one. I haven't watched it in a while.

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Incredible. I need to finish the late seasons,

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which I've seen before. But about 10 years ago,

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I started rewatching. But we have now won six

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games in a row. All right. Congratulations. Things

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are starting to come out full Buffy. Yeah. It's

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been a good season, although yesterday was complete

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ass. I refed a game at 8 o 'clock in the morning,

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got completely, completely soaked. I wore a parka

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on the field as a ref. I'm like, fuck this. I'm

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just keeping the parka on. My parka was completely

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soaked. Then I had to wait an hour. Then I had

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to play in my game. And just no reprieve. yeah

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no it was not great yeah it didn't it was basically

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sunny the whole time for our game so not sunny

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that's the wrong word it wasn't raining yeah

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that's sunny in seattle you can go fuck yourself

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is that why you were gone when i got there even

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though all your teammates were still there yeah

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actually what happened was uh roma was supposed

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to get dropped off because we're going to a birthday

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party right after um The rain was so bad, I'm

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like, do not drop Roma off. Bernie took Roma

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to work, so I actually had to skip the second

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game so I could go pick up Roma and get back

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in time for, yeah, so I missed out on the second

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game. Do you want me to tell you what the weather

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was like in San Diego yesterday? Yeah. Yeah,

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why not? 72 degrees. Of course it was. Sunny.

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Now, was that while the match versus Portland

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was going on? I presume. What are you getting

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at? I'm just saying, Portland played at San Diego

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yesterday in a very interesting match that finished,

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I believe, 2 -1 in the end, but Portland got

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a red card. How terrible was that? I didn't even

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connect the dots that that was happening in my

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backyard. Yeah, you could have gone and rooted

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for San Diego. Actually, it was weird. The ultras

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were mad at me. When San Diego scored, I discovered

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I was rooting for Portland. Oh, really? I just,

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I'm so, I don't want, I like it when these new

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teams come in and then lose. I do too. And I've

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been telling everyone at work that, but also

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if they win and we win, I get to go to another

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Sounders game. That's true. Okay. I'll start

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rooting for them for you then. Because the alternative

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is, yeah. Plus I don't want to play Portland.

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The two teams I didn't want to play in the playoffs

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were Minnesota and Portland. Yeah. What's wrong

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with you? Drink more Guinness. But before we

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start talking about the game, there is one more

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big, big piece of scuttle, but we really need

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to talk about. And that is the fact that this

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morning, the next wave of World Cup ticket lottery

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has opened up. And this is for any credit card,

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not just a Visa credit card. So make sure you

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sign up. You have until Friday morning. And I

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believe it's 11 o 'clock Eastern time. So just

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basically say till Thursday night. Between now

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and Thursday night, go to FIFA .com slash tickets,

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log into your account, and sign up. It's been

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heated. Do it. It's true. It's true. And then

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if you followed our advice that we talked about

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earlier this season when we talked about the

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Club World Cup special ticket package. where

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if you went to and attended, or if you bought

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the package and attended the game and used all

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your tickets, you would get the guarantee right

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to buy. And that opens up on my birthday, November

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11th. So if anyone wants to Venmo me a little

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bit of birthday gift for the ticket, go right

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ahead and do that. I'd appreciate it. Before

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you do that, my birthday is November 9th. So

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why don't you go ahead and give me that first?

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Wow. Isn't that special? I asked first, though.

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No, but all kidding aside, if you did do the

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right to buy Club World Cup ticket package, your

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window is from November 11th to November 14th.

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So make sure you don't miss out on that. That's

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all I got. See, I mean, that's the thing about

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Scuttlebutt, our Discord channel. It's a good

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reason, as if you need more reasons to join our

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Discord. We talked about ways to get guaranteed

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right to buy World Cup tickets. We talked about

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$20 or $29 Sounders jerseys, authentic jerseys.

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You know, we look out for you. So come join us.

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We give away stuff, all sorts of fun stuff. So

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come join us. Come have some fun with us. Benefits

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have... perks perks have benefits i don't really

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know what i'm saying i'm rambling because it

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is almost 11 o 'clock at night um speaking of

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giving away stuff might as well go into do you

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have the predictions up and i do cool why don't

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you go over that and yeah so with today's the

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prizes because we're near the end of the year

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we are we are so um So once again, if you've

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been playing our prediction challenge game, we

00:15:55.220 --> 00:15:58.639
will be giving away prizes, including a team

00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:04.759
signed Bruce Lee jersey. That was the 2020. What

00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:09.139
year is this? 2025. So the 2023 squad, including

00:16:09.139 --> 00:16:13.200
Nico Lodero and Raul Ruiz Diaz, the Bruce Lee

00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:17.210
kit. We've got. Bruce Lee kits that are unsigned

00:16:17.210 --> 00:16:20.610
that we'll be giving away as well. I think we've

00:16:20.610 --> 00:16:22.250
got some other stuff that we'll be giving away.

00:16:23.129 --> 00:16:27.269
We're going to draw from everyone that has entered.

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Every time you enter, you will have gotten an

00:16:30.149 --> 00:16:33.690
entry. Like a raffle ticket. Yeah, and then we'll

00:16:33.690 --> 00:16:36.610
also have the overall top scorer, whoever got

00:16:36.610 --> 00:16:41.289
the most points throughout the season. And we'll

00:16:41.289 --> 00:16:46.100
reveal that in our season -ending... uh scuttlebutt

00:16:46.100 --> 00:16:49.620
party um you know whether that's a physical in

00:16:49.620 --> 00:16:52.659
-person party or just you know us having some

00:16:52.659 --> 00:16:54.399
fun we don't know we're making this up as we

00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:59.419
go along um yeah so so today's winner actually

00:16:59.419 --> 00:17:04.900
was dan the bastard oh uh dan that has to be

00:17:04.900 --> 00:17:10.430
a replay because he's an ultra Oh, yeah. You

00:17:10.430 --> 00:17:12.829
know, I do notice a correlation, though, with

00:17:12.829 --> 00:17:16.549
Dan the Bastard and when he wins. When he wins,

00:17:16.730 --> 00:17:19.869
I notice maybe the results don't always go our

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way. He really is a bastard. I mean, that was

00:17:24.140 --> 00:17:26.460
true for a while, but in that stretch where we

00:17:26.460 --> 00:17:28.380
were winning a lot, he was actually picking us

00:17:28.380 --> 00:17:30.960
to win most of the time. He was. He was. No,

00:17:31.059 --> 00:17:33.539
but I like giving him a little bit of shit just

00:17:33.539 --> 00:17:39.160
because it's a fun bit at this point. But congratulations,

00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:45.279
Dan. You did win today. You done good, kid. You

00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:50.869
done good, kid. So. Do you want to jump right

00:17:50.869 --> 00:17:53.430
into a break? How long do we want this episode

00:17:53.430 --> 00:17:56.269
to be today? Considering it's 11 o 'clock and

00:17:56.269 --> 00:17:58.269
we're in a reaction episode, I think we should

00:17:58.269 --> 00:18:01.430
get to reactions. So let's take that break. Do

00:18:01.430 --> 00:18:04.829
you want a reaction real quick to something that's

00:18:04.829 --> 00:18:07.710
happening right now? Sports are still happening.

00:18:07.769 --> 00:18:10.289
Did you know that in the United States? I did

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not. Is Hawaii getting a kick? God damn it. No.

00:18:13.210 --> 00:18:16.349
The Dodgers and the Blue Jays in Game 3 of a

00:18:16.349 --> 00:18:19.650
series tied 1 -1 are on to the 16th inning. Tied

00:18:19.650 --> 00:18:22.250
5 -5. That's our thing. That's not anyone else's

00:18:22.250 --> 00:18:24.509
thing. Wait, there's still baseball happening?

00:18:25.130 --> 00:18:29.430
Yes. I thought it folded in 2001, but it's still

00:18:29.430 --> 00:18:32.930
happening. no all kidding aside i'm actually

00:18:32.930 --> 00:18:36.650
i really do like otani i can't i can't root against

00:18:36.650 --> 00:18:42.190
him but i don't want la to win um go go blue

00:18:42.190 --> 00:18:46.029
jays oh no the worst fans in baseball plus the

00:18:46.029 --> 00:18:48.650
team that beat the mariners with george springer

00:18:48.650 --> 00:18:50.890
on the team the biggest cheater in the history

00:18:50.890 --> 00:18:54.210
of modern baseball no thank you yeah but i'm

00:18:54.210 --> 00:18:57.619
in it for the lulz I just want... Honestly, I

00:18:57.619 --> 00:19:00.359
want the Dodgers to stay in it, and then we have

00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:04.720
a chance to take down them next year. I also

00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:10.420
think that we might have a strike after the season

00:19:10.420 --> 00:19:12.119
if the Dodgers win it, and I'm kind of in favor

00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:14.559
of that because we need to do something about

00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.630
not having a salary cap in baseball. And, you

00:19:17.630 --> 00:19:22.210
know, the deferred salaries to avoid. Yeah. I

00:19:22.210 --> 00:19:25.210
mean, NHL did it right when Ilya Kovalchuk tried

00:19:25.210 --> 00:19:27.869
to sign, like, the 12 -year contract, and the

00:19:27.869 --> 00:19:31.329
NHL was like, yeah, that's not happening. And

00:19:31.329 --> 00:19:33.549
they stepped in and said, this is not a legit

00:19:33.549 --> 00:19:36.849
contract. It's designed specifically to circumvent

00:19:36.849 --> 00:19:41.329
the cap, you know, paying $1 a year. And, no,

00:19:41.470 --> 00:19:44.130
that's not. I mean, I'm exaggerating a little

00:19:44.130 --> 00:19:51.099
bit, but still. Break time? Break time. Break

00:19:51.099 --> 00:19:54.119
it down. Break it down. And this will be a good

00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:59.579
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-M. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

00:23:00.589 --> 00:23:03.710
And we're back. Ooh, that's what I was gonna

00:23:03.710 --> 00:23:06.890
say. Yeah. I just wanted to say happy birthday

00:23:06.890 --> 00:23:08.410
to Jordan Morris, whose birthday was yesterday.

00:23:09.029 --> 00:23:12.089
Shout out, buddy. Happy birthday to you. Yeah,

00:23:12.130 --> 00:23:14.289
he's probably not too happy right now. No, but

00:23:14.289 --> 00:23:19.049
at least he had a good birthday. You don't know

00:23:19.049 --> 00:23:20.970
that. I mean, I assume so. He didn't have to

00:23:20.970 --> 00:23:23.069
lose on his birthday, so. That's true. He was

00:23:23.069 --> 00:23:25.230
probably traveling, though. Could be. Not with

00:23:25.230 --> 00:23:31.980
his puppy at home. Yeah. Aw. Or Theo. Happy birthday,

00:23:32.119 --> 00:23:37.640
Jordan. All right, Sounders. We just technically

00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:41.119
lost, right? It was 0 -0 on the scoreline. But

00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:45.819
as MLS does, we have new formats every year just

00:23:45.819 --> 00:23:49.359
for keeping things lively. And it is straight

00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:51.259
to PKs. I don't know if we did this format last

00:23:51.259 --> 00:23:52.220
year. Did we do this format last year? We did

00:23:52.220 --> 00:23:55.079
because that was the Houston series. We were

00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:57.740
on the other side of it. We were the team that...

00:23:58.109 --> 00:24:00.750
was relying on not scoring goals to advance.

00:24:01.529 --> 00:24:04.529
Yes, that's correct. All right. So now we're

00:24:04.529 --> 00:24:09.650
completely used to it two years in and I, you

00:24:09.650 --> 00:24:11.930
know, we'll take first reactions and I think

00:24:11.930 --> 00:24:14.869
we should go through just our lineup. Who's been

00:24:14.869 --> 00:24:17.390
available on available. We haven't, the three

00:24:17.390 --> 00:24:19.170
of us haven't been together in a while. We haven't

00:24:19.170 --> 00:24:23.549
talked about Pedro and the Patella. And the impact

00:24:23.549 --> 00:24:25.750
that is. Pedro and the Patella sounds like a

00:24:25.750 --> 00:24:29.569
really fun indie dance band in the vein of The

00:24:29.569 --> 00:24:35.109
Rapture. Yes. The Faint is actually coming to

00:24:35.109 --> 00:24:40.210
town very soon. So their opening will be Pedro

00:24:40.210 --> 00:24:43.390
and the Patella. I actually like The Faint. I

00:24:43.390 --> 00:24:46.289
actually know who that is. Pedro and the Broken

00:24:46.289 --> 00:24:54.679
Patella also would work, you know? Yeah. Pedro's

00:24:54.679 --> 00:24:57.220
Broken Kneecap is a punk band. I've seen Broken

00:24:57.220 --> 00:24:59.339
Social Scene a number of times. They are fantastic.

00:24:59.619 --> 00:25:05.819
That is right up my alley. Speaking of punks,

00:25:05.819 --> 00:25:10.259
I'm reading Sing Backwards and the Mark Lanigan

00:25:10.259 --> 00:25:13.720
memoir. I'm on that right now. I just started

00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:19.170
it. What was it? Sing Backwards and Weep? He's

00:25:19.170 --> 00:25:21.490
incredible. I didn't realize how incredible he

00:25:21.490 --> 00:25:24.269
was growing up and how lucky we were to have

00:25:24.269 --> 00:25:27.230
him as a musician in the city. Yeah, and you

00:25:27.230 --> 00:25:30.690
are right. It is Sing Backwards and Weep. I haven't

00:25:30.690 --> 00:25:32.970
read it yet, but it's on my list of books to

00:25:32.970 --> 00:25:36.309
check out. Yeah, I'm excited to dive into it.

00:25:36.630 --> 00:25:39.890
I'm on a... Hey, that's my cat. Thankfully, he's

00:25:39.890 --> 00:25:45.690
shut the hell up. But I'm on a rock and roll.

00:25:45.869 --> 00:25:47.569
God, this is so scuttled a lot of us. Let's talk

00:25:47.569 --> 00:25:50.759
about the game. And then I'd get into this, but

00:25:50.759 --> 00:25:52.859
I'm just, I'm just going to say, cause I've been

00:25:52.859 --> 00:25:54.519
teaching myself guitar over the last couple of

00:25:54.519 --> 00:25:56.519
months and I've just only been listening and

00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:00.000
reading audio books and books of just basically

00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:02.440
memoirs of just rock and roll, just to have like

00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:05.059
inspiration. And it's, it's been fun. And then

00:26:05.059 --> 00:26:06.700
there's, and it's only been, I've been focused

00:26:06.700 --> 00:26:08.980
mostly on kind of Seattle stuff just because

00:26:08.980 --> 00:26:12.039
I miss being home. I was making fun of the weather

00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:15.200
here or the weather there, but honestly I've

00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:17.619
been telling everyone at work, like I miss cold.

00:26:18.059 --> 00:26:23.299
crisp nights. It's 47 degrees. The stars are

00:26:23.299 --> 00:26:26.420
out. My nipples are hard. I'm walking my dog.

00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:32.579
I just miss that. I guess it's a weird thing

00:26:32.579 --> 00:26:34.559
to complain about when it's also 72 degrees and

00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:42.640
sunny. Who's got our lineup up? I do. Have this

00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:48.240
game start. Who's up? Our starting 11 were Stefan

00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:53.500
Freyengold, Nuhu, Jackson, Yamar, and Alex rolled

00:26:53.500 --> 00:26:58.319
on in the back four. So pretty standard defensive

00:26:58.319 --> 00:27:03.099
backing with Christian and Obed in the middle.

00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:06.400
Paul Rothrock on the left, Albert Rosnick in

00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:08.640
the middle, and Jesus Ferrer on the right with

00:27:08.640 --> 00:27:11.440
Jordan Morris up top. I mean, frankly, this is

00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:20.099
a strong 11. Before we get into the 20, because

00:27:20.099 --> 00:27:24.119
in the playoffs there's two extra spots available

00:27:24.119 --> 00:27:27.099
for whatever reason. Did not know that. Yeah,

00:27:27.140 --> 00:27:31.200
so there's a 20 today. So before we get into

00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:37.140
that, what did you all think of the lineup? Go,

00:27:37.180 --> 00:27:40.099
Cameron. Yeah, I think it was, I mean, the best

00:27:40.099 --> 00:27:45.589
lineup we probably could put. out there um obviously

00:27:45.589 --> 00:27:49.730
not my first choice lineup but based on the players

00:27:49.730 --> 00:27:51.430
that schmetzer likes i don't think there is a

00:27:51.430 --> 00:27:54.970
better lineup possible what would you what would

00:27:54.970 --> 00:27:57.329
you have done differently i would put jordan

00:27:57.329 --> 00:28:00.289
on the left where he belongs i put masovsky up

00:28:00.289 --> 00:28:02.589
top and i would put rothrock on rothrock on the

00:28:02.589 --> 00:28:05.490
right yeah so you're benching the benching yep

00:28:05.490 --> 00:28:08.309
because i i think him coming off the bench late

00:28:08.309 --> 00:28:12.299
would be he'd be able to tear them apart. And

00:28:12.299 --> 00:28:17.599
I also, I mean, I'm not seeing from Jesus, whatever

00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:20.140
Brian sees. And we saw it earlier in the season,

00:28:20.220 --> 00:28:22.880
I think for sure. Like he was so solid, both

00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:25.700
on the right, but particularly at center attacking

00:28:25.700 --> 00:28:28.539
mid, but these last few games, I'm not seeing

00:28:28.539 --> 00:28:36.640
it. Okay. And I, I agree with your idea or just.

00:28:37.049 --> 00:28:39.250
I wasn't entirely happy. That wouldn't have been

00:28:39.250 --> 00:28:46.630
my first 11. I actually would have put Rothrock

00:28:46.630 --> 00:28:53.230
on the bench only because I don't, there's something

00:28:53.230 --> 00:28:55.410
about him. I don't know. He's, he's produced

00:28:55.410 --> 00:28:58.650
and he's been great. I just, I think that that

00:28:58.650 --> 00:29:02.130
energy, I don't think Jesus brings the same energy

00:29:02.130 --> 00:29:07.440
and workmanship, workmanship. I don't even know

00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:11.579
what to call his style, right? It's just that

00:29:11.579 --> 00:29:14.180
at 60 minutes I think would be devastating with

00:29:14.180 --> 00:29:18.359
Mungu. Yeah, that's true. And I like Jesus. That's

00:29:18.359 --> 00:29:22.180
true. And I like Jesus. I don't like him on the

00:29:22.180 --> 00:29:28.599
wings. And I don't even know if I can put my

00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:32.660
lineup out. But I need Jesus, I think, in the

00:29:32.660 --> 00:29:35.279
middle. What would you think about him at center

00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:38.980
attacking mid and Rusnak on the right? That's

00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:41.140
what I was about to say is because I think Rusnak

00:29:41.140 --> 00:29:44.460
is able to read the game during the game and

00:29:44.460 --> 00:29:47.000
adapt better than Jesus. I don't remember Jesus

00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:50.119
doing anything this match. Yeah, I mean, I could

00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:52.279
be wrong, but that's where I'm at too. And granted,

00:29:52.299 --> 00:29:55.740
I listened to the first 20 on the radio. I watched

00:29:55.740 --> 00:30:01.240
the entire game and I don't. There was nothing

00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:05.400
spectacular. We were fairly dominant, but when

00:30:05.400 --> 00:30:08.900
you read Ryan Craft's news post -match on the

00:30:08.900 --> 00:30:12.859
Sounders website, it sounds like the Loons dominated

00:30:12.859 --> 00:30:16.359
us because of their opportunities. They did have

00:30:16.359 --> 00:30:18.480
a lot of great opportunities, but so did we.

00:30:19.259 --> 00:30:22.200
They came from a lot of set pieces. They came

00:30:22.200 --> 00:30:26.849
from set pieces. That's what they do. And it

00:30:26.849 --> 00:30:29.329
didn't get us a win. And I'm not confident in

00:30:29.329 --> 00:30:31.109
that style of play. I think we need to figure

00:30:31.109 --> 00:30:33.890
out, which I did see spurts of, where you see

00:30:33.890 --> 00:30:37.769
that direct key pass down the middle from midfield

00:30:37.769 --> 00:30:39.490
or from the defense, but where they just turn

00:30:39.490 --> 00:30:41.309
the hip and instead of keep recycling it left

00:30:41.309 --> 00:30:44.230
and right, they just actually did a 30 -yard

00:30:44.230 --> 00:30:48.289
key pass straight down the gut from the midfield

00:30:48.289 --> 00:30:54.170
to Jordan, to Rustak. I can't picture a certain.

00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:57.420
There was like three or four passes. And I was

00:30:57.420 --> 00:30:59.200
like, I actually appreciate that they actually

00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:02.700
tried to unlock the next level faster than I'm

00:31:02.700 --> 00:31:05.619
used to when this definitely seemed like a possession

00:31:05.619 --> 00:31:09.059
recycle lineup. And that is definitely Brian

00:31:09.059 --> 00:31:11.119
Schmitzer, but that is not going to win it. That's

00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:13.279
not going to get us two goals. We need, we're

00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:16.019
going to need two goals match. And that's been

00:31:16.019 --> 00:31:19.460
kind of my thing for a couple of years now is.

00:31:19.619 --> 00:31:21.920
I agree generally, but can I step in real quick

00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:23.539
and say, I don't know if we need two goals versus

00:31:23.539 --> 00:31:26.730
Minnesota. And Cedar, one of our ultras, was

00:31:26.730 --> 00:31:28.450
just saying, I don't know if Minnesota is going

00:31:28.450 --> 00:31:31.829
to score a single goal this entire series. And

00:31:31.829 --> 00:31:34.690
I kind of am there right now. Unless it's on

00:31:34.690 --> 00:31:36.609
a set piece, they're not scoring on this sound.

00:31:36.710 --> 00:31:39.029
I mean, they had their chances early on, and

00:31:39.029 --> 00:31:42.730
honestly should have had a penalty. I mean, that

00:31:42.730 --> 00:31:48.630
was awful. I don't know. But you would be mad

00:31:48.630 --> 00:31:50.670
if it was the other way around. Well, I was mad

00:31:50.670 --> 00:31:53.930
the other way around when Jordan basically...

00:31:54.769 --> 00:31:57.829
barely got stepped on and, and went down and

00:31:57.829 --> 00:32:01.430
they, you know, VAR reverse the penalty, you

00:32:01.430 --> 00:32:03.849
know? So, so what happens like there, there needs

00:32:03.849 --> 00:32:06.890
to be a little bit more force for that to get

00:32:06.890 --> 00:32:09.210
called. I mean, Jordan didn't get stepped on.

00:32:09.269 --> 00:32:11.069
He dove. That was, he should deserve the yellow

00:32:11.069 --> 00:32:13.490
card in that instance, but let's, I might be,

00:32:13.549 --> 00:32:15.529
I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I know. Yes, you're

00:32:15.529 --> 00:32:17.950
right on that one. I'm, I'm completing it with

00:32:17.950 --> 00:32:19.349
a different one. There was another one recently,

00:32:19.410 --> 00:32:23.619
but yeah, true. But regardless, I, I, I kind

00:32:23.619 --> 00:32:26.079
of think that at home, at least, at least the

00:32:26.079 --> 00:32:28.319
next match, we only need a goal. The question

00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:30.420
is how you're going to break that low block because

00:32:30.420 --> 00:32:32.039
we've had months and months and we haven't figured

00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:34.099
it out. I think you just may have may have determined

00:32:34.099 --> 00:32:37.400
how they're trying to do it. And that might be

00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:39.819
because we've seen people, other teams have success

00:32:39.819 --> 00:32:43.289
against Minnesota of late. I thought we had dangerous

00:32:43.289 --> 00:32:45.430
looks. I thought we had some good opportunities.

00:32:45.529 --> 00:32:49.710
I thought even Mosovsky's header. But earlier

00:32:49.710 --> 00:32:52.490
in the game, there was that really nice, you

00:32:52.490 --> 00:32:54.710
know, quick transition where it was four passes,

00:32:54.769 --> 00:32:59.950
like a quick one -two right outside the box and,

00:33:00.029 --> 00:33:02.930
you know, shot. I think it was Rothrock's shot

00:33:02.930 --> 00:33:05.829
went high. You know, there were definitely some

00:33:05.829 --> 00:33:10.109
opportunities. just think we got to be much more

00:33:10.109 --> 00:33:13.029
clinical. I think in the summer, like the post

00:33:13.029 --> 00:33:15.430
club world cup sounders, when we were scoring

00:33:15.430 --> 00:33:18.569
a lot of goals, one of the secrets was we talked

00:33:18.569 --> 00:33:23.349
about it is that it wasn't all buildup play.

00:33:23.430 --> 00:33:26.009
There was a lot of quick counter and quick attack

00:33:26.009 --> 00:33:28.890
goals. And we, we really got to find that we

00:33:28.890 --> 00:33:32.009
got to stay with that. And I think Jordan in

00:33:32.009 --> 00:33:35.250
the last couple of weeks that we've been, you

00:33:35.250 --> 00:33:37.359
know, playing those balls over the top to let

00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.799
Jordan run on it. And it happened only a handful

00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:44.339
of times today, but I'd like to see us try and

00:33:44.339 --> 00:33:46.779
hit that a little bit more next time around.

00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:50.000
Can I ask you both a question since we already

00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:51.640
talked about lineups, other than Nicholas, did

00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:53.579
you, I don't know if you said your preferred

00:33:53.579 --> 00:33:59.220
lineup for next match, but Ryan Kent. Yeah. He

00:33:59.220 --> 00:34:01.400
might be able to unlock some stuff. Yeah. I was

00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:05.930
surprised. He's not going to start. Under Schmetzer,

00:34:05.990 --> 00:34:07.829
of course. I would be surprised if he plays under

00:34:07.829 --> 00:34:08.849
Schmetzer because Schmetzer will not play. I

00:34:08.849 --> 00:34:11.130
just came out of a time capsule, and I was put

00:34:11.130 --> 00:34:13.789
in there in June. What is the timeline of Ryan?

00:34:14.409 --> 00:34:17.389
He's in full training. He's here. He still has

00:34:17.389 --> 00:34:21.130
the injury in his back. Okay. But it was a major

00:34:21.130 --> 00:34:23.530
muscle tear, so they're not going to start him

00:34:23.530 --> 00:34:29.230
with his first minutes. But we need him. Knowing

00:34:29.230 --> 00:34:32.800
that we expanded to 20. I'm actually somewhat

00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:36.780
surprised we did not bring him in this game.

00:34:37.659 --> 00:34:42.059
Well, it's a travel game. That's true. Didn't

00:34:42.059 --> 00:34:44.179
we only use three subs in this game? We used

00:34:44.179 --> 00:34:48.840
all three sub slots. I think penalties were a

00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:52.530
key factor in this sub. Or lack of subs. Could

00:34:52.530 --> 00:34:54.050
be. I mean, that's probably why Danny Labick.

00:34:54.050 --> 00:34:58.349
Well, that's why Danny came on. But again, don't

00:34:58.349 --> 00:35:01.550
get ahead of ourselves. There's already happened.

00:35:01.789 --> 00:35:04.449
I mean, I know, but I also agreed with the move.

00:35:04.550 --> 00:35:06.550
I agreed with it. Oh, I don't have a problem

00:35:06.550 --> 00:35:08.110
with that. I have a problem with Andy Thomas

00:35:08.110 --> 00:35:10.590
not being brought on. I don't remember the exact

00:35:10.590 --> 00:35:12.130
number, but we've talked about the number of

00:35:12.130 --> 00:35:15.130
actual penalty saves that Fry has in his career

00:35:15.130 --> 00:35:17.869
is like two. Meaning when the other team doesn't

00:35:17.869 --> 00:35:21.639
miss it. he's like two for no no wait i do want

00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:24.940
to give some some some props uh today he didn't

00:35:24.940 --> 00:35:26.960
leave the line early once that's good that's

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:29.000
true that's absolutely so i want to get something

00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:32.039
from him before so so so i do props to him i

00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:35.480
do think and and this is not being snarky this

00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:38.199
is no no no genuinely not being snarky it is

00:35:38.199 --> 00:35:41.869
that he's had great that's something you do that's

00:35:41.869 --> 00:35:43.909
something you accomplish in the training ground

00:35:43.909 --> 00:35:47.250
exactly right and so he's not not actually in

00:35:47.250 --> 00:35:50.130
the pks when you watch he's taking he's actually

00:35:50.130 --> 00:35:54.829
starting his his um his movement with like one

00:35:54.829 --> 00:35:59.550
foot like a full half a foot behind the net and

00:35:59.550 --> 00:36:02.090
he gets right several times it just yeah there's

00:36:02.090 --> 00:36:04.050
some good there are some good clinical clinical

00:36:04.050 --> 00:36:06.869
finishes yeah they only i think all of them except

00:36:06.869 --> 00:36:09.650
for the one they missed were can't do really

00:36:09.650 --> 00:36:12.389
much anything about except guessing right. And

00:36:12.389 --> 00:36:16.489
getting in the spot. I mean, it wasn't a bad

00:36:16.489 --> 00:36:18.289
performance from Fry in this instance. I'm not

00:36:18.289 --> 00:36:20.190
saying that. No, as a matter of fact, especially

00:36:20.190 --> 00:36:21.969
during the 90, I thought it was a really good

00:36:21.969 --> 00:36:25.949
performance for Fry. Of course, it was a great

00:36:25.949 --> 00:36:30.809
game. Yeah, I know. And in the shootout, it wasn't...

00:36:31.099 --> 00:36:34.260
Fry not making saves. It was Minnesota taking

00:36:34.260 --> 00:36:38.760
clinical finishes. So no problem about this with

00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:41.500
Fry. I don't even want to open up the Andy Thomas

00:36:41.500 --> 00:36:45.820
conversation, me personally. It's a non -starter

00:36:45.820 --> 00:36:48.579
because that's not why we lost this game, in

00:36:48.579 --> 00:36:51.320
my opinion. Oh, no, we lost this game because

00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:53.280
we couldn't score a goal in regulation. Yeah.

00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:58.989
I was not calm. When we got to penalties. I was

00:36:58.989 --> 00:37:02.110
just not, I was not confident. It was less than

00:37:02.110 --> 00:37:04.610
50, 50. I gotta be honest guys. I don't think

00:37:04.610 --> 00:37:07.369
this team, if this team loses now, like next

00:37:07.369 --> 00:37:09.610
match, I'm not, I'm not shocked, but I'm also

00:37:09.610 --> 00:37:12.409
not sad because the Mariners have broken my heart

00:37:12.409 --> 00:37:15.690
into a million pieces. And I don't, I don't think

00:37:15.690 --> 00:37:18.690
I can be sad about sports for a while right now.

00:37:19.670 --> 00:37:23.550
Um, you know, this is a house money playoff season

00:37:23.550 --> 00:37:26.510
for me. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I think with, with

00:37:26.510 --> 00:37:29.619
our, And I'm not preemptively making excuses.

00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:34.460
No. In fact, especially once we lost De La Vega.

00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:36.619
For being successful, too. It was like just a

00:37:36.619 --> 00:37:39.559
bridge too far with the injuries. It's been a

00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:42.980
really tough year. So right now, I'm in it to

00:37:42.980 --> 00:37:45.159
see what we can do. Paul Areola is on this team.

00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:51.250
Yeah. Can you imagine our end -of -season record

00:37:51.250 --> 00:37:53.590
and how we'd be performing in the playoffs? Oh,

00:37:53.610 --> 00:37:54.389
we didn't have the injuries that we had. Healthy

00:37:54.389 --> 00:37:57.929
Paul Areola all season. Yeah. The Sounders would

00:37:57.929 --> 00:38:00.150
have been potentially winning the Supporters'

00:38:00.170 --> 00:38:01.929
Shield. I think that's how much better they would

00:38:01.929 --> 00:38:07.429
have been. We have three DP -level talents injured.

00:38:09.250 --> 00:38:11.900
Areola, De La Vega, and Kent. Which is funny

00:38:11.900 --> 00:38:13.619
because our remaining two DPs are probably not

00:38:13.619 --> 00:38:17.239
DP level talent. So can we get those? Stop. Stop.

00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:21.980
Albert Rosnack has very much. He earned it. And

00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:25.380
you know it. Jordan is certainly not. But I also

00:38:25.380 --> 00:38:30.159
think that he's elite. I love Albert. Don't get

00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:31.659
me wrong. He's one of my favorite players. I've

00:38:31.659 --> 00:38:37.340
told him myself. But he's not a DP on most winning

00:38:37.340 --> 00:38:39.519
top teams in this league. because top teams in

00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:42.679
this league are going for a step above. Sure.

00:38:42.820 --> 00:38:45.860
I mean, Seattle does how Seattle does though.

00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:48.179
Like we have our own, our way of doing things

00:38:48.179 --> 00:38:52.900
and the role is the DP, not the status of the

00:38:52.900 --> 00:38:55.099
player internationally. I think the biggest problem

00:38:55.099 --> 00:38:58.360
is he, the way he excels during games, isn't

00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:00.079
the way that Brian Schmetzer wants to play. So

00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:02.099
we're not using him to his best ability and he's

00:39:02.099 --> 00:39:12.969
still incredible. Yeah. Well, I think the biggest

00:39:12.969 --> 00:39:16.150
thing about this team and their biggest strength

00:39:16.150 --> 00:39:18.449
is still depth. And I think you saw that once

00:39:18.449 --> 00:39:21.989
we started making some subs. You mean our leading

00:39:21.989 --> 00:39:25.130
goal scorer coming on? Well, the fact that he's

00:39:25.130 --> 00:39:28.969
our leading goal scorer is a testament to the

00:39:28.969 --> 00:39:33.550
depth. Because honestly, let's be perfectly honest.

00:39:34.190 --> 00:39:36.789
If Jordan was healthy all season long, he'd probably

00:39:36.789 --> 00:39:41.210
be in that 13 -day, 17 -goal range. You know,

00:39:41.349 --> 00:39:44.230
he'd be – would he have beaten what Albert did?

00:39:44.329 --> 00:39:46.349
I don't know. Albert's had – sorry, not Albert.

00:39:46.869 --> 00:39:50.789
Danny's done. Danny's had an amazing year. I'm

00:39:50.789 --> 00:39:53.750
not going to sit here and say, yeah. Yeah, I

00:39:53.750 --> 00:39:55.510
don't know what Danny's XG are. We've looked

00:39:55.510 --> 00:39:59.690
at it before. But in my mind – because XG, I

00:39:59.690 --> 00:40:01.960
think, is stupid in some ways. jordan morris

00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:04.099
will miss a wide open goal and he won't have

00:40:04.099 --> 00:40:06.559
a oh that should have been a goal like the goalie

00:40:06.559 --> 00:40:08.460
could be laying on the ground off to the side

00:40:08.460 --> 00:40:10.039
he'll miss it and they'll be like that's not

00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:12.400
a goal under stitching the net in the back just

00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:16.480
whatever but but i think danny measurable tool

00:40:16.480 --> 00:40:19.579
dan yeah yes but i think danny would be up there

00:40:19.579 --> 00:40:22.199
near messy If he had hit all his shots. Remember

00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:24.159
how many times you talked about it all season

00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:26.000
in the beginning, he's in the right position.

00:40:26.219 --> 00:40:29.579
Even today, that header beautiful. He, he came

00:40:29.579 --> 00:40:32.019
out of nowhere. Beautiful. And, and frankly,

00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:33.980
that was, I believe that was Jordan. That was

00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:36.599
a 30 yard. That was a 30 yard sprint. Yeah. And,

00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:40.679
and the Dane St. Clair save on his other shot

00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:43.869
was, I mean. He had to move over. It wasn't even

00:40:43.869 --> 00:40:45.849
really a save. It was just he kicked his shin.

00:40:46.070 --> 00:40:50.130
Can I say this though? That fucking clown. During

00:40:50.130 --> 00:40:53.630
the shootout. How did he not get a second? I

00:40:53.630 --> 00:40:56.050
think he gets a yellow card if he doesn't already

00:40:56.050 --> 00:40:59.789
have one. Because he's a fucking clown. He got

00:40:59.789 --> 00:41:01.309
a yellow card earlier in the match. I know, but

00:41:01.309 --> 00:41:02.869
I'm saying they would have given him one in penalties.

00:41:02.969 --> 00:41:06.010
Because he was being such a whiny little bastard.

00:41:06.969 --> 00:41:11.760
After every... It just, yeah, the spot, like

00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:13.659
looking at the spot and complaining about it

00:41:13.659 --> 00:41:15.559
and the way the demonstratively complaining about

00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:18.260
it. That's what they do. But he did it every

00:41:18.260 --> 00:41:20.460
single fucking time. And it's every, you can't

00:41:20.460 --> 00:41:22.880
allow that as a goal, as a referee. Now, now,

00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:25.559
to be fair, I will say, I think the ref did manage

00:41:25.559 --> 00:41:29.860
that to be fair. No, I do think the ref to, to,

00:41:29.940 --> 00:41:32.019
to his credit, the Silva's credit. I think he

00:41:32.019 --> 00:41:35.260
did manage that well, because in the Alex rolled

00:41:35.260 --> 00:41:40.699
on shot. He came off his line and was right up

00:41:40.699 --> 00:41:43.659
in his face after Alex put the ball down to talk

00:41:43.659 --> 00:41:46.460
about whining. After that... But it happened

00:41:46.460 --> 00:41:49.340
again. No, every other time when he was whining

00:41:49.340 --> 00:41:51.400
and bitching, it was before the ball was placed

00:41:51.400 --> 00:41:54.800
down. So it was him whining and talking beforehand.

00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:58.739
So I think the ref was like... When he whined

00:41:58.739 --> 00:42:00.099
that time, though, it's because the ball was

00:42:00.099 --> 00:42:02.980
a centimeter too far forward, which is why Alex

00:42:02.980 --> 00:42:05.070
had to replace it. And I actually think... Which

00:42:05.070 --> 00:42:07.630
may or may not. I think Alex actually had the

00:42:07.630 --> 00:42:11.530
advantage in that situation. I think he was messing

00:42:11.530 --> 00:42:13.429
with him as much as St. Clair was messing with

00:42:13.429 --> 00:42:16.150
Alex. Yeah. It was just a poor choice to go down

00:42:16.150 --> 00:42:19.050
the middle in that instance. Because I don't

00:42:19.050 --> 00:42:20.610
like going down the middle anyways, unless you're

00:42:20.610 --> 00:42:24.250
Raul. But we really need to change the rules.

00:42:25.090 --> 00:42:29.170
Or Pineda. Yeah. The fact that the stutter step

00:42:29.170 --> 00:42:31.400
needs to be removed from the game. Unless you're

00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:33.260
going to let the goalie come off the line and

00:42:33.260 --> 00:42:36.159
do whatever they need to do. Yeah, you can't

00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:40.280
have that much dancing for one player and have

00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:42.500
the goalkeeper not be able to just do whatever

00:42:42.500 --> 00:42:44.119
the fuck they want. I think that would be more

00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:47.719
entertaining. Hey, the whistle blows. The moment

00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:50.800
the player takes that first step, all bets are

00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:54.579
off. You can come off your line. You can hurry

00:42:54.579 --> 00:42:57.579
up and shoot. Isn't that what hockey's like?

00:42:57.800 --> 00:43:01.539
Yeah, basically, yeah. Yeah. Uh, but with all

00:43:01.539 --> 00:43:06.880
that said, um, I do think that, uh, that rolled

00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:11.820
on the rolled on one St. Claire basically was

00:43:11.820 --> 00:43:14.519
like five steps over to the left of the net,

00:43:14.619 --> 00:43:18.280
like really just doing clown stuff. Yeah. And,

00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:21.380
and what I would have loved to have seen is when

00:43:21.380 --> 00:43:23.780
he did that first one, if Alex would have just

00:43:23.780 --> 00:43:27.139
ran up and kicked it to the right, that would

00:43:27.139 --> 00:43:31.019
have just been so beautiful. Rewatch that again.

00:43:31.019 --> 00:43:32.380
The scoring would have been beautiful. I mean,

00:43:32.420 --> 00:43:35.460
you're not wrong. But, you know, it happens.

00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:38.840
It happens. That's penalties. By the way, Reagan,

00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:42.699
number three. How many teams have a center back

00:43:42.699 --> 00:43:46.500
at number three on your PKs? And he had the most

00:43:46.500 --> 00:43:51.159
calm. You're never going to say this. Fuck you.

00:43:51.739 --> 00:43:54.980
And with all the theatrics of Dane St. Clair,

00:43:55.059 --> 00:44:00.369
to just have a center back do that. You know,

00:44:00.409 --> 00:44:04.730
I think I honestly also normally I really like

00:44:04.730 --> 00:44:08.110
what Danny Leyva does. I think he's really good.

00:44:08.389 --> 00:44:09.989
He even had that nice casual. Yeah, he walked

00:44:09.989 --> 00:44:13.489
right into a miss, though. That was really a

00:44:13.489 --> 00:44:17.449
bummer. Yeah, it is a bummer because he, yeah,

00:44:17.570 --> 00:44:22.630
it happens. He's had, these are the things, right?

00:44:22.849 --> 00:44:26.309
He's had, they were mentioning it was 2000 and.

00:44:27.449 --> 00:44:32.329
2019 that he signed his s2 contract yeah 15 years

00:44:32.329 --> 00:44:34.190
old 14 years old something like that it's been

00:44:34.190 --> 00:44:37.670
six years and he just hasn't had the rise like

00:44:37.670 --> 00:44:41.130
oped right and it's things like this it's just

00:44:41.130 --> 00:44:44.250
like you have he's got quality and then i think

00:44:44.250 --> 00:44:47.090
this is the stuff where it's just like put it

00:44:47.090 --> 00:44:52.050
on it's going to be on his resume and his like

00:44:52.050 --> 00:44:55.940
i don't know how else to put it You're going

00:44:55.940 --> 00:44:57.699
to remember this if you're the front office.

00:44:57.940 --> 00:45:01.559
I'm not sure. I think that's over. I think it's

00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:05.500
a little hyperbolic. Yeah, I do. PK's happy.

00:45:05.860 --> 00:45:08.340
Okay, fine. He's going to think of this. Maybe.

00:45:08.500 --> 00:45:12.059
This is what I needed to score that. And it doesn't

00:45:12.059 --> 00:45:14.800
help that he still doesn't officially have an

00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:17.820
MLS goal. So that's, that's kind of my point.

00:45:17.860 --> 00:45:21.099
Yeah. It's like, how many opportunities am I

00:45:21.099 --> 00:45:23.800
going to get to have that make a mark on a match?

00:45:23.860 --> 00:45:26.719
I mean, I don't have any memory of marks on a

00:45:26.719 --> 00:45:29.099
match that for him. I mean, I like Danny Leyva.

00:45:29.619 --> 00:45:32.139
He's the one that, that hit posts on the free

00:45:32.139 --> 00:45:34.019
kick that knew who put in against Cruz Azul.

00:45:34.980 --> 00:45:38.159
I mean, let's be fair to Danny Leyva. He scored

00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:40.360
a goal in his first. He did. He did. And the

00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:42.480
refs improper against the white caps, right?

00:45:42.539 --> 00:45:45.960
Yeah. Yeah. It was such a bullshit. it's still

00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:48.679
and they didn't the mls admit that it was wrong

00:45:48.679 --> 00:45:50.900
later but you don't you can't undo a goal like

00:45:50.900 --> 00:45:54.840
that yeah i think they did hutani is up with

00:45:54.840 --> 00:45:57.039
a runner on first two outs bottom of the 17th

00:45:57.039 --> 00:45:58.920
he's currently four for four wait should we just

00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:02.780
stop talking and and you just and i just call

00:46:02.780 --> 00:46:06.260
the game actually yeah call the game he's i turned

00:46:06.260 --> 00:46:08.559
all my wi -fi off on my devices and my tv so

00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:10.639
that our recording doesn't get interrupted his

00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:13.059
last seven bats are five home runs and two doubles

00:46:13.679 --> 00:46:16.519
the fuck off he's the greatest player in baseball

00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:18.980
history i'm switchly i'm quickly going to live

00:46:18.980 --> 00:46:21.320
now he's not a player he's not a player he's

00:46:21.320 --> 00:46:25.519
a god he's a god he's i mean it's funny he is

00:46:25.519 --> 00:46:29.800
what mike trout could have been if mike trout's

00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.780
career trajectory continued pitch that's gonna

00:46:32.780 --> 00:46:35.139
retire and become a huge alcoholic and live in

00:46:35.139 --> 00:46:37.570
a cabin It's just amazing because he was the

00:46:37.570 --> 00:46:40.010
greatest player of his generation for a short

00:46:40.010 --> 00:46:43.489
time, and then it just all fell apart. And then

00:46:43.489 --> 00:46:46.869
Shohei's like, hi, I can pitch. Meanwhile, the

00:46:46.869 --> 00:46:50.590
Angels are gifted the two generational talents

00:46:50.590 --> 00:46:52.429
and couldn't do shit with them. I know. Can you

00:46:52.429 --> 00:46:57.659
imagine? They're on the same team. Yeah. You're

00:46:57.659 --> 00:47:00.400
streaming it right now from your phone. Oh, he's

00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:02.639
up to bat. I'm just putting it up here so Aaron

00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:06.619
can watch it. Yeah, we'll talk. Is it 5 .5? I'm

00:47:06.619 --> 00:47:09.500
basically watching it through the screen. Hey,

00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:11.920
the quality is great. Yeah, yeah. That's a ball.

00:47:12.199 --> 00:47:16.159
5 .5 in the 17th. Podcasting, everyone, yeah.

00:47:18.130 --> 00:47:21.969
We won't continue to do this. This right here

00:47:21.969 --> 00:47:25.969
is exactly what makes Otani so special. We're

00:47:25.969 --> 00:47:30.469
literally live interrupting a soccer podcast

00:47:30.469 --> 00:47:34.030
for the World Series that no one in Seattle wants

00:47:34.030 --> 00:47:38.429
to watch. It just really speaks volumes to...

00:47:38.429 --> 00:47:41.630
If you're smart, you're pitching around him.

00:47:41.710 --> 00:47:43.630
You don't intentionally walk him, but you pitch

00:47:43.630 --> 00:47:46.250
around him. It's 3 -0 now. He just stepped out

00:47:46.250 --> 00:47:49.429
and took a swing. because he knows no balls coming

00:47:49.429 --> 00:47:52.710
in the zone here. Oh my god, I can't believe

00:47:52.710 --> 00:47:59.230
we're doing this. But we are. It's 2 -0. 3 -0.

00:47:59.349 --> 00:48:03.869
That was 4. Let's fix the quality of your camera.

00:48:04.210 --> 00:48:08.449
Alright, drop it. No home run by O'Donnie. You

00:48:08.449 --> 00:48:11.010
know, I think Danny though, this year we've seen

00:48:11.010 --> 00:48:15.829
him take a huge step up in a way that maybe is

00:48:15.829 --> 00:48:18.409
unexpected because he He was forced to play other

00:48:18.409 --> 00:48:20.269
positions. We saw him play really great. He was

00:48:20.269 --> 00:48:22.369
forced to play for another team. Well, sure.

00:48:22.489 --> 00:48:25.389
Yeah. Last year, right? So that's got to be a

00:48:25.389 --> 00:48:28.789
huge chip. But we also saw him come in at center

00:48:28.789 --> 00:48:30.469
attacking mid and play great. Of course, he can

00:48:30.469 --> 00:48:33.710
still play center defensive mid. There was an

00:48:33.710 --> 00:48:35.769
argument near the end of the season that maybe,

00:48:35.849 --> 00:48:39.050
before Resnack came back, that maybe he should

00:48:39.050 --> 00:48:42.050
have been starting at center attacking mid. But

00:48:42.050 --> 00:48:45.650
then we saw a really great performance from Jesus.

00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:49.360
at center attacking mid too i think i think center

00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:51.960
attacking mid might be jesus's best position

00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:54.679
right now so it's hard it's hard for danny to

00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:57.840
get those minutes he's not he's not subbing on

00:48:57.840 --> 00:48:59.840
late for center attacking mid position anymore

00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:04.139
yeah no i think he's a death pizza at this point

00:49:04.139 --> 00:49:06.179
and i don't think there's a lot of room for him

00:49:06.179 --> 00:49:09.059
well and i like him it gives us a lot of flexibility

00:49:09.059 --> 00:49:12.300
with the off season when we're making decisions

00:49:12.300 --> 00:49:16.429
big decisions yeah like obed Yeah, that's one

00:49:16.429 --> 00:49:19.349
of them. Keep in mind, Obed's son signed a contract,

00:49:19.409 --> 00:49:22.369
so six months from now, he could sign on a free.

00:49:23.909 --> 00:49:26.530
I think less than six. I think it's two. Two

00:49:26.530 --> 00:49:28.530
months and a few days. No, two months and a few

00:49:28.530 --> 00:49:31.869
days, he can negotiate. He's good until the end

00:49:31.869 --> 00:49:34.329
of next year. Oh, I thought his contract runs

00:49:34.329 --> 00:49:38.280
out the 31st. No, 31st of December is when he

00:49:38.280 --> 00:49:39.960
can officially start talking to other teams,

00:49:40.099 --> 00:49:42.539
but he can't sign a contract for six months.

00:49:42.900 --> 00:49:45.440
Okay. So six months before the end of his contract.

00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:55.619
But I don't think anyone wants to be in that

00:49:55.619 --> 00:50:00.380
position. You can't let him walk on a free transfer.

00:50:00.619 --> 00:50:04.039
You need to sign him. That would be, we're picketing

00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:07.659
in Renton. Yeah, that would be a huge error.

00:50:07.800 --> 00:50:10.559
The only reason he's with the club right now

00:50:10.559 --> 00:50:12.619
is because we're going to get value from him.

00:50:12.820 --> 00:50:14.679
He's not staying with the Sounders. Yeah, we

00:50:14.679 --> 00:50:16.719
could have sold him. This isn't a Jordan Morris

00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:18.820
situation. This isn't a Christian Rodon situation.

00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:20.880
You know, there's something about this that always

00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:24.880
made me wonder, though, because really a transfer

00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:27.179
can't happen without the consent of the player.

00:50:28.659 --> 00:50:38.340
But the... Why don't more players just let their

00:50:38.340 --> 00:50:41.980
contract run out? The only thing I can think

00:50:41.980 --> 00:50:48.239
of is that it lowers their transfer ability to

00:50:48.239 --> 00:50:50.239
sign with other teams because teams might be

00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:51.559
like, well, if you're going to do that to them,

00:50:51.659 --> 00:50:55.219
why should we invest in you? It's just not done

00:50:55.219 --> 00:50:59.369
in the culture of the sport. And you see free

00:50:59.369 --> 00:51:01.309
transfer all the time. The transfer etiquette.

00:51:01.489 --> 00:51:04.210
But it's usually the team deciding they're not

00:51:04.210 --> 00:51:06.469
going to bring them back and then letting them

00:51:06.469 --> 00:51:09.969
go. I mean, players turn down player options,

00:51:10.230 --> 00:51:12.269
but that's a little different, I feel like. Yeah.

00:51:12.329 --> 00:51:15.469
But I think it takes like, you know, in Mbappe,

00:51:15.650 --> 00:51:17.730
it's a little different because he wants to go

00:51:17.730 --> 00:51:23.170
to one specific club. The Sounders. Yeah. Of

00:51:23.170 --> 00:51:26.000
course. Yeah. That would be incredible, by the

00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:30.440
way. We have a need. We have a need for it. Only

00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:33.219
because we have a need. Only because we have

00:51:33.219 --> 00:51:37.039
a need. It would be a good fit. Jesus Christ.

00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:40.320
I think we have a good fit for the Mariners for

00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:43.880
Shohei, too. I think we can figure out a way.

00:51:44.949 --> 00:51:47.769
Hey, Tarek Scooble is being shopped by Detroit

00:51:47.769 --> 00:51:51.789
now. Get on your college radio right now. There's

00:51:51.789 --> 00:51:54.449
a fit for him. Come home. Yeah, come home, buddy.

00:51:54.590 --> 00:51:58.230
Come back to Seattle, you. I mean, he visited

00:51:58.230 --> 00:52:00.329
in the playoffs. He came and visited. I don't

00:52:00.329 --> 00:52:02.230
think he wants to pitch in our park, though.

00:52:02.230 --> 00:52:04.929
He lost us four times this year. What are you

00:52:04.929 --> 00:52:06.710
talking about? Of course he'd want to pitch in

00:52:06.710 --> 00:52:11.710
a pitcher's park. Who wouldn't want to? And we

00:52:11.710 --> 00:52:17.000
are on. 18th inning. To the 18th inning. My God,

00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:20.840
okay, I might have to turn this on. Which means

00:52:20.840 --> 00:52:23.179
ending the podcast. Yeah, let's talk about the

00:52:23.179 --> 00:52:25.440
penalty real fast. We alluded to it, but early

00:52:25.440 --> 00:52:31.099
on, there was a play where the Minnesota head

00:52:31.099 --> 00:52:33.440
up through ball, got ahead, and Reagan fully

00:52:33.440 --> 00:52:35.260
extends his arm and shoves him down from behind.

00:52:35.699 --> 00:52:38.780
Now, I think most of the time when that happens,

00:52:38.860 --> 00:52:41.460
it looks worse than it is. I'm going to start

00:52:41.460 --> 00:52:45.800
with that. So I understand why some people might

00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:50.099
not think that's a penalty, but if we, if that

00:52:50.099 --> 00:52:52.099
were the sounders and that happened to us, we

00:52:52.099 --> 00:52:55.559
would be apoplectic. Like we would be, it was

00:52:55.559 --> 00:53:00.619
a penalty. Yeah. No, no, it's not people. They

00:53:00.619 --> 00:53:04.280
allow there's there's you, you can put your hand

00:53:04.280 --> 00:53:06.679
on someone, put your hand on someone. I think

00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:08.980
it's because he extended it forward. And also.

00:53:09.579 --> 00:53:12.059
You have to realize the situation as a referee,

00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:14.179
the situation and the speed of which things are

00:53:14.179 --> 00:53:16.460
happening. He's running at full speed. A slight

00:53:16.460 --> 00:53:20.019
nudge is a full shove if we're standing next

00:53:20.019 --> 00:53:22.159
to each other. But I don't know if he actually...

00:53:22.159 --> 00:53:25.519
If we're not running, the amount of effect that

00:53:25.519 --> 00:53:28.019
that has is I'm shoving you to the ground. We

00:53:28.019 --> 00:53:30.659
see in football quite often where a defensive

00:53:30.659 --> 00:53:32.780
player has their hand on a player and because

00:53:32.780 --> 00:53:34.599
the player is moving away, the hand moves out

00:53:34.599 --> 00:53:37.719
and it looks like a shove. But it's not. You're

00:53:37.719 --> 00:53:40.320
just putting your hand on the player. And so

00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:45.519
generally, I am of the mindset that we call that

00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:48.659
too often. We see it in soccer too. And I would

00:53:48.659 --> 00:53:50.480
agree with you. And don't get me wrong. He pushed

00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:53.320
him. Period. It happened. But the fact that it

00:53:53.320 --> 00:53:55.639
wasn't shoulder to shoulder, that's why I think

00:53:55.639 --> 00:53:56.960
it should have been. If that was shoulder to

00:53:56.960 --> 00:53:59.260
shoulder, they don't call it. He was behind him.

00:53:59.980 --> 00:54:03.250
But it doesn't rise to the level of... No, I'm

00:54:03.250 --> 00:54:06.250
sorry. And the fact that Vard didn't intervene,

00:54:06.409 --> 00:54:08.849
I think they got it right. I think they should

00:54:08.849 --> 00:54:12.170
have, though. I think they're like, this is too

00:54:12.170 --> 00:54:15.530
early. If that was the second half, they're interviewing

00:54:15.530 --> 00:54:19.409
or he's calling it. I don't know. What was that,

00:54:19.469 --> 00:54:21.909
the 10th minute? I'm just throwing a number out

00:54:21.909 --> 00:54:23.469
there. It was the first half of the first half.

00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:27.639
So you think Game State had an effect on the

00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:29.699
call? I think Game State affects calls all the

00:54:29.699 --> 00:54:31.599
time. It shouldn't, but I think it does. And

00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:35.239
I think the ref was about 40 yards back. It would

00:54:35.239 --> 00:54:39.460
have been a very devastating call to make against

00:54:39.460 --> 00:54:42.880
one team. I'd like to see the replay. There were

00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:44.460
players to the left. I wonder if it would have

00:54:44.460 --> 00:54:49.920
been Dogso. It was 100 % Dogso. He's all alone

00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:55.650
in the box. 99%. But I think the ref was far

00:54:55.650 --> 00:54:58.010
away. I think it was early in the match. I think

00:54:58.010 --> 00:55:01.250
it would have been a dog. So you're out. Like

00:55:01.250 --> 00:55:04.190
I've affected this match in the first 10, 15,

00:55:04.230 --> 00:55:07.030
whatever minutes. I don't want to do that. And

00:55:07.030 --> 00:55:09.650
I think VAR was supporting the center ref on

00:55:09.650 --> 00:55:12.949
that one, which doesn't, is this kind of against

00:55:12.949 --> 00:55:17.449
what they're not supposed to like think that

00:55:17.449 --> 00:55:20.719
way. And I'm totally making that up. based on

00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:23.659
what I feel happened, but that's what it looked

00:55:23.659 --> 00:55:25.019
like. I was listening to the radio on the way

00:55:25.019 --> 00:55:27.059
there, so I was not listening to the Apple or

00:55:27.059 --> 00:55:28.780
Minnesota broadcasts because those were the two

00:55:28.780 --> 00:55:30.500
you could have. I ended up listening to the Minnesota

00:55:30.500 --> 00:55:32.440
broadcast for the second half for a little bit.

00:55:34.500 --> 00:55:40.079
And on the Seattle broadcast, they said that

00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:42.360
the ref was favoring us. They said it absolutely

00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:47.780
should have been a penalty. Yeah, I mean, I...

00:55:48.750 --> 00:55:52.090
I tended to find it, see the, the match even

00:55:52.090 --> 00:55:56.269
out as a 90 minutes accrued. Yeah. I would, I

00:55:56.269 --> 00:55:58.989
would say the first match did, or the first half

00:55:58.989 --> 00:56:03.929
did seem a different than what we can usually

00:56:03.929 --> 00:56:07.170
complain about. Like, you know, it, it did seem

00:56:07.170 --> 00:56:09.550
like, okay. Interestingly, it also was, they

00:56:09.550 --> 00:56:11.769
were frenetic. They were a very frenetic team.

00:56:11.889 --> 00:56:22.019
Yeah. And I think, causing fouls to happen that

00:56:22.019 --> 00:56:27.039
were erratic. Whereas we were trying to control

00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:29.719
the match, they were trying to disrupt it. Not

00:56:29.719 --> 00:56:33.219
in a Vermees sporting KC way. I don't think there's

00:56:33.219 --> 00:56:37.400
anything dirty going on. But I think they didn't

00:56:37.400 --> 00:56:39.519
figure it. They didn't know how they could control

00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:41.480
the match other than affecting it in a certain

00:56:41.480 --> 00:56:48.969
way of fouls. Yeah, it seemed like it was. leaning

00:56:48.969 --> 00:56:50.969
our way. Also the defense, our defense really

00:56:50.969 --> 00:56:52.489
struggled in that first half. They cleaned it

00:56:52.489 --> 00:56:54.809
up in the second half. We, we saw a lot of real,

00:56:54.889 --> 00:56:57.309
I think the second half we were clearly the better

00:56:57.309 --> 00:57:00.349
team. Yeah. I think we kept our hips in front

00:57:00.349 --> 00:57:02.210
of us and our shoulders in front of us were in

00:57:02.210 --> 00:57:04.349
the first half. I think we were reacting a lot

00:57:04.349 --> 00:57:07.949
and that's where you saw mainly in the play we

00:57:07.949 --> 00:57:10.230
were just talking about. We were chasing, you

00:57:10.230 --> 00:57:15.010
know, that was, that was a bad basically at midfield.

00:57:16.230 --> 00:57:21.159
Yeah. Giveaway. Not giveaway, but just bad read.

00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:26.420
I think Gamer. Where was the new? I was just

00:57:26.420 --> 00:57:29.280
saying I posted the clip of the penalty or the

00:57:29.280 --> 00:57:32.559
non -call into the chat for you to take a look

00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:35.280
at. Were you pointing? Yeah, I was pointing to

00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:39.340
the chat. Yeah, so we're not in your seat. So

00:57:39.340 --> 00:57:41.039
when you point in that direction, it just looks

00:57:41.039 --> 00:57:44.440
like you're pointing at my kitchen. It's the

00:57:44.440 --> 00:57:46.380
other way. You're actually pointing at me when

00:57:46.380 --> 00:57:49.059
you do that because of the way our Brady Bunch

00:57:49.059 --> 00:57:52.920
cameras are going. I know what that means. That's

00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:57.920
the middle finger. Okay, fair enough. But yeah.

00:57:58.380 --> 00:58:05.219
Oh, that's a shocker. There we go. Yeah. In the

00:58:05.219 --> 00:58:10.840
end, I thought the Sounders had done enough to

00:58:10.840 --> 00:58:15.130
get... a gutsy win this felt like this was going

00:58:15.130 --> 00:58:18.610
to be a 1 -0 victory but I also felt like and

00:58:18.610 --> 00:58:21.230
I think I mentioned on the discord around the

00:58:21.230 --> 00:58:27.090
65th minute I said if we can't get the goal if

00:58:27.090 --> 00:58:28.809
we can't get the one goal we are going to lose

00:58:28.809 --> 00:58:31.920
in the shootout It's very optimistic, though.

00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:34.239
I saw nothing that makes me believe the Sounders

00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:38.440
can score against the low block beyond what Aaron

00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:39.980
mentioned earlier where we saw some stretching.

00:58:40.059 --> 00:58:42.420
There was no play because the misses they missed

00:58:42.420 --> 00:58:44.619
are the same misses they've missed all season

00:58:44.619 --> 00:58:47.639
long. I still think we may come home and win

00:58:47.639 --> 00:58:51.320
because it's at home, but I just don't see us

00:58:51.320 --> 00:58:54.159
going back there and scoring a goal. I don't

00:58:54.159 --> 00:58:59.619
know. I think I saw enough. St. Clair making

00:58:59.619 --> 00:59:06.300
a good save. I thought the couple goal line clearances

00:59:06.300 --> 00:59:10.179
by Minnesota defenders. I thought Christian's

00:59:10.179 --> 00:59:14.360
header. Danny's header, I thought... I think

00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:16.440
a goal falls in if we have the same opportunities

00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:19.780
next summer in Minnesota, but it did not seem

00:59:19.780 --> 00:59:21.579
like... Yeah, you're right. It was going to be

00:59:21.579 --> 00:59:24.840
a 2 -1 win. But I think our XG was actually pretty

00:59:24.840 --> 00:59:29.179
high considering it was a 0 -0. I think one of

00:59:29.179 --> 00:59:32.400
those five fall in. Yeah, I also think... So

00:59:32.400 --> 00:59:36.619
in the end, I felt like this had one to two goals

00:59:36.619 --> 00:59:40.949
for us in the way that this came out. That's

00:59:40.949 --> 00:59:46.809
kind of what I saw. Nevertheless, they did not

00:59:46.809 --> 00:59:54.110
come. And so yet another goalie villain in Sounders.

00:59:54.789 --> 00:59:59.449
I'm going to come. Do not come. Do not come.

01:00:00.969 --> 01:00:06.989
I knew. God damn it. You've seen the DJ transition

01:00:06.989 --> 01:00:12.059
that, right? uh there's a dj there's a dj transition

01:00:12.059 --> 01:00:15.519
of kamala harris saying you know do not come

01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:18.019
and then trump going i'm gonna come and it's

01:00:18.019 --> 01:00:20.739
like and then that that's that back and forth

01:00:20.739 --> 01:00:24.460
and then the beat drops it's it's actually that's

01:00:24.460 --> 01:00:26.480
what brings this country together it sounds like

01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:29.139
that sounds like the new national anthem is that

01:00:29.139 --> 01:00:33.300
because it's a sticky stucky moving on moving

01:00:33.300 --> 01:00:36.840
on moving on let's just stop i mean this game

01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:39.659
to me I guess I'm glad I watched it. At no time

01:00:39.659 --> 01:00:42.320
did I think we were going to win. I promised

01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:44.019
I would say this because I had said it earlier

01:00:44.019 --> 01:00:48.380
offline when I was talking about the game. The

01:00:48.380 --> 01:00:50.300
only benefit to this game is I got to go hang

01:00:50.300 --> 01:00:53.360
out with Yaya. That's it. I feel like I could

01:00:53.360 --> 01:00:54.980
have skipped this game and it wouldn't have mattered.

01:00:54.980 --> 01:01:00.400
Yaya Torre? Yeah. That's pretty cool. Available?

01:01:01.519 --> 01:01:05.599
Yeah. Let's sign him. Bring him in. He can be

01:01:05.599 --> 01:01:09.440
on our team. I think he's too old now. Drogba.

01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:12.320
He's way too old, but I would like to have him

01:01:12.320 --> 01:01:20.920
too. Man. So, post -game, what are, you know,

01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:24.820
what would you like to see in game two? What

01:01:24.820 --> 01:01:26.940
would you like to, what would you want to do?

01:01:27.199 --> 01:01:29.460
Wait, let's real quick change. We only touched

01:01:29.460 --> 01:01:35.059
on, it was Alex, Christian, and Alex. Alex got

01:01:35.059 --> 01:01:40.599
saved. Christian, High post with velocity. And

01:01:40.599 --> 01:01:45.019
Leyva missed left. And Leyva posts as well. Yeah.

01:01:45.139 --> 01:01:48.960
And I think it was Gressel. Gressel, who basically

01:01:48.960 --> 01:01:53.219
came on with no touches. Draco Malfoy. He did

01:01:53.219 --> 01:01:56.780
not even touch the ball when he subbed on. They

01:01:56.780 --> 01:01:58.539
brought him on for penalties. And both players

01:01:58.539 --> 01:02:00.559
that were brought on for penalties on each team

01:02:00.559 --> 01:02:02.840
missed their penalties. That's actually a really

01:02:02.840 --> 01:02:06.050
good shout. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think you'll

01:02:06.050 --> 01:02:10.150
ever do that. And you clearly want some juices

01:02:10.150 --> 01:02:13.170
flowing right before, just touching a line. And

01:02:13.170 --> 01:02:14.730
the crystal didn't come out in the 90th minute.

01:02:14.789 --> 01:02:16.869
He was out slightly before that, wasn't he? No,

01:02:16.949 --> 01:02:20.590
it was like because there was an injury in stoppage

01:02:20.590 --> 01:02:22.289
time before we were going to throw it in. I just

01:02:22.289 --> 01:02:24.010
walked around the field for a minute. And if

01:02:24.010 --> 01:02:26.230
there wasn't an injury, he probably would have

01:02:26.230 --> 01:02:28.369
just kept playing on the throw in and he probably

01:02:28.369 --> 01:02:31.230
wouldn't have gotten on. Speaking of, what did

01:02:31.230 --> 01:02:34.599
you think of when they stopped the game? for

01:02:34.599 --> 01:02:39.900
the blood on um uh on his forehead yeah she had

01:02:39.900 --> 01:02:41.920
had blood on there 20 minutes later yeah yeah

01:02:41.920 --> 01:02:44.139
that was ridiculous i mean they did the right

01:02:44.139 --> 01:02:45.840
thing though by making him stay off the field

01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:48.119
until the play started yes if you're gonna make

01:02:48.119 --> 01:02:49.780
the call you made the call and you followed through

01:02:49.780 --> 01:02:53.480
that's fine exactly play on just just there's

01:02:53.480 --> 01:02:55.119
probably one or two other players that have a

01:02:55.119 --> 01:02:57.380
cut or bleeding somewhere i'm okay with with

01:02:57.380 --> 01:02:59.099
with stopping the game for blood they always

01:02:59.099 --> 01:03:02.099
do that but the fact that they Let it go for

01:03:02.099 --> 01:03:05.039
that long. I didn't see blood. I was like, where's

01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:07.840
the blood? It didn't look actively bleeding.

01:03:08.019 --> 01:03:11.800
It looked like he just popped a zit. Maybe he

01:03:11.800 --> 01:03:14.860
did. Maybe he headed a ball. There was a zit

01:03:14.860 --> 01:03:17.940
there and it just burst. It's just kind of...

01:03:17.940 --> 01:03:22.559
I will say that this is the kind of game that

01:03:22.559 --> 01:03:26.500
I like to call the ego game where the ref...

01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:28.639
felt like, oh, I'm not going to let the crowd

01:03:28.639 --> 01:03:31.159
influence me, so I'm going to make sure that

01:03:31.159 --> 01:03:34.320
that's kind of how it felt. And I'm used to having

01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:37.480
it happen against us, not for us. We are the

01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:42.719
beneficiaries today. But this was, I did not

01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:48.280
feel like the fans were being whiny. I'll put

01:03:48.280 --> 01:03:50.820
it that way. I think Sounders fans would have

01:03:50.820 --> 01:03:56.039
basically done the same exact thing. whether

01:03:56.039 --> 01:04:00.420
you agree with the calls or not, he was not making

01:04:00.420 --> 01:04:04.219
friends tonight. No, no, for sure. And it's funny

01:04:04.219 --> 01:04:05.940
because I know a lot. I mean, after the game

01:04:05.940 --> 01:04:08.619
when they would show the Wonderwall, I know a

01:04:08.619 --> 01:04:10.400
lot of people that are in the supporter groups

01:04:10.400 --> 01:04:13.840
and saw them on TV in the crowd. You know, I

01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:15.920
like a lot of people there, but it's hard for

01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:19.440
me to not be annoyed with them after we lose.

01:04:19.900 --> 01:04:23.460
Yeah. Oh, for me, the villain of the game was

01:04:23.460 --> 01:04:27.360
Sinclair. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, for sure. And it wasn't

01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:29.260
even during the game. It was just strictly during

01:04:29.260 --> 01:04:31.119
penalties. But he's not Minnesotan. He's Canadian.

01:04:31.260 --> 01:04:34.099
He's Canadian, yeah. He's real Canadian, which

01:04:34.099 --> 01:04:35.820
is kind of weird because you'd think that would

01:04:35.820 --> 01:04:40.400
be the opposite. You'd think he'd be, other than

01:04:40.400 --> 01:04:41.900
his last name, I don't think there's an American

01:04:41.900 --> 01:04:43.500
with the last name St. Clair. I think they're

01:04:43.500 --> 01:04:47.139
only Canadian. Well, the girl went to the store,

01:04:47.239 --> 01:04:50.780
Sweet Jane St. Clair. You know, still dazzled

01:04:50.780 --> 01:04:55.099
by her flowers while I shopped there. No? It

01:04:55.099 --> 01:04:58.699
wasn't long before I lived with her? Sing her

01:04:58.699 --> 01:05:02.559
songs while she dyed my hair? James, take us

01:05:02.559 --> 01:05:05.199
away. I'm just kidding. Barenaked Ladies song,

01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:09.039
Jane. Of course it's Barenaked Ladies. Speaking

01:05:09.039 --> 01:05:13.860
of Canadians and speaking of St. Clair's. With

01:05:13.860 --> 01:05:15.260
that said, what do you want to say? I think I

01:05:15.260 --> 01:05:19.300
just proved me right. You're not wrong. Game

01:05:19.300 --> 01:05:22.179
two, I think it'll be a trumping. I think we'll...

01:05:23.170 --> 01:05:26.449
Go up three or four. You mean we're going to

01:05:26.449 --> 01:05:29.150
take all the Canadians and round them up and

01:05:29.150 --> 01:05:34.389
send them to El Salvador? Yes. And Katy Perry.

01:05:34.590 --> 01:05:36.989
But I would like to send them back to Canada.

01:05:37.070 --> 01:05:39.710
I think we should stop letting all these people

01:05:39.710 --> 01:05:42.150
from Vancouver that root for the Blue Jays, even

01:05:42.150 --> 01:05:44.570
though they hate every other Toronto team, come

01:05:44.570 --> 01:05:47.130
to Seattle and be fans of our sports teams. Meaning

01:05:47.130 --> 01:05:48.650
the Seahawks. They should have to give up their

01:05:48.650 --> 01:05:52.019
Seahawks season tickets. That includes anyone

01:05:52.019 --> 01:05:54.219
from Minnesota, too, because they're just basically

01:05:54.219 --> 01:05:56.619
Canada. I just want to be mad at Canada right

01:05:56.619 --> 01:06:02.300
now. Goddamn Blue Jays. I actually think there'll

01:06:02.300 --> 01:06:05.940
be a good... I think there'll be a... We've been

01:06:05.940 --> 01:06:10.699
here. We know what we're doing. This is uncharted

01:06:10.699 --> 01:06:13.980
territory for these loons, right? And there was

01:06:13.980 --> 01:06:17.199
a comment on the broadcast that they said Seattle's

01:06:17.199 --> 01:06:20.170
won everything under the moon. Yeah. Where the

01:06:20.170 --> 01:06:23.010
scene has not. Yeah. In fact, usually it's us

01:06:23.010 --> 01:06:26.389
that stops them. Yeah. So I really feel like

01:06:26.389 --> 01:06:29.469
there's going to be like a, we got our shit together.

01:06:29.570 --> 01:06:32.530
Like Lucy pulling the football. I mean, that's

01:06:32.530 --> 01:06:37.329
the thing is I, I think the Sounders for is as

01:06:37.329 --> 01:06:41.170
flawed of a team as we have been this year can

01:06:41.170 --> 01:06:44.389
still win the MLS cup. Yeah. I also think they

01:06:44.389 --> 01:06:46.389
could easily lose. I think we just need to get

01:06:46.389 --> 01:06:50.980
there. Yeah. Both things could happen. I mean,

01:06:52.980 --> 01:06:56.300
I will say that I think the pressure remains

01:06:56.300 --> 01:07:00.480
on Minnesota, especially if we win game two.

01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:04.840
I think Minnesota is the one that needs to get

01:07:04.840 --> 01:07:07.980
over the hump. Minnesota, we are the boogeyman.

01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:13.280
Yeah, so I think there's a lot into that. So

01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:18.820
focus on this next game. And I like our chances.

01:07:20.539 --> 01:07:26.280
I like our chances if Masovsky starts. One, because

01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:32.639
Jordan's... Was that his first 90? No. Oh, maybe.

01:07:33.539 --> 01:07:39.820
I don't know. Either way, 14 goals. It's the

01:07:39.820 --> 01:07:42.460
playoffs. This is kind of a... It is literally

01:07:42.460 --> 01:07:44.579
do or die. Do or die, yeah. We have to win just

01:07:44.579 --> 01:07:48.710
to keep going. Yes. Push all your chips forward.

01:07:49.110 --> 01:07:52.510
This is the right thing. I think Jesus needs

01:07:52.510 --> 01:07:54.690
to start in the middle. I think he put Rusnak

01:07:54.690 --> 01:07:57.829
in place of where Jesus is on the right because

01:07:57.829 --> 01:08:01.170
he's adaptable. He's smart. He knows what he

01:08:01.170 --> 01:08:06.849
needs to do in his role. Between him and Christian,

01:08:07.070 --> 01:08:11.670
I have the most trust with them on the field

01:08:11.670 --> 01:08:13.789
for wherever they are on the field. And I don't

01:08:13.789 --> 01:08:15.789
want Christian to move. I think he and Obed are...

01:08:15.920 --> 01:08:21.180
a solid back kind of mid midfield back line and

01:08:21.180 --> 01:08:22.800
that pushed things forward that win the ball

01:08:22.800 --> 01:08:26.560
they showed us that he was he had like 73 touches

01:08:26.560 --> 01:08:31.699
to um what's their guys midfielders their midfielders

01:08:31.699 --> 01:08:34.180
like 30 right but that's their style of play

01:08:34.180 --> 01:08:40.159
they've been doing that phoenix so Anyway, I

01:08:40.159 --> 01:08:42.819
would like to see that change. I still want Morris

01:08:42.819 --> 01:08:45.600
on the field. I think Rothrock needs to come

01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:49.140
in and just devastate for 30 minutes and lead

01:08:49.140 --> 01:08:52.960
into the penalties potentially. But I really

01:08:52.960 --> 01:08:54.840
would hope that we would have two or three goals

01:08:54.840 --> 01:09:00.399
next match at home. Yeah. I'm expecting us to

01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:04.300
win 1 -0 at home. I don't think they're going

01:09:04.300 --> 01:09:06.380
to come in and play like they did before. I think

01:09:06.380 --> 01:09:08.239
we've figured out how to not let them score goals.

01:09:08.319 --> 01:09:12.640
Wow. Strikeout to finish the inning. Oh, you

01:09:12.640 --> 01:09:15.760
were five seconds ahead of me. Oh, sorry. I didn't

01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:18.039
know you were watching. I did pull it up. I was

01:09:18.039 --> 01:09:20.699
like, you know what? It's about to go longer

01:09:20.699 --> 01:09:22.640
than what we did. Like it's going to commercial

01:09:22.640 --> 01:09:26.560
right now. I'm ahead of you. I'm ahead of you.

01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:28.779
I just didn't. I just wasn't watching it because

01:09:28.779 --> 01:09:31.180
I was talking, but, uh, was he had to do the

01:09:31.180 --> 01:09:33.880
bottom of the 18th in that game? But I, I, I

01:09:33.880 --> 01:09:36.800
think Seattle is a fortress while they did beat

01:09:36.800 --> 01:09:40.680
us at home. Uh, it was a weird game. It was a

01:09:40.680 --> 01:09:42.920
weird game. It was, wasn't it early in the season

01:09:42.920 --> 01:09:46.840
too? No, it was the MLS protest game. Oh, that's

01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:48.899
right. Pay us game. The early season one was

01:09:48.899 --> 01:09:51.359
Charlotte, which was also a weird game. That

01:09:51.359 --> 01:09:53.800
was game one. Uh, yeah, it was a draw, but yeah,

01:09:53.859 --> 01:09:55.760
but, but I, but I remember, I remember saying

01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:59.289
that. saying whatever BS I normally say. And

01:09:59.289 --> 01:10:02.770
then Nick, you kind of clarified the context

01:10:02.770 --> 01:10:05.029
of that match. And actually it's like, this is

01:10:05.029 --> 01:10:07.869
not the same team. I played in that match, literally

01:10:07.869 --> 01:10:09.909
just the same players, let alone the, where we

01:10:09.909 --> 01:10:12.789
were in the season. Yeah. Yeah. I can't see Minnesota

01:10:12.789 --> 01:10:16.960
scoring two, let alone three goals on us. But

01:10:16.960 --> 01:10:18.279
if they are going to score three goals, it's

01:10:18.279 --> 01:10:21.619
going to be, you know, in four minutes like it

01:10:21.619 --> 01:10:24.960
was in that game. Right, right. So weird. So,

01:10:24.979 --> 01:10:26.600
I mean, I'm expecting us to come home and win

01:10:26.600 --> 01:10:28.680
1 -0. There's nothing I've seen that makes me

01:10:28.680 --> 01:10:30.319
think we're going to score two goals from this

01:10:30.319 --> 01:10:35.279
team, especially of late. But I hope I'm wrong.

01:10:35.479 --> 01:10:38.159
But I do think we can win the game. I think I

01:10:38.159 --> 01:10:40.279
disagree because the moment we get the first

01:10:40.279 --> 01:10:43.800
one, it opens stuff up. And I think that team...

01:10:44.390 --> 01:10:46.869
who is not used to having possession, if they

01:10:46.869 --> 01:10:50.869
try and play outside of their normal style, that's

01:10:50.869 --> 01:10:52.569
when they get to be really susceptible. That's

01:10:52.569 --> 01:10:55.390
when the teams that are beating them by multiple

01:10:55.390 --> 01:10:58.649
goals, I suspect that's where that's coming from.

01:10:58.710 --> 01:11:01.250
I guess it's also possible that's true because

01:11:01.250 --> 01:11:04.789
it doesn't matter if they lose by five. Yeah.

01:11:04.989 --> 01:11:07.390
I was just thinking that. It's like that weird

01:11:07.390 --> 01:11:10.720
diamond. weird coaching strategies might have

01:11:10.720 --> 01:11:13.520
to happen if we're up by two goals. What do we

01:11:13.520 --> 01:11:17.680
think of this three -game format? This is strictly

01:11:17.680 --> 01:11:20.260
a cash grab to give Apple more games. That's

01:11:20.260 --> 01:11:23.859
strictly what it is. I prefer one -off. I like

01:11:23.859 --> 01:11:27.640
home and away, except for the final. Especially

01:11:27.640 --> 01:11:30.819
because of that Portland -Seattle home -away

01:11:30.819 --> 01:11:35.439
car show game. No, no, no. The one that was way

01:11:35.439 --> 01:11:38.989
more recently. That was the greatest playoff

01:11:38.989 --> 01:11:41.289
series in history. Yeah. That's the car show.

01:11:41.310 --> 01:11:43.369
That was the car show game. Oh, that's a different,

01:11:43.430 --> 01:11:45.489
the penalties where they thought they won. Yeah.

01:11:45.489 --> 01:11:47.430
Okay. That's funny because we had a car show

01:11:47.430 --> 01:11:49.689
game that was, I wouldn't people say car show

01:11:49.689 --> 01:11:52.550
game. I think of the champions league game. That

01:11:52.550 --> 01:11:54.670
was a car show. So all the, all the, you could

01:11:54.670 --> 01:11:57.600
want, we could only fill half the stadium. That

01:11:57.600 --> 01:11:59.260
to me, that's always the car show game. I don't

01:11:59.260 --> 01:12:00.720
know what the car show has to do with the Portland

01:12:00.720 --> 01:12:02.579
game. Oh, we had to move it because of the car

01:12:02.579 --> 01:12:04.560
show. Yeah. It was a Friday. It was a Thursday

01:12:04.560 --> 01:12:07.500
night game or Friday night. Yeah. But that was

01:12:07.500 --> 01:12:10.180
the best. That's the best playoff series since

01:12:10.180 --> 01:12:11.720
the Sounders have been in the playoffs. Yeah.

01:12:11.739 --> 01:12:15.920
Oh, that was an epic. That was even though we

01:12:15.920 --> 01:12:18.520
lost. Well, we tied technically, but we lost.

01:12:18.539 --> 01:12:22.939
We got eliminated from the playoffs. Even though

01:12:22.939 --> 01:12:27.699
that happened, that. This game was one of the

01:12:27.699 --> 01:12:30.619
most wildly entertaining games I've ever seen

01:12:30.619 --> 01:12:32.199
in person. I couldn't be mad after it. I mean,

01:12:32.199 --> 01:12:36.819
it was sad because it was the final game for

01:12:36.819 --> 01:12:38.760
Aussie, and I think Will Bruin too, and they

01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:45.199
both missed penalties in the loss. But it's funny

01:12:45.199 --> 01:12:47.159
that, was it Asperia who thought they had won

01:12:47.159 --> 01:12:48.800
the game and was celebrating when it was headed,

01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:51.680
because he didn't know that way goals didn't

01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:59.770
count in extra time. I don't think I knew that

01:12:59.770 --> 01:13:02.890
either. Handwalla Buona had one hell of a penalty.

01:13:03.449 --> 01:13:08.869
Just a good day. I have his signature on his

01:13:08.869 --> 01:13:15.270
scarf. Nice. With this next game, I think that

01:13:15.270 --> 01:13:23.460
it's going to be interesting. Unfortunately,

01:13:23.819 --> 01:13:26.579
uh -oh. I see your hands up. Did it make it?

01:13:27.539 --> 01:13:32.159
Damn it. Freddie Freeman, baby. No. Again, I

01:13:32.159 --> 01:13:34.500
am five seconds late. I shouldn't be. Was it

01:13:34.500 --> 01:13:37.600
really Freddie Freeman? Yet again, another home

01:13:37.600 --> 01:13:43.579
run in the... Jesus Christ. Freddie Freeman is

01:13:43.579 --> 01:13:46.859
making the case to being this generation's Reggie

01:13:46.859 --> 01:13:51.819
Jackson, Mr. October. Shout out to Edgar from

01:13:51.819 --> 01:13:56.840
News Across the Galaxy, a friend of the show.

01:13:56.939 --> 01:14:01.819
He's so excited right now. Edgar, yeah. Freddie

01:14:01.819 --> 01:14:03.880
Freeman reminds me of Ross when he got his teeth

01:14:03.880 --> 01:14:07.619
whitened. He and I just texted each other at

01:14:07.619 --> 01:14:10.140
the exact same time. Freddie, all in capital.

01:14:12.760 --> 01:14:19.279
Jesus. Go Mariners. Yeah. Hey, let's wrap this

01:14:19.279 --> 01:14:22.819
up. Yeah. Well, we were just waiting for this,

01:14:22.840 --> 01:14:25.640
clearly. Yeah, now the Dodgers game is over.

01:14:28.640 --> 01:14:33.159
Where can they find you, Aaron? In San Diego.

01:14:34.579 --> 01:14:36.859
Actually, look at that. Freddie Freeman, first

01:14:36.859 --> 01:14:39.159
player with multiple walk -off home runs in World

01:14:39.159 --> 01:14:44.199
Series history. That's incredible. Good for him.

01:14:45.060 --> 01:14:48.170
Yeah. I'll put that – I'm just going to put that

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on my resume and see if someone questions it.

01:14:51.029 --> 01:14:54.090
I mean, if you want a fun one, you could – yeah,

01:14:54.170 --> 01:15:10.630
if you want a fun one, you could just put – Welcome

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back to Sounders Scuttlebutt. We'd like to leave

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now. What was that? That was weird. You can find

01:15:23.340 --> 01:15:26.439
me in San Diego. I don't know why a recording

01:15:26.439 --> 01:15:30.819
wanted us to stop doing our podcast, but rarely

01:15:30.819 --> 01:15:32.760
you'll find me on our Discord, and I am just

01:15:32.760 --> 01:15:36.840
too busy for social media. But you'll find me

01:15:36.840 --> 01:15:41.560
right here on the show. I have a weird thing

01:15:41.560 --> 01:15:45.340
happening on my computer right now. So I'm talking.

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I don't know if you can hear me. You aren't talking,

01:15:47.279 --> 01:15:51.460
so I guess so. But I can't see any of you. I've

01:15:51.460 --> 01:15:55.020
got like pop -ups in my screen. You went to virusporn

01:15:55.020 --> 01:15:57.399
.com, didn't you? Yeah, it's the porn pop -ups

01:15:57.399 --> 01:16:01.399
for Nicholas. You thought the show was over and

01:16:01.399 --> 01:16:04.039
it started heating off and then I hit record

01:16:04.039 --> 01:16:07.460
again. It's giving me a choose what to share

01:16:07.460 --> 01:16:12.600
with Squadcast. And I can't get out of it. I

01:16:12.600 --> 01:16:15.159
hit cancel, and it just pops up again. We can

01:16:15.159 --> 01:16:17.699
hear you. You can just talk. All right. Just

01:16:17.699 --> 01:16:22.140
free your hands up, please. Little brother, what

01:16:22.140 --> 01:16:24.520
are you doing? Okay, you know what? I'm going

01:16:24.520 --> 01:16:27.520
to stand up right now, so avert your eyes. No,

01:16:27.520 --> 01:16:34.140
thank you. No. Come find me. Come find me. No.

01:16:38.000 --> 01:16:43.750
We're adults. Explicit. It has gone off the rails.

01:16:44.149 --> 01:16:50.630
Off the rails. So they can find me at LegalMindedPunk

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on all social media except X because I am still

01:16:53.729 --> 01:16:56.449
for some reason suspended from X despite doing

01:16:56.449 --> 01:17:02.109
nothing wrong. I've said this I think three episodes

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in a row now. So that's so you. To be banned

01:17:05.489 --> 01:17:12.000
on X. Yes. And also just since we're talking

01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:16.479
social, get on your whatever podcast hosting

01:17:16.479 --> 01:17:19.380
platform that you listen to us on. And if they

01:17:19.380 --> 01:17:23.100
allow rating and reviewing, please do so. That

01:17:23.100 --> 01:17:29.180
obviously would be helpful. All right. Game two

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coming up in one week. Hey, I just had an idea.

01:17:32.619 --> 01:17:34.520
If we're talking about rating and reviewing,

01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:39.239
can't we just like... You know, send us five

01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:43.979
bucks, we'll give you a rating. Or is that only

01:17:43.979 --> 01:17:46.899
fans? Is that an only fans thing? You want us

01:17:46.899 --> 01:17:50.340
to rate people for five bucks? If you know, you

01:17:50.340 --> 01:17:56.579
know. Go to bed. Go to bed. Go to bed. This is

01:17:56.579 --> 01:18:00.300
not, we are not soliciting pictures. No penises

01:18:00.300 --> 01:18:04.739
in Discord. No breasts in Discord. Let's just...

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Give us five stars. You can follow the Sounders

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01:18:16.289 --> 01:18:19.350
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We'll see you at Lumen and go Sounders. Alexa,

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who's the best MLS team of all time? The Seattle

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Sounders are both unequivocally and incredibly

01:18:53.460 --> 01:18:55.560
the best MLS team of all time.