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

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I can't say is CHEAT! Welcome to Sounders Scuttlebutt.

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Hello. I didn't know how to do the intro. It

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sounded good to me. Okay, good. Yeah, it's been...

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Who are you? It's been since just before my birthday.

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Aaron Lingley's birthday in November. Since I've

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been able to pop on. Not that we've had a lot

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of shows, but the ultras, thank you guys. Thank

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you, Cameron, for keeping a little bit of energy

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going on the airwaves. They're excited. I'm excited.

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We had a good start to the season. Wonky game,

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but I'll take the three points. Tied for the

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longest first half in MLS history. 62 minutes

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or something stupid. 61, I think. Yeah. So, yeah,

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Sounders won their first match of the season,

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and Champions Cup is going on. Yeah. What? I

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was like, 61, is that right? Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah. Champions Cup's going on. There's some

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matches today. You'll catch us up on that. We

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have our match in Spokane. The website still

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has, the schedule still has to be determined.

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TBC, to be called. What is that supposed to be?

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you know who it is and i don't know who it is

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so that you'll surprise you'll surprise me here

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shortly um yeah this is exciting i'm glad to

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get back on i got a drink ready um although i

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did drink my last two beers already because my

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dog had diarrhea and she's a 75 pound black lab

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and i had to clean that up so I wanted to, I

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needed some alcohol. So tell me more about the

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great, the great things about owning animals.

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Right. Yeah. My wife was kind enough to be like,

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you can have my rosé bubbles. So I have my apres

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rosé, rosé bubbles that I got her at BevMo. What's,

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what's worse, the dog or the baby? Oh, the dog,

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dude. Diarrhea on a rug. Are you kidding me?

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At least the babies are contained. Like we, we.

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we mitigate mess with babies. We have diapers.

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Um, Margo's not a baby anymore, man. She's two,

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two on Valentine's day. She's still crapping

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her pants, but, um, yeah, shit. And I haven't,

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I mean, we haven't really spoken in a few like,

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like this in a few months either. So yeah, times

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are changing over here, down here in San Diego.

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Still weird to say that anyway, Cameron Collins.

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How are you, my friend? Doing good. I'm ready

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to open up my club soda, which I'm going to do

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real quick. Oh, that sounded nice. Open my apres

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rose. That sounded nice too. I mean, it's rose.

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All right. Sounders are back. It's been about

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time. I tell you what, until the game started,

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I kept feeling like, why are we back already?

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It's cold out. It's rainy. It's February. This

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is too soon. And as soon as the game started,

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I was like, where have we been all this time?

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We should have been back like a week after we

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stopped playing. Yeah. I mean, it was, I mean,

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we went out in the first round too. So with the

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gap in the playoffs, we were out like a month

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before the MLS cup, which was still in December.

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And now it's February near the end. So yeah,

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almost four months. Because of the World Cup

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break, it's going to be like December 18th this

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time. Serious? Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, yeah,

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no, I mean, it's been a minute. It's been, and

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I feel like the off season, we haven't obviously

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had an off season episode, but it was fairly

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quiet from a Sounders standpoint. We had some

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departures that are notable. You brought it up

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in the Ultras episode. I listened to that. Obviously,

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that's Obed. That's Danny Leyva. But we brought

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in some fun names, actually. We're sticking to

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the locals, kind of in the Kellen Rowe -esque

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kind of signing with Sonny Dotson, right? And

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we brought up... Should have. Yeah, should have

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counted. I mean, they didn't count it, but...

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Yeah. Yeah, so... I mean, I don't know where

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you want to start. Should we do... Do we want

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to jump into Champions League? Do we want to

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jump into a little offseason stuff? Yeah, let's

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do a little scuttlebutt before we get to Sounders.

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Shout out to Nicholas Biela, too. You know, he's

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here in spirit. I mean, literally. Ah, no! His

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face just appeared. He's working, so we just

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had him pop on screen. He chose to be in the

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wings. Whoa. We had a... I think the first thing

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to talk about, and I don't know how much you've

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been following what's been going on, but Messi

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going after the referees in the match against

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LA at the Rose Bowl. And he did not go into a...

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area that was um like he didn't go in the locker

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room so it was okay so he got no suspension but

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there was an article today and maybe the athletic

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or one of uh you know i wish i had it in front

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of me it was on my other computer but basically

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saying we need to talk about messy and and how

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this arguing with the refs and this fighting

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with them has gone on and on uh and it's so fascinating

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because he thinks that they get reffed unfairly

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and then everyone else thinks miami miami gets

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all the calls so Interesting. Watching all the

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games, I think it's usually the East Coast teams

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being insufferable and complaining and whining,

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and they don't get all the calls. But also, they

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don't get calls against them. I don't see that

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too much. I mean, as a Sounders fan who we constantly

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get refs against us, it's hard for me to be like,

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yeah, we don't. Because we get screwed way more

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than I ever see Miami get screwed. Sorry, there's

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a dog outside. I don't know if the listeners

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can, but I could. Since his arrival, they've

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pretty much been favored. But the stats don't

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bear that out, is the interesting thing. The

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amount of fouls given, that type of stuff doesn't

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bear that out. Maybe, and I haven't looked at

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this, you could argue that they're getting more

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calls in positions that allow them to score more.

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I don't know about that. uh more dangerous positions

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or in in times of the game that are important

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that other teams aren't but i don't i don't i

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don't see it as egregious either way uh but i

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do want to talk about the ref in our game so

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we'll we'll wait there uh but i don't know are

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you are you sick of messy people are sick of

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them now yeah i'm not i mean we beat them so

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if And that's like the only, when he first joined,

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like I added on season pass, like Miami, right?

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I'm like, I got to watch the, I got to watch

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Messi and MLS. So I want those games tagged.

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That faded last year. I didn't give a shit. Obviously,

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I think the only game I watched of Miami in full,

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other than, you know, just catching highlights

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and stuff was the league's cup final because

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they were playing us. So I don't really have

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much to say. It's not bothering me because, but

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I'm not putting myself in a position to be annoyed.

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So I default to you if he's, and I trust your

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judgment if he's being annoying, but I can imagine.

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He's not there for me yet. But I think some of

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it's driven by messy haters and they don't like

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the fact that he's brought so many more eyes

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to the league. And now we have bigger player.

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I mean, I don't think Antoine Griezmann is coming

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to the MLS. if not for a player like Messi coming.

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Because Griezmann has years left where he could

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still be playing in Europe, and yet it looks

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like he's signing for Orlando. Really? Yeah.

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It's kind of crazy. Of course, we want him here

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since he's a big J -Rod fan, but I don't think

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it's going to happen, sadly. Why don't we move

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on to Champions Cup? Yeah, I guess that's where

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I kind of sit. It's just like I'm not a hater.

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I don't really hate any. I don't hate like I

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used to. I used to hate really like... Who's

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the guy that... Will Johnson? No, I still hate

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him. He doesn't play. Sideshow Bob. Still hate

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him, I guess. He's our coach. I know. It's so

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weird. I forgot about that. I hate him as a player.

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He got suspended in the fight against Miami.

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That's hilarious. So he's still got it. He's

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like a Richard Sherman. I hate him when he's

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not on our team, I guess. Yeah, let's move on

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to Champions Cup just because I know we got not

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limited time, but we want to make the most of

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our time so that your wife can go to bed. Yeah,

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I'm in our room. Yeah, I mean, so let's talk

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about this second leg of the first round and

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we'll go back to... Some of the older matches,

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which happened a while ago, or just to remind

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people that Pumas went, or I mean, San Diego

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went through 4 -2 on aggregate against Pumas.

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Tigres went through 4 -1 on aggregate against

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Forge. Club America went through 2 -1 on aggregate

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versus Olympia. And there's two more. Monterey

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went through 3 -1 against Jelahu. I guess. I

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don't know how to say that team's name. And Cruz

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Azul went through 8 -0 after a 5 -0 win against

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Vancouver FC, who I was really hoping the Sounders

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would play at some point. I like Vancouver FC.

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That is, of course, not the Whitecaps. That is

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the Canadian Premier League team. You remember

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that beautiful Sakura cherry blossom jersey?

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That was their team that did that. Yesterday,

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here's the games that matter. Yesterday, Nashville

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destroyed Ottawa. It was just goal after goal

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after goal. And Nashville had won 2 -0 in Ottawa,

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but it was 5 -0 yesterday in Nashville. Reed

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Baker Whiting started the game at right mid,

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which was pretty cool to see. I think that's

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probably where he would have played more for

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the Sounders if we didn't end up with 46 wingers

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on our team, because that's why they brought

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him up originally from the defiance, was to kind

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of have a little more space in the right and

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be able to play more over there. And then it

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didn't really work out. So Nashville goes through.

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LAFC beat Real España 1 -0 after that 6 -1 drubbing

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in the first round. Went through 7 -1 on aggregate.

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Earlier today, Universidad ONM got a red card

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in the 86th minute. They only allowed one goal

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after that. And they lost 9 -0 to Cincinnati,

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which is wow. So 13 -0 on aggregate. That is

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pretty wild. LA Galaxy just scoring against Sporting

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San Miguelito right now. At least it just popped

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up here. A minute ago, Gabriel Peck scored to

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put LA Galaxy up 1 -0. And I don't know what

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their first round is. It's not telling me right

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now, unfortunately. But that is an interesting

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match going on. And of course, the big one. After

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a 0 -0 draw at Cartagena on February 18th, today,

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Vancouver beat Cartagena 2 -0 to be traveling

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to Spokane. on, what, the 28th or 26th? When's

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that match? You said it earlier. 18th? March

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18th? Okay. Yeah, today is the 25th. March 18th,

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Vancouver FC will be playing at Seattle Sounders

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in the next round of CONCACAF Champions Cup.

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Philadelphia versus Defense Forces tomorrow.

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I wonder, it's been snowing on the East Coast.

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I wonder if it got delayed or if they are just

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playing on a Thursday. I don't know. Did you

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say the galaxy game was still going on? It looks

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like it's full time. 34th minute right now. One,

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nothing. Sporting SM. Oh, that's February 19th.

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I'm stupid. Yeah. You're looking at, you're looking

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at the first game, which was one, one at sporting

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SM. So galaxy. Oh, did they take away the goal?

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It's back to zero, zero. They may have taken

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away that goal. We will see. I don't have the

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game on live. I should probably throw it on.

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I should also shout out to Santa Clara university

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basketball, the men's basketball team. If they

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win today against St. Mary's, they will finish

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second in the WCC and likely go to the NCAA tournament,

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which I can't say they have done since they had

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Steve Nash. So I'm really excited for the possibility

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that my alma mater might be going to the NCAA

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tournament for the first time. And since I was

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in probably middle school. Maybe high school.

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I can't remember what years those were, but it's

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been a while. I don't know. But yeah, pretty

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wild. Seattle U folded down the stretch, but

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I have all my teams in the WCC right now, Seattle

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U and Santa Clara. Unfortunately, Santa Clara

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is currently down by six at halftime. So Vancouver,

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huh? Yeah, I mean, it's what we expected. I didn't

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think the other team was going to go through,

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right? The first game kind of gave us hope, but

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I mean, the goals were from Kenji Cabrera in

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the 58th minute, and then Burr Halter scored

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in the 80th. Unfortunately, it doesn't count

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towards my fantasy team where I picked Burr Halter.

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Does the bracket recede at all or anything, or

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is this the path? No, this is the path. So we

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know that we were going to play the winner of

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Cartagena's versus Vancouver. Okay. And Tigris

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is likely playing Cincinnati. Yeah, they are

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playing Cincinnati 13. Sorry. You said that 13,

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13, 13 nil on aggregate. Likely it's likely that

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they might play them. You know, they, they, they

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won both. Yeah. So. Champions Cup, I think our

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path is not an easy one. What's our path after

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Vancouver? It's likely Tigris, right? Well, I

00:16:12.649 --> 00:16:16.850
mean, Cincinnati's not terrible. Or Cincinnati,

00:16:17.049 --> 00:16:19.129
either way. And that would be the semifinals?

00:16:19.129 --> 00:16:20.629
I would pick Tigris out of that one. Yeah, that

00:16:20.629 --> 00:16:25.809
would be in the round of 16 is there. So semifinals

00:16:25.809 --> 00:16:29.009
would be us and Tigris should we get past Vancouver.

00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:34.879
And Miami, America, they're slated. So is it,

00:16:34.899 --> 00:16:37.960
would you say Philadelphia? Yeah, definitely

00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:39.799
Philadelphia. They're up 5 -0 in their first

00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:44.100
leg. And then Ottawa, we already mentioned that.

00:16:44.220 --> 00:16:47.179
Rita Baker Whiting thrashed them. Yeah, and Nashville.

00:16:47.379 --> 00:16:49.519
I mean, I'm guessing Miami comes out of the other

00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:51.899
side. Yeah, so Miami beats Nashville. America

00:16:51.899 --> 00:16:55.419
versus Philadelphia. Hey, Philadelphia, America,

00:16:55.720 --> 00:17:00.179
very patriotic matchup. Probably America out

00:17:00.179 --> 00:17:04.259
of that one. Oh, but LAFC would then be in, what,

00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:08.380
Miami's bracket? I don't see LAFC on this side.

00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:14.440
Oh, they're on our side. I mean, then. They're

00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:18.859
on the other side of the bracket. Yeah. Interesting.

00:17:18.940 --> 00:17:21.039
So just curious who we'd play in the final if

00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:24.740
we made it that far, but never fun to have to

00:17:24.740 --> 00:17:27.660
play some of these teams that have. Much better

00:17:27.660 --> 00:17:29.400
player in the Sounders, but thankfully we have

00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:33.980
a better coach and maybe more spirit than those

00:17:33.980 --> 00:17:36.519
teams. Sometimes that's all you need. If I was

00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.599
just going to like, look, I mean, Sandy, it's

00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:41.319
weird to say San Diego is like a wow. We're just

00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:45.880
not used to them. And I live here. But I mean,

00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:48.500
they can't really be a wild card at this point.

00:17:48.559 --> 00:17:52.339
I would normally pick Monterey or LAFC or even

00:17:52.339 --> 00:17:54.339
I feel like Galaxy are going to be much better

00:17:54.339 --> 00:17:56.690
this year. I mean, it's. kind of hard not to

00:17:56.690 --> 00:18:03.009
be. But I think I'd have to pick probably San

00:18:03.009 --> 00:18:07.549
Diego to make it. I mean, the Pumas are no slouch,

00:18:07.609 --> 00:18:13.789
right? And they beat them 5 -2? No, 4 -2. Yeah,

00:18:13.789 --> 00:18:17.950
4 -2. But that first game, the 3 -1 game, they

00:18:17.950 --> 00:18:20.049
were down 1 -0. And as soon as they allowed,

00:18:20.250 --> 00:18:22.109
they got the first goal, San Diego, and then

00:18:22.109 --> 00:18:24.349
they got the second, and then Pumas fell apart.

00:18:25.019 --> 00:18:26.599
Like they should have never allowed the third

00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:28.980
goal. So I don't think that was a case of San

00:18:28.980 --> 00:18:31.079
Diego being the better team in that match. Still

00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:35.900
won the... Oh, sure. Still won. I mean, of all

00:18:35.900 --> 00:18:38.380
these matchups, right? That's probably the toughest

00:18:38.380 --> 00:18:41.200
matchup. You look at all these, there's obviously

00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:44.579
these clubs we've never heard before. Maybe on

00:18:44.579 --> 00:18:46.559
that side, I am much more worried about Miami

00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:49.319
than I am San Diego. Oh, I'm just saying, I was

00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:50.680
trying to see who we'd meet in the final, like

00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:52.420
you were thinking, right? So, and I'm thinking

00:18:52.420 --> 00:18:54.940
it might have to be... I can see that happening.

00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:58.759
They play probably LA Galaxy in the semifinals.

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And based on the bracket, Monterey and LAFC are

00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:09.720
on the other quadrant of that bracket. But I

00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:14.039
think we'd make it too. Tigris would be a battle,

00:19:14.259 --> 00:19:18.420
but that'd be fun. And we're not scared of any

00:19:18.420 --> 00:19:21.539
Mexican cities, clubs. Interesting. Club America,

00:19:21.779 --> 00:19:26.890
Tigris, and Monterey all sit at, uh lower in

00:19:26.890 --> 00:19:29.269
the table seventh eighth and ninth monterey has

00:19:29.269 --> 00:19:32.289
ten points three one and three uh tigris has

00:19:32.289 --> 00:19:34.210
ten points three one and three and club america

00:19:34.210 --> 00:19:38.190
is three two and two so uh obviously a long ways

00:19:38.190 --> 00:19:42.369
to go but uh you know cruz azul pumas and guadalajara

00:19:42.369 --> 00:19:44.970
chivas guadalajara at the top with toluca down

00:19:44.970 --> 00:19:46.829
there and forth you know i kind of like toluca

00:19:46.829 --> 00:19:54.990
and pachuca i like these smaller The 18 teams,

00:19:55.109 --> 00:19:57.289
those teams usually see near the top or down

00:19:57.289 --> 00:20:01.109
a little bit, which is cool for Champions League.

00:20:01.190 --> 00:20:03.210
Yeah, like you said, there's a long way to go.

00:20:03.890 --> 00:20:06.130
We're probably not in the semifinals for three

00:20:06.130 --> 00:20:09.549
or four months. Yeah, Tijuana has seven games

00:20:09.549 --> 00:20:15.450
played, one win, one loss, and five draws. That's

00:20:15.450 --> 00:20:18.150
wild. Remember when Portland was draw city that

00:20:18.150 --> 00:20:21.369
one year? It was a while ago now. Yeah, that

00:20:21.369 --> 00:20:26.690
one year is a decade ago. Yeah. So that's champions

00:20:26.690 --> 00:20:28.890
league. Um, it'd be interesting. Definitely,

00:20:28.910 --> 00:20:33.690
uh, tickets for, uh, if you're listening to this,

00:20:33.710 --> 00:20:37.829
um, now that means tickets are already on sale

00:20:37.829 --> 00:20:41.329
for Sounders fans. Uh, if you're listening to

00:20:41.329 --> 00:20:43.829
this, I'm like, well, there might be some tickets

00:20:43.829 --> 00:20:46.470
left. Uh, they go on sale tomorrow morning. Please

00:20:46.470 --> 00:20:51.359
do email. Uh, so you can, you can, uh, go. Go

00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:53.160
check if there's any tickets left, small stadium.

00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:56.480
And I heard their season ticket holders of the

00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:58.859
two teams out of there got some tickets as well,

00:20:58.859 --> 00:21:04.259
allotted to them, which is pretty cool. Pretty

00:21:04.259 --> 00:21:09.579
cool. I'm just trying to see. I know Vancouver

00:21:09.579 --> 00:21:13.440
won in their, their first match, but, and they're

00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:17.039
just, they've, they've been a slow burn, right?

00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:22.250
Right. They're, they're a good team now. Yeah,

00:21:22.250 --> 00:21:25.029
no, they are. Oh, I forgot the other big news

00:21:25.029 --> 00:21:28.410
today. The other big news. Not excited about

00:21:28.410 --> 00:21:31.910
it. Dennis Buonga signs a contract extension

00:21:31.910 --> 00:21:35.470
through 2028 with an option through the 2930

00:21:35.470 --> 00:21:41.509
season. Yeah, not ideal. He looked like he was

00:21:41.509 --> 00:21:44.490
going to be sold to Mexico or no, Brazil, I think

00:21:44.490 --> 00:21:49.019
it was. I guess that's not happening. So we are

00:21:49.019 --> 00:21:52.359
going to continue to be terrorized by Buwanga.

00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:54.859
I don't know why I couldn't say the word terrorized.

00:21:55.680 --> 00:22:02.460
Exactly. Totally exactly right. I feel like most

00:22:02.460 --> 00:22:05.259
of our listeners are of our generation. They

00:22:05.259 --> 00:22:09.779
probably know that. Except for Alex. That's true.

00:22:10.039 --> 00:22:12.839
Alex, do you know what that reference was? I

00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:14.160
don't think he was born when that movie came

00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:16.559
out. He definitely was not born when that movie

00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:21.299
came out. I think he was born after nine 11.

00:22:22.339 --> 00:22:26.880
Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. I was watching a video that

00:22:26.880 --> 00:22:32.180
talked about like the, like difficult movies

00:22:32.180 --> 00:22:33.759
to watch. And one of them, I've never seen it,

00:22:33.819 --> 00:22:36.259
but was the nine 11 movie. It was at United 91

00:22:36.259 --> 00:22:39.940
about the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.

00:22:40.900 --> 00:22:45.380
And I don't, I've never watched it. Just, it's

00:22:45.380 --> 00:22:47.759
not of interest to me, but they were talking

00:22:47.759 --> 00:22:50.579
about the youngest person who died. And she actually

00:22:50.579 --> 00:22:52.279
went to school with me at Santa Clara. She was

00:22:52.279 --> 00:22:56.779
on her way home from Boston. Yeah. And it was,

00:22:56.819 --> 00:23:01.059
I didn't know her, but my friends did. She took

00:23:01.059 --> 00:23:02.819
a different language than French, but I had friends

00:23:02.819 --> 00:23:05.420
that were in other languages as well and had

00:23:05.420 --> 00:23:06.900
classes with her. And her boyfriend actually

00:23:06.900 --> 00:23:09.980
flew to New York with me the next year. And I

00:23:09.980 --> 00:23:12.299
let him go to ground zero by herself, by himself,

00:23:12.359 --> 00:23:14.940
just because. Even though she didn't die there,

00:23:15.019 --> 00:23:19.279
it was in that event. Go celebrate and not celebrate,

00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:22.680
but, you know, mourn there. Her dad came to campus

00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:27.900
and stuff and helped protest the Iraq war. Apparently

00:23:27.900 --> 00:23:30.240
we're getting yelled at for being too sad. No,

00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:34.579
you said celebrate. And that made Nicholas in

00:23:34.579 --> 00:23:40.410
the wings react. Nicholas is like on the show

00:23:40.410 --> 00:23:43.150
today only to distract us, but he's, he's a very

00:23:43.150 --> 00:23:45.690
tired human being and it's probably safer for

00:23:45.690 --> 00:23:49.009
all parties that he isn't speaking, but it's

00:23:49.009 --> 00:23:51.910
quite distracting, but yeah. If you celebrate,

00:23:52.029 --> 00:23:55.190
if you were at the watch parties during the,

00:23:55.210 --> 00:24:00.470
the old days of when I was hosting the watch

00:24:00.470 --> 00:24:02.690
parties for the Sounders, there was a lot of,

00:24:02.710 --> 00:24:10.079
and muted. We had to turn off his mic. Well,

00:24:10.079 --> 00:24:12.759
we regularly have the explicit button on here,

00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:15.519
so we don't have to really mute it. That's true.

00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:19.140
In fact, the last Ultras episode, I wasn't sure

00:24:19.140 --> 00:24:20.799
if it was explicit, and I was like, yeah, I'm

00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:22.500
going to put explicit just because I do not know.

00:24:22.660 --> 00:24:26.200
Why didn't he just show us his crotch? I think

00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:30.359
we know why. Let's move on. We're feeding into

00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:35.400
this. All right. So, yeah, I was just saying

00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:38.690
that Vancouver, like, there's... They're no slouch.

00:24:38.789 --> 00:24:44.490
We've had – I think we'll have – it'll be a good

00:24:44.490 --> 00:24:47.549
matchup. I mean, I'm really confident on this

00:24:47.549 --> 00:24:51.950
team this year, our Sounders team. But I think

00:24:51.950 --> 00:24:54.789
we'll get past them. But I think it's going to

00:24:54.789 --> 00:24:57.410
be a good match and then followed by likely another

00:24:57.410 --> 00:25:01.210
strong matchup, so it's only going to get harder.

00:25:01.289 --> 00:25:10.119
But all for it. Yeah. I'm with it. With it. What

00:25:10.119 --> 00:25:12.460
time are we at? We're at about 20 minutes, 25

00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:16.220
minutes. Yeah. Do we want to do any other scuttlebutt?

00:25:16.339 --> 00:25:18.799
I haven't checked Discord in a hot minute. When

00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:20.000
was the last time you looked? Oh, we should probably

00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:23.619
do that. I did say that we were going to be on

00:25:23.619 --> 00:25:26.680
the show tonight. Let's see if anyone threw it

00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:29.140
in the mailbag. Boom. There's the mailbag. There's

00:25:29.140 --> 00:25:31.440
also, we got to say, the winners of the Pick

00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:33.460
'Em from last year. Nicholas gave us. He's going

00:25:33.460 --> 00:25:36.789
to mention prizes next episode. He's on. Likely,

00:25:36.789 --> 00:25:40.349
probably. Oh, yeah. Why don't I just say that

00:25:40.349 --> 00:25:43.970
right now? Shout out to Alex Diaz and Chris Duplass

00:25:43.970 --> 00:25:47.529
and Nick for popping in right now. What's up,

00:25:47.589 --> 00:25:51.289
Nick? Yeah, just a point of contention that that

00:25:51.289 --> 00:25:56.170
is last game's winner, not last year's. Okay.

00:25:56.789 --> 00:26:00.410
Aaron said last year's winner. Yeah, we're going

00:26:00.410 --> 00:26:03.789
to do that because we're going to draw live next

00:26:03.789 --> 00:26:10.390
episode. Gotcha. Yep. Yep. This was, this was

00:26:10.390 --> 00:26:13.930
for week one, Alex and Chris were the winners.

00:26:14.529 --> 00:26:23.329
So shout out to them. It was an interesting one.

00:26:23.450 --> 00:26:26.430
I think I got Sounders win, right? And that might

00:26:26.430 --> 00:26:28.910
be it. I said there would be three goals. We

00:26:28.910 --> 00:26:30.509
didn't get three, did we? Didn't we? Was it two?

00:26:30.509 --> 00:26:32.289
Should have been three, right? We had the same

00:26:32.289 --> 00:26:34.029
thing. Who did you pick as your first goal? Cause

00:26:34.029 --> 00:26:40.069
I was win three, nothing. Oh, I had Jesus. Oh,

00:26:40.089 --> 00:26:43.990
really? I had Osase. Yeah, I think a lot of people

00:26:43.990 --> 00:26:47.089
went with Osase. But, you know, maybe we need

00:26:47.089 --> 00:26:49.829
to start doubting Rusnak. Like, he's the man.

00:26:49.990 --> 00:26:53.130
He is. I was thinking about this watching the

00:26:53.130 --> 00:26:59.990
game and how many times we have touted that man

00:26:59.990 --> 00:27:06.630
on the show. And I think I love Nico. but I think

00:27:06.630 --> 00:27:09.150
he's, he's my favorite sounder right now. Um,

00:27:09.309 --> 00:27:14.369
just like, I just, I love watching his game for,

00:27:14.390 --> 00:27:16.930
for this team, like for the, the, the, the engine

00:27:16.930 --> 00:27:19.569
room that we need, uh, like seem is like Christian.

00:27:19.930 --> 00:27:22.130
It's like, that's exactly what we need to see

00:27:22.130 --> 00:27:28.569
the type of the style of play. The, um, no, it's

00:27:28.569 --> 00:27:32.089
just, I, the quality is just, it's just my favorite.

00:27:32.190 --> 00:27:37.400
I just love him. Maybe because I spent also hours

00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:40.240
watching frame by frame his movements in that

00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:45.740
final four years ago. So it's probably imprinted

00:27:45.740 --> 00:27:47.880
on my brain. And I think his brother and his

00:27:47.880 --> 00:27:50.359
dad liked the video too. So I thought I was like

00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:54.680
two minutes from having coffee with him and his

00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:59.170
family. I mean, we got listeners from his home

00:27:59.170 --> 00:28:01.369
country. Yeah, that's true. So maybe it was them.

00:28:01.549 --> 00:28:03.750
Yeah. So I think that's always going to be probably

00:28:03.750 --> 00:28:06.890
why he's probably right up there with my favorite

00:28:06.890 --> 00:28:09.730
sounders of all time. One of the things for me

00:28:09.730 --> 00:28:12.509
was when I was talking to him and he said, oh,

00:28:12.509 --> 00:28:15.089
I didn't think you guys liked me about meeting

00:28:15.089 --> 00:28:17.190
the fans in general. And it just broke my heart.

00:28:17.289 --> 00:28:20.509
I was like, no way, dude. Damn passive aggressive

00:28:20.509 --> 00:28:24.779
fans. Just say you love them. Just be out there

00:28:24.779 --> 00:28:27.400
and proud of them. All right. We got a bunch

00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:32.180
of questions. We do a series of questions. Some

00:28:32.180 --> 00:28:38.019
of them are good. Some of them are jokey. We'll

00:28:38.019 --> 00:28:41.279
get all the good ones. So for tonight from Patrick

00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:44.160
GC, what's up, Patrick? Any, any injury updates

00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:47.660
for Morris and Dotson? Should Rothrock be starting

00:28:47.660 --> 00:28:49.700
even when Morris is healthy? So let's start right

00:28:49.700 --> 00:28:51.920
there. Updates. I do know the injury updates.

00:28:52.019 --> 00:28:54.559
Morris is out roughly a month is what they're

00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:59.859
expecting. He injured his, was it his calf? Right

00:28:59.859 --> 00:29:04.480
through the middle. So it looks like it's going

00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:08.380
to be four weeks, hopefully. And we will see

00:29:08.380 --> 00:29:11.940
what happens there. Sonny Dotson was a full participant

00:29:11.940 --> 00:29:13.619
in practice today, did not have to enter the

00:29:13.619 --> 00:29:15.819
concussion protocol. So they came out. out of

00:29:15.819 --> 00:29:17.859
abundance of caution, but he's fine. It was a

00:29:17.859 --> 00:29:21.240
good sign that he didn't leave the pitch, right?

00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:24.619
If you have a concussion, you need to be away

00:29:24.619 --> 00:29:27.440
from light. I mean, they subbed him off. Yeah,

00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:31.359
but. But I mean, he didn't leave the field, the

00:29:31.359 --> 00:29:33.740
stadium, right? He didn't go to the locker room,

00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:36.400
didn't go home, whatever. And he said he felt

00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:41.309
fine. Yeah. But if you had told me. If we had

00:29:41.309 --> 00:29:43.109
done a show, which we should have maybe, and

00:29:43.109 --> 00:29:45.130
did some of our little predictions or whatever,

00:29:45.289 --> 00:29:46.970
over -unders, whatever you want to call them,

00:29:47.029 --> 00:29:51.750
about Jordan Morris. I mean, I love Jordan Morris,

00:29:51.910 --> 00:29:54.730
obviously. Just love that he chose the home club.

00:29:54.869 --> 00:29:58.130
I love what he's done for the club. I don't have

00:29:58.130 --> 00:30:01.769
really, I want to, but I don't really have faith

00:30:01.769 --> 00:30:07.329
in him going forward to be more than 25 matches

00:30:07.329 --> 00:30:11.220
a season. I just don't think he's got that anymore.

00:30:11.339 --> 00:30:13.279
He's always been kind of a fragile player to

00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:16.460
me. I don't know if it's the pigeon -toedness

00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:22.420
or what, but the facts are facts. He can't play

00:30:22.420 --> 00:30:25.759
a full season. He is productive as all hell when

00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:31.720
he is in peak form and healthy. But if you'd

00:30:31.720 --> 00:30:33.579
asked me, we're not going to see him for more

00:30:33.579 --> 00:30:36.240
than 25 matches. Sure enough, he barely lasts,

00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:40.150
what, five minutes? it was seven minutes yeah

00:30:40.150 --> 00:30:45.589
so um and then of course to to follow up on patrick's

00:30:45.589 --> 00:30:51.690
question um paul rothrack rothrack rothrock grignac

00:30:51.690 --> 00:30:56.069
what what movie is that grignac i don't know

00:30:56.069 --> 00:31:01.529
grignac rock rock rock galaxy quest is there

00:31:01.529 --> 00:31:05.700
air you don't know That's a movie that if you

00:31:05.700 --> 00:31:08.640
have not seen, listeners, Galaxy Quest was marketed

00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:11.039
wrong. All of the ads are wrong. It made it look

00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:13.759
really stupid, and it's an absolute classic.

00:31:13.900 --> 00:31:18.380
There are a few movies that I can watch a million

00:31:18.380 --> 00:31:23.740
times. It's that, Last Crusade, Hook. What about

00:31:23.740 --> 00:31:30.880
PCU? That was on Comedy Central when they didn't

00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:34.769
have a lot of... licensed stuff. And so they

00:31:34.769 --> 00:31:36.529
played that movie every night. So I've seen it

00:31:36.529 --> 00:31:39.970
so many times. Yeah. Anyway, to go back, Paul

00:31:39.970 --> 00:31:42.450
Rothrock, of course, comes in and is man of the

00:31:42.450 --> 00:31:47.130
match. Right. And I, so that's the, I wasn't

00:31:47.130 --> 00:31:48.930
convinced last year. I wasn't convinced with

00:31:48.930 --> 00:31:51.049
Paul Rothrock last year. I thought he was, you

00:31:51.049 --> 00:31:53.809
know, a great story. Of course, this is going

00:31:53.809 --> 00:31:57.069
to be the story of the season. He deserves everything

00:31:57.069 --> 00:32:00.450
he's getting his efforts there. He's, he's exactly

00:32:00.450 --> 00:32:05.859
what Schmetzer wants. But to just literally hit

00:32:05.859 --> 00:32:09.140
the ground running and win the game for us, not

00:32:09.140 --> 00:32:11.319
that I was concerned about. I think we would

00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:13.920
have won if Jordan stayed on the pitch, whether

00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:17.500
he scored or not. But Rothrock got the stats

00:32:17.500 --> 00:32:20.859
to win the game for us. I think it's pretty clear

00:32:20.859 --> 00:32:23.720
that, well, shit, you start him. I think Areola

00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:26.190
is going to be. something we have to talk about

00:32:26.190 --> 00:32:29.109
he got minutes yeah i'd rather have him considering

00:32:29.109 --> 00:32:32.250
what we saw last year but the sample size of

00:32:32.250 --> 00:32:36.170
rothrock versus areola um you gotta give it to

00:32:36.170 --> 00:32:38.470
rothrock right now and let areola get up there

00:32:38.470 --> 00:32:40.769
obviously we're not we're not at training so

00:32:40.769 --> 00:32:42.630
who are you saying rothrock morris when morris

00:32:42.630 --> 00:32:44.049
is healthy who are you starting between those

00:32:44.049 --> 00:32:47.420
two rothrock I think that's what I was kind of

00:32:47.420 --> 00:32:50.400
alluding to. I think Morris is just not. He doesn't

00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:52.920
got it, and we can't. I don't want to put starters

00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:54.700
out there that aren't going to continue to start.

00:32:56.140 --> 00:32:58.960
Injuries happen, but I can guarantee that he's

00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:02.599
going to get injured. It sucks. I don't like

00:33:02.599 --> 00:33:06.099
saying that. I like Jordan Morris. I think I'm

00:33:06.099 --> 00:33:09.619
with you. Was he 30 now? But I feel like he's

00:33:09.619 --> 00:33:14.579
got a body of a 35 -year -old. yeah and his skill

00:33:14.579 --> 00:33:17.700
set what made him so i mean i'll say prolific

00:33:17.700 --> 00:33:20.880
because i mean he was like the wonder kid right

00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:26.059
but he that's not he's not he's sure he's fast

00:33:26.059 --> 00:33:30.839
but he's not he's not the same body he's not

00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:34.720
the same athlete as he was eight ten ten years

00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:38.779
ago now it's 2015 i mean he hasn't ran it at

00:33:38.779 --> 00:33:41.200
the opposing defenses. Last year he did it a

00:33:41.200 --> 00:33:43.079
few times and he was very successful at it, but

00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:44.720
it's not something he does very often anymore.

00:33:45.700 --> 00:33:48.680
I mean, I think him playing in the wing, I think

00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:50.740
I prefer him on the right based on the talent

00:33:50.740 --> 00:33:54.759
we have on our squad, but him playing on the

00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:56.920
wing instead of forward is the right way to go.

00:33:56.980 --> 00:33:59.759
I still think we need, I mean, Osaze is great.

00:33:59.900 --> 00:34:03.059
He looked great again. Having Danny off the bench

00:34:03.059 --> 00:34:05.039
is fantastic. I still would rather have a DP

00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:09.000
forward up there. we need to do something about

00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:10.800
that. I mean, obviously if he's only at a month,

00:34:10.820 --> 00:34:12.619
it's not happened this year. If he had, if Jordan

00:34:12.619 --> 00:34:14.519
had been out of the season, you know, you put

00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:16.579
them on IR, you don't take the cap hit. Maybe

00:34:16.579 --> 00:34:19.280
you do something about it, but that's obviously

00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:22.139
not, not the case. Let's keep it moving just

00:34:22.139 --> 00:34:26.699
because we have some, some that maybe we will.

00:34:27.210 --> 00:34:29.489
not get fully into, but definitely something

00:34:29.489 --> 00:34:31.929
we have to discuss on the show a lot. Muffin

00:34:31.929 --> 00:34:34.389
Top Model asks, do we know anything about the

00:34:34.389 --> 00:34:36.070
potential sale of the Seahawks? How will this

00:34:36.070 --> 00:34:39.949
impact Sounders, if at all? We don't know anything

00:34:39.949 --> 00:34:44.489
about the sale of the Seahawks. They will be

00:34:44.489 --> 00:34:47.150
put on sale in a way that all these teams are

00:34:47.150 --> 00:34:50.869
now where they do a search for investors, but

00:34:50.869 --> 00:34:52.329
it'll be like investors that are planning on

00:34:52.329 --> 00:34:54.469
buying the team rather than like the Sounders

00:34:54.469 --> 00:34:56.849
who are looking for money investors to... to

00:34:56.849 --> 00:35:02.869
uh support the team um i mean i think it impacts

00:35:02.869 --> 00:35:07.230
it impacts the sounders because they own part

00:35:07.230 --> 00:35:10.849
of the sounders well does so does it is does

00:35:10.849 --> 00:35:16.670
the trust or does jody um i mean she's acting

00:35:16.670 --> 00:35:19.429
on behalf of the trust yeah yeah but i don't

00:35:19.429 --> 00:35:23.019
know just her as the seahawks the seahawks own

00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:26.000
a portion of the sounders so so yeah um it'll

00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:29.480
be who does that and i mean does that go along

00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:33.559
with the sale how is that valued is that uh or

00:35:33.559 --> 00:35:35.579
is it broken off i mean there's lots of questions

00:35:35.579 --> 00:35:39.019
there uh if it is sold will that i mean they

00:35:39.019 --> 00:35:41.559
don't have a majority stake but they have a big

00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:44.199
enough stake that maybe Are they going to care

00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:45.840
about the Sounders? Are they going to view that

00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:47.860
as a good part of the investment? Are they only

00:35:47.860 --> 00:35:49.260
caring about the Seahawks? I mean, there's a

00:35:49.260 --> 00:35:51.800
lot of possibility there. And it could bring

00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:54.760
more money to the Sounders if it's going to be

00:35:54.760 --> 00:35:59.380
active. I think, obviously, I can't imagine the

00:35:59.380 --> 00:36:04.559
sale would take forever. That sounds like a great

00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:09.739
Patreon -specific episode, you know, where we

00:36:09.739 --> 00:36:11.559
just talk, how does the sale of the Seahawks

00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:14.789
affect? the Sounders and maybe try to find someone

00:36:14.789 --> 00:36:18.909
that knows more than certainly me, but maybe

00:36:18.909 --> 00:36:21.050
that knows a little bit more than you or who's,

00:36:21.050 --> 00:36:23.789
um, cause I know there's, there's stuff being

00:36:23.789 --> 00:36:26.829
an Alliance council that you guys hear, see,

00:36:27.030 --> 00:36:30.809
whatever that you can't speak of just because

00:36:30.809 --> 00:36:35.880
of an NDA, but. There's got to be some experts

00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:38.880
that might be able to kind of give us some insight.

00:36:38.940 --> 00:36:41.880
Because I feel like that's fair for us, for fans,

00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:46.059
season ticket holders, to understand. I'm investing

00:36:46.059 --> 00:36:48.780
my money and my time into the Sounders, and this

00:36:48.780 --> 00:36:51.760
is a pretty big impact to the sports community.

00:36:52.219 --> 00:36:55.679
And they're literally related. Yeah, I don't

00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:57.159
know if we'll know the answer to that until they

00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:59.280
know who's buying it. That's what I mean, after

00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:01.539
the sale. I can't imagine it's going to take

00:37:01.539 --> 00:37:05.190
very long. I could see it taking years. I could

00:37:05.190 --> 00:37:07.230
see it taking years to get the right person in

00:37:07.230 --> 00:37:08.409
there. I don't think she's just going to sell

00:37:08.409 --> 00:37:12.269
to an investment fund. I think she's going to

00:37:12.269 --> 00:37:14.289
make sure it's to the right owners because she's

00:37:14.289 --> 00:37:15.510
not going to sell to someone who could potentially

00:37:15.510 --> 00:37:19.869
move the team. That's not going to happen. I

00:37:19.869 --> 00:37:21.570
mean, you would hope not, but it's not going

00:37:21.570 --> 00:37:23.489
to happen. Look what's happening. I mean, it's

00:37:23.489 --> 00:37:25.130
not the first time the Seahawks tried to move.

00:37:25.289 --> 00:37:27.090
Yeah, well, the circumstances were complete.

00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.219
Literally polar opposites. I know. Literally

00:37:30.219 --> 00:37:33.500
polar opposites. It would be so stupid. The follow

00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:35.920
-up for Tim is, is Renton just a matter of time

00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.440
of when versus if, meaning the new stadium in

00:37:38.440 --> 00:37:41.719
Renton? In Longacres, right? Yeah, I think it's

00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:45.760
if. It would be near Longacres, I suppose. I've

00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:48.619
had lots of conversations with Adrian Hanauer

00:37:48.619 --> 00:37:52.880
about this and with the president of the club

00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:58.579
and all sorts of other people. it's not just

00:37:58.579 --> 00:38:00.380
going to happen. You have to have investment.

00:38:00.500 --> 00:38:02.099
You have to make sure it's the right decision.

00:38:02.460 --> 00:38:04.699
You got to make sure you have the land. Like

00:38:04.699 --> 00:38:11.340
it takes 10 years to do these deals. So it's

00:38:11.340 --> 00:38:15.340
not, I mean, it's not a question of if it's a

00:38:15.340 --> 00:38:17.300
question or when it's a question of, if there's

00:38:17.300 --> 00:38:20.519
so many ifs, are the Seahawks going to stay in

00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:24.329
the, in Seattle? Is Lumen Field going to get

00:38:24.329 --> 00:38:26.489
torn down one day and build something else? There's

00:38:26.489 --> 00:38:28.050
all sorts of different opportunities that could

00:38:28.050 --> 00:38:31.269
happen. We don't know. But I want to tag that

00:38:31.269 --> 00:38:33.050
on with Dan the Bastard's question, which is,

00:38:33.110 --> 00:38:35.349
with the new gate policy and noticeably closed

00:38:35.349 --> 00:38:38.230
food areas inside Lumen, are the Sounders purposely

00:38:38.230 --> 00:38:39.969
trying to make the game day experience at Lumen

00:38:39.969 --> 00:38:42.429
more frustrating to get us on their side to move

00:38:42.429 --> 00:38:48.949
to the Burbs? No, Dan. That's you being salty

00:38:48.949 --> 00:38:54.739
today. We ate before you went to the game. Why

00:38:54.739 --> 00:38:56.260
are you mad about not being able to get a hot

00:38:56.260 --> 00:39:01.559
dog? The gate policy we should talk about. The

00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:03.679
food, the Sounders have no control over the food

00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:07.099
stuff. Lumen decides with opens. There's certain

00:39:07.099 --> 00:39:09.380
stuff that just will never be open for Sounders.

00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:13.079
And there's even more that are not open for the

00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:18.639
rain. That's just how it's going to be. That's

00:39:18.639 --> 00:39:21.750
operational. decisions too from the stadium do

00:39:21.750 --> 00:39:24.429
they have the do they have the people um yeah

00:39:24.429 --> 00:39:26.610
and even if they do is it worth it financially

00:39:26.610 --> 00:39:28.670
for them to open it what's what money is being

00:39:28.670 --> 00:39:32.750
made versus uh you know with the cost of food

00:39:32.750 --> 00:39:34.889
on their end versus selling it i mean they should

00:39:34.889 --> 00:39:37.090
make a lot right so eight thing one hour not

00:39:37.090 --> 00:39:39.710
90 minutes is that what yeah okay so that's that's

00:39:39.710 --> 00:39:41.469
the big thing i think is worth discussing is

00:39:41.469 --> 00:39:44.909
uh instead of being 90 minutes beforehand the

00:39:44.909 --> 00:39:47.110
gates opened one hour beforehand and it was a

00:39:47.110 --> 00:39:51.159
fucking nightmare I knew it was going to be the

00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:54.320
case that that was going to happen, but these

00:39:54.320 --> 00:39:56.679
data all showed that most people didn't show

00:39:56.679 --> 00:39:59.920
up early. So it shouldn't have really made a

00:39:59.920 --> 00:40:04.260
difference if everyone's showing up later. Now,

00:40:04.300 --> 00:40:06.199
my question was, so when did people show up?

00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:08.519
And I don't have that data yet, but I can tell

00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:12.159
you that people who showed up right at that hour

00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:14.480
mark had to wait. And that's when I got there,

00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:17.119
had to wait in line for quite some time. There

00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:20.179
were people still waiting in line when kickoff

00:40:20.179 --> 00:40:23.900
happened. So clearly an hour was not enough time

00:40:23.900 --> 00:40:26.860
for that match. Looking at the amount of tickets

00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:30.659
available on Ticketmaster, I think there was

00:40:30.659 --> 00:40:33.380
3 % of tickets still available for this match.

00:40:33.559 --> 00:40:35.920
I think there's less for the next home match,

00:40:36.019 --> 00:40:39.320
RSL, in April, which is our next home match,

00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:44.670
April 12th, I believe. We have a long time. Most

00:40:44.670 --> 00:40:46.510
of these games, looking at them, are 95 -plus

00:40:46.510 --> 00:40:52.210
percent sold out. Now, show rate may be it. Maybe

00:40:52.210 --> 00:40:53.809
everyone showed up for this match because it

00:40:53.809 --> 00:40:56.230
was the first game of the season. I was surprised

00:40:56.230 --> 00:40:58.389
at how packed it was, if I'm being honest. The

00:40:58.389 --> 00:41:00.849
weather was real shitty. It had been a shitty

00:41:00.849 --> 00:41:02.829
morning. It had rained all day. There was a little

00:41:02.829 --> 00:41:04.449
bit of sun over the stadium in the afternoon,

00:41:04.650 --> 00:41:08.050
but by the time the game started, it was... Actually,

00:41:08.110 --> 00:41:09.809
it stopped raining again, but in the hours leading

00:41:09.809 --> 00:41:11.489
up to the game, there was a lot of rain. And

00:41:11.489 --> 00:41:12.969
then during the game, it poured the whole time.

00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:17.760
until the second half so I really thought there's

00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:21.460
a lot of positive sports energy right in the

00:41:21.460 --> 00:41:24.440
last couple weeks yeah so yeah and I think that's

00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:27.019
we have a question coming up about that but I

00:41:27.019 --> 00:41:31.659
don't know we'll have to get that actual the

00:41:31.659 --> 00:41:33.280
numbers from the Sounders on that and that's

00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:36.099
certainly something I will be looking into I

00:41:36.099 --> 00:41:41.570
know for a fact that the I mean On the Lions

00:41:41.570 --> 00:41:43.829
Council, we were already talking about it from

00:41:43.829 --> 00:41:46.389
the moment before the gates opened, from the

00:41:46.389 --> 00:41:49.469
moment we saw the Lions. So this is not something

00:41:49.469 --> 00:41:52.989
that is going to be not discussed. This is something

00:41:52.989 --> 00:41:56.210
that is going to be, I think there has to be

00:41:56.210 --> 00:41:57.969
a good reason for the Sounders to do it. I'll

00:41:57.969 --> 00:42:01.670
be curious if it keeps happening. You can train

00:42:01.670 --> 00:42:04.130
fans to come at a certain time. That's why they

00:42:04.130 --> 00:42:07.400
used to do the early beers. uh, you know, the

00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:09.480
$5 beer deals and stuff like that was to get

00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:11.900
people in earlier so that not everyone was coming

00:42:11.900 --> 00:42:14.000
just before kickoff, kickoff and backing up the

00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:15.539
line. Yeah. The beer was cheaper in the stadium

00:42:15.539 --> 00:42:18.920
than outside. Yeah. Um, you know, I think people

00:42:18.920 --> 00:42:21.440
didn't come in though, so it doesn't make sense.

00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:26.719
That was $20 deep time. People, everyone else

00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:29.920
shut up. It does, I think, make it harder on

00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:31.820
supporter groups who have tables, which grill

00:42:31.820 --> 00:42:34.280
FC will have one at every weekend match going

00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:36.909
forward. Uh, we did not at this match because

00:42:36.909 --> 00:42:38.769
it was just too difficult to get everything together.

00:42:39.230 --> 00:42:42.050
But, uh, on the weekends we will, we will have

00:42:42.050 --> 00:42:44.289
a table with East side supporters and gorilla

00:42:44.289 --> 00:42:47.010
sea stuff. Um, and we have lots of cool stuff

00:42:47.010 --> 00:42:49.949
potentially coming up, uh, including some, some

00:42:49.949 --> 00:42:55.269
ice trainings, ice response trainings. Uh, but

00:42:55.269 --> 00:42:59.170
yeah, uh, it'll be, uh, it'll be interesting

00:42:59.170 --> 00:43:02.010
to see what happens. So we'll see. Um, I will

00:43:02.010 --> 00:43:05.730
tell you, it was very frustrating. Um, I've never

00:43:05.730 --> 00:43:09.170
seen a line that bad, uh, because I was into

00:43:09.170 --> 00:43:11.269
early and people were saying the only time they've

00:43:11.269 --> 00:43:13.269
seen that bad as playoffs or like in Portland

00:43:13.269 --> 00:43:16.690
match, like full stadium. I mean, it was worse

00:43:16.690 --> 00:43:18.210
than the Seahawks getting into the plate for

00:43:18.210 --> 00:43:21.050
the Seahawks and the playoffs, uh, against San

00:43:21.050 --> 00:43:23.010
Francisco, not worse than the NFC championship

00:43:23.010 --> 00:43:27.449
game. But I got, I got in faster, uh, against

00:43:27.449 --> 00:43:31.550
the 49ers than I did against whoever we played

00:43:31.550 --> 00:43:41.969
yesterday, Colorado. Ouch. You said there's more.

00:43:42.929 --> 00:43:51.250
Oh, yeah. People respond to that. Oh, so I think

00:43:51.250 --> 00:43:53.389
you said something that is interesting, but Yaya

00:43:53.389 --> 00:43:56.349
asked if we could discuss the arc of morale following

00:43:56.349 --> 00:43:59.150
the end of last season into the preseason. Now,

00:43:59.269 --> 00:44:06.219
one game, one win in. So. like coming off last

00:44:06.219 --> 00:44:10.820
season, how did we feel? And then the preseason.

00:44:10.860 --> 00:44:12.780
And then I think, but I think you nailed it to

00:44:12.780 --> 00:44:15.619
the Seahawks. How much did that change expectations,

00:44:16.539 --> 00:44:20.039
celebrations of the Sounders being back? I mean,

00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:22.139
did it have an impact? I'll let you hit that

00:44:22.139 --> 00:44:27.739
first. Yeah. I mean, so personally, the game,

00:44:27.739 --> 00:44:30.519
it was on the 8th of November, right? When we

00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:34.110
bowed out against Minnesota. My birthday is the

00:44:34.110 --> 00:44:38.969
ninth. Yeah. And it was the first time my wife

00:44:38.969 --> 00:44:42.050
and I were able to be away from our children

00:44:42.050 --> 00:44:47.630
overnight since the first one was born, um, and

00:44:47.630 --> 00:44:50.289
be able to have drinks. We went out to, uh, uh,

00:44:50.369 --> 00:44:53.750
shout out to Nick in the wings, uh, Kenny G when

00:44:53.750 --> 00:44:56.809
Randy was pregnant with Margo. Um, so she couldn't

00:44:56.809 --> 00:45:01.010
drink or anything, but so for my, so for my birthday,

00:45:01.110 --> 00:45:06.679
um, We were out on Saturday night, and I was

00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:10.559
watching the game Sunday morning in my bubble,

00:45:10.639 --> 00:45:15.980
as you know. No spoilers, right? Drinking morning

00:45:15.980 --> 00:45:20.519
beers. It's my birthday. And then they lost.

00:45:21.019 --> 00:45:25.280
And for me, I couldn't dwell on it. I was like,

00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:27.639
whatever, it's my birthday and that fucking sucks.

00:45:27.880 --> 00:45:29.920
And you know what? I'm going to go to the Seahawks

00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.099
bar that's in Pacific Beach. I'm going to watch

00:45:32.099 --> 00:45:35.280
them destroy the Cardinals for my birthday, which

00:45:35.280 --> 00:45:37.519
they did. And then by the end of the day, I was,

00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:41.320
you know, you know, wonderfully buzzed throughout

00:45:41.320 --> 00:45:44.380
the entire day. So that helped me kind of put

00:45:44.380 --> 00:45:47.000
it behind. Right. Yeah. I think also physically

00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:50.719
not being there. No one gives a shit. The Super

00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:52.960
Bowl sucked. Honestly, I watched it with my boss

00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:55.480
who's from Seattle in his house, and I was like,

00:45:55.519 --> 00:45:58.679
all right, where am I going to go? All right.

00:45:59.239 --> 00:46:01.219
Then there was a Seahawks bar, but I'm like,

00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:03.760
I can't. It was so deep, and I could not go to

00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:05.679
a bar to watch the Super Bowl, mainly because

00:46:05.679 --> 00:46:07.900
I need to watch it, and I don't want to lose

00:46:07.900 --> 00:46:09.900
my seat or anything. Maybe I'll change my mind

00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:11.139
next year. Plus, you wouldn't have been able

00:46:11.139 --> 00:46:15.199
to hear Bad Bunny. I don't know. He's pretty

00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:19.059
popular down here. Oh, but I mean, you just wouldn't

00:46:19.059 --> 00:46:21.380
have had a good. Oh, I see what you mean. Like

00:46:21.380 --> 00:46:22.780
they were, I'm sure they would have played the

00:46:22.780 --> 00:46:26.679
sound. Anyway, for me, I'm a little, it was easier

00:46:26.679 --> 00:46:29.840
for me, but I was still pissed off. Like I had

00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:35.500
a higher expectations based on, well, just being

00:46:35.500 --> 00:46:37.960
a sounder fan. Like we, we, we get past the first

00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:41.360
round. We usually get to the second. I mean,

00:46:41.380 --> 00:46:43.239
technically we were in the second round. We just.

00:46:44.429 --> 00:46:46.349
Didn't have to play in it, right? That's true.

00:46:46.429 --> 00:46:48.389
That's true. I meant like we don't win a round,

00:46:48.489 --> 00:46:51.730
but it was our first round. We win a round. So

00:46:51.730 --> 00:46:53.590
that's obviously going to be my expectation.

00:46:53.789 --> 00:46:55.909
So I'm bummed. So yeah, and I think the quiet

00:46:55.909 --> 00:46:57.949
offseason, nothing splashy, which not that I

00:46:57.949 --> 00:47:01.110
would really expect it. Just kind of made it

00:47:01.110 --> 00:47:04.369
kind of dull. So there was no real ramp up for

00:47:04.369 --> 00:47:06.909
this season. To me, I feel like it came pretty

00:47:06.909 --> 00:47:09.929
quickly, to be honest. I feel like February has

00:47:09.929 --> 00:47:14.170
been really fast. But that could have been. Again,

00:47:14.269 --> 00:47:16.769
the Seahawks. There's also the Mariners, right,

00:47:16.849 --> 00:47:19.130
almost getting to the World Series just before

00:47:19.130 --> 00:47:22.769
we bow out of the playoffs. So it's like the

00:47:22.769 --> 00:47:26.309
Sounders were the ugly stepchild of the family

00:47:26.309 --> 00:47:29.670
of Seattle sports. I mean, it's probably the

00:47:29.670 --> 00:47:32.949
Kraken. That's true. I mean, the Kraken have

00:47:32.949 --> 00:47:34.989
been doing better in the last month or so, right?

00:47:35.409 --> 00:47:42.139
Not today, but in general, yeah. yeah i think

00:47:42.139 --> 00:47:43.960
there's just more of the energy in the city is

00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:47.440
like let's let's win some sports right um if

00:47:47.440 --> 00:47:50.119
there were no other sports teams in town right

00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:53.199
yeah i mean and and i think they just want and

00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:54.960
people want to celebrate and just have joy like

00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:58.539
the torrent i don't know if they're still second

00:47:58.539 --> 00:48:01.920
to last place but um we have like 10 000 tickets

00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:05.320
sold for tomorrow friday yeah Yeah. I mean, and

00:48:05.320 --> 00:48:07.840
the cheap tickets, if you didn't have a, if you

00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:09.260
aren't a season ticket holder, there was a link

00:48:09.260 --> 00:48:10.659
that I could have used to get cheap. It helps

00:48:10.659 --> 00:48:13.019
that the, the, the champions of the world are

00:48:13.019 --> 00:48:15.719
half of the team, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:17.699
yeah. Totally. It's kind of like the old Seattle

00:48:17.699 --> 00:48:21.539
women's team with Rapinoe and hope solo. Yeah.

00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:26.539
Alex Morgan, Sydney. Not, they haven't been that

00:48:26.539 --> 00:48:28.380
good this year. And so it's been, it's been kind

00:48:28.380 --> 00:48:32.739
of a bummer. They are now in last place. So.

00:48:33.960 --> 00:48:36.900
toronto is past them they're only a point well

00:48:36.900 --> 00:48:40.440
they were focused on beating the world yeah yeah

00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:43.699
but anyway i i think but people are enjoying

00:48:43.699 --> 00:48:46.019
that so i mean i think you're right though that

00:48:46.019 --> 00:48:51.960
winning breeds fandom and that's boston seems

00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:56.159
to help all teams i mean i think um to yaya's

00:48:56.159 --> 00:48:59.480
point about the preseason it did excite me a

00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:03.739
little bit because we saw the eruption of Osase

00:49:03.739 --> 00:49:09.300
you know we saw him score two goals in each of

00:49:09.300 --> 00:49:11.119
the last two games plus a goal in the game before

00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:14.360
that and just be fantastic he drew a penalty

00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:19.639
also against Louisville and so you know it was

00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:21.969
a pretty great Great time. And then we saw him

00:49:21.969 --> 00:49:25.030
play well and kick that kick, kick Josh Atencio

00:49:25.030 --> 00:49:28.929
in the head and the ear on the way back down,

00:49:29.010 --> 00:49:31.429
trying to, trying to do a bicycle kick. But yeah,

00:49:31.510 --> 00:49:33.550
I mean, I think that, that made me kind of excited

00:49:33.550 --> 00:49:35.929
for the Sounders to come back and really it was

00:49:35.929 --> 00:49:38.230
who's going to start a goalie. Is it actually

00:49:38.230 --> 00:49:39.929
going to be Andrew Thomas, which of course we

00:49:39.929 --> 00:49:42.349
were all hoping. And that's what happened. And

00:49:42.349 --> 00:49:45.789
that beautiful man is now starting in goal. So

00:49:45.789 --> 00:49:50.340
it's a, it's a. An interesting preseason. I will

00:49:50.340 --> 00:49:53.820
say it did feel kind of rushed, though, and I'm

00:49:53.820 --> 00:49:56.599
always shocked when it's here. I think the wind

00:49:56.599 --> 00:49:59.420
kind of gets me hyped up, though. Like going

00:49:59.420 --> 00:50:01.219
into the game, I didn't know what to think. You

00:50:01.219 --> 00:50:03.940
never know, but they look good. I mean, that

00:50:03.940 --> 00:50:06.760
game could have easily been, one of those ones

00:50:06.760 --> 00:50:09.360
could have been 4 -5 -0, but it wasn't in a frustrating

00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:11.739
way because of the club. In the past, it was

00:50:11.739 --> 00:50:14.000
the club that frustrated us. This felt more like...

00:50:14.989 --> 00:50:19.030
The referees just made the first half so broken.

00:50:19.349 --> 00:50:22.750
Yeah. We should talk about that. Let's take a

00:50:22.750 --> 00:50:25.469
break. First, before we take that break, we need

00:50:25.469 --> 00:50:32.469
a heated rivalry show about soccer. Okay. Have

00:50:32.469 --> 00:50:34.489
you been watching the gay hockey show? Oh, I

00:50:34.489 --> 00:50:38.190
see what you mean. No, I have not. You should

00:50:38.190 --> 00:50:41.170
watch it, but we need a soccer one because then

00:50:41.170 --> 00:50:44.269
we would get so many more soccer fans. Okay.

00:50:47.460 --> 00:50:52.679
sure um yeah let's get to a break and uh listen

00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:56.000
to our overlords which is you and uh i do think

00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:58.980
we should we'll come up with a some sort of page

00:50:58.980 --> 00:51:01.320
in march let's do march we're gonna come up with

00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:03.119
a patreon episode because in our in our little

00:51:03.119 --> 00:51:05.599
ad break you do mention shout out to roma who

00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:15.679
got to hang out with blitz at the last All right.

00:51:15.940 --> 00:51:37.420
Break. And we're back. First match of the season.

00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:41.199
2 -0. Should have been more. Colorado. Yellow

00:51:41.199 --> 00:51:45.170
cards all over the place. Possession all over

00:51:45.170 --> 00:51:48.610
the place. We had 92 % of it pretty much for

00:51:48.610 --> 00:51:52.110
the first half. It felt like that. It wasn't

00:51:52.110 --> 00:51:55.849
that much. No, literally it was 86 at like 37

00:51:55.849 --> 00:51:58.650
minutes or something stupid. Yeah, later on it

00:51:58.650 --> 00:52:01.869
was dropped down to 55. Yeah, well, it ended.

00:52:02.110 --> 00:52:05.949
So the match ended with Colorado with 58 .8 %

00:52:05.949 --> 00:52:09.610
possession. so that really is a huge swing i

00:52:09.610 --> 00:52:11.670
mean we watched the game we know we weren't struggling

00:52:11.670 --> 00:52:16.170
um at that point 14 to 7 in shots right oh i'm

00:52:16.170 --> 00:52:18.170
looking at the wrong colorado match i'm like

00:52:18.170 --> 00:52:20.230
it took me to the old minnesota match that was

00:52:20.230 --> 00:52:22.670
weird i was like that's how much possession we

00:52:22.670 --> 00:52:27.090
had oh okay yeah that is that is a huge when

00:52:27.090 --> 00:52:30.670
they were yeah when it was when it was game on

00:52:30.670 --> 00:52:33.510
both sides right we were just dominating um and

00:52:33.510 --> 00:52:35.550
it was clear that they were they were not up

00:52:35.550 --> 00:52:39.380
to the task But once we got that goal, it got

00:52:39.380 --> 00:52:43.900
messy. Not Lionel, but they had four straight

00:52:43.900 --> 00:52:46.840
yellow cards from the 23rd to the 42nd minute.

00:52:49.179 --> 00:52:54.500
It was horribly mismatched. That 17, was it 17,

00:52:54.739 --> 00:52:57.780
19 minutes? Realistically, it was about an hour,

00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:01.300
45 minutes or so, just with the stoppages, the

00:53:01.300 --> 00:53:04.960
incorrect calls. You're there. You saw the...

00:53:05.340 --> 00:53:08.199
the replays i'm sure too of of what was called

00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:12.900
correctly incorrectly um what do you think uh

00:53:12.900 --> 00:53:17.019
yeah i mean they definitely some of this car

00:53:17.019 --> 00:53:19.340
some of the things they didn't call yet they

00:53:19.340 --> 00:53:20.960
called thousand didn't give yellow cards on should

00:53:20.960 --> 00:53:23.519
have been yellow cards number one uh there were

00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:26.900
some dangerous fouls there uh some of them borderline

00:53:26.900 --> 00:53:30.280
red maybe um this referee is interesting last

00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:34.909
year uh in in this all i think he ref 25 matches

00:53:34.909 --> 00:53:40.449
he gave out i believe it was 52 yellow cards

00:53:40.449 --> 00:53:44.429
he only gave out four red cards and they were

00:53:44.429 --> 00:53:46.949
all second yellows he gave out zero straight

00:53:46.949 --> 00:53:49.070
reds oh really and then the year before it was

00:53:49.070 --> 00:53:53.010
like in the 40 46 yellow cards or so and he only

00:53:53.010 --> 00:53:57.010
gave out one red card and it was also a second

00:53:57.010 --> 00:53:59.469
yellow so he does not give out red cards first

00:53:59.469 --> 00:54:02.949
off secondly he doesn't give out second yellows

00:54:02.949 --> 00:54:06.570
so i knew that they were not going to get a red

00:54:06.570 --> 00:54:09.489
card i mean he and and he clearly is scared to

00:54:09.489 --> 00:54:12.090
to impact the game but i mean if it's a second

00:54:12.090 --> 00:54:13.869
yellow it's a second yellow that's frustrating

00:54:13.869 --> 00:54:17.670
it just seems illogical that there's a a four

00:54:17.670 --> 00:54:21.489
and four and 62 chance that he would get a second

00:54:21.900 --> 00:54:24.000
second yellow, there has to be more fouls than

00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:26.639
that. So he doesn't do it very often. So I felt

00:54:26.639 --> 00:54:29.699
like it was kind of frustrating that they looked

00:54:29.699 --> 00:54:32.260
like they were going to get a red card. They

00:54:32.260 --> 00:54:35.199
were going into dangerous challenges. They were

00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:37.699
taking out Sounders' legs. So I think that was

00:54:37.699 --> 00:54:41.880
part of my big frustration. And then VAR, I haven't

00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:44.260
gone back and watched it, but reading his lips

00:54:44.260 --> 00:54:47.599
at the time on the goal, you could see him say,

00:54:47.679 --> 00:54:51.829
I can't see it. So it felt like... I don't know

00:54:51.829 --> 00:54:54.949
if you got to see it on TV, but it felt like

00:54:54.949 --> 00:54:59.570
VAR was trying to convince him that it was not

00:54:59.570 --> 00:55:04.090
a goal. 75 -inch 4K did not. I'm like, what are

00:55:04.090 --> 00:55:06.929
you talking about? Well, first off, when he came

00:55:06.929 --> 00:55:08.530
back, he said the wrong player. Well, I knew

00:55:08.530 --> 00:55:10.369
that. I knew it wasn't Jesus. They were looking

00:55:10.369 --> 00:55:12.329
at us on stage. The two players hit each other

00:55:12.329 --> 00:55:16.849
shoulder to shoulder. I get why you might. see

00:55:16.849 --> 00:55:19.070
a foul there. But the big thing for me, and this

00:55:19.070 --> 00:55:21.150
is why I hate that it has to be clear and convincing

00:55:21.150 --> 00:55:23.829
evidence. As a lawyer, these rules matter. So

00:55:23.829 --> 00:55:26.610
it doesn't mean you got the call wrong. It has

00:55:26.610 --> 00:55:28.650
to be clear and convincing evidence you got the

00:55:28.650 --> 00:55:33.349
call wrong. And so it's very frustrating. There

00:55:33.349 --> 00:55:35.489
was not clear and convincing evidence that that

00:55:35.489 --> 00:55:40.510
was the wrong call. That's it. So it should not

00:55:40.510 --> 00:55:43.760
have been overturned. And honestly, it might

00:55:43.760 --> 00:55:46.480
maybe a harsh red but the red he took back was

00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:49.780
a cob um that ended up walking off the field

00:55:49.780 --> 00:55:52.599
and then coming back on and with the yellow and

00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:56.000
watching that replay he's not going for ball

00:55:56.000 --> 00:56:00.000
and he does throw an elbow out yeah it didn't

00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.820
it well he does and it might touch him a little

00:56:02.820 --> 00:56:04.900
bit i'm okay with that being overturned because

00:56:04.900 --> 00:56:09.719
from his angle where he was, it probably looked

00:56:09.719 --> 00:56:11.820
like he elbowed him across the face. I guess

00:56:11.820 --> 00:56:14.780
that's what I'm trying to say is I'm not even

00:56:14.780 --> 00:56:21.139
his reaction as a center ref to go straight red.

00:56:21.340 --> 00:56:24.940
When you said he's never done it, he's like,

00:56:25.019 --> 00:56:29.280
okay, I can see that perspective. I don't mind

00:56:29.280 --> 00:56:31.940
that being overturned, though. I thought, I mean,

00:56:31.980 --> 00:56:33.920
here's the thing is I don't think there should

00:56:33.920 --> 00:56:35.380
have to be clear and convincing evidence. Just

00:56:35.380 --> 00:56:37.300
call the damn call the way it should be called.

00:56:40.119 --> 00:56:44.500
What's the right call? Do that. But, you know,

00:56:44.500 --> 00:56:46.980
I think it was interesting that VAR was the one

00:56:46.980 --> 00:56:48.960
pushing him rather than the other way around.

00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:52.159
They're supposed to buzz him and say, hey, we

00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:53.440
see something, and then he's supposed to ask

00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:55.440
questions. And if that's not what was happening,

00:56:55.719 --> 00:56:57.960
I mean, I think it shouldn't be in the center

00:56:57.960 --> 00:56:59.579
ref's hands at all. I think they should just

00:56:59.579 --> 00:57:01.480
decide it and tell him the right call so that

00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:03.159
his ego is taken out of it. But that's not what

00:57:03.159 --> 00:57:06.679
we do. Yeah. Or if anything, put a 10 seconds

00:57:06.679 --> 00:57:09.039
and come back. If you can't see it in 10 seconds

00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:14.039
with the screen, then let's not make it an hour

00:57:14.039 --> 00:57:17.880
first half. I pulled that up on Apple TV and

00:57:17.880 --> 00:57:20.059
watched it on my phone. Oh, sorry, Fox Sports.

00:57:20.159 --> 00:57:21.980
It was on Fox Sports. I watched it on my phone,

00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:24.019
so I was able to watch that. The way they slowed

00:57:24.019 --> 00:57:27.639
it down, I get why he called it. He did hit his

00:57:27.639 --> 00:57:30.199
head, but it wasn't as egregious as he thought.

00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:34.440
I think yellow is the right call there. That's

00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:39.489
what he got. I'm okay with it. I do think though,

00:57:39.510 --> 00:57:41.789
if he had called no card that you should be able

00:57:41.789 --> 00:57:43.289
to go back and give that a yellow, which I don't

00:57:43.289 --> 00:57:44.989
think you can do. I think you can only give it

00:57:44.989 --> 00:57:48.650
a red or nothing at all. Some arbitrary damn

00:57:48.650 --> 00:57:52.730
rules, but well, they just let them cut our players

00:57:52.730 --> 00:57:55.929
down over and over again. Yeah. It was messy.

00:57:56.670 --> 00:57:59.570
It was gross. Yeah. Positive. So since we're

00:57:59.570 --> 00:58:03.429
trying to move it along is Rothrock comes on

00:58:03.429 --> 00:58:07.000
and the effort to get to that ball. right it

00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:09.719
was a great pass by free era it was just a little

00:58:09.719 --> 00:58:11.440
too far it was a great decision i should say

00:58:11.440 --> 00:58:16.079
um and got to it and then to hit the boards get

00:58:16.079 --> 00:58:18.400
back and then still get back in there keep your

00:58:18.400 --> 00:58:21.239
head up and swing that thing in and to see rustnack

00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:27.559
with a header like it was it was a beaut it was

00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:30.639
a beaut 15 minutes in And at that point, it was

00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:32.800
just like we were owning possession. They were

00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:35.280
chasing us. And it was just like, let's not have

00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:37.579
it be one of those matches, like those kind of

00:58:37.579 --> 00:58:39.719
old Sounders matches where we're dominating possession,

00:58:39.960 --> 00:58:42.840
but we're just dominating corners, but nothing's

00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:46.960
hitting the back of the net. And nope, 15 minutes

00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:49.699
in, first game of the season. Let's go. Let's

00:58:49.699 --> 00:58:53.360
go. And my prediction was 3 -0. I expected us

00:58:53.360 --> 00:58:57.550
to score some goals, but I didn't. want reality

00:58:57.550 --> 00:59:00.849
to not meet my expectations. So yeah, I wasn't

00:59:00.849 --> 00:59:02.789
really surprised. They, they were not very goal

00:59:02.789 --> 00:59:04.710
dangerous. I thought they would at least be a

00:59:04.710 --> 00:59:07.150
little more goal dangerous than they were. No

00:59:07.150 --> 00:59:13.070
Colorado. I mean, I, uh, they only had four corners

00:59:13.070 --> 00:59:16.309
and four shots on target, five total shots. We

00:59:16.309 --> 00:59:18.070
only had six on target, but we had 10 shots.

00:59:18.090 --> 00:59:22.050
And I think they just didn't feel like it wasn't

00:59:22.050 --> 00:59:25.260
a call to Colorado. I mean, Colorado. I think

00:59:25.260 --> 00:59:26.800
we won nine straight against them at home or

00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:29.139
something like that. But still, they're never

00:59:29.139 --> 00:59:35.860
just pushovers. But still. And that might be

00:59:35.860 --> 00:59:39.380
more when we play them in Colorado. Maybe tainting

00:59:39.380 --> 00:59:42.360
your memory a little bit. They're one of the

00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:46.659
bottom feeders in my memory, right? But I can't.

00:59:46.659 --> 00:59:49.199
They've had a couple good seasons. I know Dan

00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:52.059
Boniface is listening. I'm sorry. A few years

00:59:52.059 --> 00:59:54.400
ago, remember they finished, they passed us for

00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:57.420
second. Yeah, I said they had a few years. But

00:59:57.420 --> 00:59:59.099
just in general, they're kind of like the Arizona

00:59:59.099 --> 01:00:02.539
Cardinals to me. Oh, which reminds me, we missed

01:00:02.539 --> 01:00:05.880
the scuttle, but that Minnesota's coach has already

01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:08.840
been fired from the Premier League. Oh, really?

01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:13.030
Yeah, he got fired yesterday. And with him and

01:00:13.030 --> 01:00:15.170
Nancy both getting fired, it's insane. The two

01:00:15.170 --> 01:00:17.250
best up -and -coming coaches in the MLS have

01:00:17.250 --> 01:00:20.429
completely flopped instantly because Nancy got

01:00:20.429 --> 01:00:26.269
fired real quick from Celtic. But they also are

01:00:26.269 --> 01:00:27.969
having a nightmare season, so I don't think it's

01:00:27.969 --> 01:00:30.010
them. I don't think it's the coach, but he handled

01:00:30.010 --> 01:00:32.650
it so poorly that MLS looks pretty shitty right

01:00:32.650 --> 01:00:36.150
now. That our best coaches, like our best up

01:00:36.150 --> 01:00:38.130
-and -coming coaches, can't go for another league.

01:00:40.079 --> 01:00:43.960
I don't like that. I think Colorado still has

01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:45.880
to figure out who they are under this new coach.

01:00:46.179 --> 01:00:48.000
The preseason is too short to figure that out.

01:00:48.119 --> 01:00:49.239
I think they'll be a better team by the end of

01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:51.820
the season. I can't see them as cellar dwellers,

01:00:51.860 --> 01:00:54.159
but maybe not. Maybe they will struggle. They

01:00:54.159 --> 01:00:55.559
just have too much talent on that team, though.

01:00:56.380 --> 01:00:58.320
It's the first game of the season. They're coming

01:00:58.320 --> 01:01:01.440
here in the rain, and we're a quality team. That's

01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:03.260
not going to help you, especially when you're

01:01:03.260 --> 01:01:08.280
on the back foot. I think the quality and consistency

01:01:08.280 --> 01:01:11.199
of our lineup, When I say consistency, I mean

01:01:11.199 --> 01:01:15.380
they've been together for years, really. I don't

01:01:15.380 --> 01:01:18.940
need to learn each other. Right, yeah. That with

01:01:18.940 --> 01:01:21.239
all of that, all the four straight yellow cards

01:01:21.239 --> 01:01:26.159
sliding, tackling us, and VAR stoppages and all

01:01:26.159 --> 01:01:29.340
that shit, they were able to see the forest through

01:01:29.340 --> 01:01:31.199
the trees and get the job done. They knew the

01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:34.639
assignment. They weren't distracted. With Jordan

01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:37.119
going out, they still scored a goal seven minutes

01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:41.090
later. With Dotson going out after he gets his

01:01:41.090 --> 01:01:43.630
goal taken away. What a storybook start. You

01:01:43.630 --> 01:01:47.250
know, you know, we go into half. We're fine.

01:01:49.750 --> 01:01:55.429
Dotson comes out 45th minute plus 14. Someone

01:01:55.429 --> 01:01:57.170
asked me about that. I don't, I don't think that

01:01:57.170 --> 01:01:59.150
was a foul. I think they just both head to head

01:01:59.150 --> 01:02:03.329
right into each other. Like it sucks, but yeah,

01:02:03.449 --> 01:02:07.500
there was no, there was no card. to be given

01:02:07.500 --> 01:02:11.719
there i don't remember as clearly but i agree

01:02:11.719 --> 01:02:16.139
with you sure um ferreira looked great you know

01:02:16.139 --> 01:02:18.639
yeah i mean that path was pass was deflected

01:02:18.639 --> 01:02:20.739
but the decision to make the pass was the right

01:02:20.739 --> 01:02:24.739
one uh rothrock he didn't quite roof it right

01:02:24.739 --> 01:02:27.840
but yeah i'll give him a roof it on that the

01:02:27.840 --> 01:02:31.460
keeper had nothing on that goal yeah on his goal

01:02:31.460 --> 01:02:33.500
i mean the angle he was coming in it was tough

01:02:33.500 --> 01:02:35.909
i mean even schmetzer was like damn Yeah, that

01:02:35.909 --> 01:02:40.690
was, I mean, man of the match for sure. That

01:02:40.690 --> 01:02:44.989
was, I think, the second or third time that Ferrer

01:02:44.989 --> 01:02:51.389
had made that pass to Rothrock. Oh, yeah. So,

01:02:51.409 --> 01:02:57.650
yeah, we saw some good, it just didn't work out

01:02:57.650 --> 01:03:00.710
the other times, but we saw some good decision

01:03:00.710 --> 01:03:05.059
-making that maybe didn't work. at the time but

01:03:05.059 --> 01:03:07.139
then paid off later because then the players

01:03:07.139 --> 01:03:10.380
knew where the ball was going to go I thought

01:03:10.380 --> 01:03:13.900
Brunel slanted Brunel looked mature you know

01:03:13.900 --> 01:03:16.960
obviously in minutes last year helped great to

01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:20.519
see Georgie come on um I really want him I mean

01:03:20.519 --> 01:03:22.800
he's just fun right he's interesting he wasn't

01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:24.619
running at the other team and then suddenly he

01:03:24.619 --> 01:03:26.380
did and it worked and it was like oh yeah just

01:03:26.380 --> 01:03:30.460
forget that that's all you do as Nicholas says

01:03:30.460 --> 01:03:33.670
he's a one -trick pony That's how we find out

01:03:33.670 --> 01:03:36.269
if he's still listening because that's the opposite

01:03:36.269 --> 01:03:42.449
of what he says. Yeah. Or I'll give this. He's

01:03:42.449 --> 01:03:45.590
listening. Standing outside now. Yeah. But here's

01:03:45.590 --> 01:03:48.010
the thing is he's in like areas of the airport

01:03:48.010 --> 01:03:50.809
that are not available to the public. So right

01:03:50.809 --> 01:03:54.670
now, this is a security threat, isn't it? Like

01:03:54.670 --> 01:03:57.130
we are seeing areas of the airport that we're

01:03:57.130 --> 01:03:59.710
not allowed to be in. I mean, this is like how

01:03:59.710 --> 01:04:07.760
you hijack a plane. Anyway, did you know Georgie

01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:10.579
and Danny subbed in at the 69th minute? Giggity,

01:04:10.619 --> 01:04:13.099
giggity. I did not. What I like is that it was

01:04:13.099 --> 01:04:15.760
early. Yeah. That's what was important to me.

01:04:15.800 --> 01:04:18.019
We didn't wait until the 85th minute to sub everyone

01:04:18.019 --> 01:04:20.960
in. And, you know, it was interesting to hear

01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:22.739
Schmetzer talk about that sub. He said, you know,

01:04:22.780 --> 01:04:26.599
Ferreira played great. You know, we could have

01:04:26.599 --> 01:04:29.039
left him out there. it's preseason and players

01:04:29.039 --> 01:04:32.440
aren't in full game shape yet. And so we just

01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:33.760
thought it would be a good idea to make the sub.

01:04:33.860 --> 01:04:36.500
And I'm kind of glad he did just because it gets

01:04:36.500 --> 01:04:38.099
more minutes for some of these players, which

01:04:38.099 --> 01:04:40.519
we are going to need in some of these upcoming

01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:42.880
road games, plus champions cup, stuff like that.

01:04:42.980 --> 01:04:46.219
No, I'll use all five, please. Yeah. Use all

01:04:46.219 --> 01:04:50.440
five when the game allows it. Like there's no

01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:54.219
reason with, we're going to play almost 50 matches

01:04:54.219 --> 01:04:57.679
this year, right? Champions cup. I mean, U .S.

01:04:57.699 --> 01:05:01.420
Open Cup, unless we advance to the semifinals

01:05:01.420 --> 01:05:05.539
final, will be not our starters. But Champions

01:05:05.539 --> 01:05:10.659
Cup, we got Leagues Cup, which we're defending

01:05:10.659 --> 01:05:16.059
champs. Let's go. That was fun. Let's do it again.

01:05:16.780 --> 01:05:20.559
And please, let's go deeper in the MLS Cup playoffs.

01:05:20.699 --> 01:05:25.349
So, yeah, get your minutes on the bench. We're

01:05:25.349 --> 01:05:28.949
up 2 -3 -0, please. Shout out to Josh Atencio

01:05:28.949 --> 01:05:31.889
for playing 90 minutes for Colorado, taking a

01:05:31.889 --> 01:05:35.269
boot to the ear. Boot to the ear. On the way

01:05:35.269 --> 01:05:39.989
back down from that bicycle kick. Probably deserved

01:05:39.989 --> 01:05:48.929
a yellow card there, but it looked painful. Yep,

01:05:48.949 --> 01:05:53.769
yep, yep, yep. Well, general takeaways from the

01:05:53.769 --> 01:05:58.280
first match. Sounders look solid. They look ready

01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:03.579
to go on the season. And I think that it makes

01:06:03.579 --> 01:06:10.659
me confident heading into Salt Lake for the next

01:06:10.659 --> 01:06:13.780
road match, which is a difficult place to play.

01:06:15.260 --> 01:06:17.360
Yeah, historically for us especially, right?

01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:20.820
Finally, I think we shook a little bit of that

01:06:20.820 --> 01:06:29.260
bugaboo off. Yeah. I mean, I don't off the top

01:06:29.260 --> 01:06:31.159
of my head, but I mean, there was a while where

01:06:31.159 --> 01:06:32.820
we couldn't win a game there to save our life.

01:06:32.820 --> 01:06:38.679
12 years that we didn't. Yeah. Yeah. We're playing

01:06:38.679 --> 01:06:43.980
there Saturday at 4 30 PM. But it's what'll be

01:06:43.980 --> 01:06:45.519
interesting. Well, here, what I want to talk

01:06:45.519 --> 01:06:47.760
about with Salt Lake is this. Everyone got mad

01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:49.500
when they changed their name to America first,

01:06:49.599 --> 01:06:52.500
which is like a bank. But it used to be Rio Tinto.

01:06:52.780 --> 01:06:57.940
And Rio Tinto was involved with diamond mines

01:06:57.940 --> 01:07:00.820
in Africa, in Namibia, where they had slaves,

01:07:01.139 --> 01:07:05.000
child slaves. So America First may be a dumb

01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:06.980
name for the stadium. I get why people are annoyed.

01:07:07.159 --> 01:07:10.139
But you can't pick and choose that. Rio Tinto

01:07:10.139 --> 01:07:12.139
was a way worse company and something that we

01:07:12.139 --> 01:07:16.280
definitely should have been protesting. Yeah.

01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:19.960
That's wild. I didn't know about that until later

01:07:19.960 --> 01:07:23.940
when I was reading a book or a book and then

01:07:23.940 --> 01:07:28.699
later heard a podcast about Elon Musk's family

01:07:28.699 --> 01:07:31.780
and their involvement in diamond mines and slavery

01:07:31.780 --> 01:07:36.699
in South Africa territories. What a positive

01:07:36.699 --> 01:07:41.260
way to end this podcast. Yeah, let's end on the

01:07:41.260 --> 01:07:45.239
Sounders. What's Lubin doing? They're just tracking

01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:49.360
people in their basement. they're trying to make

01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:55.920
a severance joke lumen no you know what i'm talking

01:07:55.920 --> 01:07:58.820
about the show severance i've never seen it no

01:07:58.820 --> 01:08:02.920
where they people choose to have their actual

01:08:02.920 --> 01:08:05.519
life separated from their work life so they have

01:08:05.519 --> 01:08:07.519
this thing where they're they cross into this

01:08:07.519 --> 01:08:12.400
elevator at this you know business park and they

01:08:12.400 --> 01:08:16.229
go all they know like they just forget about

01:08:16.229 --> 01:08:18.010
their actual life they only know their work life

01:08:18.010 --> 01:08:21.550
so it's like two different people the guy that

01:08:21.550 --> 01:08:24.630
um this is a weird version of it's a really cool

01:08:24.630 --> 01:08:28.710
show it's on apple tv but like um it's the uh

01:08:28.710 --> 01:08:30.989
that amazing movie where you erase people from

01:08:30.989 --> 01:08:33.229
your brain eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

01:08:33.229 --> 01:08:34.989
but it's like temporary only when you're going

01:08:34.989 --> 01:08:36.949
to work and back kind of but less artsy fartsy

01:08:36.949 --> 01:08:42.109
um oh yeah um i know that uh whatever but the

01:08:42.109 --> 01:08:44.909
god i'm brain farting on his name Parks and Rec,

01:08:45.189 --> 01:08:51.329
also Step Brothers, the Mean Brother. Yeah, Scott.

01:08:51.590 --> 01:08:54.750
Yes. The last name. Yes, yeah. He's the main

01:08:54.750 --> 01:08:58.149
character. It's a really good show. But the company

01:08:58.149 --> 01:09:01.649
is called Lumen. Spelled differently, but the

01:09:01.649 --> 01:09:05.930
company, so they're doing all this weird... Doesn't

01:09:05.930 --> 01:09:08.850
matter. Doesn't matter. Well, the Sounders are

01:09:08.850 --> 01:09:12.630
in fourth place right now, sitting behind San

01:09:12.630 --> 01:09:15.939
Diego. who have a gold differential of five five

01:09:15.939 --> 01:09:18.140
lafc and san jose who are in second with the

01:09:18.140 --> 01:09:21.060
gold dimensional three uh and then the sounders

01:09:21.060 --> 01:09:24.460
sit in fourth with a gold differential of two

01:09:24.460 --> 01:09:26.819
and portland right behind us with the gold differential

01:09:26.819 --> 01:09:31.220
of one we are seventh in the power rankings paul

01:09:31.220 --> 01:09:34.180
literally paul rothrock rothrock's legend grows

01:09:34.180 --> 01:09:37.460
by the day is all it says so paul in quotes literally

01:09:37.460 --> 01:09:40.659
paul rothrock Roth Rock's legend grows by the

01:09:40.659 --> 01:09:42.340
day. That's it. Everyone else got a paragraph,

01:09:42.500 --> 01:09:47.739
kind of. San Diego's fourth. San Jose won without

01:09:47.739 --> 01:09:52.960
Tino Werner even playing. San Jose won. Yeah,

01:09:53.039 --> 01:09:56.399
3 -0 over Sporting KC. But without Tino Werner,

01:09:56.460 --> 01:09:57.979
it's going to be their star player. So that's

01:09:57.979 --> 01:10:01.119
fascinating. It is. And they put them at 16.

01:10:02.539 --> 01:10:04.159
Yeah, I mean, I think they've got to prove it,

01:10:04.199 --> 01:10:13.579
right? And KC, where is KC last? Yep. Yeah. I

01:10:13.579 --> 01:10:16.359
mean, Casey's bad, but still 3 -0 is a blowout.

01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:23.680
Montreal 29th. 5 -0 is a blowout too. Yeah. Yeah,

01:10:23.760 --> 01:10:26.460
it is. So yeah, I'm excited for the season. Let's

01:10:26.460 --> 01:10:29.920
see where it takes us. But this, I mean, shout

01:10:29.920 --> 01:10:32.779
out to Yaya for nailing it. This win really makes

01:10:32.779 --> 01:10:41.380
me ready to go. Yeah, me too. I'm really bummed

01:10:41.380 --> 01:10:46.020
I can't go. When do they play at San Diego? I

01:10:46.020 --> 01:10:47.659
was just going to say, I think it's like August,

01:10:47.920 --> 01:10:55.899
unfortunately. Last year was in May. Yes, please.

01:10:56.960 --> 01:11:00.100
Last year, the Mariners and Padres played, I

01:11:00.100 --> 01:11:03.060
think, in April, and then the Sounders played

01:11:03.060 --> 01:11:07.420
in May. So this year, yeah. Oh my God, no way.

01:11:07.930 --> 01:11:11.289
No, that's at Seattle. Oh my God. It's not until

01:11:11.289 --> 01:11:14.550
October. Yeah. I was like, I don't see it. It's

01:11:14.550 --> 01:11:17.149
an, I'm in the, I'm in the summer. It's lame.

01:11:17.670 --> 01:11:19.550
Oh, that gives me a lot of time to save up money.

01:11:19.609 --> 01:11:23.510
It's the week before Halloween. Oh, the Sounders

01:11:23.510 --> 01:11:25.850
play on the 28th, right? Three days before Halloween.

01:11:26.069 --> 01:11:27.949
That'll be a Halloween match for sure. Against

01:11:27.949 --> 01:11:30.229
Houston who wears orange and black. Oh my gosh.

01:11:31.130 --> 01:11:34.489
Halloween match for sure. Yeah. October 24th.

01:11:34.489 --> 01:11:37.420
All right. Well. That's the plan. If you are

01:11:37.420 --> 01:11:40.659
a listener and or contributor to the show, let's

01:11:40.659 --> 01:11:45.439
plan on being in San Diego on October 24th, 2026

01:11:45.439 --> 01:11:49.140
to celebrate with Aaron. Let's hope that's a

01:11:49.140 --> 01:11:51.920
weekend. March, April, May, June, July, August,

01:11:52.000 --> 01:11:56.979
September, October 24th is a Saturday, one week

01:11:56.979 --> 01:11:59.760
before Halloween. Awesome. Two and a half hour

01:11:59.760 --> 01:12:02.819
flight. Come party with me. Snapback, it's an

01:12:02.819 --> 01:12:05.319
all right stadium. Let's save up your money now.

01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:07.880
Let's go. And the game's at 7 .30. The game was

01:12:07.880 --> 01:12:11.380
at 1 or whatever last May, and there's no shade

01:12:11.380 --> 01:12:15.380
at this stadium. It is just a bowl of sunshine,

01:12:15.579 --> 01:12:19.119
and it was terrible. Is it San Diego State Stadium?

01:12:19.479 --> 01:12:23.380
It is. It's new. Because they got rid of Aztec

01:12:23.380 --> 01:12:25.260
Stadium, whatever, didn't they? Or is that still

01:12:25.260 --> 01:12:26.960
there also? I think this is in the footprint

01:12:26.960 --> 01:12:30.840
of Qualcomm, the old Chargers stadium. Jack Murphy

01:12:30.840 --> 01:12:35.100
Stadium? No, it was Qualcomm Stadium. You could

01:12:35.100 --> 01:12:38.800
be right as well. That was the old Chargers Stadium.

01:12:39.460 --> 01:12:42.800
Yeah, I'm sure that's the same. I don't know

01:12:42.800 --> 01:12:45.060
the name of stadiums with their stupid sponsors.

01:12:45.539 --> 01:12:49.939
It was Jack Murphy Stadium. Speaking of sponsors,

01:12:50.239 --> 01:12:53.000
look at that. That was a nice little transition.

01:12:54.189 --> 01:12:57.229
Um, pay ultras. Thank you. We love them. That's

01:12:57.229 --> 01:12:59.710
why they get to share their voice with y 'all,

01:12:59.770 --> 01:13:02.310
but also we've got some other Patreon members.

01:13:02.409 --> 01:13:04.550
So I want to really, really appreciate that does

01:13:04.550 --> 01:13:09.170
really help carry the show. Um, we of course

01:13:09.170 --> 01:13:12.750
had those stupid little ads, but that helps too.

01:13:12.829 --> 01:13:14.529
But the more Patreons we get, we could throw

01:13:14.529 --> 01:13:17.130
those out of here. But until then, we're going

01:13:17.130 --> 01:13:20.390
to be putting our shows more regularly. on patreon

01:13:20.390 --> 01:13:23.630
that does not have those ads um but it does it

01:13:23.630 --> 01:13:27.670
it helps chug this along and the more we do the

01:13:27.670 --> 01:13:31.329
more expensive it gets so um appreciate y 'all

01:13:31.329 --> 01:13:33.930
listening if you're on our discord get involved

01:13:33.930 --> 01:13:37.949
clearly you heard we are loving pulling from

01:13:37.949 --> 01:13:39.909
the mailbag there um that's what the scuttlebutt's

01:13:39.909 --> 01:13:41.989
all about talk what what do you guys want to

01:13:41.989 --> 01:13:44.550
talk about so do we yeah absolutely and by the

01:13:44.550 --> 01:13:47.399
way yes qualcomm is jack murphy There we go.

01:13:47.420 --> 01:13:49.239
We're both right. It's always fun when that happens.

01:13:49.380 --> 01:13:52.880
It was Jack Murphy until 1997. And then in 97,

01:13:53.000 --> 01:13:56.039
they turned it into Qualcomm. Me being a few

01:13:56.039 --> 01:13:57.659
years older than you, that's when I stopped caring

01:13:57.659 --> 01:14:00.420
about San Diego sports. I probably have never

01:14:00.420 --> 01:14:02.260
watched another game unless the Mariners were

01:14:02.260 --> 01:14:07.640
playing. The Vedder Cup. Yeah, they have a special

01:14:07.640 --> 01:14:09.920
jersey. Kevin Zelko was just posting about it,

01:14:09.939 --> 01:14:11.720
where you can buy a ticket for a special jersey

01:14:11.720 --> 01:14:14.600
at the match, a Vedder Cup jersey this year.

01:14:16.099 --> 01:14:19.399
At the match? Oh, you know what I mean. At the

01:14:19.399 --> 01:14:21.159
baseball game. Well, I was going to say, if it

01:14:21.159 --> 01:14:23.260
was at the Lumen Field in May or whatever, and

01:14:23.260 --> 01:14:24.979
they play, it's like, get me a better cup jersey.

01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:28.739
Yeah, no, it's at the baseball stadium, the Safeco

01:14:28.739 --> 01:14:30.720
Field, which is not Katoomba T -Mobile Park.

01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:34.840
Jesus. Okay. I'm going to go to the Kingdome

01:14:34.840 --> 01:14:37.840
and watch some soccer. I was going to say, Candlestick

01:14:37.840 --> 01:14:40.920
sounds like a fun place to visit. God, I love

01:14:40.920 --> 01:14:44.180
Candlestick. I've been there. It's cold. I've

01:14:44.180 --> 01:14:47.100
been there. Yeah. For baseball or? No, I went

01:14:47.100 --> 01:14:50.380
to go see a Niner game with my like family friend,

01:14:50.460 --> 01:14:54.979
uncle kind of thing. Sounds weird. My mom's like,

01:14:54.979 --> 01:14:59.439
like mother kind of figure. Her husband took

01:14:59.439 --> 01:15:02.159
me. He was season ticket holder. Yeah. Can you

01:15:02.159 --> 01:15:06.159
show us on the doll? Fuck off. You're not a Knicks.

01:15:06.800 --> 01:15:11.800
That's a Nick thing. That's cool. Yeah, I went

01:15:11.800 --> 01:15:13.960
there. I saw Seahawks play there. There he is.

01:15:13.979 --> 01:15:16.819
Jesus, I knew it. I summoned him. I saw the Seahawks

01:15:16.819 --> 01:15:19.739
play there before and I saw the Giants play.

01:15:20.479 --> 01:15:24.079
I can't remember. Maybe the Braves? Yeah, I don't

01:15:24.079 --> 01:15:28.100
even remember who it was. I was like 11. I remember

01:15:28.100 --> 01:15:31.520
the big escalator. I remember the big escalator

01:15:31.520 --> 01:15:34.880
going up. Yeah. Oh, I just realized I'm never

01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:36.340
going to be able to go on those escalators again.

01:15:36.439 --> 01:15:38.699
That was so crazy. I just realized that Candlestick

01:15:38.699 --> 01:15:42.800
Park does not exist anymore. Yeah, I mean. Jack

01:15:42.800 --> 01:15:46.100
Murphy. They don't have them at. Get off my lawn.

01:15:46.460 --> 01:15:49.439
I don't know what Pac Bell is called now, if

01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:50.899
it's still even Pac Bell. I don't know what it,

01:15:50.960 --> 01:15:53.279
you know, the Giants, San Francisco Giants Stadium,

01:15:53.399 --> 01:15:54.739
and they definitely don't have it at the Santa

01:15:54.739 --> 01:15:59.159
Clara 49ers Stadium. The Santa Clara 49ers love

01:15:59.159 --> 01:16:02.960
it. All right. Did I tell you this real quick

01:16:02.960 --> 01:16:04.399
before we leave? Our listeners don't know this.

01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:07.739
Seahawks, I was a backup for tickets through

01:16:07.739 --> 01:16:09.720
the lottery because our Seahawks season tickets

01:16:09.720 --> 01:16:14.319
are from 1975, way before I was born. We have

01:16:14.319 --> 01:16:17.680
before original season tickets, like one of the

01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:21.119
first people to sign up. So we did not win the

01:16:21.119 --> 01:16:23.140
lottery, but we were the backup. And so I got

01:16:23.140 --> 01:16:25.800
a call offering to sell me two tickets to the

01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:29.930
49ers stadium for. Seahawks Super Bowl, but it

01:16:29.930 --> 01:16:33.329
was $4 ,400 a ticket. I had to turn it down.

01:16:33.470 --> 01:16:35.930
That's face value. They were club seats. If you

01:16:35.930 --> 01:16:38.529
make the Super Bowl next year in LA, are you

01:16:38.529 --> 01:16:41.369
going to get a similar call? If I get picked,

01:16:41.489 --> 01:16:45.510
yeah. I'm going to figure out everything. That's

01:16:45.510 --> 01:16:48.350
two hours north. Then we can win it in the Rams

01:16:48.350 --> 01:16:54.770
stadium too. Yeah. I went to college at Santa

01:16:54.770 --> 01:16:57.630
Clara. That's one of my homes. I spent five years

01:16:57.630 --> 01:17:00.369
there, living there. A lot of my best memories

01:17:00.369 --> 01:17:02.390
are there. It would have been so cool to go down

01:17:02.390 --> 01:17:04.109
and watch the Seahawks win the Super Bowl there.

01:17:04.270 --> 01:17:08.369
Smart people go to college for four years. I

01:17:08.369 --> 01:17:11.890
went to four years and a quarter to get my second

01:17:11.890 --> 01:17:14.130
degree. I had three majors. I had a BA in history

01:17:14.130 --> 01:17:15.850
and French and francophone studies and a BS in

01:17:15.850 --> 01:17:18.250
political science. So I had to go an extra quarter

01:17:18.250 --> 01:17:20.029
for one class because they wouldn't let me in

01:17:20.029 --> 01:17:22.939
a class because it was full. for one stupid class.

01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:24.479
So I stuck around for the rest of the year before

01:17:24.479 --> 01:17:28.779
I started law school. Sure. I didn't go to college.

01:17:28.899 --> 01:17:32.899
Let's end. All right. Well, this has been a pleasure.

01:17:33.659 --> 01:17:36.760
Glad to be doing this again. Yeah. Rust is off.

01:17:37.619 --> 01:17:39.239
Nicholas, you might as well have just joined

01:17:39.239 --> 01:17:42.359
the show this entire time. Now he's walking around

01:17:42.359 --> 01:17:49.119
the airport with his pants down. Is he? He's

01:17:49.119 --> 01:17:50.859
getting in an airplane right now. He's like climbing

01:17:50.859 --> 01:17:53.140
up on the side of an airplane. He might be like

01:17:53.140 --> 01:17:55.119
one of those guys. This is a terrible podcast.

01:17:55.500 --> 01:17:58.039
What's his name? The guy that flew away and like

01:17:58.039 --> 01:17:59.560
ended up crashing the plane. Do you remember

01:17:59.560 --> 01:18:01.079
his name? I know who you're talking about. He

01:18:01.079 --> 01:18:02.800
stole the Alaska Airlines plane. He's tired enough

01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:05.020
that he might actually end up doing that. I know.

01:18:05.140 --> 01:18:08.739
We shouldn't give him ideas. So get home, Nicholas.

01:18:08.880 --> 01:18:13.579
Go to bed. All right. There he is. Oh, he's in

01:18:13.579 --> 01:18:15.279
the food court. Oh, because he's going to Floret.

01:18:15.340 --> 01:18:20.260
Yeah. Give me a tofu burrito, please. You, I

01:18:20.260 --> 01:18:23.359
am also going to go to bed. So again, this is,

01:18:23.380 --> 01:18:25.539
this has been fun. I am glad we're doing this

01:18:25.539 --> 01:18:28.699
again. Go Sounders to nothing. We got a game

01:18:28.699 --> 01:18:33.140
this Saturday. Who we didn't know who he was

01:18:33.140 --> 01:18:39.319
going to win. Salt Lake. Salt Lake. Oh, and oh

01:18:39.319 --> 01:18:43.359
yeah. At America Tinto stadium. I'll, I'll, I'll

01:18:43.359 --> 01:18:45.260
preview it with the ultras when we record late

01:18:45.260 --> 01:18:48.960
tomorrow. Yeah, I mean, I can't pick against

01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:50.739
the Sounders right now. That looked just like

01:18:50.739 --> 01:18:55.960
when we play our game and we dominate, then someone's

01:18:55.960 --> 01:18:57.739
going to have to prove that they can beat us.

01:18:57.899 --> 01:19:02.579
So my bets, I'm going to go probably 2 -1. I

01:19:02.579 --> 01:19:04.100
think we give up our first goal of the season,

01:19:04.119 --> 01:19:07.359
but I think it's going to be a win. I think we

01:19:07.359 --> 01:19:10.500
score first. I mean, they got dominated by...

01:19:11.159 --> 01:19:13.899
Vancouver, despite only losing 1 -0, they lost

01:19:13.899 --> 01:19:16.979
in every single category except for fouls. They

01:19:16.979 --> 01:19:20.220
had two less fouls than Vancouver. Yeah, I mean...

01:19:20.220 --> 01:19:25.880
I'd be flabbergasted if we lost, despite the

01:19:25.880 --> 01:19:28.859
history on those grounds. So, what do you think?

01:19:29.359 --> 01:19:34.319
Yeah, I'm with you. I'd say 2 -1. Alright, 2

01:19:34.319 --> 01:19:41.119
-1 it is. And... with that... I think we bring

01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:44.340
it into port. Yeah, let's do it. Take it away,

01:19:44.399 --> 01:19:47.800
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01:20:26.630 --> 01:20:30.850
MLS team of all time? The Seattle Sounders are

01:20:30.850 --> 01:20:32.909
both unequipped and they are arguably the best

01:20:32.909 --> 01:20:34.430
MLS team of all time.