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That was my fault. That was my fault. Every time

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Cedar speaks, I'm just like, talk to this guy.

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It's time for Scuttlebutt Ultras. That you look

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at the roster and you don't see anyone that's

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scared. we are here with alex and cedar what's

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up gentlemen thank you is a good yo yo how's

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it going i know that st louis people get annoyed

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by him i i don't like him because our former

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finally announced it on that last episode last

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name was jerkin yeah yes yeah and so i last year's

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the the scuttlebutt you know marshall hartell's

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25 yeah sounders pick him but i would say roman

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berkey is and that's probably i mean it's like

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dan with roman berkey they're always sometimes

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a bit of a pessimist probably helped him and

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then he went optimist when right an optimist

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at one point, and then that helped him too. So

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he was just on the whole season. He clearly knows

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something we don't. Although, Alex, you were

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hot on his heels. You just barely came in second

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place. You almost won. I actually had the same

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thing on Andrew Thomas as if he could have gotten

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to that must be upstairs. Come on, man. Because

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what that was was an item that came out of Nicholas's

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personal collection. Oh, Fry would have saved

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that. No, because his reflexes are even slower

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than Andrew's. And that's not in the starters

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of the 2023 team. That was the one knock on him

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last season. Wow. Raul Ruiz Diaz. Which happens

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when you get older. That's why when I play Fortnite

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with Alex, he kills so many more people than

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I. Because his eyes and his brain are young and

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fresh. And I keep accidentally hitting back and

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cutting off the broadcast in the middle of the

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podcast. So, you know, the anti -coordination

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and the way your brain works and how fast you

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can react matters. There's been a lot of activity

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lately around where I live. Unfortunate. I always

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forget to ask. We don't want to dox you when

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people show up outside your apartment in San

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Francisco. I know. They'll come for me. They'll

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come for me if they find out that I'm a Seahawks

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fan more than anything. Nobody cares about the

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Sounders. And not the same players, right? Nobody

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cares about soccer. There was a while where no

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one cared about the 49ers. Oh, I forgot to sign.

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That's my phone. That's unfortunate. There was

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a while where no one cared about the 49ers. They

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were all Raiders fans because the Raiders were

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the team making it to the Super Bowl. Yeah, but

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neither of them are winning championships. No.

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Raiders, did they lose? They won with Chucky,

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didn't they? No, they lost, and then he left,

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and then he won at Tampa, if I remember correctly.

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That's right, because they screwed up big time,

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and I was dancing around my apartment complex.

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I was going outside onto the walkways, dancing

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around and taunting all the Raiders fans as a

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Seahawks fan. yeah that's right because they

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used to be in the same division the the nfl like

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division like alignment back and i saw a graphic

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it was like you know 1988 Like all the different

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divisions. It was kind of early fry time. That's

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so weird. And like the Buccaneers were basically

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in what is now the NFC North. In the NFC Central

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Division or whatever. It was wild. It's something

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that you learn with NFC West. I mean, I'm sure

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he's managed defense. I'm sure he's knowledgeable

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of the Seahawks. It's the beginning of the season.

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There's probably a lot going on in his head.

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I'm confident with Tommy Butcher as the coach.

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in the first year where they switched. Our goalies

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will be successful no matter who's... My most...

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Not quite half my life, but almost half my life

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they were in the AFC West. Sorry to cut you off,

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but I think that... Yeah, cut each other off.

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Now, speaking of divisions, when MLS moves to

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its kind of divisional system in a couple of

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seasons, how do we feel about... being in the

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same division as RSL every year and having to

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play them twice. I know, I know, but that's how

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the cookie crumbles, right? Fortunately, we don't

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have to play the LA teams twice, right? We don't

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have to play San Diego twice, but if we lose

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at RSL every single time we play them, that's

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guaranteed one loss every year. In practice,

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you can do it all the time. Here's the way I

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look at it, and I don't know what you think,

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Alex, but the teams that are hot now, five, ten

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years from now, may not be. You know what I mean?

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LASC may be difficult now, but by then... Colorado

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could be the best team in the nation and could

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be winning. I'll say 1 -1 final score. You don't

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even believe what you're saying. But no, excuse

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us. I'd like to come out with three points. The

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funny thing is I read it for RSL. Then I'll be

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happy. Cedar, I don't know if we talked about

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this in the last cup final. It used to be at

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a specific place and it was RSL versus LA Galaxy.

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What do you call that? But I had my entire check

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section chanting. Tomorrow starts the Seattle

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Super Talk. If you want to come out 7 p .m. at

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Seattle Pacific, that'll be tonight. Probably.

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It depends on when you listen to this. I'll probably

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get this up around midnight. So tonight, if you're

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listening right before it came out, it was an

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old Lewis moment for this podcast. First game

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of the new season, new league, USBL, Superhawks,

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and most of the West Coast teams left the TBL.

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and now have now so you guys take a moment the

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super hawks recently signed john talked about

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from the toronto raptors i'm gonna grab something

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from the front door and i'll be right our a new

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player because he's banned for life from the

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nba yeah so alex how'd you uh how i mean play

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for us and even though you didn't win like at

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the same time gary payton's okay so what's your

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process because you didn't really really i mean

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you almost won And I feel like, too, you have

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to do it every single week. You can't miss any

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weeks, but you bring in Jontae Porter. What's

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your approach to the challenge every week? How

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do you think about it? I usually wait to see

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the lineups. Played at Nathan Hale. Brandon Roy

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should be in the house for the game because he

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was Jontae's coach. I think it's going to be

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a fun season. There's going to be a lot of stuff

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going on. Fortunately, there is no Northern California

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team. There was a San Jose team in the TVO for

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a while, but I think the closest is probably

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LA for you. I was hoping we'd get a game where

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we come down to... the Bay Area with the Superhawks.

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Maybe like picking 2 -0. Yeah, check out seattlesuperhawks

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.com as our basketball season starts. It's going

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to be a super fun season. We're playing Colorado.

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It's all games available for free, I believe.

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Right now, I know for sure that if you go to

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the Hulu channel and search USBL, go to Hulu,

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like the app, or on your device and search USBL,

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you can pull up the games and watch them live.

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Do you ever look at any betting odds or any kind

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of analytics outside information like that? Or

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is it just purely like, oh, I look at the lineup.

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I just watched this scene. I watched my team

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every single week. I could, in theory, do color

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commentary, but for long -time listeners of the

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show, know that my very first collaboration with

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Aaron back in the day was during COVID when Jackson

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Feltz and I called all -time Supersonics. And

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soccer's the worst one to bet on because there's

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ties. And Supersonics won the series. It was

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tough. It didn't help that Jackson and I are

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friends. and know each other, but we've never

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called a game before. And not being next to each

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other, being across the screen from each other

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is hard. There's a lot of me telling random stories.

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So, you know, shout out to him. Getting to privacy.

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You know, trying to get him more involved with

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the Sounders too. That was the first thing I

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ever did with Aaron before the podcast even existed.

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Because he did the same thing with Jackson. Was

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it Reinhardt? Someone they did it with. You can

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take part in this challenge. I'm sure there'll

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be another cool prize this year. We don't know

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what it's going to be yet. He was going through

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all of the Sounders games through FIFA. Every

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game day, before the game, a post goes up on

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the Discord. So just come join the Discord for

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the podcast. Kind of funny that then Jackson

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ended up being one of the actual broadcasters

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of the Sounders later. I mean, yeah, Sounders

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later. And then we did that Sonics thing. Over

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how many games? I'm not calling it. We've got

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Nick Beckman. We do every game last season. He

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calls all of, I believe he's on four points a

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game average almost. Three point something points

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a game. For Metro League and for the state basketball

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championships. Oh, you're right. That's some

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games. He calls the game. It should be super

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fun. So that's still pretty good. That means

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out of five points, getting two out of five.

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That's just like baseball now, Cedar. You bet

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200. I think he did. Actually, it's 400. That'd

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be 400, wouldn't it? Yeah. But still. Yeah, but

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I think what like was, you know, when he picked

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the losses and he picked the scoreline rights.

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So he was like where people got one point, he

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was getting like four out of five or five out

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of five. Right, because you're not just picking.

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uh who wins and loses you're picking who scores

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uh you're picking what else like uh the over

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under over under yeah which is always 2 .5 it's

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not it's not a betting over under it's was it

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is it gonna be under three so yeah come come

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join us on the discord and get in on it because

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it's pretty pretty fun um i wonder what place

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i got i'll have to look um i definitely was too

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cynical at times and i definitely was too optimistic

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at times. Isn't that the life of a Seattle sports

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fan? The up and downs? The highs and the lows?

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Yeah. Except for I feel like I'm more cynical

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more often. Except for maybe not with this team.

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So yeah, come on out. Oh, did they talk about

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this on the other show? You'd think I would listen

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to my own show, but I didn't. i was i want i

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wanted to i wanted to record with you guys and

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that's why i didn't go on the main show no yeah

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i was just not feeling up recording and um i

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don't know there's something about the last game

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that really bummed me out uh because i felt like

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another game that we should have won that we

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didn't and i didn't want to bring that energy

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to the podcast but did they talk about merch

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uh they they did make the website okay yeah merch

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website can you guys tell me what did you think

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of it i was not involved in the uh design of

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any of the merch but i i of course did coin one

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of the phrases that is there and alex coined

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the other one uh so let's talk about it well

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the i mine the definitely a free pedro shirt

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just because the design looks clean and it's

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always free pedro wait wait wait but i thought

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there was another podcast that has a shirt that

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says that yeah maybe they made a shirt but Alex

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is the one who coined that phrase. That's what

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I'm talking about. Absolutely. Absolutely. Give

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me my money. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you

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know, they can do whatever they want. Yeah. Honestly,

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they need, honestly, they need all the help they

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can get. You get the C line, Z line. Got to stay

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above that. If you want to be the coach of this

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team. Yeah. Well, you know, schmetzer was teetering

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around there not too long ago right just a couple

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of seasons ago so uh yeah i don't think it's

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relevant this year i don't i don't no no this

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seems like a pretty solid team but we'll get

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to that uh well and also i think we're at the

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point where you know brian's gonna leave on his

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own terms you know i think that's just you know

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i i think that's that's a that's pretty much

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locked in it's pretty much where maybe maybe

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a few years ago maybe you know maybe there was

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a slight chance that that wasn't a guarantee

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necessarily oh but uh yeah it's yeah but now

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it seems pretty cemented yeah no i think he's

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earned the chance to go out on his own terms

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uh definitely and and i think he would he's not

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gonna leave unless he's thought either the game

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has passed him by or he's just not up for coaching

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anymore well i mean i listened to a uh an interview

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with him last week or something like that. He

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was saying how he doesn't want to coach in his

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70s, which, you know, fair. He says that now,

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but the older you get, the more... I mean, I

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guess... Yeah, that's true. When you make some

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money, you make good money, you can walk away

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whenever you want, but I think you'd miss it.

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But maybe it's not the best for one's health

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to be a head coach. Well, and especially in MLS.

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I mean, the offseason is so short. Especially

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if you're successful, right? Yeah. So, you know,

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there's, I mean, you know, there's probably just

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like barely any time off, you know, especially

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as a coach. No, I bet you, yeah. Almost no time

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off because you're immediately planning for the

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next season, working with the general manager

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on who you're going to get, all that kind of

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stuff. Plus, you know, you can tell, I mean.

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I think he's always been this way, but last couple

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of seasons, he's been a little more ornery with

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the, the, uh, some of the questions that he gets

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asked even today, uh, where he's like, just ask

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your question. I know what you're getting at.

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Okay. I, okay. I kind of agree with that because

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I mean, look again, I, I have a lot of respect

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for, uh, journalists and reporters, people who

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show up, they've got their credentials, they're

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putting in the work. Like I totally respect that,

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but I do, I do think that. sometimes their questions

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they're trying to like kind of like position

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like they're almost making it like kind of about

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their perspective and they want to kind of include

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like how they're positioning it where they're

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coming from and i can imagine that And really,

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after answering all of these questions all the

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time, he really does just want direct questions,

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right? That's why I said, just ask your question.

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Yeah, I just think he's not trying to push their

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narratives. Yeah, well, and he won't, and we'll

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get to it. Well, let's talk about it right now.

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Sailor, was it Alex? Is that his first name?

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uh ryan ryan that's right trying to throw me

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you're trying to throw me on with all this white

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house stuff is alex the the goalkeeper what's

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the goalkeeper's name oh uh max oh whatever they

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have x's at the end you're oh yeah you max whatever

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you're you know it's all the same no it's not

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even max max is from vancouver i know canadian

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no no i know but i got his name wrong so uh Wait,

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Alex Ocampo? Yeah, we're talking about Ryan Saylor.

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Of course, was hanging out with Donald Trump

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this weekend. Or this week. Or today, I think

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it was. Or yesterday. Yesterday, yeah. As Inter

00:16:03.870 --> 00:16:06.149
-Miami went to the White House to celebrate being

00:16:06.149 --> 00:16:13.309
MLS champs. You know, it's... People tried to...

00:16:13.309 --> 00:16:17.490
Reporters tried to make it political. And Schmetzer

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didn't bite. I think... For me, I have some frustration

00:16:20.419 --> 00:16:22.980
sometimes where he won't address it. And I think

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not addressing things makes him look like he

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supports things because that's the society we

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live in. But knowing, I mean, I don't know him,

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but having spent enough time with them and having

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conversations with them. not in that capacity

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i know where he stands on certain things just

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by the stuff he you know the charities he works

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with the stuff like that he's just not gonna

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yeah yeah yeah why why throw any kind of red

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meat into that situation when again all it's

00:16:56.769 --> 00:17:00.710
going to end up being for his purposes is a distraction

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right from the team right if he if he handles

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it And, you know, I think I would have handled

00:17:08.809 --> 00:17:13.369
it differently. But I'm also someone who is an

00:17:13.369 --> 00:17:15.569
activist that works in the world of, you know,

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politics and sports and all this stuff in a different

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way than he does. And I totally get it. It makes

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sense to me why you wouldn't want to address

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it. But he's been asked a bunch of times about

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Iran and the World Cup and the war going on and

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stuff like that recently. And he's like, well,

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that's political. I'm not getting involved in

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that. Yeah. As if soccer isn't political based

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on the fact that we have to sign players to visas

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and all this kind of stuff. Yeah. I think he

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was like, just ask me about Andrew Thomas and

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fry at this point. Yeah. Ask me about that. Who's

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going to start. Well, cause again, I mean not,

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and this is not to say that Brian isn't a well

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-informed intelligent. individual who's capable

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of critical thinking of you know about the world

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around him but again what you know why are we

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asking i mean i get it sometimes it's like well

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we have to ask these questions but like it's

00:18:17.170 --> 00:18:21.809
not as if he's the expert on world politics or

00:18:21.809 --> 00:18:24.009
anything he's the expert on being the head coach

00:18:24.009 --> 00:18:27.109
of the seattle sounders yeah and i also and i

00:18:27.109 --> 00:18:29.829
agree too that again these are important topics

00:18:29.829 --> 00:18:32.940
these are relevant to everybody right now but

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the politics he's he literally has he's being

00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:40.480
paid to be concerned about our who's starting

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and going right fryer thomas and he answered

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so i mean i answered that and we'll get we'll

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in advance, like the night before everyone else.

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This time, everyone's going to get this episode

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at the same time since the game's tomorrow. We're

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going to want to get this up tonight so that

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everyone can listen and have their morning extravaganza

00:21:32.579 --> 00:21:36.420
getting ready for the game. Getting pumped. Yeah,

00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:39.200
and we'll talk about the game. Like I said, we'll

00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:41.140
talk about who's starting in goal. Brian Schmetzer

00:21:41.140 --> 00:21:45.460
spoke on that today. He smoked on it. I mean,

00:21:45.480 --> 00:21:48.220
he might have, but I think he's a drinker. Yeah.

00:21:51.460 --> 00:21:54.299
But first, they announced who we are playing

00:21:54.299 --> 00:21:56.019
in the League's Cup. One of you guys want to

00:21:56.019 --> 00:22:00.680
hit that and talk about kind of... A draw that

00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:04.599
looks good until maybe you look at the standings

00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:09.099
right now in Liga Mequis. Yeah, I think what

00:22:09.099 --> 00:22:13.160
first caught my attention was the fact that there's

00:22:13.160 --> 00:22:16.460
going to be games played in Mexico. It's only

00:22:16.460 --> 00:22:19.880
four games, I think, but still it's a start that

00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:23.299
we've been asking as fans from both leagues is

00:22:23.299 --> 00:22:26.480
that, you know, Leagues Cup is this Mickey Mouse

00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:27.900
trophy because all the games are played in the

00:22:27.900 --> 00:22:30.710
U .S. But now we're starting to see that transition

00:22:30.710 --> 00:22:32.549
of the games being played in Mexico, which I

00:22:32.549 --> 00:22:37.089
think it's really good. And, you know, we're

00:22:37.089 --> 00:22:40.230
going to open our campaign to defend the title

00:22:40.230 --> 00:22:44.069
against the Liga MX champs at their home stadium.

00:22:45.490 --> 00:22:48.029
Toluca. It's going to be, I think it's going

00:22:48.029 --> 00:22:51.930
to be very tough. Yeah, definitely. They're currently

00:22:51.930 --> 00:22:56.670
second with 21 points. Again, having another

00:22:56.670 --> 00:23:00.029
great season. Uh, and then we go to the team

00:23:00.029 --> 00:23:03.650
or we host that team that weren't they, uh, Alex,

00:23:03.710 --> 00:23:05.130
I'm gonna let you say their name. Cause I cannot

00:23:05.130 --> 00:23:08.650
say it for the life of me. Uh, but they're the

00:23:08.650 --> 00:23:10.769
team where they had the brawl in the crowd where

00:23:10.769 --> 00:23:13.470
people were like getting their heads kicked in.

00:23:13.589 --> 00:23:15.970
And like people, they, I mean, I watched a lot

00:23:15.970 --> 00:23:20.369
of videos. It was brutal. Oh, I get it. That

00:23:20.369 --> 00:23:25.349
all. Yeah. Got it. Okay. Yeah. That was scary.

00:23:25.529 --> 00:23:29.619
But, uh, 17th with six points. That's luckily

00:23:29.619 --> 00:23:34.019
not a very good team. Yeah, they're sitting second

00:23:34.019 --> 00:23:41.480
to last place. Not very good right now. But I

00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:45.519
think that's going to be the marquee game. Like

00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:48.160
a lot of my friends and people that I know that

00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:51.559
live around Yakima, they already got tickets

00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:56.599
to that game. And I know it's a Wednesday game,

00:23:56.740 --> 00:23:58.720
but I think that game's going to, it's going

00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:03.779
to sell well. It's already selling well. Luckily

00:24:03.779 --> 00:24:06.759
I still got, I got my ticket already. Yeah. I

00:24:06.759 --> 00:24:10.599
opted in through my season tickets. I guess I

00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:12.700
didn't opt out. So I'm automatically opted in.

00:24:12.779 --> 00:24:14.920
Yeah. What's weird is that in the beginning of

00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:16.799
the, of the year, they're like, Oh, if you're

00:24:16.799 --> 00:24:20.660
under the. 1974 membership. You can't opt out

00:24:20.660 --> 00:24:23.240
of Leaks Cup, but I got the email that I'm able

00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:29.259
to opt out. Maybe don't say that out loud because

00:24:29.259 --> 00:24:31.180
now they're going to change it. Edit this part

00:24:31.180 --> 00:24:34.059
out, guys. Forget what I said. It was a prank.

00:24:34.200 --> 00:24:36.039
It was for educational purposes to see if you're

00:24:36.039 --> 00:24:41.559
listening or not. Yeah, that is weird. Speaking

00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:45.140
of which, did you use the app for your discount

00:24:45.140 --> 00:24:48.849
and or for buying? food in the stadium when you

00:24:48.849 --> 00:24:51.950
were there oh yeah it was how did how did how

00:24:51.950 --> 00:24:53.869
did the discount because it's not like it used

00:24:53.869 --> 00:24:55.710
to be where you showed it like basically a ticket

00:24:55.710 --> 00:24:58.970
but you could scan something or how did that

00:24:58.970 --> 00:25:02.529
work for you they took what for the pro shop

00:25:02.529 --> 00:25:05.049
they took my phone and i don't know if they looked

00:25:05.049 --> 00:25:07.009
at the qr code and scanned it or just looked

00:25:07.009 --> 00:25:09.650
at it and then put and entered in the numbers

00:25:09.650 --> 00:25:16.049
but i used the my credit to get some some beers

00:25:16.670 --> 00:25:19.509
And I just got a, I just had to scan the QR code

00:25:19.509 --> 00:25:22.369
and it worked just fine. Nice. And I was at the

00:25:22.369 --> 00:25:25.049
grab and go station too. So, you know, it was,

00:25:25.130 --> 00:25:27.549
um, you double check to make sure that it tries

00:25:27.549 --> 00:25:30.910
you correctly. Yeah. Yeah. I looked at total.

00:25:31.789 --> 00:25:34.130
I got the value beers. I was like, okay, everything's

00:25:34.130 --> 00:25:36.990
fine. I'd heard a few stories of people that

00:25:36.990 --> 00:25:40.009
struggled with that, but I mean, for those that

00:25:40.009 --> 00:25:41.970
don't know, they, they haven't seen, or maybe

00:25:41.970 --> 00:25:44.410
you don't know since you weren't there. Um, There

00:25:44.410 --> 00:25:46.690
is now built into the new Sounders app or updated

00:25:46.690 --> 00:25:50.789
Sounders and rain app. Your, your code, your,

00:25:50.809 --> 00:25:53.029
you have a QR code that lets you get your discount

00:25:53.029 --> 00:25:54.789
as opposed to having to show a ticket to get

00:25:54.789 --> 00:25:57.470
that. They didn't look good. So they scan that.

00:25:57.549 --> 00:26:00.529
And you can also buy your food just by having

00:26:00.529 --> 00:26:04.150
your, your discount code scanned. And then you

00:26:04.150 --> 00:26:07.869
get what? 10 % off food. Oh, nice. Something

00:26:07.869 --> 00:26:10.549
like that. And that's for, that's for season

00:26:10.549 --> 00:26:14.039
ticket holders. Yeah. Yeah. So it's in this app

00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:15.980
when you have your season ticket account signed

00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:18.079
in. It's just like built into it. It's pretty

00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:20.339
cool. And they actually have a Kraken I found

00:26:20.339 --> 00:26:21.579
out the other day. I went to my first Kraken

00:26:21.579 --> 00:26:25.319
game of the season. And I was not logged in,

00:26:25.380 --> 00:26:29.200
so I didn't get my discount. But down to my probably

00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:31.380
final 10 games as a Kraken season ticket holder.

00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:33.960
But it was fun. We lost. But they remind me how

00:26:33.960 --> 00:26:37.920
much I love going to Kraken games. How are they

00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:40.539
doing this year? They currently sit in eighth

00:26:40.539 --> 00:26:43.339
place in the Western Conference. So they're in

00:26:43.339 --> 00:26:47.339
the last playoff spot. Before that game, I didn't

00:26:47.339 --> 00:26:49.680
check what happened. Two points ahead of San

00:26:49.680 --> 00:26:53.900
Jose. So both my teams are right there. I need

00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:56.720
someone else to drop down and both teams make

00:26:56.720 --> 00:26:59.240
the playoffs. I'd love that number seven versus

00:26:59.240 --> 00:27:01.579
number eight in the Western Conference Finals.

00:27:01.579 --> 00:27:04.119
Seattle versus San Jose would be my dream Western

00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:06.440
Conference Final. Which jersey are you going

00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:10.880
to wear? When I've done it in the past, I've

00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:16.799
worn a Sharks jersey and a Kraken hat. There's

00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:18.640
usually two games in Seattle. If there is, then

00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:20.519
I'll switch it the other time. I'll wear a Kraken

00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:22.700
jersey and a Sharks hat. So I might have to switch

00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:26.779
at halftime if it actually happened. I did that

00:27:26.779 --> 00:27:31.220
Notre Dame back in the day. In 1995, Notre Dame

00:27:31.220 --> 00:27:34.880
played – no, USC. I did go to Notre Dame, USC.

00:27:34.980 --> 00:27:37.420
Notre Dame played Washington at Washington. And

00:27:37.420 --> 00:27:40.079
I wore a Notre Dame hat and a Husky jersey. And

00:27:40.079 --> 00:27:41.980
at halftime, I switched to a Notre Dame jersey

00:27:41.980 --> 00:27:43.700
and a Husky hat. And then I left during the fourth

00:27:43.700 --> 00:27:46.220
quarter to drive over with my friend to the Kingdome

00:27:46.220 --> 00:27:49.180
so that we could watch the – I think it was the

00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:51.880
game where Edgar hit the Grand Slam in the 95

00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:54.700
playoffs. So it was quite a day getting to watch

00:27:54.700 --> 00:27:58.539
Notre Dame -Washington football and then go to

00:27:58.539 --> 00:28:02.279
the Kingdome. Nice. Yeah. That does sound like

00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:04.220
a good day. How are you guys feeling about League's

00:28:04.220 --> 00:28:08.710
Cup? I mean, I'm excited at the fact that we're

00:28:08.710 --> 00:28:12.069
going to be playing Chivas. It's a very popular

00:28:12.069 --> 00:28:18.329
team. A lot of the people that I know are Chivas

00:28:18.329 --> 00:28:23.329
fans and Sounders fans. And we told my buddy,

00:28:23.430 --> 00:28:24.670
I'm like, so which jersey are you going to wear?

00:28:25.490 --> 00:28:27.950
And another one said, it's like going to Pan

00:28:27.950 --> 00:28:34.700
Express and getting half and half. Yeah. I mean,

00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:40.180
it's interesting. I miss Chivas USA. I know they

00:28:40.180 --> 00:28:42.839
were really bad for a while, but back when there

00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:45.019
was an MLS team owned by Chivas, it was kind

00:28:45.019 --> 00:28:49.440
of fun. I kind of enjoyed them. They were really

00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:51.839
bad. You know, even if they changed their name,

00:28:51.980 --> 00:28:55.380
they're still Chivas USA to me. LAFC was not.

00:28:55.940 --> 00:29:00.890
It was a big enough break. In fact, the LA Galaxy

00:29:00.890 --> 00:29:03.089
have been Chivas USA most of the recent years.

00:29:03.210 --> 00:29:06.690
No offense, Edgar. Except for when they finally

00:29:06.690 --> 00:29:09.910
came back and won the championship. I mean, that

00:29:09.910 --> 00:29:11.670
should be a bigger match than Cruz Azul. We had

00:29:11.670 --> 00:29:15.309
a lot of Cruz Azul fans, but this is, I feel

00:29:15.309 --> 00:29:17.829
like, Chivas is the most popular team, right?

00:29:18.049 --> 00:29:22.130
Yeah, one if not top two. Yeah, up there with

00:29:22.130 --> 00:29:26.049
America, maybe? Yeah. And I think Toluca. Toluca

00:29:26.049 --> 00:29:28.190
is getting popular recently since they've been

00:29:28.190 --> 00:29:32.799
good. Yeah. Winning always helps with that, but

00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:38.680
they're not the traditional powerhouse. Yeah.

00:29:39.339 --> 00:29:41.559
Oh, go ahead. Oh, sorry. I was just going to

00:29:41.559 --> 00:29:44.259
chime in. Yeah, I'm excited that we're playing,

00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:47.759
you know, a recent champion, Toluca. And then,

00:29:47.779 --> 00:29:50.519
you know, like you guys are saying, a super popular

00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:54.079
club in Chivas. Again, it'll just, if we do well

00:29:54.079 --> 00:29:56.019
and perform to our best, it'll just raise our

00:29:56.019 --> 00:29:59.380
profile. um even more although i i think the

00:29:59.380 --> 00:30:03.359
the mexican league team should know uh us by

00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:08.000
now uh based on our past exploits but uh yeah

00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:12.279
it'll be fun have we played chivas before i feel

00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:14.339
like maybe a friendly yeah friendly a couple

00:30:14.339 --> 00:30:16.920
years ago no i think you mentioned yeah i think

00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:19.880
it was i think it was a while maybe before maybe

00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:23.940
we played more than once I was teaching, I remember

00:30:23.940 --> 00:30:26.119
at the time, so I was not at the match. I watched

00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:29.000
it on my phone while I was teaching because I

00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:33.059
taught Wednesday nights. I believe it was the

00:30:33.059 --> 00:30:36.500
match that... Was that the match? There was one

00:30:36.500 --> 00:30:41.000
where ECS boycotted because of the ticket prices.

00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:48.160
But yeah, I mean, it's been a... It'll be an

00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:49.799
interesting thing. And I know for Garth, I can't

00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:53.799
speak for... our current GM when Garth was GM

00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:56.740
he always said that playing Mexican opponents

00:30:56.740 --> 00:30:59.859
is important because it it helps us see where

00:30:59.859 --> 00:31:01.839
we are because that's the league the MLS wants

00:31:01.839 --> 00:31:04.099
to be and that's the quality they want to be

00:31:04.099 --> 00:31:07.420
and so if we can continuously prove that we're

00:31:07.420 --> 00:31:09.480
better than them it means we're doing the right

00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:13.259
thing and it will not only benefit the MLS the

00:31:13.259 --> 00:31:15.079
Sounders it'll start benefiting U .S. soccer

00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:18.859
and a lot you know when the USA becomes the more

00:31:20.539 --> 00:31:22.759
and it might already be in some regards, the

00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.579
more attractive national team to play for, then

00:31:25.579 --> 00:31:29.099
that raises the level of potential for that team

00:31:29.099 --> 00:31:32.619
as well. Yeah. So the last time we played at

00:31:32.619 --> 00:31:38.640
Chivas was 2018 in the CCC quarterfinals where

00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:45.079
we lost 3 -1 on aggregate. Yeah. And then 2010

00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:48.339
friendly where we won 3 -1. Wow. It was that

00:31:48.339 --> 00:31:51.710
long ago. That's crazy. That's the last time

00:31:51.710 --> 00:32:00.369
they've been relevant. Sorry, guys. I mean, they're

00:32:00.369 --> 00:32:02.809
like Manchester United, right? They used to be

00:32:02.809 --> 00:32:04.630
good, and now no one gives a shit unless you're

00:32:04.630 --> 00:32:07.210
old. I remember the last time they made the final,

00:32:07.410 --> 00:32:10.470
they were like, okay, we're going for the 15th

00:32:10.470 --> 00:32:13.869
championship. That was, what, five, six years

00:32:13.869 --> 00:32:17.730
ago? They're Yankees fans. And their bitter rivals

00:32:17.730 --> 00:32:20.779
won, like, three in a row. back to back to back

00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:26.480
since they got into that final. That sounds to

00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:30.160
me like the Niners and their quest for six. Five

00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:33.079
rings. They've been on that quest for this whole

00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:39.400
decade. This is 94. 94 was less than they won.

00:32:40.819 --> 00:32:43.460
And you know what? Hey, good for them. Look,

00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:47.079
we weren't even division rivals then. That was

00:32:47.079 --> 00:32:49.720
before. Yeah, I mean, that was before. I mean,

00:32:49.779 --> 00:32:52.140
if I were alive back then, you know, I was just

00:32:52.140 --> 00:32:54.119
watching them. I mean, who wouldn't root for

00:32:54.119 --> 00:32:57.299
Joe Montana and Jerry Rice? I mean, what great

00:32:57.299 --> 00:32:58.220
teams. Yeah, the final one, I think, was Steve

00:32:58.220 --> 00:33:01.880
Young. But, yeah, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, you

00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:05.619
know, Roger Craig, Dana Stubblefield, Ronnie

00:33:05.619 --> 00:33:08.940
Lott. There was a lot of Hall of Famers, and

00:33:08.940 --> 00:33:11.299
Roger Craig just got in this year. A lot of Hall

00:33:11.299 --> 00:33:13.740
of Famers on those teams that were super fun

00:33:13.740 --> 00:33:17.059
to watch. And that was the era of the NFL before

00:33:17.059 --> 00:33:22.460
the salary cap. So, you know, once you have division

00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:25.380
realignment. There was a salary cap, but the

00:33:25.380 --> 00:33:27.920
49ers were really good at cheating it, is what

00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:31.579
it was. And they later got in trouble for it.

00:33:31.700 --> 00:33:35.039
So they walked so the Dodgers could run. Yes,

00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:40.680
yes. I mean, I believe the dad of the current,

00:33:40.700 --> 00:33:43.509
I think the daughter owns the team now. But the

00:33:43.509 --> 00:33:47.190
dad, who was the original owner, got banned because

00:33:47.190 --> 00:33:49.289
of some of the stuff he pulled around the salary

00:33:49.289 --> 00:33:56.190
cap. So... Hey, I mean, if you know Cameron,

00:33:56.329 --> 00:33:58.769
you know what? You might have to date a 49er

00:33:58.769 --> 00:34:02.109
fan. Because you know what? At the end of the

00:34:02.109 --> 00:34:07.769
day, you don't expect a ring. That's pretty good.

00:34:08.110 --> 00:34:11.429
But they sure talk about it a lot. Yeah, you

00:34:11.429 --> 00:34:14.949
just be like, Those videos are where the guy

00:34:14.949 --> 00:34:17.489
goes on his knee to tie his shoe. Oh, you thought?

00:34:18.030 --> 00:34:25.030
You almost had it. Oh, man. No, I'd get married.

00:34:25.590 --> 00:34:28.670
Let's talk about the Sounders playing at Salt

00:34:28.670 --> 00:34:32.590
Lake. We asked a question last episode that may

00:34:32.590 --> 00:34:35.289
never be heard, meaning the last episode the

00:34:35.289 --> 00:34:38.389
three of us did because we lost part of it with

00:34:38.389 --> 00:34:40.570
Squadcast, and we likely will be moving on from

00:34:40.570 --> 00:34:43.219
Squadcast. We're doing research right now. uh,

00:34:43.340 --> 00:34:46.139
into a full production, like TV version of it

00:34:46.139 --> 00:34:48.219
so that people can still hear us, but then they'll

00:34:48.219 --> 00:34:52.219
be able to see us too. And, uh, get ready. Yeah.

00:34:52.300 --> 00:34:56.460
Get ready. The video works so good back in 2013

00:34:56.460 --> 00:34:58.599
or whatever that was when Facebook was faking

00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:00.880
the numbers. So everyone switched to video and

00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:02.519
it turned out the numbers were fake and video

00:35:02.519 --> 00:35:06.320
did not make more money. It did not work out

00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:12.139
well. But Sounders played Salt Lake. And I remember

00:35:12.139 --> 00:35:14.840
I asked, it was a question from Yaya that came

00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:19.360
in from our mail bag. And I had asked, how are

00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:21.139
you feeling after that first game? Are you excited

00:35:21.139 --> 00:35:23.599
about the Sounders? And we talked a lot about

00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:26.960
it. But now we've lost at Salt Lake. So we're

00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:28.559
no longer undefeated. We're no longer coming

00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:33.440
off of what was our excitement level in the preseason,

00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:36.179
in the offseason versus now. And we got a little

00:35:36.179 --> 00:35:38.360
dose of reality. I remember on the show, I think

00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:42.659
we all predicted a Sounders win. No, you didn't,

00:35:42.659 --> 00:35:45.659
Alex? No, I got peer pressured. I put a draw.

00:35:45.699 --> 00:35:48.519
I got peer pressured into putting a win. And

00:35:48.519 --> 00:35:50.480
I'm mad at the world because I was going to put

00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:55.039
a 2 -1 loss. And I put a 2 -1 win. I did put

00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:59.139
a loss when the game time came. So I at least

00:35:59.139 --> 00:36:01.340
got points for that. I had come to my senses

00:36:01.340 --> 00:36:03.980
by the time it was game time. But we hyped each

00:36:03.980 --> 00:36:07.920
other up enough that I picked a win. We're after

00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:13.039
a 2 -1 loss at Salt Lake where, yeah, Gozo the

00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:15.539
Bozo went off. I kept saying that the whole time.

00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:20.760
We'll get into the game, but how are you feeling

00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:22.960
coming off a 2 -1 loss at Salt Lake, a place

00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:24.519
where the Sounders have not won in the regular

00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:27.940
season since 2012, have not won overall since

00:36:27.940 --> 00:36:30.179
the 2013 playoffs? I think there's just three

00:36:30.179 --> 00:36:33.750
certainties in life. Death, taxes, and San Jose

00:36:33.750 --> 00:36:38.550
losing to RSL. I mean, there's no players left

00:36:38.550 --> 00:36:40.570
from those teams except for Schmetzer. He's the

00:36:40.570 --> 00:36:42.789
only person that was assistant coach back then.

00:36:42.849 --> 00:36:45.329
The field is cursed. I don't know what they did.

00:36:45.449 --> 00:36:48.809
They put something on the ground. I don't know

00:36:48.809 --> 00:36:51.989
who they buried under the field. I mean, Ryan

00:36:51.989 --> 00:36:54.489
Taylor probably really loves America first field.

00:36:56.759 --> 00:37:01.159
Yeah, I mean, this is just a game. This is a

00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:03.400
game you write off. Like, you look at the calendar,

00:37:03.500 --> 00:37:06.559
you say, when do we play RSL? Cross it out. I'm

00:37:06.559 --> 00:37:12.079
not watching it that day. How are you feeling,

00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:19.780
Cedar? Yeah, I mean, yeah, obviously frustrating,

00:37:20.099 --> 00:37:25.539
but... And again, like I picked for the score

00:37:25.539 --> 00:37:28.400
prediction challenge, I went with a 0 -0 draw.

00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:31.019
So that's kind of where I was at. Actually, you

00:37:31.019 --> 00:37:34.480
know what? I think I did too. I think I went

00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:38.059
in like, I can't do it. I got to do it. We haven't

00:37:38.059 --> 00:37:40.900
scored there for like years and like, you know,

00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:44.300
until this past game, right? It was the first

00:37:44.300 --> 00:37:48.000
time in a while. I felt like, oh, our defense

00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:50.380
should be pretty solid. I wouldn't be surprised

00:37:50.380 --> 00:37:53.300
if it just ends up scoreless and just ends up

00:37:53.300 --> 00:37:55.960
this frustrating stalemate. And you know what?

00:37:55.980 --> 00:37:59.739
Maybe, obviously results -wise, you'd rather

00:37:59.739 --> 00:38:04.739
have a point than no points. But maybe overall

00:38:04.739 --> 00:38:09.280
it's a good thing that we lost while still scoring

00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:15.550
a goal, while still putting up some XG. I think

00:38:15.550 --> 00:38:17.730
there are some positives to take away. I think

00:38:17.730 --> 00:38:23.610
there's also some weaknesses that were exposed

00:38:23.610 --> 00:38:26.750
and exploited. Again, when you have a guy like

00:38:26.750 --> 00:38:31.329
a kid like Gozo who can just run and run and

00:38:31.329 --> 00:38:37.250
run and you're not ready for it and nobody can

00:38:37.250 --> 00:38:39.230
kind of keep up with him and he's just kind of

00:38:39.230 --> 00:38:44.699
breaking you apart a little bit. I think it's

00:38:44.699 --> 00:38:47.420
a good thing to see, like, oh, okay. Like, that

00:38:47.420 --> 00:38:50.699
doesn't usually happen to us, right? And so to

00:38:50.699 --> 00:38:52.599
see it happen, it's like, oh, okay. Like, this

00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:55.659
can happen. This can just come out of nowhere,

00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:59.679
basically. And, yeah, I mean, you've got to give

00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:06.820
a lot of credit to Gozo and Hezekani. Are they

00:39:06.820 --> 00:39:09.579
both homegrown or just both young? I know Hezekani's

00:39:09.579 --> 00:39:11.940
homegrown. I don't know. I don't know if they're

00:39:11.940 --> 00:39:15.969
both. Gonzo? Gozo? Gozo, yeah. Gozo. I think

00:39:15.969 --> 00:39:19.150
he might have signed. I don't think he's homegrown,

00:39:19.250 --> 00:39:22.329
but he's still like – I think he's the one that

00:39:22.329 --> 00:39:24.269
they talk about at the club. Like he's the –

00:39:24.269 --> 00:39:29.110
he's their Obed. He's their Obed, yeah, for sure.

00:39:29.289 --> 00:39:32.769
And he was playing – which side was he playing

00:39:32.769 --> 00:39:35.829
on? Right side. Right side, yeah. Right side

00:39:35.829 --> 00:39:40.070
fullback. And I had heard from another, you know,

00:39:40.130 --> 00:39:44.969
MLS podcast that – And basically, pitch side,

00:39:45.110 --> 00:39:50.150
Brian was so frustrated with how we just weren't

00:39:50.150 --> 00:39:54.690
able. We had zero answers for him. And then the

00:39:54.690 --> 00:39:57.510
RSL coaches. He was very critical of Nuhu and

00:39:57.510 --> 00:40:00.789
Reagan on that play. Yeah, I mean, totally. And

00:40:00.789 --> 00:40:05.449
then also, on the flip side too, not only do

00:40:05.449 --> 00:40:08.750
you have that, but then apparently the RSL coaching

00:40:08.750 --> 00:40:14.510
staff. This kid is so raw still. They were literally

00:40:14.510 --> 00:40:18.889
coaching him during the game on his positioning,

00:40:19.070 --> 00:40:21.530
when to step, when to go with the guy, when to

00:40:21.530 --> 00:40:24.869
take off. He's still so raw. He's still learning

00:40:24.869 --> 00:40:29.789
that position. So I think that combination of

00:40:29.789 --> 00:40:35.429
things make it especially frustrating for Brian,

00:40:35.550 --> 00:40:41.429
I can imagine. I think you're right. I was going

00:40:41.429 --> 00:40:43.050
to say, I think you're right. Cause, cause he

00:40:43.050 --> 00:40:46.389
was, he was doing something that we haven't seen

00:40:46.389 --> 00:40:48.150
very often. Cause usually knew who shuts down

00:40:48.150 --> 00:40:51.210
players like that. And I don't know. I mean,

00:40:51.210 --> 00:40:53.050
knew who didn't by any means have a terrible

00:40:53.050 --> 00:40:55.849
game. I think his game was fine. I wouldn't put

00:40:55.849 --> 00:40:58.650
the goal solely on him. I mean, there's always

00:40:58.650 --> 00:41:00.710
multiple things there that could be done differently,

00:41:00.750 --> 00:41:05.860
but of course, Brian did when asked about. regan's

00:41:05.860 --> 00:41:07.780
involvement with the u .s national team and whether

00:41:07.780 --> 00:41:11.000
he was in the conversation he said well if he

00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:12.739
wants to get back into the conversation he can't

00:41:12.739 --> 00:41:15.000
make plays like he did against rsl yeah i mean

00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:19.019
it's just it's just honestly true yeah yes if

00:41:19.019 --> 00:41:20.659
you want to play at the highest level which is

00:41:20.659 --> 00:41:24.260
the world national team in a world cup like plays

00:41:24.260 --> 00:41:26.739
like that are not going to cut it like they're

00:41:26.739 --> 00:41:28.679
going to put tim bream slow ass out there before

00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:31.960
they put regan in there yeah totally i mean he's

00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:35.039
not in the conversation even like watching who's

00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:36.420
going to make it, who's on the bubble, who's

00:41:36.420 --> 00:41:38.280
not going to make it. He hasn't been in camp.

00:41:38.940 --> 00:41:41.559
I think he did one time get invited, right? But

00:41:41.559 --> 00:41:44.920
he's never been actually in camp. Yeah, he had

00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:47.760
to leave because of an injury, I believe. Yeah.

00:41:48.059 --> 00:41:51.039
So I'm not holding my breath on that. I'm not

00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:53.329
sure where that... I mean, it's a good question

00:41:53.329 --> 00:41:55.670
to ask, but I think it's not in a, in a world

00:41:55.670 --> 00:41:57.909
cup year because in a world cup year, you're

00:41:57.909 --> 00:42:00.170
not, you're not bringing up young players to

00:42:00.170 --> 00:42:02.429
try and see who the future is. You're, you're

00:42:02.429 --> 00:42:05.309
trying to figure out who the roster is. Yeah,

00:42:05.409 --> 00:42:09.070
definitely. And, and I, I think Yamar had kind

00:42:09.070 --> 00:42:12.650
of a down game too. Right. You know, I, I think

00:42:12.650 --> 00:42:17.150
it took a lot of just like a few people having

00:42:17.150 --> 00:42:21.230
bad days and, you know, something that usually,

00:42:22.030 --> 00:42:25.170
we we don't face right we don't we're not playing

00:42:25.170 --> 00:42:29.710
a gozo uh every week i i think it took a lot

00:42:29.710 --> 00:42:34.730
for us to to lose this game um and then they

00:42:34.730 --> 00:42:37.190
talked about it on the last uh schedule but uh

00:42:37.190 --> 00:42:42.289
show but you know uh uh dotson's play where you

00:42:42.289 --> 00:42:44.809
know he recovered the ball but instead of clearing

00:42:44.809 --> 00:42:48.110
it he tried to pass that right and then that

00:42:48.110 --> 00:42:50.710
led to one of the goals right and if he just

00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:53.579
you know, boots it, it might have ended up a

00:42:53.579 --> 00:42:55.860
draw, right? It's just a combination of all these

00:42:55.860 --> 00:42:58.880
little things. Christian and Dotson with giveaways

00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:01.739
that led to goal. I mean, yeah, there's things

00:43:01.739 --> 00:43:04.159
like that. I mean, we go into halftime down 1

00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:08.679
-0, and our expected goals, according to MLS,

00:43:08.820 --> 00:43:10.340
which I feel like are always a little lower than

00:43:10.340 --> 00:43:14.739
they should be, had us at over 1, whereas Salt

00:43:14.739 --> 00:43:18.820
Lake was down just barely above 0. A game that

00:43:18.820 --> 00:43:23.320
flowed our way with the goal against the run,

00:43:23.400 --> 00:43:25.260
not against the run of play, but against maybe

00:43:25.260 --> 00:43:27.619
how the game was going. Come into the second

00:43:27.619 --> 00:43:34.360
half, Alex, and Gozo with a good assist appeal

00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:37.420
immediately go down to nothing. How are you feeling

00:43:37.420 --> 00:43:40.480
at that point? I stopped paying attention at

00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:45.500
that point. I think UFC was on. I was like, let's

00:43:45.500 --> 00:43:51.380
watch UFC. I was just like, I was thinking, I'm

00:43:51.380 --> 00:43:52.699
a dumbass for thinking we were going to win.

00:43:54.059 --> 00:43:56.340
Yeah. I'm like, this is what I get for being

00:43:56.340 --> 00:44:03.280
peer pressured. No, I mean, I went outside and

00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:06.800
then my buddy comes out. He's like, hey, you

00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:09.679
guys just scored. I was like, I think I'm going

00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:10.980
to have to stay outside then and we score another

00:44:10.980 --> 00:44:15.619
one. There was a game. I think the Sounders.

00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:19.199
I scored four goals, and every goal my mom was

00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.059
in the laundry room. This was back in the day.

00:44:22.119 --> 00:44:23.400
And I kept being like, Mom, you just got to stay

00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:26.119
in the laundry room. You cannot come out. Because

00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:27.940
every time you went in there to pull out laundry

00:44:27.940 --> 00:44:31.420
or switch laundry, the Sounders would score a

00:44:31.420 --> 00:44:34.579
goal. No, it was like last season against Nashville

00:44:34.579 --> 00:44:36.820
when you didn't go. Or the games we didn't go,

00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:39.679
you missed all the three goal or the five goal

00:44:39.679 --> 00:44:43.840
thrillers. Yeah, yeah. Or there was multiple

00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:46.369
games where... There was only one where it didn't

00:44:46.369 --> 00:44:48.489
happen, but I went to the bathroom in the stadium

00:44:48.489 --> 00:44:50.210
when I was there and then they would score a

00:44:50.210 --> 00:44:54.329
goal. And so that happened. I don't usually go

00:44:54.329 --> 00:44:55.650
to the bathroom during the game. I wait until

00:44:55.650 --> 00:44:57.230
like halftime or whatever. I think I went four

00:44:57.230 --> 00:45:00.929
times during the game where I probably had too

00:45:00.929 --> 00:45:03.969
much beer or something. And three times, the

00:45:03.969 --> 00:45:06.170
first three times, the Sounders scored while

00:45:06.170 --> 00:45:08.989
I was in the bathroom. So it was like, oh my

00:45:08.989 --> 00:45:14.099
God, maybe I'm involved in this somehow. You

00:45:14.099 --> 00:45:17.199
are, Cameron. More than you'll ever know. I mean,

00:45:17.260 --> 00:45:21.119
great, great Sounders goal there. What are you

00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:25.099
thinking, Cedar, when that goal goes in? I'm

00:45:25.099 --> 00:45:27.960
thinking game on. I mean, again, only down one.

00:45:28.599 --> 00:45:36.039
You know, why not? But, you know, what I did

00:45:36.039 --> 00:45:41.300
like seeing was Brian using all of his subs.

00:45:41.539 --> 00:45:44.519
Yeah, definitely. And I forgot that actually

00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:46.699
was first. I was thinking that was after the

00:45:46.699 --> 00:45:49.099
first goal. That's incorrect, because the first

00:45:49.099 --> 00:45:53.300
goal was in the 62nd minute, and he made three

00:45:53.300 --> 00:45:56.980
subs in the 58th minute. And so that, I think,

00:45:57.000 --> 00:45:58.840
was huge. And that's something maybe, Alex, you

00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:01.340
didn't see since you were outside. Well, Brian

00:46:01.340 --> 00:46:03.860
went, you know what? This is not working. Oh,

00:46:03.860 --> 00:46:06.340
no, I think I saw the subs. And then I proceeded.

00:46:06.400 --> 00:46:11.000
I was like, yeah, it's chalked up. Kalani for

00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:15.239
Yamar? All right, whatever. No, I saw Mosovsky

00:46:15.239 --> 00:46:17.599
for D -Row. I was like, we're going to cross

00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:21.219
it into Mosovsky. You know what? He was far more.

00:46:21.340 --> 00:46:25.099
Not that it was. I reiterate. Was it Nico? One

00:46:25.099 --> 00:46:27.860
of the press people. I'm not criticizing Osazle.

00:46:27.940 --> 00:46:29.420
I'm just saying he wasn't very involved with

00:46:29.420 --> 00:46:33.539
the game. Yeah, he had 16 touches. I think he's

00:46:33.539 --> 00:46:37.179
also a young player. He's excited. He wants to

00:46:37.179 --> 00:46:40.739
prove himself. He's eager. He wants to get on

00:46:40.739 --> 00:46:43.800
the ball. That's why we see him. And out wide,

00:46:43.940 --> 00:46:47.300
deeper positions instead of being central. Because

00:46:47.300 --> 00:46:49.559
you would think with his big frame and knowing

00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:52.400
that we were just crossing the box into no one,

00:46:53.039 --> 00:46:56.219
he would be, you know, at the end of some of

00:46:56.219 --> 00:46:59.920
those crosses. Yeah. But no, I mean, Danny ended

00:46:59.920 --> 00:47:02.219
up being goal dangerous. I mean, he scored a

00:47:02.219 --> 00:47:04.000
goal that didn't count. But let's wait a minute.

00:47:04.179 --> 00:47:07.079
No, but I mean, I think we got to tip our cap

00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:11.710
to Cabral. He played out of his mind. Oh, yeah.

00:47:11.929 --> 00:47:15.050
That early save. I mean, right from the get.

00:47:15.630 --> 00:47:17.690
That's the thing is before the game, I think

00:47:17.690 --> 00:47:20.389
it was, it could have been halftime. Yeah, it

00:47:20.389 --> 00:47:21.789
may have been halftime, but they talk about before

00:47:21.789 --> 00:47:23.489
the game too. Brian was talking about this after

00:47:23.489 --> 00:47:28.369
the game and he mentioned it again. This was

00:47:28.369 --> 00:47:31.710
a stadium that, you know, Rusnak knows. And he

00:47:31.710 --> 00:47:34.309
said, we got to score our chances. You get a

00:47:34.309 --> 00:47:38.030
chance, you need to score. And we didn't. We

00:47:38.030 --> 00:47:39.469
didn't. I mean, that's what it came down to is

00:47:39.469 --> 00:47:41.050
we had the opportunities and we didn't score.

00:47:41.170 --> 00:47:43.550
And that's what we ended up down to nothing and

00:47:43.550 --> 00:47:47.030
couldn't fight our way back. Even though I will

00:47:47.030 --> 00:47:50.070
say watching a comeback and seeing the Sounders

00:47:50.070 --> 00:47:52.090
come back, even though we didn't end up getting

00:47:52.090 --> 00:47:53.289
that second goal because they called them off

00:47:53.289 --> 00:47:56.170
sides, that made me feel more confident that

00:47:56.170 --> 00:47:58.110
we could come back in that instance, even though

00:47:58.110 --> 00:47:59.989
it was a loss, knowing that they didn't give

00:47:59.989 --> 00:48:03.570
up, that Schmetzer made meaningful subs in the

00:48:03.570 --> 00:48:05.369
58th minute instead of waiting until the 80th

00:48:05.369 --> 00:48:08.829
minute. And it completely, I mean, come on, we

00:48:08.829 --> 00:48:11.809
saw Alex move over from right back to center

00:48:11.809 --> 00:48:14.670
back and it worked. Kalani went there, we became

00:48:14.670 --> 00:48:18.489
more offensive. We saw Danny be more of a target

00:48:18.489 --> 00:48:20.550
forward than Osaze had been during the game,

00:48:20.590 --> 00:48:23.489
which is not necessarily his style of play. And

00:48:23.489 --> 00:48:25.730
then Snyder looked great when he came in and

00:48:25.730 --> 00:48:28.170
played on the right in Jesus's position. He didn't

00:48:28.170 --> 00:48:31.210
just play CDM. So it was a really interesting

00:48:31.210 --> 00:48:35.809
game from that perspective. Yeah, it's good to

00:48:35.809 --> 00:48:40.309
see that. It makes the loss, again, more palatable

00:48:40.309 --> 00:48:45.050
just because you could see we almost came back

00:48:45.050 --> 00:48:49.610
and at least tied it, right? Yeah, I liked everything

00:48:49.610 --> 00:48:53.289
I saw from the subs for the most part. You know,

00:48:53.329 --> 00:48:57.869
Areola came on in the 81st minute, and I'm excited

00:48:57.869 --> 00:49:00.530
to see more of him as the season goes on, too.

00:49:00.630 --> 00:49:04.570
I mean, that's going to be... Yeah, Petkovic,

00:49:04.590 --> 00:49:11.130
he got out there. It was only a few minutes,

00:49:11.329 --> 00:49:16.590
but he looks big. He looks physical. He looks

00:49:16.590 --> 00:49:19.409
like he's ready to go. I mean, all those guys

00:49:19.409 --> 00:49:22.150
looked hungry. They brought some energy to everything.

00:49:22.449 --> 00:49:27.309
I like it. I mean, look, none of these spots

00:49:27.309 --> 00:49:29.530
on the team, the starting spots, really should

00:49:29.530 --> 00:49:32.130
be. locked in if they don't need to be right

00:49:32.130 --> 00:49:34.389
and we should be having the people out there

00:49:34.389 --> 00:49:37.530
that the players out there that uh you know i

00:49:37.530 --> 00:49:42.409
mean i i get like osaze like i could see you

00:49:42.409 --> 00:49:44.650
know we can all see kind of the potential there

00:49:44.650 --> 00:49:48.530
but if musavsky is the one who's going to be

00:49:48.530 --> 00:49:51.309
time after time you know getting in the right

00:49:51.309 --> 00:49:54.530
spot to score goals um and we just look better

00:49:54.530 --> 00:49:57.610
with him out there i mean why why not start him

00:49:57.610 --> 00:50:00.239
right i mean i think it'll come down to who Because

00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:03.019
he was in the right spot last time. And sure,

00:50:03.119 --> 00:50:05.000
he scored a lot of goals, but he also didn't

00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:06.699
score a lot. And that's why he's not in that

00:50:06.699 --> 00:50:08.679
position right now, I think. There's probably

00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:10.960
more to do with Osaze coming up and the amount

00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:13.059
of goals that... And maybe it's what have you

00:50:13.059 --> 00:50:14.860
done for me lately, but in the playoffs, Danny

00:50:14.860 --> 00:50:17.860
had a chance to win that series. Yeah, that's

00:50:17.860 --> 00:50:21.039
true. Couldn't do it. Not against him. I'm not

00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:23.360
criticizing him. No, no, but I mean, that's important,

00:50:23.519 --> 00:50:28.730
right? Yeah. You know? I think that... I feel

00:50:28.730 --> 00:50:31.010
like depending on if Fozazi has a good game or

00:50:31.010 --> 00:50:32.730
not against St. Louis, I think this is going

00:50:32.730 --> 00:50:38.130
to dictate who starts against... Who do we play

00:50:38.130 --> 00:50:43.409
after Arso? Whitecaps. Yeah, this would probably

00:50:43.409 --> 00:50:45.250
dictate who we play against. Who starts against

00:50:45.250 --> 00:50:49.190
Vancouver? I mean, honestly, I think we're going

00:50:49.190 --> 00:50:51.210
to rotate against Vancouver regardless as long

00:50:51.210 --> 00:50:53.809
as people are healthy. Yeah, the thing is we're

00:50:53.809 --> 00:50:58.820
kind of thinned out at Winger. Our deepest position

00:50:58.820 --> 00:51:05.159
at winger and yet more thinned out. It's crazy.

00:51:05.219 --> 00:51:08.199
And we're only three weeks into the season. And

00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:12.639
we had a Champions League bye. Yeah. And our

00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:16.179
center back pairings are a little off with some

00:51:16.179 --> 00:51:18.960
injuries. And then, of course, one of them is

00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:22.440
hanging out at the White House. With degenerative

00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:26.309
knee issues. Yeah. I don't know if it's just

00:51:26.309 --> 00:51:29.409
the issues. We'll talk about that. But first,

00:51:29.449 --> 00:51:31.389
I want to touch on what something Schmesser said

00:51:31.389 --> 00:51:33.730
in the press conference as we move on to upcoming

00:51:33.730 --> 00:51:36.550
matches in St. Louis and beyond. Do you have

00:51:36.550 --> 00:51:38.690
anything you want to say? Anything else about

00:51:38.690 --> 00:51:43.610
that RSL 2 -1 loss? No? Looks good. Yeah. I mean,

00:51:43.630 --> 00:51:48.730
wasn't happy with it, but it wasn't a bad performance.

00:51:48.949 --> 00:51:51.630
It was just a... I kind of felt like it was like

00:51:51.630 --> 00:51:53.530
a what if. If we had hit some of our chances,

00:51:53.590 --> 00:51:56.369
that game finishes differently. It was Cabral

00:51:56.369 --> 00:52:00.110
having a 10 out of 10. Yeah. He won in the game.

00:52:00.190 --> 00:52:02.570
He was the man of the match. You know, there's

00:52:02.570 --> 00:52:05.269
going to be games where just keepers save everything

00:52:05.269 --> 00:52:09.369
or almost everything. And you just can't do nothing

00:52:09.369 --> 00:52:14.389
about it. Yeah. We teased it earlier before the

00:52:14.389 --> 00:52:21.510
ad. Spencer has announced. He hasn't said this

00:52:21.510 --> 00:52:24.349
positively, but by the way he said it, you know

00:52:24.349 --> 00:52:26.769
this is the case. Moving forward, we will continue

00:52:26.769 --> 00:52:29.170
to have Andrew Thomas as our starter at goalie

00:52:29.170 --> 00:52:36.130
because we will see him not starting in CONCACAF

00:52:36.130 --> 00:52:38.030
Champions Cup. That will be Fry's tournament.

00:52:38.769 --> 00:52:41.829
So much like it was the other way around last

00:52:41.829 --> 00:52:44.170
year, I think it was Jada Evans from Seattle

00:52:44.170 --> 00:52:46.349
Times that asked this question, much like it

00:52:46.349 --> 00:52:48.809
was the way last year where Andy got those starts.

00:52:49.389 --> 00:52:52.610
We're going to see Fry get in there and get some

00:52:52.610 --> 00:52:55.690
starts, all the starts in the CONCACAF Champions

00:52:55.690 --> 00:52:58.730
Cup. I think that's good news, right? Yeah, I

00:52:58.730 --> 00:53:02.670
think honestly, a competition like that, I would

00:53:02.670 --> 00:53:07.789
go with the more experienced guy. Plus, he needs

00:53:07.789 --> 00:53:12.210
minutes in order to stay fresh. Because if Andrew

00:53:12.210 --> 00:53:13.769
gets hurt, we're going to need somebody like

00:53:13.769 --> 00:53:15.989
him to come in. Yeah, I mean, I have no issue

00:53:15.989 --> 00:53:19.119
with that. I will prefer Thomas, you know, in

00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:22.719
the regular season and into the playoffs and

00:53:22.719 --> 00:53:30.619
let Fry take all the competitions. Yeah, that

00:53:30.619 --> 00:53:34.260
sounds good to me. Is that a Cedar thought? Yeah.

00:53:34.659 --> 00:53:38.199
I thought he was frozen for a second. Not again.

00:53:38.420 --> 00:53:41.940
I like Stefan Fry. It'll be nice to see him out

00:53:41.940 --> 00:53:47.539
there. That's my take. I agree. So let's talk

00:53:47.539 --> 00:53:51.679
injuries. Paul Rotherock hurt his foot in the

00:53:51.679 --> 00:53:59.059
last game. He's questionable. It's going to depend

00:53:59.059 --> 00:54:04.420
on how he handles anti -inflammatories. Who are

00:54:04.420 --> 00:54:07.739
you certain if he can't play? I guess Areola.

00:54:09.219 --> 00:54:11.900
Yeah, that might have to be it. Because Georgie

00:54:11.900 --> 00:54:15.099
got a crack on the bottom of his foot. Yeah,

00:54:15.139 --> 00:54:18.039
I mean, Schmetzer says he's fine, but do you

00:54:18.039 --> 00:54:20.800
want him starting with a broken foot? I mean,

00:54:20.820 --> 00:54:24.320
think of it like this. You had Rodrigo, who just

00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:27.500
tore his ACL. He was playing on a slight tear,

00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:30.539
which doctors said he was fine. And now he's

00:54:30.539 --> 00:54:31.820
going to miss the World Cup because he tore his

00:54:31.820 --> 00:54:36.780
ACL. And then you have Mbappe, where he went

00:54:36.780 --> 00:54:40.119
to France to rehab his knee. Unless there's new

00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:42.500
news, he's fine. And the media has been blowing

00:54:42.500 --> 00:54:44.119
that out of proportion. And I mean, they're saying

00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:46.639
that he, that he doesn't need surgery, but if

00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:49.099
he doesn't get surgery and then he hurts his

00:54:49.099 --> 00:54:52.320
knee, I'm like, to me, it's like another Ronaldo

00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:57.199
R nine situation happening. Yeah. I mean, but

00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:01.639
he, he had knees made of glass. They were pretty

00:55:01.639 --> 00:55:06.860
bad. But yeah, head in there. But yeah, I mean,

00:55:06.860 --> 00:55:12.630
it's, it's. I mean, it's not good, but I mean

00:55:12.630 --> 00:55:15.130
the bone it's so the crack is in a place where

00:55:15.130 --> 00:55:18.030
apparently it won't get worse as long as it doesn't

00:55:18.030 --> 00:55:21.150
cause pain. So the question is how much, and

00:55:21.150 --> 00:55:25.190
those things like even I know just from my injuries,

00:55:25.250 --> 00:55:28.369
like having arthritis in my knees, osteoarthritis,

00:55:28.409 --> 00:55:30.570
some people that doesn't hurt them at all. But

00:55:30.570 --> 00:55:32.610
me, it's excruciating pain, which is one of the

00:55:32.610 --> 00:55:35.170
reasons why I just had that, those PRP injections.

00:55:35.190 --> 00:55:37.610
And finally, after six weeks off, I get to play

00:55:37.610 --> 00:55:39.309
soccer again this weekend for the first time.

00:55:39.849 --> 00:55:41.769
six weeks so i'm excited to get out there but

00:55:41.769 --> 00:55:45.210
if i if i know that issue a real professional

00:55:45.210 --> 00:55:48.489
is going to know that no yeah i think i'm just

00:55:48.489 --> 00:55:51.269
a little bit worried because he trusted jordan

00:55:51.269 --> 00:55:54.070
when he felt his tightness and warm -ups and

00:55:54.070 --> 00:55:56.110
then now he's out for a month and the last thing

00:55:56.110 --> 00:55:58.969
we need is to lose another winger and i mean

00:55:58.969 --> 00:56:01.889
yeah we can call up you know you sukonome or

00:56:01.889 --> 00:56:07.530
sebastian gomez but we're we're dating out like

00:56:07.530 --> 00:56:10.420
we're gonna have to switch formation Yeah, I

00:56:10.420 --> 00:56:12.139
think, though, this is the kind of injury where

00:56:12.139 --> 00:56:16.940
it's not trusting Georgie just because it's not

00:56:16.940 --> 00:56:19.880
like, oh, if it hurts, it doesn't mean it's getting

00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:22.219
worse. It just means it hurts. Yeah. Like he's

00:56:22.219 --> 00:56:24.800
not going to get worse by playing. Unless, I

00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:26.559
mean, I suppose if someone stomps on his foot,

00:56:26.639 --> 00:56:29.579
maybe. Just by average playing, it's not going

00:56:29.579 --> 00:56:34.380
to get worse. It's just a... A crack in his foot.

00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.099
I mean, I think he does. It's just a crack in

00:56:37.099 --> 00:56:39.079
his foot. I mean, what's the big deal, guys?

00:56:39.340 --> 00:56:45.559
It's not a clean break. I mean, he didn't drop

00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:51.639
a cow on his foot. He completely demolished it.

00:56:51.820 --> 00:56:54.900
My foot wasn't broken either. It was just cracked.

00:56:55.980 --> 00:56:59.639
Yeah, you're right. And there was no ligament

00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:02.920
holding it together. Yeah, I mean, this is what

00:57:02.920 --> 00:57:07.519
you get for going out and cow tipping. Wait,

00:57:07.659 --> 00:57:12.739
what? What happened? He destroyed his whole foot

00:57:12.739 --> 00:57:16.159
at work. I didn't. I destroyed the leg. Yeah.

00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:20.679
Oh, oh, God. So funny story. I actually ran into

00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:23.199
a guy one time. I game stopped because, you know,

00:57:23.219 --> 00:57:25.059
I'm on crutches. It's the winter time. What am

00:57:25.059 --> 00:57:28.150
I going to do? Play video games. That's it. And

00:57:28.150 --> 00:57:30.989
I run into a guy that also had the same type

00:57:30.989 --> 00:57:34.150
of injury that I had, but I think his was a motorcycle

00:57:34.150 --> 00:57:37.969
accident, but he shattered his foot. So he, he

00:57:37.969 --> 00:57:40.989
was like, he had all the, he had like a jar full

00:57:40.989 --> 00:57:44.210
of all the screws he had. Oh, I was like, thank

00:57:44.210 --> 00:57:47.090
God I didn't have no screws. It turns out riding

00:57:47.090 --> 00:57:51.530
a motorcycle is far more dangerous than chopping

00:57:51.530 --> 00:58:02.480
up cows. Yeah. Kim Keehy is out. Injured. He

00:58:02.480 --> 00:58:06.460
can't play. A little setback. He should be okay,

00:58:06.579 --> 00:58:09.260
but we'll see what happens. Georgie is fine.

00:58:10.000 --> 00:58:13.219
Ryan Saylor is out. We'll get back to that. Areola

00:58:13.219 --> 00:58:16.260
is ready to start. We've been getting back to

00:58:16.260 --> 00:58:20.139
that. We're waiting for him to get back. I mean,

00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:21.619
Cedar, you said you were ready to see Areola,

00:58:21.619 --> 00:58:24.360
right? Are we thinking he's going to play some

00:58:24.360 --> 00:58:26.699
minutes then? I'm always ready to see Areola.

00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:31.179
Yeah, no, absolutely. I think, look, we saw his

00:58:31.179 --> 00:58:34.360
potential last season, right? We saw how good

00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:38.119
he was. Okay, get it out now because once we

00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:40.139
go to video, we're going to get demonetized.

00:58:40.900 --> 00:58:47.369
Clearly, I wasn't ready for that Areola. I'll

00:58:47.369 --> 00:58:50.170
bring my A game next time. But yeah, no, I'm

00:58:50.170 --> 00:58:55.050
excited. I'm excited. One Paul for another. I

00:58:55.050 --> 00:59:00.610
mean, we've seen how good he can be in this league.

00:59:00.690 --> 00:59:04.570
I remember when we would play FC Dallas. And

00:59:04.570 --> 00:59:09.449
honestly, from those matches, I don't even remember

00:59:09.449 --> 00:59:13.340
Jesus Ferreira. The person I remember is Paul

00:59:13.340 --> 00:59:17.239
Areola just being the most annoying pest of a

00:59:17.239 --> 00:59:20.320
player against us. I think that's why I didn't

00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:21.960
like him on the U .S. national team because he

00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:24.480
was such a pest against us. Yeah, seriously.

00:59:24.940 --> 00:59:30.539
I really actually genuinely disliked him for

00:59:30.539 --> 00:59:35.900
a long time. Once he joined the team and watching

00:59:35.900 --> 00:59:39.670
some interviews with him, he seemed so... you

00:59:39.670 --> 00:59:44.070
know nice and and uh soft -spoken and like he's

00:59:44.070 --> 00:59:46.730
just uh he's he's uh i mean all these guys are

00:59:46.730 --> 00:59:50.570
but he's a total competitor yeah and so i'm i'm

00:59:50.570 --> 00:59:53.010
glad he's on our team and uh i want to see i

00:59:53.010 --> 00:59:55.250
want to see that paul ariola come out i mean

00:59:55.250 --> 00:59:57.469
we're gonna need we're gonna need that you know

00:59:57.469 --> 01:00:02.829
um and you know paul rothrock didn't have you

01:00:02.829 --> 01:00:07.590
know the his best uh performance last time um

01:00:07.590 --> 01:00:10.469
he it just didn't seem like he was impacting

01:00:10.469 --> 01:00:14.769
the game a ton there just wasn't you know there

01:00:14.769 --> 01:00:17.309
wasn't that like fit that last finishing like

01:00:17.309 --> 01:00:20.389
you know pass from his action out on the wing

01:00:20.389 --> 01:00:23.090
to like create this draw that yellow card though

01:00:23.090 --> 01:00:25.389
that when he when he did basically the same thing

01:00:25.389 --> 01:00:27.150
where he got the guy to overrun it and he pulled

01:00:27.150 --> 01:00:29.489
him i mean he had an early yeah i think you're

01:00:29.489 --> 01:00:31.050
right it was not sustained throughout the game

01:00:31.050 --> 01:00:33.630
in a way that meant okay he has to be the one

01:00:33.630 --> 01:00:35.769
starting on the left that's true but did we get

01:00:36.079 --> 01:00:38.179
but did he then capitalize on that guy being

01:00:38.179 --> 01:00:42.119
on a yellow, right? Like look, and I love Rothrock.

01:00:42.219 --> 01:00:44.940
He's, he's obviously a really great player and

01:00:44.940 --> 01:00:47.219
he'll be back and he'll be a great contributor,

01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:52.780
but I'm excited to see Ariel. Yeah. Yeah. I remember

01:00:52.780 --> 01:00:57.440
he was balling before he went down. Yeah. Yeah,

01:00:57.460 --> 01:01:01.780
absolutely. I mean, he, he's legit. He's legit.

01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:04.250
And I think that. It's just that we haven't seen

01:01:04.250 --> 01:01:07.110
enough of him to say like, okay, like he's, you

01:01:07.110 --> 01:01:09.409
know, he's legit. Like we know he's legit from

01:01:09.409 --> 01:01:13.170
his past, but it's like this, we need to see

01:01:13.170 --> 01:01:15.849
him do it in a sounder shirt. Yeah. Can, can

01:01:15.849 --> 01:01:18.710
he be legit with us? I mean, I think he, I think

01:01:18.710 --> 01:01:22.309
he was when he was playing last year, he just

01:01:22.309 --> 01:01:24.010
got to do it consistently. Yeah. He has to stay

01:01:24.010 --> 01:01:25.449
healthy. I feel like he was the best player on

01:01:25.449 --> 01:01:28.639
the field when he was out there. And Pedro wasn't,

01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:32.199
but he was doing a lot of good stuff and seeing

01:01:32.199 --> 01:01:33.840
them together in preseason in that Louisville

01:01:33.840 --> 01:01:36.440
City game in person. He's like a little gremlin.

01:01:36.699 --> 01:01:39.179
I mean, he's listed at 5 '8". Paul Areola plays

01:01:39.179 --> 01:01:42.280
at like 5 '3". He's down low and like crouching.

01:01:42.599 --> 01:01:45.559
Yeah, I don't think he's 5 '8". I don't think

01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:48.019
he is either. I think I'd like seen him one time

01:01:48.019 --> 01:01:52.679
and he's like 5 '7", maybe. Yeah, that's his

01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:55.519
listed height. Baseball was always like that,

01:01:55.559 --> 01:01:57.239
but I guess they just had to completely redo

01:01:57.239 --> 01:01:58.860
it, and so a bunch of players that used to be

01:01:58.860 --> 01:02:01.719
over 6 feet are now only 5 '9", 5 '10", 5 '11".

01:02:01.719 --> 01:02:06.980
I would have been like, I'm listed at 6 '4",

01:02:06.980 --> 01:02:11.860
250. Man, I don't know how I missed this. We

01:02:11.860 --> 01:02:13.179
should have talked about this at the beginning

01:02:13.179 --> 01:02:15.320
of the show, but Max Crosby was traded from the

01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:23.119
Raiders to the Ravens. As a Seahawks fan, I didn't

01:02:23.119 --> 01:02:25.340
want to give up two first -round picks, but dang,

01:02:25.420 --> 01:02:27.340
that would have been fun to see him on that Seahawks

01:02:27.340 --> 01:02:30.059
defense. I mean, at least he didn't stay in our

01:02:30.059 --> 01:02:31.500
division because there was talk that he might

01:02:31.500 --> 01:02:33.699
go to San Francisco. Yeah, that would have been

01:02:33.699 --> 01:02:36.400
awful. San Francisco needs those first -round

01:02:36.400 --> 01:02:39.400
picks with all their injuries anyways. Those

01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:43.260
first -round picks don't want to go there. The

01:02:43.260 --> 01:02:47.199
Rams got Trent McDuffie. Oh, interesting. I heard

01:02:47.199 --> 01:02:51.820
he makes things about him. Like he's only good

01:02:51.820 --> 01:02:53.599
on the slaw and he's not good on the outside

01:02:53.599 --> 01:03:01.079
for his salary. Yeah, I mean, you know, if you

01:03:01.079 --> 01:03:04.300
get played out of position. So now the Vikings

01:03:04.300 --> 01:03:06.159
just need to go get Geno Smith and everything

01:03:06.159 --> 01:03:10.440
comes full circle. I've seen some memes about

01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:13.199
Geno and, you know, the whole thing going on

01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:17.039
in the Middle East is just... Oh, no. Blame it

01:03:17.039 --> 01:03:20.219
on Gino. They were like, if you send Gino, he'll

01:03:20.219 --> 01:03:25.440
overthrow her real quick. Oh, my God. Oh, man.

01:03:25.960 --> 01:03:29.739
You know, I like Gino. I really liked his time

01:03:29.739 --> 01:03:32.900
with us. I think he came in and filled in some

01:03:32.900 --> 01:03:37.119
pretty big shoes, you know, with Russ leaving.

01:03:37.340 --> 01:03:42.519
Obviously, Russ has not gotten back to where

01:03:42.519 --> 01:03:46.159
he used to be. But I liked Gino. I liked him.

01:03:46.239 --> 01:03:49.099
That being said, I'm happy with how everything

01:03:49.099 --> 01:03:52.159
unfolded this past year. Well, before we get

01:03:52.159 --> 01:03:55.179
too far into Seahawks scuttlebutt, let's pull

01:03:55.179 --> 01:03:59.360
it back and talk about upcoming Sounders matches.

01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:05.320
This weekend, we've got St. Louis City on Saturday.

01:04:05.559 --> 01:04:07.900
Then this is Thursday. I thought the game was

01:04:07.900 --> 01:04:10.809
on Wednesday. Did they move it to Thursday? Oh,

01:04:10.849 --> 01:04:12.750
I might have just read it down wrong. Wednesday,

01:04:13.750 --> 01:04:17.710
March 12th. Let's double check on that. Oh, no,

01:04:17.789 --> 01:04:20.530
it is Thursday. Interesting. Thursday, March

01:04:20.530 --> 01:04:26.010
12th, we have Champions Cup, Whitecaps, home

01:04:26.010 --> 01:04:28.690
game but being played in Spokane. Then we go

01:04:28.690 --> 01:04:31.489
to Earthquakes on the 15th, the first game of

01:04:31.489 --> 01:04:36.519
the Heritage Cup trophy. chance to win uh the

01:04:36.519 --> 01:04:38.099
second one will be in may because we play three

01:04:38.099 --> 01:04:39.980
times in the season so only two of them count

01:04:39.980 --> 01:04:43.579
and then of course uh oh no i'm sorry the 12th

01:04:43.579 --> 01:04:46.039
is away then it's wednesday march 18th at home

01:04:46.039 --> 01:04:48.639
for the spokane match i am i got those backwards

01:04:48.639 --> 01:04:52.559
that's on me i apologize for that so uh we're

01:04:52.559 --> 01:04:57.699
we're at vancouver on thursday then at san jose

01:04:57.699 --> 01:05:00.559
and then home in spokane the following wednesday

01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:05.980
so uh A lot of road games coming up. In fact,

01:05:05.980 --> 01:05:09.179
we then go away to Minnesota United and Houston

01:05:09.179 --> 01:05:11.960
Dynamo before returning home to play Salt Lake

01:05:11.960 --> 01:05:13.880
on the 12th. How are you feeling about this St.

01:05:13.900 --> 01:05:19.139
Louis game coming up? I mean, St. Louis hasn't

01:05:19.139 --> 01:05:22.119
been playing too good. I saw their game last

01:05:22.119 --> 01:05:25.820
week. They played one home game so far, is that

01:05:25.820 --> 01:05:31.989
right? Yeah, I think they played less. They lost

01:05:31.989 --> 01:05:36.829
at San Diego, and then they opened at home in

01:05:36.829 --> 01:05:39.110
a tie with Charlotte. Yeah, I was watching the

01:05:39.110 --> 01:05:41.650
San Diego game. San Diego just dominated them.

01:05:42.650 --> 01:05:44.150
They were pretty good in that Charlotte game.

01:05:44.289 --> 01:05:46.170
That was a big back and forth. Yeah, they were

01:05:46.170 --> 01:05:50.429
missing, what's his name, Harto? He was gone

01:05:50.429 --> 01:05:55.269
because he had his baby, so he'll be back. But

01:05:55.269 --> 01:05:58.170
I think that they're a team that's trying to...

01:05:58.730 --> 01:06:00.110
They don't have a forward, so they're in the

01:06:00.110 --> 01:06:03.769
same predicament as us. Which they did, right?

01:06:03.829 --> 01:06:06.050
They traded him to LA Galaxy. He's been good.

01:06:06.090 --> 01:06:08.489
And he's been killing it over there. I think

01:06:08.489 --> 01:06:12.690
he had a hat trick or he had two goals in like

01:06:12.690 --> 01:06:17.869
10 minutes. But I think it just sucks because

01:06:17.869 --> 01:06:23.170
we're walking in there like hurt. So it's hard

01:06:23.170 --> 01:06:27.659
for me to really... see us getting a result,

01:06:27.780 --> 01:06:29.440
especially away from home. And given that last

01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:36.159
year we lost 2 -1, so I think it's... I mean,

01:06:36.179 --> 01:06:37.519
I think we're a different team. They're a different

01:06:37.519 --> 01:06:40.380
team. If we can find a way to score, does that

01:06:40.380 --> 01:06:42.860
alleviate your worries in that? I think it's

01:06:42.860 --> 01:06:47.900
more so if we score first. I just think if we've

01:06:47.900 --> 01:06:49.420
got to score more than one, we've got to score

01:06:49.420 --> 01:06:54.670
two at least. I mean, Cedar... The last match,

01:06:54.710 --> 01:06:57.210
of course, St. Louis was away, but they were

01:06:57.210 --> 01:07:02.050
out -possessed by San Diego, 63 -37. Their pass

01:07:02.050 --> 01:07:05.429
accuracy was much less. They only committed three

01:07:05.429 --> 01:07:07.849
fouls the whole game, though, which is insane.

01:07:07.949 --> 01:07:11.829
I think we had 18 in our opening game against

01:07:11.829 --> 01:07:19.519
us. We committed 10. What do you think it is?

01:07:19.559 --> 01:07:20.980
And maybe you don't feel this way. I feel like

01:07:20.980 --> 01:07:23.920
the Sounders on the road are not as dynamic and

01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:26.840
are not as fun to watch as at home. And last

01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:28.780
year, it felt like it was more of a struggle,

01:07:28.860 --> 01:07:32.139
more of a slog in some of these games. And maybe

01:07:32.139 --> 01:07:35.880
that's travel. Maybe that's just midweek games

01:07:35.880 --> 01:07:40.179
or whatever it was. But are you confident in

01:07:40.179 --> 01:07:43.559
the Sounders on the road this season? Yeah, I

01:07:43.559 --> 01:07:48.679
think so. We all know that MLS is tough to play.

01:07:50.820 --> 01:07:53.800
When you're away, just because of the travel,

01:07:54.179 --> 01:07:59.179
you look at, I think it was either week one or

01:07:59.179 --> 01:08:03.099
this past week, but the amount of away teams

01:08:03.099 --> 01:08:07.619
that won each of those weeks, it's a very, very

01:08:07.619 --> 01:08:11.840
small number. It's always going to be tough on

01:08:11.840 --> 01:08:16.380
the road. That being said, I think out of this

01:08:16.380 --> 01:08:51.489
stretch of... Thankfully, it all uploaded, so

01:08:51.489 --> 01:08:56.430
we didn't lose anything there. It's because you're

01:08:56.430 --> 01:08:59.250
wearing a San Jose Clash kit. Yeah, I am wearing

01:08:59.250 --> 01:09:02.510
a San Jose Clash kit. We're not playing San Jose,

01:09:02.670 --> 01:09:04.289
and it's not the Earthquake, it's the Clash.

01:09:05.109 --> 01:09:08.529
I consider the Earthquakes to be a different

01:09:08.529 --> 01:09:10.170
team, although they were the Earthquakes when

01:09:10.170 --> 01:09:12.350
I lived there. My Earthquakes are now the Houston

01:09:12.350 --> 01:09:14.590
Dynamo, which is one of the reasons. That's right.

01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:20.319
Sorry. Go ahead, Cedar. You were saying. No,

01:09:20.340 --> 01:09:23.460
no, no. You're totally fine. I think the first

01:09:23.460 --> 01:09:27.960
ever MLS match was in San Jose. It was the Clash

01:09:27.960 --> 01:09:31.479
versus DC United. Yeah, way back in the day.

01:09:31.539 --> 01:09:33.300
That was like the first ever MLS match. This

01:09:33.300 --> 01:09:37.239
is an Eric Winalda jersey. Going back to those

01:09:37.239 --> 01:09:40.079
days. We all love Eric Winalda. Can we take a

01:09:40.079 --> 01:09:42.720
quick side trip here? I watched a YouTube video

01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:45.659
last night that in 96, at the end of the season,

01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:49.939
There was an unofficial strike by the US players

01:09:49.939 --> 01:09:52.039
leading into who was going to be on the World

01:09:52.039 --> 01:09:54.340
Cup roster for 98. So we're talking two years

01:09:54.340 --> 01:09:58.140
ago in terms of figuring out the roster. But

01:09:58.140 --> 01:10:01.380
because of that, none of the first team players

01:10:01.380 --> 01:10:04.699
and none of the second team players would play

01:10:04.699 --> 01:10:09.680
in a way friendly in Peru midweek. And so the

01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:12.159
coach had to put together a bunch of no names

01:10:12.159 --> 01:10:15.630
and a few young players who ended up. like Eddie

01:10:15.630 --> 01:10:17.590
Lewis, it was his first ever cap. And then he

01:10:17.590 --> 01:10:19.109
ended up being one of the most cap players in

01:10:19.109 --> 01:10:21.550
US history, but not for another two years after

01:10:21.550 --> 01:10:23.970
that, did he get another cap? And so it was kind

01:10:23.970 --> 01:10:26.609
of crazy that in 96, at the end of the MLS season,

01:10:26.750 --> 01:10:30.170
they pulled in some MLS players and some other

01:10:30.170 --> 01:10:31.949
young players and played this game where they

01:10:31.949 --> 01:10:34.750
just got demolished by Peru down in Peru midweek

01:10:34.750 --> 01:10:37.430
in the lead up. It was the last match before

01:10:37.430 --> 01:10:40.470
World Cup qualifying. So, and then after that,

01:10:40.550 --> 01:10:43.340
they played so poorly that. the U S soccer federation

01:10:43.340 --> 01:10:45.520
came back and figured out what to do and paid

01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:47.979
both the men and women's team because the 96

01:10:47.979 --> 01:10:51.840
Olympics were coming up, but kind of see sports

01:10:51.840 --> 01:10:53.279
is political. We talked to him. We're bringing

01:10:53.279 --> 01:10:54.779
a full circle from the beginning of this show.

01:10:55.060 --> 01:11:00.329
Sports is political. And striking works, collective

01:11:00.329 --> 01:11:04.489
bargaining works. You're listening to collective

01:11:04.489 --> 01:11:07.130
bargaining scuttlebutts. We're going to talk

01:11:07.130 --> 01:11:09.170
to you about the labor history of sports in the

01:11:09.170 --> 01:11:10.770
United States. Oh, God, I would love to teach

01:11:10.770 --> 01:11:15.770
that class. We went through a history of that

01:11:15.770 --> 01:11:17.649
a little bit in the class I taught last quarter,

01:11:17.829 --> 01:11:23.470
the legal issues in sports and entertainment,

01:11:23.609 --> 01:11:26.479
because we talked about how the various leagues

01:11:26.479 --> 01:11:30.680
formed you know, how like baseball gets the exemption

01:11:30.680 --> 01:11:36.260
from being I'm tired. I know that they, they

01:11:36.260 --> 01:11:39.640
basically can be a conglomerate that breaks the

01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:42.520
law. No other sport can, except for the MLS kind

01:11:42.520 --> 01:11:45.100
of can. And that's why they have a single entity,

01:11:45.159 --> 01:11:46.560
even though it's technically should be illegal.

01:11:47.239 --> 01:11:49.579
No one cares. This is just me being a law nerd.

01:11:52.350 --> 01:11:54.529
Alex is like, what the fuck are you talking about?

01:11:54.550 --> 01:11:56.569
I was going to say, let's just take a minute

01:11:56.569 --> 01:11:59.449
to show our solidarity with the USO teams that

01:11:59.449 --> 01:12:04.010
took a minute. Oh, yeah. Did they settle? Or

01:12:04.010 --> 01:12:05.329
do you know? Because I know they were going to

01:12:05.329 --> 01:12:09.069
not play their first game. They're still trying

01:12:09.069 --> 01:12:11.609
to negotiate. I think tonight would have been

01:12:11.609 --> 01:12:14.829
the first game, right? They did a minute of they

01:12:14.829 --> 01:12:17.810
didn't do nothing. They just stood there. Okay,

01:12:17.850 --> 01:12:19.770
so they actually played the game, but they did

01:12:19.770 --> 01:12:22.159
a minute. Of nothing at the beginning. That's

01:12:22.159 --> 01:12:25.119
interesting. I like that because they can stay

01:12:25.119 --> 01:12:27.140
at the table without pissing off the other side.

01:12:27.239 --> 01:12:29.359
That's a good first tactic. It's not a first

01:12:29.359 --> 01:12:32.579
tactic. It's like a 10th or 11th tactic. A friend

01:12:32.579 --> 01:12:36.899
of mine, Steve, was talking to some high ups

01:12:36.899 --> 01:12:39.880
in the USLPA about some of the stuff because

01:12:39.880 --> 01:12:42.840
he is a, I mean, he wasn't advising them, but

01:12:42.840 --> 01:12:45.539
had wrote him because he's a labor attorney.

01:12:45.699 --> 01:12:48.500
And so I've been getting kind of the other side

01:12:48.500 --> 01:12:50.880
of it, hearing it from the labor side. what the

01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:52.579
issues are, so it's cool. Shout out to Steve

01:12:52.579 --> 01:12:58.260
for that. Good. What are we thinking the score

01:12:58.260 --> 01:13:03.279
is going to be in St. Louis, then? Energizer

01:13:03.279 --> 01:13:06.239
Park. We need energy. Is that what it's called?

01:13:06.699 --> 01:13:09.539
I think that's... That's so funny. It probably

01:13:09.539 --> 01:13:13.539
is. I think it is. I think they had a generic

01:13:13.539 --> 01:13:16.680
name beforehand, and then they got a sponsor,

01:13:16.779 --> 01:13:21.289
right? It was just like City Park. It is Energizer

01:13:21.289 --> 01:13:24.470
Park. Tomorrow, taking on St. Louis SC. So the

01:13:24.470 --> 01:13:29.310
first game, they only had 46 % possession, but

01:13:29.310 --> 01:13:31.529
they did commit 10 fouls. So this is a team that

01:13:31.529 --> 01:13:33.810
will commit fouls. It just didn't work out in

01:13:33.810 --> 01:13:35.489
the San Diego game. The fouls were being committed.

01:13:36.369 --> 01:13:40.109
Well, San Diego, they'll just pass around. Oh,

01:13:40.109 --> 01:13:42.590
excuse me. That was Charlotte. They had 11 fouls

01:13:42.590 --> 01:13:44.850
and 54%. So they were the better team in that

01:13:44.850 --> 01:13:47.850
home game that they lost to Charlotte. tied to

01:13:47.850 --> 01:13:49.289
Charlotte. It just feels like a loss when you

01:13:49.289 --> 01:13:54.550
tie it home. Am I a mess today? Well, and also,

01:13:54.710 --> 01:13:57.170
I mean, Charlotte isn't very good, are they?

01:13:57.930 --> 01:13:59.909
I think they're a good team. I mean, we're two

01:13:59.909 --> 01:14:04.649
games in. I mean, we're two games in. No, here's

01:14:04.649 --> 01:14:06.890
the thing, though. The majority of the league

01:14:06.890 --> 01:14:11.529
voted Saha as the most overrated player. That

01:14:11.529 --> 01:14:16.109
sucks. Yeah, Saha's not it. I mean, I think he's

01:14:16.109 --> 01:14:19.430
a good player. I think he is just really annoying

01:14:19.430 --> 01:14:22.550
and not in a, like, I hustle a lot. He's not

01:14:22.550 --> 01:14:25.449
Ozzy Alonzo. He's like a pest that gets under

01:14:25.449 --> 01:14:28.890
your skin kind of annoying. And so I think maybe

01:14:28.890 --> 01:14:31.710
they did that for being like that. Because, I

01:14:31.710 --> 01:14:34.109
mean, watching that game, you saw him lose his

01:14:34.109 --> 01:14:35.949
head a few times in that St. Louis game, but

01:14:35.949 --> 01:14:37.789
you also saw the impact he had on the field.

01:14:37.890 --> 01:14:41.050
Like, it was, he made them a much better team.

01:14:41.770 --> 01:14:43.920
Yeah. I feel like there's players who are like,

01:14:43.960 --> 01:14:45.760
bro, why are you acting like this when you haven't

01:14:45.760 --> 01:14:51.079
won nothing in England? I mean, this is all about

01:14:51.079 --> 01:14:53.899
teams, right? Like you have players that come

01:14:53.899 --> 01:14:55.600
from abroad that have made millions and millions

01:14:55.600 --> 01:14:57.899
of dollars and they're going up against guys

01:14:57.899 --> 01:14:59.640
that are making at the time for the Sounders

01:14:59.640 --> 01:15:03.220
were making like $75 ,000, $50 ,000. And they're

01:15:03.220 --> 01:15:05.939
both putting it in practice. And maybe they're

01:15:05.939 --> 01:15:08.479
getting outplayed by a guy who's making significantly

01:15:08.479 --> 01:15:11.989
less money. And so. MLS, you can't really be

01:15:11.989 --> 01:15:13.649
a prima donna with most of these teams anymore.

01:15:14.069 --> 01:15:19.010
Well, we've seen it happen with Obin and the

01:15:19.010 --> 01:15:25.630
whole Los Amigos from Miami. Obin was making,

01:15:25.710 --> 01:15:27.470
I don't know how much he was making, but he was

01:15:27.470 --> 01:15:29.149
making nowhere near the amount of money that

01:15:29.149 --> 01:15:31.090
Suarez. I mean, when he pointed and laughed at

01:15:31.090 --> 01:15:36.270
Suarez. I still have that picture. What were

01:15:36.270 --> 01:15:40.000
you going to say, Cedar? Yeah, this is the beauty

01:15:40.000 --> 01:15:43.779
of MLS, right? You get college kids, you know,

01:15:43.800 --> 01:15:48.699
who went to like UConn and Duke and UW up against

01:15:48.699 --> 01:15:51.600
some of the, you know, the most revered players

01:15:51.600 --> 01:15:55.380
of all time in this league. And, you know, it's

01:15:55.380 --> 01:15:58.000
always interesting, right? It's not, it's never

01:15:58.000 --> 01:16:03.500
like, oh, you know, like we have personally watched

01:16:03.500 --> 01:16:09.539
Messi and, you know. the Barca boys just absolutely

01:16:09.539 --> 01:16:13.079
fail against us. You know, I mean, where else

01:16:13.079 --> 01:16:14.899
are you going to see that? That's why, that's

01:16:14.899 --> 01:16:16.960
why I watch him a lot. Shout out to Ryan sailor.

01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:19.500
I, I'm, I was jokingly giving him a hard time.

01:16:19.600 --> 01:16:21.520
Like, would I go to the white house? Probably

01:16:21.520 --> 01:16:24.399
not. But let's say this, it was a chance to go

01:16:24.399 --> 01:16:26.520
hang out with messy. It was a go, a chance to

01:16:26.520 --> 01:16:28.300
go hang out with the friends on a team. And that,

01:16:28.319 --> 01:16:30.199
that they probably gave him his ring when he

01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:32.399
got there. So, because he doesn't play for them

01:16:32.399 --> 01:16:36.840
anymore. So yeah, I'm not, I'm not, I, I don't

01:16:36.840 --> 01:16:39.079
think I would go see the president, but not everyone

01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:41.539
is as political as me, so I'm not going to get

01:16:41.539 --> 01:16:44.479
down on an individual player for that. Here's

01:16:44.479 --> 01:16:49.819
my take. Again, if it's a team decision, then

01:16:49.819 --> 01:16:52.500
that's a team decision. Is it his current team?

01:16:52.800 --> 01:16:58.399
No, but he did play for Inter -Miami from 2022

01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:01.899
to 2025. He had 44 appearances in that time.

01:17:02.039 --> 01:17:04.319
Last season, he had five appearances and one

01:17:04.319 --> 01:17:07.739
start. right so again this is this is what we're

01:17:07.739 --> 01:17:12.039
talking about he's he's a he's a you know a a

01:17:12.039 --> 01:17:17.779
kind of fringe mls player right i if i were him

01:17:17.779 --> 01:17:21.899
you know and and again like i get it like i i

01:17:21.899 --> 01:17:23.880
don't know if i would make the same decision

01:17:23.880 --> 01:17:27.020
but i can understand The thought process of being

01:17:27.020 --> 01:17:28.840
like, no, I want to go get my ring. I mean, it's

01:17:28.840 --> 01:17:30.979
easy for me to say that, yeah, as never having

01:17:30.979 --> 01:17:33.920
been in a position to go collect something from,

01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:42.279
I think, except for maybe George W. Bush. In

01:17:42.279 --> 01:17:45.340
the past, if I were, I mean, I met Bill Clinton.

01:17:45.619 --> 01:17:47.279
I didn't love him. I think he's the greatest

01:17:47.279 --> 01:17:49.199
Republican president we've ever had. I know you're

01:17:49.199 --> 01:17:50.300
going to say he's not a Republican. Yes, he was.

01:17:50.319 --> 01:17:54.659
Look at his policies. I think there was an honor

01:17:54.659 --> 01:17:56.579
to meeting the president, no matter who it was.

01:17:56.659 --> 01:17:58.319
I think that honor is just not there anymore.

01:17:59.039 --> 01:18:01.420
Yeah. There's no more decorum. And I will disagree

01:18:01.420 --> 01:18:03.600
with you on Bill Clinton being the greatest Republican

01:18:03.600 --> 01:18:06.340
president, the greatest Republican president

01:18:06.340 --> 01:18:12.640
we've ever had. It was Obama. Obama was all time.

01:18:12.699 --> 01:18:17.659
Great. You know, best Republican. Yeah. Right.

01:18:18.140 --> 01:18:20.760
Well, that's the, that's the real goat. But,

01:18:20.779 --> 01:18:24.130
uh, uh, Also, the other thing too is I know like

01:18:24.130 --> 01:18:27.069
next to nothing about Ryan Saylor. Yeah. He's

01:18:27.069 --> 01:18:29.609
27. He went to UW, right? He was local. Yeah,

01:18:29.630 --> 01:18:32.569
he went to UW. Yeah, he had 49 appearances for

01:18:32.569 --> 01:18:37.350
UW. He was there from 2016 to 2021. In his youth

01:18:37.350 --> 01:18:40.590
career, he was – so he's from Colorado. He was

01:18:40.590 --> 01:18:44.449
born in Centennial, Colorado. He's 27 years old.

01:18:45.789 --> 01:18:49.840
This is funny. youth career the team that he

01:18:49.840 --> 01:18:54.479
played for was real colorado so i i don't know

01:18:54.479 --> 01:18:58.439
about the whole like oh you know real salt lake

01:18:58.439 --> 01:19:02.060
real colorado like i and that feels just a little

01:19:02.060 --> 01:19:06.300
bit that's a team in centennial colorado it turns

01:19:06.300 --> 01:19:08.279
out so that was his local youth team i think

01:19:08.279 --> 01:19:11.560
that's right playing for east but i just the

01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:15.960
whole like oh you know like let's name like What

01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:19.840
if we were Real Seattle? Thankfully, that was

01:19:19.840 --> 01:19:24.060
not one of the options. In fact, Seattle Sounders

01:19:24.060 --> 01:19:26.359
was not one of the options. Do you know this?

01:19:27.180 --> 01:19:30.979
Yeah, everybody was like, no. We all wrote in

01:19:30.979 --> 01:19:33.640
Seattle Sounders. Everyone who had put in for

01:19:33.640 --> 01:19:37.119
season tickets got the vote. It was Seattle Alliance,

01:19:37.479 --> 01:19:41.140
Seattle Republic. Or Seattle FC. Yeah, it was

01:19:41.140 --> 01:19:45.279
Seattle FC, Alliance FC, and Republic FC. They

01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:48.140
weren't going to put Seattle in it at all. That's

01:19:48.140 --> 01:19:52.720
kind of funny. And then everyone wrote in Seattle

01:19:52.720 --> 01:19:56.819
Sounders. Thank God for that. I think it was

01:19:56.819 --> 01:19:58.680
not going to be associated with the minor league

01:19:58.680 --> 01:20:00.619
team. Although Adrian was an owner, it was supposed

01:20:00.619 --> 01:20:03.760
to be a new team. And they said, no, we want

01:20:03.760 --> 01:20:05.399
Seattle Sounders. And it was so overwhelming

01:20:05.399 --> 01:20:10.380
that they went with it. Well, we lucked out.

01:20:10.680 --> 01:20:16.600
uh i i i get why mls is the joke of the soccer

01:20:16.600 --> 01:20:18.960
world for many reasons one of one of them is

01:20:18.960 --> 01:20:21.939
just like the wonky names like we're literally

01:20:21.939 --> 01:20:25.199
it's we're literally like the technical like

01:20:25.199 --> 01:20:30.859
we are the seattle sounders fc right and we're

01:20:30.859 --> 01:20:35.140
playing against st louis city sc st louis city

01:20:36.049 --> 01:20:39.029
soccer club or a football club playing against

01:20:39.029 --> 01:20:43.210
a soccer club in major league soccer i mean and

01:20:43.210 --> 01:20:46.210
you know for me football and soccer is interchangeable

01:20:46.210 --> 01:20:48.329
because do you know why it's called soccer in

01:20:48.329 --> 01:20:50.430
the u .s do you know that yes it's because that's

01:20:50.430 --> 01:20:52.550
what it was called in england at the time yes

01:20:52.550 --> 01:20:57.779
exactly because again well so so yeah so Because

01:20:57.779 --> 01:21:01.279
it's a type of football. It's association football.

01:21:01.479 --> 01:21:03.920
That differentiates it from gridiron football.

01:21:04.260 --> 01:21:08.060
And why do you call it a football? Well, because

01:21:08.060 --> 01:21:14.319
at a certain point, most sports were only played

01:21:14.319 --> 01:21:18.310
by rich dudes. Rich college kids. Yeah, it was

01:21:18.310 --> 01:21:20.750
like polo and like, you know, it was like all

01:21:20.750 --> 01:21:24.210
like horse based sports. Right. Because, you

01:21:24.210 --> 01:21:25.810
know, back in the day, I mean, it's still true.

01:21:25.869 --> 01:21:27.970
Like if you own a horse, you're doing pretty

01:21:27.970 --> 01:21:32.210
well. But so to differentiate them, it was like,

01:21:32.289 --> 01:21:34.430
oh, OK, what games are played on foot? That's

01:21:34.430 --> 01:21:36.770
why, like, you know, American football gets some

01:21:36.770 --> 01:21:40.729
stick for, you know, like, oh, you know, you're

01:21:40.729 --> 01:21:43.329
handling it. Yeah, but they're. You're playing

01:21:43.329 --> 01:21:46.289
it on foot, guys. You're playing it on foot,

01:21:46.409 --> 01:21:48.270
right? Nobody's on a horse here. Imagine them

01:21:48.270 --> 01:21:51.590
playing football on a horse. Sam Darnold on a

01:21:51.590 --> 01:21:53.949
horse throwing a 6 -yard dot of JSN on a horse.

01:21:54.729 --> 01:21:59.090
I think I've seen some AI mock -ups of Sam Darnold

01:21:59.090 --> 01:22:11.260
on a horse. In this upcoming... polo ball match,

01:22:11.420 --> 01:22:15.619
are the Sounders going to beat St. Louis? I think

01:22:15.619 --> 01:22:17.699
out of all of the games we've got coming up until

01:22:17.699 --> 01:22:21.659
we return back to Lumen Field, I think this feels

01:22:21.659 --> 01:22:24.939
like it should be the most winnable one. That's

01:22:24.939 --> 01:22:26.960
crazy considering you're playing San Jose, but

01:22:26.960 --> 01:22:28.779
you know what? I agree with you because Timo

01:22:28.779 --> 01:22:30.899
Werner is already having a huge impact in San

01:22:30.899 --> 01:22:33.560
Jose. San Jose's been playing good even before

01:22:33.560 --> 01:22:35.880
Timo. Yeah, and then they added him. I mean,

01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:39.409
I hate, hate, hate Bruce Arena. But you know

01:22:39.409 --> 01:22:44.310
what? There's a reason he's a legend. Yeah, he's

01:22:44.310 --> 01:22:46.789
a good coach. And look, the teams they've played

01:22:46.789 --> 01:22:49.989
so far, I don't have them right here in front

01:22:49.989 --> 01:22:54.850
of me, but it's not like they're beating the

01:22:54.850 --> 01:22:57.350
best teams in the league. And they play Philly

01:22:57.350 --> 01:23:00.090
this weekend, who usually I would say is an interesting

01:23:00.090 --> 01:23:02.750
matchup for them. But Philadelphia looked terrible

01:23:02.750 --> 01:23:06.619
the other day. San Jose. Beat Atlanta 2 -0 and

01:23:06.619 --> 01:23:10.720
beat sporting KC 3 -0. But KC didn't look bad

01:23:10.720 --> 01:23:13.319
in their next game. I think we talked about that

01:23:13.319 --> 01:23:17.020
and how bad they are. But they play San Diego

01:23:17.020 --> 01:23:20.640
next match, so we'll see. But KC ended up their

01:23:20.640 --> 01:23:26.020
second game tying Columbus 3 -2. Columbus is

01:23:26.020 --> 01:23:30.600
just not looking good. At home. I mean, are they

01:23:30.600 --> 01:23:34.869
not good? It's so early. That's the hard part.

01:23:35.109 --> 01:23:38.949
The kick -based assets, no. They lost to Portland

01:23:38.949 --> 01:23:42.789
in the first match. I guess if you lose to Portland,

01:23:42.850 --> 01:23:49.050
we can say you're not good. Yeah, I don't know.

01:23:49.829 --> 01:23:53.250
I don't watch enough of these teams to really

01:23:53.250 --> 01:23:55.760
be, you know. But you know what? I'm going to

01:23:55.760 --> 01:23:58.079
give my opinion anyway. I think – You don't need

01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:00.979
to be informed. We're Americans, damn it. We

01:24:00.979 --> 01:24:03.119
don't need to be informed. We can say what we

01:24:03.119 --> 01:24:10.659
want. Born in the U .S. Yeah. I'm not going to

01:24:10.659 --> 01:24:12.619
budge, right? What's the thing from It's Always

01:24:12.619 --> 01:24:17.420
Sunny? I'm going to stick to – Yeah, wild card.

01:24:17.539 --> 01:24:21.149
You got to stick to your gun. Yeah, I think this

01:24:21.149 --> 01:24:24.470
is probably our easiest chance at three points,

01:24:24.649 --> 01:24:26.689
especially because it's just like game after

01:24:26.689 --> 01:24:29.390
game after game. We play on Saturday, then on

01:24:29.390 --> 01:24:31.989
Thursday, then on Sunday, then on Wednesday.

01:24:31.989 --> 01:24:33.630
I feel like at Vancouver we have to play for

01:24:33.630 --> 01:24:37.449
a tie so that we can win it in Spokane. 100%.

01:24:37.449 --> 01:24:42.470
Spokane is going to be a very green crowd. Sold

01:24:42.470 --> 01:24:47.510
out game. It's going to be wild. They got ECS

01:24:47.510 --> 01:24:50.399
traveling over. So it's going to be rowdy. I

01:24:50.399 --> 01:24:54.520
think the Spokane fans with those Zephyr and

01:24:54.520 --> 01:24:57.960
what's the men's team called? I forget. Velocity?

01:24:58.359 --> 01:25:02.640
Yeah, Velocity. Their fans are going to show

01:25:02.640 --> 01:25:04.119
up, and I think they're going to get into it,

01:25:04.140 --> 01:25:06.420
and they'll be there chanting with ECS. I mean,

01:25:06.439 --> 01:25:09.060
it's a small stadium. It's going to be wild.

01:25:09.220 --> 01:25:12.220
I wish I'd been able to. put together a way to

01:25:12.220 --> 01:25:14.000
go but i did not want to drive back that night

01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:16.020
and i did not want to pay for a hotel room and

01:25:16.020 --> 01:25:18.100
my sister has cats so i can't stay with her because

01:25:18.100 --> 01:25:22.060
i'm allergic so uh it was like no i can't i can't

01:25:22.060 --> 01:25:23.500
make this happen but i think that's going to

01:25:23.500 --> 01:25:26.319
be such a cool experience for sounders fans yeah

01:25:26.319 --> 01:25:29.180
i just hate that it's during the middle of the

01:25:29.180 --> 01:25:32.119
week yeah i mean we're like make it if it's a

01:25:32.119 --> 01:25:34.579
friday it's more doable they'll have weekend

01:25:34.579 --> 01:25:36.359
games there for the rain maybe we got to go over

01:25:36.359 --> 01:25:39.430
for a rain game Maybe. You can come pick me up

01:25:39.430 --> 01:25:41.850
on the way there. Yeah, you're on the way. Although

01:25:41.850 --> 01:25:44.130
I will see you on Sunday. I'll be in your town.

01:25:47.609 --> 01:25:55.390
Fun fact for, I believe this is true, for CONCACAF

01:25:55.390 --> 01:26:00.869
Champions Cup games. If you don't have, I don't

01:26:00.869 --> 01:26:02.890
even know what they're streaming on, but if you

01:26:02.890 --> 01:26:06.739
don't have whatever it is, Fubo or Whichever

01:26:06.739 --> 01:26:10.199
channel is carrying it. If you have a VPN, you

01:26:10.199 --> 01:26:16.359
can set it to England and then watch the live

01:26:16.359 --> 01:26:19.140
stream from CONCACAF's YouTube channel. Oh, that's

01:26:19.140 --> 01:26:24.039
great. Yeah. Especially considering my IPTV just

01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:26.479
got busted, so I no longer have access to watching

01:26:26.479 --> 01:26:29.439
every single... I could watch National League

01:26:29.439 --> 01:26:31.279
games from England, meaning the league that's

01:26:31.279 --> 01:26:37.390
in League 2. Wow. My team, the vegan team, Forest

01:26:37.390 --> 01:26:40.310
Green Rovers, got relegated two seasons in a

01:26:40.310 --> 01:26:41.989
row and fell back down to the National League.

01:26:42.149 --> 01:26:45.770
I've been watching their games there. But it

01:26:45.770 --> 01:26:48.470
just apparently is gone after I just upped it

01:26:48.470 --> 01:26:54.430
for another six months. Did it fold? You know,

01:26:54.510 --> 01:26:57.569
there's questionable legality with online streams

01:26:57.569 --> 01:27:03.649
for IPTV. Oh, sure. But if LeBron does it...

01:27:03.800 --> 01:27:06.380
i mean yeah can't we all do it that's our right

01:27:06.380 --> 01:27:09.119
maybe if i use a vpn and say i'm not in america

01:27:09.119 --> 01:27:13.039
i can get there so we'll see but yeah vpns have

01:27:13.039 --> 01:27:15.180
been a great source of watching matches i uh

01:27:15.180 --> 01:27:18.159
2006 world cup i used it a lot to watch matches

01:27:18.159 --> 01:27:20.319
when i couldn't it was before you could stream

01:27:20.319 --> 01:27:22.720
espn or whatever it was on oh wow i would use

01:27:22.720 --> 01:27:25.180
it to stream european broadcasts because i was

01:27:25.180 --> 01:27:27.760
in uh i was studying for the bar exam so i'd

01:27:27.760 --> 01:27:30.220
be in bar class and then i would pull it up and

01:27:30.220 --> 01:27:34.590
watch games Boy, I didn't even know they had

01:27:34.590 --> 01:27:37.229
VPNs back then. Yeah, usually it would be through

01:27:37.229 --> 01:27:39.250
the browser. It wasn't a separate app. So you

01:27:39.250 --> 01:27:41.829
could tell the people you were in a different

01:27:41.829 --> 01:27:43.630
place. So anything you pulled up in the browser

01:27:43.630 --> 01:27:45.710
would come up differently. Same idea, right?

01:27:45.829 --> 01:27:48.149
It's just you're going through the internet pipeline.

01:27:49.449 --> 01:27:52.550
I had a hardwired VPN for a while because being

01:27:52.550 --> 01:27:54.430
a lawyer, I thought it was an easy way to protect

01:27:54.430 --> 01:27:57.689
my client stuff and prevent hacking. But as the

01:27:57.689 --> 01:28:01.420
internet got faster, the hardware was not. Keeping

01:28:01.420 --> 01:28:03.899
up with my two gigabit internet that I have now.

01:28:07.060 --> 01:28:12.279
It was too powerful. I don't know if you heard,

01:28:12.340 --> 01:28:13.720
Cedar, since we're at the end of the show, maybe

01:28:13.720 --> 01:28:17.619
we'll... We didn't get Alex's prediction real

01:28:17.619 --> 01:28:19.979
quick. Alex, what's the sounder score going to

01:28:19.979 --> 01:28:27.119
be? Shoot. I don't know. I'm peer pressuring

01:28:27.119 --> 01:28:28.979
you into thinking we're going to win. What's

01:28:28.979 --> 01:28:31.029
the score going to be? No, I'm going to be a

01:28:31.029 --> 01:28:35.170
little pessimistic. I think we draw 1 -1. Okay.

01:28:36.090 --> 01:28:41.149
I'm okay with that. I'm going with 2 -0. Just

01:28:41.149 --> 01:28:45.550
because I'm looking at St. Louis' roster, and

01:28:45.550 --> 01:29:03.659
I recognize a few names, but I just don't. That

01:29:03.659 --> 01:29:05.659
was my fault. That was my fault. Every time Cedar

01:29:05.659 --> 01:29:09.819
speaks, I'm just like, it's because I was hitting

01:29:09.819 --> 01:29:13.180
back to try and make, uh, go back to the roster

01:29:13.180 --> 01:29:18.579
for, uh, for St. Louis. And because I, then I,

01:29:18.619 --> 01:29:21.579
Oh, right. Right. And so I went back on this

01:29:21.579 --> 01:29:24.800
screen instead of on my second screen. It went

01:29:24.800 --> 01:29:31.399
back out of here. So, uh, Cedar, you were saying.

01:29:32.159 --> 01:29:34.800
that you look at their roster and you don't see

01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:37.979
anyone that scares you, essentially. Yeah, I

01:29:37.979 --> 01:29:44.399
mean, you know, like, yeah, just really... Negative

01:29:44.399 --> 01:29:47.140
two goal differentials so far, but zero at home.

01:29:47.680 --> 01:29:51.260
Yeah, they've got guys such as Jazeel Orozco,

01:29:51.439 --> 01:29:58.239
Conrad Wallum, Dante Pulvara, Chris Durkin. Simon

01:29:58.239 --> 01:30:00.619
Betcher. I've heard some of these names before.

01:30:01.079 --> 01:30:04.140
I think he's a good player. I know the St. Louis

01:30:04.140 --> 01:30:07.220
people get annoyed by him. I don't like him because

01:30:07.220 --> 01:30:10.239
our former mayor, who was such a jerk, her last

01:30:10.239 --> 01:30:13.659
name was Durkin. Right. And so I get annoyed.

01:30:14.619 --> 01:30:17.119
You know, Marcel Hartel is pretty good. Yeah.

01:30:17.939 --> 01:30:20.199
Roman Berkey. But I would say Roman Berkey is

01:30:20.199 --> 01:30:23.960
the key here. It's like with Roman Berkey, they're

01:30:23.960 --> 01:30:29.119
always going to be in a game. Right. But as we

01:30:29.119 --> 01:30:32.899
saw, as we saw RSL do against us, I mean, both

01:30:32.899 --> 01:30:35.079
those goals were, you know, there wasn't really

01:30:35.079 --> 01:30:37.279
anything Thomas can do. That's what we need to

01:30:37.279 --> 01:30:40.199
do. We need to, we need to take it out of the

01:30:40.199 --> 01:30:42.479
keeper's hands. And muffin top model trying to

01:30:42.479 --> 01:30:44.420
hate on Andrew Thomas as if he could have gotten

01:30:44.420 --> 01:30:48.180
to that ball. Come on now, man. Come on. I will

01:30:48.180 --> 01:30:51.239
not stand for no Thomas Slander. I mean, if he

01:30:51.239 --> 01:30:53.399
deserves it, sure, but no, he did not deserve

01:30:53.399 --> 01:30:54.960
it on those two goals. I mean, come on, especially

01:30:54.960 --> 01:30:57.619
the second goal. Oh, Fry would have saved that.

01:30:57.659 --> 01:30:59.520
No, he wouldn't have because his reflexes are

01:30:59.520 --> 01:31:01.340
even slower than Andrew's. And that's not a hit

01:31:01.340 --> 01:31:04.300
on Fry. That's just reality. Like Fry, that was

01:31:04.300 --> 01:31:06.739
the one knock on him last season was his reflexes

01:31:06.739 --> 01:31:07.960
weren't quite the same as they've been in the

01:31:07.960 --> 01:31:10.359
past, which happens when you get older. That's

01:31:10.359 --> 01:31:13.270
why when I play Fortnite with Alex. He kills

01:31:13.270 --> 01:31:15.930
so many more people than I because his eyes and

01:31:15.930 --> 01:31:18.810
his brain are young and fresh. And I keep accidentally

01:31:18.810 --> 01:31:20.869
hitting back and cutting off the podcast in the

01:31:20.869 --> 01:31:24.229
middle of the podcast. So, you know, hand -eye

01:31:24.229 --> 01:31:26.170
coordination and the way your brain works and

01:31:26.170 --> 01:31:28.270
how fast you can react matters. And the older

01:31:28.270 --> 01:31:31.350
you get, the worse you get at it. I think he's

01:31:31.350 --> 01:31:33.010
just going through a midlife crisis and he's

01:31:33.010 --> 01:31:36.510
trying to cope. Could be. I will say this about

01:31:36.510 --> 01:31:42.239
Andrew Thomas. I am curious to see how... He

01:31:42.239 --> 01:31:46.100
commands his defense over a full season. Week

01:31:46.100 --> 01:31:50.880
in, week out. And not the same players, right?

01:31:50.960 --> 01:31:52.619
Because of injuries and stuff, he's going to

01:31:52.619 --> 01:31:54.680
have to go through different center backs. The

01:31:54.680 --> 01:32:00.640
other area where I see potential weakness is

01:32:00.640 --> 01:32:05.300
sometimes his ball distribution just seems a

01:32:05.300 --> 01:32:10.119
little like... Sometimes he seems a little bit...

01:32:10.239 --> 01:32:12.979
over eager you know sometimes he seems a little

01:32:12.979 --> 01:32:17.479
bit twitchy in terms of what he's you know how

01:32:17.479 --> 01:32:20.340
he's gonna put the ball back into play and i

01:32:20.340 --> 01:32:23.020
just see i don't i don't know maybe i'm just

01:32:23.020 --> 01:32:25.060
misremembering but it feels like there have been

01:32:25.060 --> 01:32:28.840
one or two kind of you know almost near miss

01:32:28.840 --> 01:32:30.979
situations where he's put the ball back into

01:32:30.979 --> 01:32:33.779
play and it's a little like oh like you know

01:32:33.779 --> 01:32:36.600
there's there's uh there's you know an opponent

01:32:37.180 --> 01:32:39.380
an opposing player, like right there could have

01:32:39.380 --> 01:32:41.420
almost like stepped in to get it. You know, like

01:32:41.420 --> 01:32:45.399
I I'm, I'm just early fry times though. He was,

01:32:45.399 --> 01:32:48.239
there was a time where he ran way over to the

01:32:48.239 --> 01:32:50.500
right and was almost to the sideline and then

01:32:50.500 --> 01:32:52.800
kicked it centrally at Vancouver. And then Vancouver

01:32:52.800 --> 01:32:54.319
was just like, thanks open goal and kicked it

01:32:54.319 --> 01:32:57.960
right. Yeah. I think it's something that you

01:32:57.960 --> 01:33:00.770
learn learning curve. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, Sure,

01:33:00.850 --> 01:33:03.949
he's managed defenses. Sure, he – I mean, it's

01:33:03.949 --> 01:33:05.449
the beginning of the season. It's his first time

01:33:05.449 --> 01:33:06.850
starting. There's probably a lot going on in

01:33:06.850 --> 01:33:09.250
his head. I'm confident with Tommy Dutra as the

01:33:09.250 --> 01:33:11.989
coach that our goalies will be successful no

01:33:11.989 --> 01:33:16.109
matter who's back there. Yes. Yes. And I think

01:33:16.109 --> 01:33:19.970
that – Sorry to cut you off, but I think that

01:33:19.970 --> 01:33:21.590
– Yeah, cut each other off. Yeah, scuttlebutt.

01:33:22.750 --> 01:33:29.090
Fuck you, Alex. Catch me on Fortnite. No, I just

01:33:29.090 --> 01:33:32.380
think that – Fry tends to slow down the game.

01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:36.319
And there's moments for that. But sometimes when

01:33:36.319 --> 01:33:40.100
we have a sense of urgency, he still slows down

01:33:40.100 --> 01:33:42.680
the game. And then with Thomas, there's times

01:33:42.680 --> 01:33:44.500
where he needs to slow down the game, but he's

01:33:44.500 --> 01:33:47.979
just playing at a high tempo, fast pace. He's

01:33:47.979 --> 01:33:49.819
just eager to be out there because he's been

01:33:49.819 --> 01:33:52.920
waiting so long to be the starter. And I just

01:33:52.920 --> 01:33:56.460
think over time, he's just going to learn. When's

01:33:56.460 --> 01:33:58.100
the time to play fast? When's the time to slow

01:33:58.100 --> 01:34:01.979
down? pick his passes it's just something that

01:34:01.979 --> 01:34:04.939
like you can only in practice you can do it all

01:34:04.939 --> 01:34:07.300
the time but it's doing it differently in the

01:34:07.300 --> 01:34:14.039
game yeah it's it's it's much different nice

01:34:14.039 --> 01:34:19.939
yeah yeah um i'm happy with that i'll say one

01:34:19.939 --> 01:34:23.840
one final score sounders clearly the better team

01:34:23.840 --> 01:34:28.130
but berkey stops us Don't get that second goal.

01:34:28.270 --> 01:34:29.829
I'd like to come out with three points, but I

01:34:29.829 --> 01:34:32.409
think one is probably realistic. Then I'll be

01:34:32.409 --> 01:34:35.250
happy if we get more than that. Cedar, I don't

01:34:35.250 --> 01:34:39.090
know if we've talked about this on the Ultras

01:34:39.090 --> 01:34:42.689
text feed, text channel. What do you call that?

01:34:42.829 --> 01:34:48.329
A group text. But tomorrow starts the Seattle

01:34:48.329 --> 01:34:50.789
Supertalk season. So if you want to come out

01:34:50.789 --> 01:34:54.510
7 p .m. at Seattle Pacific, that'll be tonight.

01:34:55.310 --> 01:34:57.090
It depends on when you listen to this. I'll probably

01:34:57.090 --> 01:34:58.810
get this up around midnight. So tonight, if you're

01:34:58.810 --> 01:35:00.350
listening to this on the day it came out, the

01:35:00.350 --> 01:35:03.569
A's and Founders are playing St. Louis. First

01:35:03.569 --> 01:35:08.130
game of the new season, new league, USBL, Superhawks,

01:35:08.130 --> 01:35:10.689
and most of the West Coast teams left the TBL

01:35:10.689 --> 01:35:15.590
and now have a new league. And the Superhawks

01:35:15.590 --> 01:35:17.949
have recently signed Jonte Porter from the Toronto

01:35:17.949 --> 01:35:23.109
Raptors as a new player because he's banned for

01:35:23.109 --> 01:35:26.479
life from the NBA for gambling. And so he's going

01:35:26.479 --> 01:35:30.000
to come play for us. And then at the same time,

01:35:30.039 --> 01:35:32.500
Gary Payton's junior college in Oakland had their

01:35:32.500 --> 01:35:34.479
season canceled. So Gary Payton is our new assistant

01:35:34.479 --> 01:35:38.520
coach. No way. Awesome. So Gary, we had all the

01:35:38.520 --> 01:35:41.500
games. And so, you know, we already had some

01:35:41.500 --> 01:35:43.600
exciting players, but you bring in Jonte Porter,

01:35:43.720 --> 01:35:46.020
who of course went to Nathan Hale high school

01:35:46.020 --> 01:35:48.880
in Seattle when, when his dad was going to be

01:35:48.880 --> 01:35:51.460
on the. Basically, he and his brother got recruited

01:35:51.460 --> 01:35:53.739
to Washington, and then Romar got fired, so they

01:35:53.739 --> 01:35:56.140
left and went back home to Missouri. Played at

01:35:56.140 --> 01:35:58.000
Nathan Hale. Brandon Roy should be in the house

01:35:58.000 --> 01:36:01.520
for the game because he was Jaunte's coach. I

01:36:01.520 --> 01:36:02.699
think it's going to be a fun season. There's

01:36:02.699 --> 01:36:05.699
going to be a lot of stuff going on. Fortunately,

01:36:06.060 --> 01:36:08.279
there is no Northern California team. There was

01:36:08.279 --> 01:36:11.220
a San Jose team in the TBL for a while, but I

01:36:11.220 --> 01:36:14.500
think the closest is probably LA for you, sadly.

01:36:14.779 --> 01:36:17.399
I was hoping we'd get a game where I'd come down

01:36:17.399 --> 01:36:20.380
to the Bay Area. and with the super Hawks, but

01:36:20.380 --> 01:36:23.439
yeah, check out Seattle super Hawks .com as our

01:36:23.439 --> 01:36:25.140
basketball season starts. It's going to be super

01:36:25.140 --> 01:36:29.420
fun season. It's all games available for free.

01:36:29.560 --> 01:36:32.199
I believe right now, I know for sure that if

01:36:32.199 --> 01:36:35.300
you go to the Hulu channel and search USB L go

01:36:35.300 --> 01:36:38.239
to Hulu, like the app or on your Hulu device

01:36:38.239 --> 01:36:40.119
and search USB L you can pull up the games and

01:36:40.119 --> 01:36:43.130
watch them live. Nice. I believe it's going to

01:36:43.130 --> 01:36:45.390
be on Amazon Firestick and the other stuff as

01:36:45.390 --> 01:36:47.010
well. I don't know if it's there yet. I'm just

01:36:47.010 --> 01:36:48.970
in charge of creating the broadcast, not where

01:36:48.970 --> 01:36:55.130
it goes. So are you calling games? No, no, no,

01:36:55.189 --> 01:36:59.329
no. I could, in theory, do color commentary,

01:36:59.430 --> 01:37:01.850
but for longtime listeners of the show know that

01:37:01.850 --> 01:37:05.229
my very first collaboration with Aaron back in

01:37:05.229 --> 01:37:09.239
the day was during COVID. when Jackson Feltz

01:37:09.239 --> 01:37:12.079
and I called all time Supersonics versus all

01:37:12.079 --> 01:37:17.260
time Oklahoma City Thunder players and Supersonics

01:37:17.260 --> 01:37:20.340
won the series. And it was tough. It didn't it

01:37:20.340 --> 01:37:22.720
didn't help that that, you know, Jackson and

01:37:22.720 --> 01:37:24.920
I are friends and know each other, but we'd never

01:37:24.920 --> 01:37:28.439
called a game before. So and not being next to

01:37:28.439 --> 01:37:30.159
each other, being across the screen from each

01:37:30.159 --> 01:37:33.199
other is hard. There's a lot of me telling random

01:37:33.199 --> 01:37:39.239
stories and then being like, yes. But yeah, I

01:37:39.239 --> 01:37:41.640
mean, it was, um, that was the first thing I

01:37:41.640 --> 01:37:43.619
ever did with Aaron before the podcast even existed.

01:37:43.739 --> 01:37:45.859
Cause he did the same thing with Jackson and

01:37:45.859 --> 01:37:48.260
was a Ryan Harvey, someone, someone, they did

01:37:48.260 --> 01:37:51.899
it with, uh, they, when the 2020 season was put

01:37:51.899 --> 01:37:54.520
on hold and canceled, but then changed, he was

01:37:54.520 --> 01:37:56.659
going through all of the Sounders games through

01:37:56.659 --> 01:38:00.479
FIFA and making them, uh, simulated and then

01:38:00.479 --> 01:38:02.819
having Jackson and the other guy call the game.

01:38:03.279 --> 01:38:06.050
So, Oh, nice. Kind of funny that then Jackson

01:38:06.050 --> 01:38:08.029
ended up being one of the actual broadcasters

01:38:08.029 --> 01:38:09.829
of the Sounders later. I mean, yeah, Sounders

01:38:09.829 --> 01:38:11.710
later. And then we did that Sonics thing. So

01:38:11.710 --> 01:38:14.350
I'm not calling it. We've got Nick Beckman who

01:38:14.350 --> 01:38:18.890
calls Seattle U's games. He calls all of, I believe

01:38:18.890 --> 01:38:22.850
he's on the announcing and not on the PA, but

01:38:22.850 --> 01:38:25.430
he could be doing both for Metro League and for

01:38:25.430 --> 01:38:29.270
the state basketball championships. So he calls

01:38:29.270 --> 01:38:31.869
the games. Should be super fun. We lost Cedar.

01:38:32.909 --> 01:38:37.649
I think he did it too. Yeah. Yeah. Hi, Cedar.

01:38:38.310 --> 01:38:53.010
Hey. I'm going to stop. Let's say goodbye. I

01:38:53.010 --> 01:38:54.109
think that's a good point. We've been talking

01:38:54.109 --> 01:38:57.850
for a while. Technical difficulties. I got to

01:38:57.850 --> 01:38:59.829
edit this and I got to convince Alex to play

01:38:59.829 --> 01:39:02.569
some Fortnite. Hey, what are you doing here,

01:39:02.630 --> 01:39:05.479
Alex? Isn't this date night? Oh, that's what

01:39:05.479 --> 01:39:07.439
I'm trying to figure out right now. I might just

01:39:07.439 --> 01:39:11.920
go over. No, today was my dad's birthday. We

01:39:11.920 --> 01:39:14.220
had to take him out to eat. Oh, what'd you guys

01:39:14.220 --> 01:39:18.140
do for dad? I took him out to Olive Garden. He

01:39:18.140 --> 01:39:21.840
enjoys the fish over there. Do they do all -you

01:39:21.840 --> 01:39:23.819
-can -eat fish, or is that only the pasta side

01:39:23.819 --> 01:39:26.279
of it? That's only the pasta side. Hopefully

01:39:26.279 --> 01:39:27.600
you got all -you -can -eat breadsticks, though.

01:39:28.800 --> 01:39:33.700
No, you don't. I eat the breadsticks. Perfect.

01:39:33.700 --> 01:39:35.479
Sounds like a good deal. You know what they say,

01:39:35.579 --> 01:39:37.260
when you're at Olive Garden, you're eating fresh

01:39:37.260 --> 01:39:39.340
Italian food, just like they make in Italy all

01:39:39.340 --> 01:39:44.319
the time. I did see a pretty... That's true.

01:39:44.399 --> 01:39:47.180
I saw a funny interview between, I think it was

01:39:47.180 --> 01:39:50.960
Timothy Weah, and it wasn't Pulisic, it was another

01:39:50.960 --> 01:39:52.739
player that's also playing in Italy, where they

01:39:52.739 --> 01:39:55.119
were like, the food in America is so much better.

01:39:55.640 --> 01:39:58.119
They're like, they said, look, no, Italian food

01:39:58.119 --> 01:40:00.779
is great. The thing is, there's zero variety.

01:40:01.390 --> 01:40:03.590
So if you go to the Italian restaurant next door

01:40:03.590 --> 01:40:05.350
or the one down the block or the one in another

01:40:05.350 --> 01:40:07.829
city, the same dish will taste the same at every

01:40:07.829 --> 01:40:11.270
single place. Versus in America, you go to one

01:40:11.270 --> 01:40:13.350
burger spot, another burger spot, another burger

01:40:13.350 --> 01:40:15.170
spot. Every one of those burgers is going to

01:40:15.170 --> 01:40:17.310
be different. And then you have so many other

01:40:17.310 --> 01:40:19.470
options besides just burgers, whereas there you

01:40:19.470 --> 01:40:23.869
just have good Italian options. Oh, no, go ahead.

01:40:24.489 --> 01:40:27.569
I was just going to say, yes, true, but also

01:40:27.569 --> 01:40:31.380
so many restaurants now. uh just get their food

01:40:31.380 --> 01:40:34.739
from cisco i mean i think i read or heard something

01:40:34.739 --> 01:40:38.279
like cisco has never had more business like post

01:40:38.279 --> 01:40:40.220
-pandemic i didn't even know he was still rapping

01:40:40.220 --> 01:40:46.979
hey what's funny is that my buddy jesus um one

01:40:46.979 --> 01:40:49.239
that i mentioned earlier he worked for cisco

01:40:49.239 --> 01:40:53.039
really yeah well they're they're moving stuff

01:40:53.039 --> 01:40:56.380
they're uh they're uh They're supplying the food

01:40:56.380 --> 01:41:00.619
for a lot of businesses. You guys see the video

01:41:00.619 --> 01:41:04.859
of the McDonald's CEO eating the Big Arch burger?

01:41:05.199 --> 01:41:07.619
Oh, I saw it popped up, but I didn't realize

01:41:07.619 --> 01:41:09.159
what... Because Burger King was talking about

01:41:09.159 --> 01:41:10.720
it. Did he hate it? Is that why it was such a

01:41:10.720 --> 01:41:12.520
big deal? No, he just took like a little nibble

01:41:12.520 --> 01:41:15.460
and he was saying, mmm, such a big bite. And

01:41:15.460 --> 01:41:17.300
he shows his bite and it's just like that much.

01:41:17.600 --> 01:41:20.380
So then Burger King comes in and the CEO eats

01:41:20.380 --> 01:41:23.539
the whole burger. And then Wendy's decided to

01:41:23.539 --> 01:41:26.619
jump in too. Yeah, Wendy's knows what's up. And

01:41:26.619 --> 01:41:28.500
then my buddy was like, oh, we just need Arby's

01:41:28.500 --> 01:41:33.060
to come and say, we have the meat. I did see

01:41:33.060 --> 01:41:36.140
a pretty funny video. I think I sent it to you,

01:41:36.180 --> 01:41:41.899
Alex, of a guy who was unhappy with his Burger

01:41:41.899 --> 01:41:45.340
King order. So he made a diss track saying McDonald's

01:41:45.340 --> 01:41:48.420
is better to a Tupac song. So it was pretty good.

01:41:48.939 --> 01:41:53.930
Yeah. It's pretty fun stuff. So, yeah, let's

01:41:53.930 --> 01:41:56.090
get out of here. We've had technical difficulties

01:41:56.090 --> 01:41:58.489
galore, and yet I think everything worked out.

01:41:58.529 --> 01:42:01.449
We'll find out. But in a show that usually has

01:42:01.449 --> 01:42:05.750
two takes before and after the ad, we're now

01:42:05.750 --> 01:42:12.250
at five takes. We're just giving you more. You're

01:42:12.250 --> 01:42:14.130
getting your money's worth. Our host decided

01:42:14.130 --> 01:42:15.930
to hit the back button a couple times. Nope,

01:42:15.949 --> 01:42:21.680
nope. Don't pull on me. You can catch us. I'm

01:42:21.680 --> 01:42:24.579
sure there'll be a new episode with Nick and

01:42:24.579 --> 01:42:27.760
Aaron coming up soon. But in the meantime, you

01:42:27.760 --> 01:42:31.739
can catch me and Alex and Cedar on the discord,

01:42:31.800 --> 01:42:34.600
come and join it. It's super fun. Sounder scuttlebutt.

01:42:34.600 --> 01:42:37.539
We'll be there talking during the games, talking

01:42:37.539 --> 01:42:39.899
between games. There's also talk about everything

01:42:39.899 --> 01:42:41.680
else. We talk about other Seattle sports teams,

01:42:41.800 --> 01:42:44.460
other sports teams in general, just, you know,

01:42:44.460 --> 01:42:48.430
it's, it's a pretty interesting place. Just be

01:42:48.430 --> 01:42:51.789
really careful to not talk about the origins

01:42:51.789 --> 01:42:55.189
of French language because some people sometimes

01:42:55.189 --> 01:43:00.470
go off. Yeah. Let's keep it nice and respectful

01:43:00.470 --> 01:43:10.170
in the chat. Well, I will say, you studied the

01:43:10.170 --> 01:43:12.609
French language. I have a degree in French. Right,

01:43:12.609 --> 01:43:16.899
Cameron? Well, there you go. I'm going to defer

01:43:16.899 --> 01:43:20.079
to you if I have any disputes or any questions

01:43:20.079 --> 01:43:25.920
about that. Croissant. But I'm excited, guys.

01:43:25.979 --> 01:43:28.119
There we go. Get ready. Alex, we need you to

01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:30.039
put like a Sounders flag behind you or something

01:43:30.039 --> 01:43:33.359
some way so that when you're, I mean, when people,

01:43:33.420 --> 01:43:35.159
when we pivot the video, we're going to have

01:43:35.159 --> 01:43:37.560
a beautiful background behind Cedar with cars

01:43:37.560 --> 01:43:40.079
going by and we get to see the streets of San

01:43:40.079 --> 01:43:44.569
Francisco in their green. And behind me I've

01:43:44.569 --> 01:43:47.130
got Jason Wilson and an Xbox fridge and Baby

01:43:47.130 --> 01:43:53.729
Yoda and a slurpy Funko and the character who

01:43:53.729 --> 01:43:55.949
dresses up as Santa Claus from Silent Night,

01:43:56.010 --> 01:43:58.189
Deadly Night. And is that Detective Pikachu?

01:43:58.409 --> 01:43:59.909
I don't know. There's a bunch of – and a guitar

01:43:59.909 --> 01:44:02.090
and a bass guitar. All those are just keyboard.

01:44:02.270 --> 01:44:05.590
Yeah, keyboard. That's an organ. That is a –

01:44:05.590 --> 01:44:13.760
We're starting a band, guys. Yeah. cousin's old

01:44:13.760 --> 01:44:18.460
boss who got it from uh the keyboardist in minus

01:44:18.460 --> 01:44:23.500
the bear uh and it originally was an organ that

01:44:23.500 --> 01:44:27.600
belonged to uh the animals like house of the

01:44:27.600 --> 01:44:30.939
rising sun oh wow so uh somehow has found its

01:44:30.939 --> 01:44:33.340
way to me uh and i played it in bands for a little

01:44:33.340 --> 01:44:37.659
while now it sits behind me like that no what

01:44:37.659 --> 01:44:39.779
i what i'd have behind me is the world cup trophy

01:44:40.279 --> 01:44:42.979
Yeah. Oh, your birthday. You got to wait till

01:44:42.979 --> 01:44:47.020
your birthday to get that, right? Shit. It'll

01:44:47.020 --> 01:44:48.460
be a while. I think by the time we're on video,

01:44:48.560 --> 01:44:50.819
we'll be past that. We might be in video in a

01:44:50.819 --> 01:44:53.960
couple weeks, yo. We keep losing episodes. We

01:44:53.960 --> 01:44:56.220
are jumping ship, Squadcast. We are jumping ship.

01:44:56.539 --> 01:45:00.939
Yeah, we alluded to it earlier. We lost two and

01:45:00.939 --> 01:45:04.859
a half episodes to Squadcast not properly uploading.

01:45:05.619 --> 01:45:08.100
We did kind of figure out how to get two of those

01:45:08.100 --> 01:45:11.970
episodes back, but... uh not a fun time so we

01:45:11.970 --> 01:45:14.430
had so many brilliant takes that you unfortunately

01:45:14.430 --> 01:45:17.630
missed as an audience and um you'll just have

01:45:17.630 --> 01:45:19.350
to imagine how great they are if you want to

01:45:19.350 --> 01:45:22.029
know more about it go to the go to the uh you

01:45:22.029 --> 01:45:23.710
know discord join us in there we say cool stuff

01:45:23.710 --> 01:45:26.670
there go to the patreon we'll drop the episodes

01:45:26.670 --> 01:45:28.850
there i mean i've done that in the past i think

01:45:28.850 --> 01:45:30.829
didn't i drop an entire episode there without

01:45:30.829 --> 01:45:33.649
nick's voice because we lost his track so it's

01:45:33.649 --> 01:45:37.439
just no nick and it's just me Well, it's just

01:45:37.439 --> 01:45:39.180
like the episode you guys just did where he was

01:45:39.180 --> 01:45:44.239
at work. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, but he was on screen

01:45:44.239 --> 01:45:47.460
for us that entire time, but only popped in for

01:45:47.460 --> 01:45:52.399
a few seconds. To clarify one or two things.

01:45:52.859 --> 01:45:55.659
Yeah. So he was not popping in and out. That

01:45:55.659 --> 01:45:57.260
would have been a problem for Squadcast, apparently.

01:45:57.579 --> 01:46:01.739
So we'll see if this episode survives. Fingers

01:46:01.739 --> 01:46:04.039
crossed. Shout out to all our listeners. What

01:46:04.039 --> 01:46:08.550
was that, Alex? I hope so. Shout out to our listeners.

01:46:08.649 --> 01:46:11.789
Shout out to the friends and family. And most

01:46:11.789 --> 01:46:14.630
importantly, shout out to Alyssa Liu. She's from

01:46:14.630 --> 01:46:25.569
the Bay. She's from the Bay. You can follow the

01:46:25.569 --> 01:46:31.010
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01:46:31.369 --> 01:46:34.090
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01:46:34.090 --> 01:46:37.109
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01:46:41.310 --> 01:46:44.050
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01:47:04.909 --> 01:47:09.050
who's the best MLS team of all time? The Seattle

01:47:09.050 --> 01:47:11.050
Sounders are both unequivocally and incredibly

01:47:11.050 --> 01:47:13.329
the best MLS team of all time.