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

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can't say it's cheating. Hello and welcome to

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another episode of Sound or Scuttlebutt. I'm

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your host Cameron Collins and I am here today

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with the one and only Alex Diaz, the Ultra, who

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decided that he likes Georgie Menungu enough

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to come talk about him. Hey, how's it going?

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Hey, we'll get to Georgie Menungu, but it's been

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a... Been an interesting day all around in sports.

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A lot of Sounders news, a lot of non -Sounders

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news. Mariners kicking off tonight. Kicking off.

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I meant the season kicks off. They don't kick.

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They're throwing. They're pitching. They're pitching

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off. They had David Segui bring out the first

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ball to pitch. who of course is a former Mariner

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and his dad Diego threw out the first pitch.

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So that was pretty cool ever first pitch ever

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for the Mariners. Yeah. So good, good sports

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day. We'll get into all of that with some scuttlebutt,

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but why don't we off the bat here talk about

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where they can find you on the internet. I know

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the answer, but we'll do it at the end. We'll

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do it right now too. Yeah, they can find me on

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the Discord. And then they can also find me on

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Instagram at AlexDS509. Got to represent the

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dry side. That's right. And of course, you can

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get me at LegalMindedPunk on all social medias

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that I haven't been banned from. I am back on

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Instagram now since the last episode. I don't

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think you heard this, Alex, but I was unable

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to send messages on Instagram because I made

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a joke. Using a line from the Chappelle show.

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That's where they say cocaine is a hell of a

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drug. And. They decided I was trying to sell

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cocaine. Apparently. And prevented me from sending

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messages for three days. I was shadow banned.

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Whatever. So they think that by shadow banning

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you for three days. Is going to stop you from.

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Hypothetically selling cocaine. Apparently. Cocaine

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isn't my thing. Today I'm going to. rather than

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opening a drink i'm gonna make a drink right

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here live as i pull out my tiki glass open my

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diet ginger beer gosling brand which is the only

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official uh ginger beer for um when you want

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to make a dark and stormy then We get the Gosling

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Dark Rum. We can go a little bit stronger than

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that. Yeah, you got to make it nice and strong.

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This is the start of a new season. That's right.

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And then, of course, I've really gotten into

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rum lately. And then grab this. Lime juice. Mix

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it in. And boom, little tiki cocktail. You got

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to give it a nice little stir. I know, I know.

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Just use the edge of your glasses. As I spill

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it all over me. That's tasty. One through ten,

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what do you rate it? You know, since I was doing

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it kind of willy -nilly like that, I give it

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about a seven. It is a good drink, though. I

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think it needs a little more lime. And I also

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need to look at, oh, 30 days. So, yeah, the lime

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juice is still good. I'm going to add a little

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more shaken up lime. I don't think I got enough

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of the pulpiness of the lime in it. I've had

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a little more free time at night because my friend

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that I usually talk to at night has been going

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to bed earlier. And so I've been watching videos

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on rum and good ones and bad ones and cocktails

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and stuff like that and trying to become a rum

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connoisseur, which I think is something that

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happens when you hit your 40s, middle age. You

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start picking up weird. hobbies. I mean, you

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might have to start making some videos like Muffin

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Top Model. Was he making videos about beer? Tequila.

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Oh, that's right. Tequila Tim. I think that's

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what he's under. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That lime did

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it. My new TV glasses, too. Yeah. I do enjoy

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a nice Coke and rum. Cuba Libre. Oh, I didn't

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know Bill Mazeroski died. Former Mariner manager.

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They're doing the people who died. Jesus Montero,

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former Mariner who once threw a... Wow, Jervis

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Medina died too. I totally forgot. Mike Campbell,

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I did remember that. A lot of Mariners died.

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One time he was getting heckled from the crowd,

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and Jesus Montero threw an ice cream cone into

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the crowd at a fan when he was sent back down

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to the minor leagues. Yeah. It's been a while

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since we've done Scuttlebutt Death. So we're

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just jam -packing all the ones that we missed

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all in one episode. Yeah, that's very true. You

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know, we did get a question that came in from

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the listeners. Shout out to Yaya who asked me

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about tea. I think she knows that I'm into tea,

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drinking tea. There used to be a tea shop on

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Capitol Hill called Remedy Teas where they had

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150 teas on the menu and I had every single one

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plus a bunch that weren't on the menu. So I think

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in my 30s that... I'm into rum now. In my 30s,

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I was into tea. It's just getting stronger as

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you get older. You know what's good? It's tea

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-infused alcohol. That might be the next step.

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It's Arnold Palmer. I mean actually taking tea

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leaves and putting it inside vodka and leaving

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it for a month. Stuff like that. It'd be good.

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Maybe. Yeah. Oh, you have Legos. I was like,

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what are your big hobbies that you've gotten

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into in your quarter life crisis? Yeah, I got

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back into Legos. And I started getting back into

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Pokemon. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so I had an old 3DS

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that I had when I was a kid. And I recently modded

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it. Nice. So I have all the Nintendo games down,

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I think, to Super Nintendo, Virtual Boy, 3DS

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games, DS games. I can put YouTube on it. That's

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cool. No more YouTube app on the Nintendo DS.

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And Hulu, of course, is gone altogether now,

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I think. But no more Hulu either. Not Nintendo

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DS, sorry. Nintendo Switch. I think I bricked

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my DS. It decided to update and then it wasn't

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connected to the internet and it just sat there.

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So I turned it off and now it won't do anything.

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So we'll see. We'll see. I got to figure out

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what to do. Not that I played it very much, but

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I do have some cartridges still. Let's talk about

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sports though. Big sports day. Of course, Mariners

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opening day. Baseball started yesterday, but

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today is like the real opening day, more than

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one game. You had European playoffs for World

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Cup. You had March Madness. You had an upset

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and an almost upset. But you were at work, so

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you didn't get to enjoy it much, did you? No,

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I just got to. See the scorelines at the end

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of the day. Yeah, I will say I watched the Ireland

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match, and it was very frustrating as an Irish

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-American to lose like that, to be the better

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team the entire game, to be up 2 -0, blow that

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lead, and then be ahead in penalties and blow

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it there too. So no World Cup for Ireland. The

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magic couldn't happen again after beating Portugal

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and then... beating Hungary with a last -second

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goal to send them through to the playoffs. Super

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sad. Ireland has not been in since 1994, and

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I think the last time they were close was when

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Thierry Henry had the handball before he scored

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a goal, and they didn't call it, and France went

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instead of Ireland. So pretty frustrating as

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an Ireland fan, but still an incredible team

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to watch. Turkey beat Romania 1 -0, and so they

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will play Kosovo, who beat Slovakia 4 -3. Italy

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beat Northern Ireland 2 -0. Let's see, I can

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just go through the rest of the scores. Denmark

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beat North Macedonia 4 -0. We did see a 13 minutes

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from... Mr. Mussofsky. A little cameo. Yeah,

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but that's good. I was just looking up his North

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Macedonia jerseys, or Macedonia, as Wayne Gretzky

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called them. North Macedonia. On DHGate. I might

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just throw down the $23 it takes to get a Danny

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Mussofsky North Macedonia jersey. Yeah, I think

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there's a good chance he could sign that one

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because he's going to. catches on. That's why

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I got to start bringing my Cameroon Nuhu jersey.

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If people don't know, there is no better named

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country in the world than Cameroon, which is

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why I've been a fan of them since I was a little

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kid. I wonder why. I wonder what the correlation

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is. I don't know. Poland came back to beat Albania

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2 -1, Sweden beat Ukraine 3 -1, and Wales fell

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in penalties to Bosnia and Herzegovina. And 1

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-1 was the tie at that point. So those were some

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big matches going on. In the first World Cup

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qualification inter -confederation match, Bolivia

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beat Suriname 2 -1, which is kind of a bummer,

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you know, especially since Suriname was up. They

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scored in the 48th minute, and then they gave

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up a goal in the 72nd and a penalty in the 79th.

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So there was a moment there where it looked like

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maybe Suriname could could go through the 123rd

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ranked team in FIFA playing against Bolivia,

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the 76th ranked team in FIFA, and they were up

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1 -0. So a little bit of a bummer. Bolivia had

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been pretty poor lately, having lost three of

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their previous four matches and tying the one

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that they didn't lose. So it was looking good

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for Suriname, but they could not pull it out,

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sadly. I don't know. That just would have been

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fun, right? To have a team that's chance. It's

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just like Bolivia is not one of those great South

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American teams. No, they've had some runs. It's

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just when they play at home with that elevation.

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If we complain about playing in Utah, imagine

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playing in Bolivia up in the mountains where

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they play. No kidding. It's a whole different

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animal. One other friendly to talk about today.

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France beat Brazil 2 -1. Two goals for France.

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They were up 2 -0. Mbappe scored for them. And

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the red card went to... I feel like I saw it

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live. Upamecano. I can never say his name. You'd

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think I would since I speak French. Interesting

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match there. You know, I think two teams that

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put their – some of their players out there who

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were trying to make that final roster. And you

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saw Bremer get some minutes. He plays for Juventus.

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He had the goal out of center back for Brazil.

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But great game from Casemiro, Cunha, and Vinicius.

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So Vinny Jr. Did Rafinha get some minutes? Oh,

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no, he's hurt. Oh, no, he's back. He's back.

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He's back. He did. He was hurt. He got a 5 .8

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rating in 46 minutes. Hopefully he's not out

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for too long because we need him in the Champions

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League. Well, they clearly brought him back because

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he got minutes. So I think he just isn't match

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fit for the full. the full thing so or maybe

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he's just not gonna play a whole lot because

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it's interesting where like if you look at brazil

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they have all these attacking players but but

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what like where they're lacking is honestly maybe

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center back that yeah or defense defense mainly

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they don't have the defense that they used to

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they used to be so fantastic at defense or like

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a holding midfielder yeah because customaries

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Casemiro's good, but he's just up there in age.

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He's like the Brazil version of Tim Rehm. Yeah.

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And they're playing him next to Andre Santos,

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who is more of a center mid, not a center defensive

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mid. And 21 -year -old plays for Chelsea, and

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that's where Chelsea's really been struggling

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lately is in that transition from midfield to

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defense, unable to stop teams from just exploiting

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them. And so he actually had a great game, well,

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passing -wise, 90 % passing, won 60 % of his

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duels. But it's a pretty good game. But, yeah,

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they just don't have – even their center backs,

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you know, Leo Pereira's 30, Santos is 32, Wesley

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is young, he's 22, and then Bremer, 29, but he's

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playing well. Oh, they didn't take Marquinhos?

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Or is he hurt? I think he's a lock on the roster.

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Yeah, but they took a lot of locks. That's true.

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Vinny's a lock. Rafinha's a lock. Casemiro's

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a lock. Ederson's a lock. Maybe he is hurt. Or

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has he played in any of the latest PSG games?

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That's true. Indrik didn't get any minutes. He's

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there. Ryan. So they had some good attackers.

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And then defender -wise, Danilo. Kaiki. I had

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another one. Ibanez. And then I was happy to

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see Jal Pedro get some minutes. Didn't play that

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great, but I don't know. He's just a fun player

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to watch with Chelsea. What's the full? Is it

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Igor Jesus? Did he play? No, he's Igor Tiago.

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Igor Jesus did not get called up, but Igor Tiago

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did. Okay, no, I'm thinking of the wrong Igor.

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Yeah, there's two. Igor Jesus is the one that's

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at, what, Nottingham? I think so. He's the one

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from Botafogo. Yeah, he is. But Thiago got called

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up from Brentford. He's been tearing it up. He

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did get in in the 71st minute. So didn't play

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a lot, but I don't know if you saw that video

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of when they announced that he made it and how

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nuts his mom went. It was just really cool to

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see. Yeah. Once you get called up, I feel like

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it's a special thing to get called up that way.

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Especially your first call up. Yeah, totally.

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But to go back on the Ireland game, were they

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wearing green? No, they had white kits. They

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had white. Because they had to wear the light

00:17:59.089 --> 00:18:01.369
kits, even though they do have a lighter green,

00:18:01.450 --> 00:18:04.049
because Chechia was home and they were wearing

00:18:04.049 --> 00:18:07.890
red. Oh, okay. I thought they were wearing green

00:18:07.890 --> 00:18:11.230
and they blew a lead like how, you know, Sounders

00:18:11.230 --> 00:18:13.730
typically do when they're the better team. No.

00:18:14.950 --> 00:18:20.589
No, but still. Rough one for that one. Yeah,

00:18:20.670 --> 00:18:23.609
I mean, good sports day. March Madness is going

00:18:23.609 --> 00:18:25.349
on. I think that's something we should talk about

00:18:25.349 --> 00:18:28.349
before we get into more Sounders talk and the

00:18:28.349 --> 00:18:31.690
big news of the day about Georgie Manungu. But

00:18:31.690 --> 00:18:37.950
we're both in a bracket. And you are at 99 .5

00:18:37.950 --> 00:18:42.130
% right. You are demolishing everybody. I'm tearing

00:18:42.130 --> 00:18:45.009
it up. And I kid you not, I have not watched

00:18:45.009 --> 00:18:47.589
a single game of college basketball at all this

00:18:47.589 --> 00:18:51.829
year. I'm just going based off, you know, like,

00:18:51.970 --> 00:18:55.009
oh, what's the higher seed? Oh, you know what?

00:18:55.049 --> 00:18:57.490
Maybe I'll pick you. You know, I did take some

00:18:57.490 --> 00:19:03.430
upsets. Yeah. But. I'm like, I haven't even watched

00:19:03.430 --> 00:19:04.789
the game of Marsh Madness. I haven't had the

00:19:04.789 --> 00:19:07.230
time, really. I watched the Santa Clara game,

00:19:07.349 --> 00:19:09.710
and once they lost, you know, that's my alma

00:19:09.710 --> 00:19:15.670
mater, I was pretty much done. I haven't been

00:19:15.670 --> 00:19:18.769
watching anything since then. You're also doing

00:19:18.769 --> 00:19:20.690
pretty well in Fantasy League. You got second

00:19:20.690 --> 00:19:24.069
this week, but you are first overall in the kick

00:19:24.069 --> 00:19:27.569
base with 8 ,000 points ahead of Dan the Bastard

00:19:27.569 --> 00:19:31.950
with 7 ,700. How are you killing it so well in

00:19:31.950 --> 00:19:36.769
that, too? I just, I mean, I look at, you know,

00:19:36.789 --> 00:19:41.809
who's playing Orlando? Who's playing SKC? And,

00:19:41.869 --> 00:19:45.710
like, who's playing, like, Montreal? Or who's

00:19:45.710 --> 00:19:48.630
playing on the East, basically? You know what's

00:19:48.630 --> 00:19:50.690
interesting is I'm looking at the match day wins.

00:19:52.710 --> 00:19:54.809
Most people who have wins only have one, except

00:19:54.809 --> 00:19:57.210
for Dan, who has three. And yet you're still

00:19:57.210 --> 00:20:00.190
leading him. So he's been... He's been the high

00:20:00.190 --> 00:20:03.589
in three of five weeks, and you're still up 300

00:20:03.589 --> 00:20:07.930
points on him. I think it's because of the rotation

00:20:07.930 --> 00:20:13.170
of Champions League. And what killed me this

00:20:13.170 --> 00:20:17.769
week is I had Surge in my lineup before this

00:20:17.769 --> 00:20:20.150
last week. I subbed him out because I thought

00:20:20.150 --> 00:20:22.890
they were going to rest him, and then he goes

00:20:22.890 --> 00:20:27.730
off to have a hat trick. And he was my captain

00:20:27.730 --> 00:20:30.289
too, so all his points would have doubled. And

00:20:30.289 --> 00:20:33.670
I subbed them out, so I cost myself like 600

00:20:33.670 --> 00:20:40.230
points. Yeah. Yeah. That's too bad. I got screwed

00:20:40.230 --> 00:20:43.049
by the rotation too, just because I forgot. And

00:20:43.049 --> 00:20:46.170
then, yeah. Berhalter gave me like 8 points.

00:20:46.829 --> 00:20:52.109
Yeah. Me too. I think Moeller gave me like negative

00:20:52.109 --> 00:20:56.619
12. Just gotta... Keep up on who's playing. You're

00:20:56.619 --> 00:21:03.240
good at that. I try my best, but let's take a

00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:05.700
break. Oh, real quick, I do want to mention,

00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:06.900
if you're listening to this and you want to check

00:21:06.900 --> 00:21:10.220
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00:21:13.579 --> 00:21:17.819
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00:21:17.819 --> 00:21:21.059
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00:21:21.059 --> 00:21:28.019
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00:21:28.019 --> 00:21:29.480
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00:24:16.539 --> 00:24:18.960
as Logan Gilbert is taking the mound for the

00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:21.500
first pitch, second straight opening day start.

00:24:21.619 --> 00:24:26.319
Go Mariners. Let's talk about the matches that

00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:31.700
moved. Yeah. The most recent one being the RSO

00:24:31.700 --> 00:24:36.079
game. Yeah. Well, they officially moved to today.

00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.920
I think we knew that they were happening, but...

00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:43.839
RSL got moved to... Do you have the dates in

00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:46.039
front of you by chance? I don't think I do. Okay,

00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:49.160
I just pulled it up. So RSL was scheduled for

00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:53.180
April 12th, got rescheduled to September 23rd,

00:24:53.180 --> 00:24:57.680
and then the game against SKC, September 9th,

00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:02.660
got rescheduled to October 1st. Beautiful. That's

00:25:02.660 --> 00:25:04.779
a late season. Well, I guess this season goes

00:25:04.779 --> 00:25:09.650
much further, but... Yeah. Got to get those rescheduled

00:25:09.650 --> 00:25:13.329
matches in because, of course, we advanced in

00:25:13.329 --> 00:25:18.049
Champions League coming out of Spokane, Washington

00:25:18.049 --> 00:25:22.549
in a match that was huge, right? Did we do a

00:25:22.549 --> 00:25:24.349
show? I don't think we did a show before that,

00:25:24.410 --> 00:25:27.309
right? We didn't do one after? You and I? No,

00:25:27.430 --> 00:25:31.990
not the Ultras. Yeah. Maybe a main show. But,

00:25:32.069 --> 00:25:34.430
you know, shout out to the dry side. They showed

00:25:34.430 --> 00:25:39.099
out. Yeah. Are they sold out? You know, the small,

00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:41.940
I mean, it's not small. It's kind of like Starfire

00:25:41.940 --> 00:25:45.000
in capacity. Yeah, a little bigger, but same

00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:47.000
atmosphere where you're like on the field. I

00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:51.319
love that. There's not much better than, you

00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:54.680
know, a match at Starfire that is completely

00:25:54.680 --> 00:26:00.839
packed and rocking. Yeah. And I mean, the turf,

00:26:01.079 --> 00:26:03.619
you know, the field wasn't, you know, the greatest.

00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:07.559
The camera angle reminded me like I was playing

00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:13.359
FIFA. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't the same. A little

00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:17.380
bit lower, and I don't know. You could tell.

00:26:17.680 --> 00:26:20.579
They actually said the turf was nice afterwards,

00:26:20.660 --> 00:26:23.079
and I don't know if that was the Sounders just

00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:25.119
being nice about it, but both Brian and the players

00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:26.839
mentioned it. But you could tell, especially

00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:31.019
early on, that the passing was not as – like

00:26:31.019 --> 00:26:33.940
the ball wasn't – moving as fast as it does on

00:26:33.940 --> 00:26:36.420
the pitch at lumen field where they water it

00:26:36.420 --> 00:26:38.299
down and so i don't know if they just didn't

00:26:38.299 --> 00:26:41.279
water it down to make it a quicker field or if

00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:43.440
i mean it very well could be a different length

00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:46.420
turf right because it's only for soccer they're

00:26:46.420 --> 00:26:49.700
not using it for football and so it's not a dual

00:26:49.700 --> 00:26:53.480
purpose turf it might be an older turf it might

00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:56.839
be that they didn't water it and it could be

00:26:56.839 --> 00:27:01.069
you know the different climates You know, it's

00:27:01.069 --> 00:27:03.750
much drier on the other side of the state. It

00:27:03.750 --> 00:27:10.369
rains, but not as much. And I think, how much

00:27:10.369 --> 00:27:13.269
do you think it is the ball in general? Because

00:27:13.269 --> 00:27:16.990
they use a different ball for MLS than CONCACAF

00:27:16.990 --> 00:27:20.690
champions. Interesting. Yeah. I mean, it was

00:27:20.690 --> 00:27:25.970
noticeable, though. Like, it felt sloppy. I don't

00:27:25.970 --> 00:27:28.349
think it was sloppy, but it felt sloppy because

00:27:28.349 --> 00:27:30.369
the ball just was not going where they wanted

00:27:30.369 --> 00:27:34.190
it to. Yeah, I was honestly very frustrated watching

00:27:34.190 --> 00:27:38.529
that game up until the subs came in. Yeah. Because

00:27:38.529 --> 00:27:43.710
we don't play that way. Even in the recent games

00:27:43.710 --> 00:27:46.250
where we won and we didn't have possession, we

00:27:46.250 --> 00:27:53.369
didn't look as sloppy. Yeah, true. Yeah, I mean,

00:27:53.390 --> 00:27:58.150
because it was the opposite in Minnesota, where

00:27:58.150 --> 00:28:01.289
we, of course, had possession all the time, but

00:28:01.289 --> 00:28:04.829
weren't able to really put anything together

00:28:04.829 --> 00:28:06.930
scoring -wise. But we still didn't look sloppy.

00:28:08.410 --> 00:28:11.630
Yeah, I mean, we had our moments, which lets

00:28:11.630 --> 00:28:13.789
you know some counterattacking moments for Minnesota.

00:28:14.450 --> 00:28:17.450
But, you know, luckily, we have our defense standing

00:28:17.450 --> 00:28:20.069
on the set, and we have a keeper that's, you

00:28:20.069 --> 00:28:26.579
know, playing well. Yeah, absolutely. So those

00:28:26.579 --> 00:28:33.220
matches moved. So now we have at Tigris in Monterey

00:28:33.220 --> 00:28:39.900
on the 8th of April. And then is it the 15th

00:28:39.900 --> 00:28:42.700
that we're back here in Seattle? Yeah, the 15th,

00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:49.380
I think. Yeah, so tough. I mean, watching Cincinnati

00:28:49.380 --> 00:28:53.200
blow. that game and give up a goal in the 98th

00:28:53.200 --> 00:28:56.960
of 99 minutes, it would have been much easier

00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:59.440
to travel to Cincinnati than it would have been

00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:06.319
to travel to Mexico. But, yeah. I mean, I was

00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:09.640
watching that game live, and I was just taken

00:29:09.640 --> 00:29:13.099
aback by, it's not that Tigres scored, you know,

00:29:13.220 --> 00:29:16.940
like sloppy. The game wasn't sloppy. It was just

00:29:16.940 --> 00:29:19.660
that Tigres was so dominant. And they scored

00:29:19.660 --> 00:29:23.920
absolute goal -assos. Even the first goal that

00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:27.000
was, you know, quote -unquote a tap -in, the

00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:30.420
build -up play that led to that goal was beautiful.

00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:33.039
You know, it was like tiki -taka, quick one -two

00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:35.720
passes, and then hit the guy in the back post

00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:39.700
just to tap it in. And then the goal to get him

00:29:39.700 --> 00:29:41.740
the fifth goal at the end of the game, the game

00:29:41.740 --> 00:29:43.819
winner was an absolute rocket from outside the

00:29:43.819 --> 00:29:52.059
box. But I think... Pat Noonan, he just went

00:29:52.059 --> 00:29:55.440
in that game just to defend. Yeah, that sounds

00:29:55.440 --> 00:29:58.440
right. Cleveland just hit a second batter, just

00:29:58.440 --> 00:30:02.299
hit a home run off Logan Gilbert. Yep, that's

00:30:02.299 --> 00:30:04.539
Mariners baseball, baby. Mariners are already

00:30:04.539 --> 00:30:09.380
losing. And there were some places that had him

00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:12.640
predicted to win the American League. Oh, yeah.

00:30:12.740 --> 00:30:16.460
I mean, this is one game. It's a long season.

00:30:16.759 --> 00:30:19.549
Yeah. That is, you're going to lose way more

00:30:19.549 --> 00:30:24.309
often than you want to in baseball. You're going

00:30:24.309 --> 00:30:26.569
to be unhappy. Even the best teams are unhappy

00:30:26.569 --> 00:30:33.049
60 nights a year or so. All right. Well, let's

00:30:33.049 --> 00:30:35.950
get back to the Sounders. Yeah, you're already

00:30:35.950 --> 00:30:37.329
starting to get a little fresher. You might have

00:30:37.329 --> 00:30:39.569
to make another dark and stormy. Yeah, yeah,

00:30:39.589 --> 00:30:44.150
right. So, oh, you almost caught it. Almost robbed

00:30:44.150 --> 00:30:46.990
the home run. It was about, I don't know, a foot.

00:30:47.339 --> 00:30:53.000
If he was a foot taller. So what do you think

00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:54.539
that means for the Sounders then, watching them

00:30:54.539 --> 00:30:56.220
play that way? I mean, is this going to be –

00:30:56.220 --> 00:30:58.420
obviously playing there is always going to be

00:30:58.420 --> 00:31:00.480
tough, but is this a team the Sounders can match

00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:02.059
with, or are we going to get our asses handed

00:31:02.059 --> 00:31:04.799
to us? I think we can match up with this team.

00:31:05.099 --> 00:31:08.779
I trust Christian in that midfield against their

00:31:08.779 --> 00:31:12.259
midfield. And you know their midfielder, Bofo,

00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:15.160
he likes to be very physical and try to get into

00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:17.710
our center back's head. And I feel like Reagan

00:31:17.710 --> 00:31:22.410
is not one to get agitated. And, I mean, we have

00:31:22.410 --> 00:31:25.170
our own, you know, bear that would agitate other

00:31:25.170 --> 00:31:27.630
players. And it's probably going to go, you know,

00:31:27.630 --> 00:31:30.390
head and head with Bofo, with Nuhu. Yeah. Although

00:31:30.390 --> 00:31:32.490
Nuhu seems like a different person this year.

00:31:33.009 --> 00:31:36.690
Yeah, but I think he has that fiery side. And,

00:31:36.710 --> 00:31:39.950
honestly, like, if, you know, you look at, you

00:31:39.950 --> 00:31:41.990
take a step back and you look at the bigger picture,

00:31:42.109 --> 00:31:45.779
and as you know, Sounders make a run. If we go,

00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:49.180
if we beat, you know, one of Mexico's, you know,

00:31:49.180 --> 00:31:52.799
top four teams, in the next round, you're either

00:31:52.799 --> 00:31:56.279
going to play Nashville or America. And then

00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:58.140
on the other side of the bracket, you're either

00:31:58.140 --> 00:32:06.380
going to play Toluca, Cruz Azul, LAFC, and LA

00:32:06.380 --> 00:32:09.319
Galaxy. Well, they're already getting knocked

00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:13.500
out. There's no shot. But, I mean, it is. I mean,

00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:17.400
it's four MLS teams and four Mexican teams. Yeah.

00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:21.160
I know Nashville's not in the West. They are

00:32:21.160 --> 00:32:25.079
in other sports. I just feel like, again, we're

00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:28.819
seeing that the East is extremely overrated,

00:32:28.859 --> 00:32:32.200
that the Western Conference, you know, the top

00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:34.579
five in the Western Conference are as good, if

00:32:34.579 --> 00:32:37.619
not better, than any team in the East, except

00:32:37.619 --> 00:32:39.599
for maybe Nashville. But Nashville's on this

00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:43.309
amazing run right now. Yeah, I think if you really

00:32:43.309 --> 00:32:45.509
look at it on the east side, whose teams have

00:32:45.509 --> 00:32:51.589
scared you? Nashville? Miami? You can put in

00:32:51.589 --> 00:32:54.089
New York City FC. Maybe, yeah. But they haven't

00:32:54.089 --> 00:32:59.250
been playing like they normally do. It's only

00:32:59.250 --> 00:33:02.089
two teams. Who scares you on the west? Both LA

00:33:02.089 --> 00:33:07.009
teams. Yeah. San Diego. San Jose has been on

00:33:07.009 --> 00:33:09.490
a terror. Yeah, they're good. Vancouver. Yeah.

00:33:10.609 --> 00:33:13.769
And, you know, you have Dallas playing better.

00:33:14.390 --> 00:33:17.470
Houston's playing better. And then you have,

00:33:17.589 --> 00:33:20.789
did I already say Vancouver? You did, but they're

00:33:20.789 --> 00:33:24.130
worth mentioning twice. Yeah. And then you have

00:33:24.130 --> 00:33:30.309
RSL. And, you know, we got, you know, our annoying

00:33:30.309 --> 00:33:32.230
little brother over there trying to get a wooden

00:33:32.230 --> 00:33:38.880
spoon out of the kitchen. But, I mean. Look at

00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:46.059
who would win this game, SKC or Montreal? I mean,

00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:49.180
SKC has improved this year, but I'd still say

00:33:49.180 --> 00:33:53.119
SKC. Yeah, I just think that there's just this

00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:56.759
East Coast biased. Yeah. Mainly because of, no,

00:33:57.359 --> 00:34:00.380
they were there before Messi. It preexisted.

00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:03.339
There's always been an East Coast bias in MLS,

00:34:03.500 --> 00:34:06.359
and I feel like... There was a few years there

00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:08.480
where people started recognizing the West Coast

00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:11.340
and then Messi came in and it went away. And

00:34:11.340 --> 00:34:14.179
it didn't help that there was one year where

00:34:14.179 --> 00:34:17.659
I'd say the top six teams in the East were as

00:34:17.659 --> 00:34:19.039
good. I mean, they didn't work out that way,

00:34:19.079 --> 00:34:20.519
but the top six teams in the East could have

00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:25.280
beat any team in the West. Yeah. But I feel like

00:34:25.280 --> 00:34:27.039
normally, I mean, when the Sounders are finishing

00:34:27.039 --> 00:34:30.039
fifth and I think they're as good, if not better

00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:32.920
than the top team in the East. That tells you

00:34:32.920 --> 00:34:36.500
a lot about how good the West actually is. Oh,

00:34:36.500 --> 00:34:39.579
yeah. And that's why you can see the point discrepancy

00:34:39.579 --> 00:34:44.360
between the West table and the East table. Yeah.

00:34:44.619 --> 00:34:48.300
And then the East always tends to win the shield

00:34:48.300 --> 00:34:51.340
most of the time. I think it's because the bottom

00:34:51.340 --> 00:34:56.349
is so bad. But who wins MLS Cup? Yep. It's always

00:34:56.349 --> 00:34:58.110
the West. It's always the West, except for when

00:34:58.110 --> 00:35:00.429
we really want the East to win, like when New

00:35:00.429 --> 00:35:03.869
York City FC beat Portland. Yeah. Or when, you

00:35:03.869 --> 00:35:07.210
know, you got Messi, you know, sign him for $40

00:35:07.210 --> 00:35:09.329
million and he'll get you an MLS Cup and a Leafs

00:35:09.329 --> 00:35:11.730
Cup. Yeah. Conco champion? I don't know about

00:35:11.730 --> 00:35:16.989
that one. Not every MLS team can beat the Seattle

00:35:16.989 --> 00:35:23.489
Sounders. Yeah. There is no team that really

00:35:23.489 --> 00:35:30.750
scares me. I feel like in the East, but we do

00:35:30.750 --> 00:35:34.369
have three Western teams left on top of three

00:35:34.369 --> 00:35:37.510
plus the one we're playing for really good Mexican

00:35:37.510 --> 00:35:41.130
teams. And so I think this feels like a really

00:35:41.130 --> 00:35:45.329
difficult task. And if the Sounders were to repeat

00:35:45.329 --> 00:35:50.449
as the only American champions, this may be a

00:35:50.449 --> 00:35:54.570
bigger deal than last time. Because I feel like

00:35:54.570 --> 00:35:56.989
the path is harder to get there. And, you know,

00:35:57.010 --> 00:35:59.530
you have a team like Toluca who is not, I mean,

00:35:59.570 --> 00:36:01.349
they're just, those teams are so much higher

00:36:01.349 --> 00:36:04.010
right now than they've ever been. Yeah, they're

00:36:04.010 --> 00:36:06.909
striving to go back to back to back in the league.

00:36:07.449 --> 00:36:12.150
Yeah. And I think that going back to the Steelers

00:36:12.150 --> 00:36:15.090
matchup, I think it's very beneficial for us

00:36:15.090 --> 00:36:18.230
to have the second league at home. Because you

00:36:18.230 --> 00:36:21.329
can go to Mexico and grind a draw, grind out

00:36:21.329 --> 00:36:26.500
a result. If we only go down 1 or 2 -0 or 2 -1

00:36:26.500 --> 00:36:31.139
or 1 -1, I like our chances in Seattle. Yeah.

00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:35.000
Yeah, I agree. As long as we're still in it in

00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:37.599
a home, especially when we have the advantage,

00:36:37.820 --> 00:36:40.420
I would love it if we could get out of there

00:36:40.420 --> 00:36:43.800
with a draw, especially with an away goal, which

00:36:43.800 --> 00:36:47.980
is a debate we should have in a second. If we

00:36:47.980 --> 00:36:50.239
can somehow do that, I'd really like our chances

00:36:50.239 --> 00:36:52.860
of advancing. But before that, I'm a little,

00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:59.519
I don't know, I'm worried. We're a little like,

00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:04.679
we're Seattle sports fans. Yeah. We always have

00:37:04.679 --> 00:37:08.099
to have a little bit of self -doubt. Yeah, absolutely.

00:37:08.579 --> 00:37:12.280
We got to keep our expectations low. So when,

00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.420
you know, she hits the fan, we're not entirely

00:37:15.420 --> 00:37:20.539
disappointed. Yeah. So we're going to talk about

00:37:20.539 --> 00:37:22.820
Georgie. Don't worry. But I do want to have this

00:37:22.820 --> 00:37:24.619
debate real quick with you where you've been

00:37:24.619 --> 00:37:26.940
talking about how nice it is that they don't

00:37:26.940 --> 00:37:31.500
have away goals in UEFA Champions League. And

00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:34.960
I prefer away goals. And to me, seeing this latest

00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:38.300
round of CONCACAF Champions Cup just proved to

00:37:38.300 --> 00:37:42.019
me how much more fun it is with away goals because

00:37:42.019 --> 00:37:46.059
you had. Several matches that went down to away

00:37:46.059 --> 00:37:50.059
goals. I mean, even the Seattle match late until

00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:52.659
we started scoring really felt like it could

00:37:52.659 --> 00:37:54.780
come down to away goals with the way we were

00:37:54.780 --> 00:38:04.659
playing. Seeing how Tigres had to go for it.

00:38:04.920 --> 00:38:07.099
They couldn't just sit back and wait for penalties,

00:38:07.260 --> 00:38:09.239
sit back and wait for overtime. They had to go

00:38:09.239 --> 00:38:12.239
in and score. Keep pushing, keep pressuring,

00:38:12.260 --> 00:38:14.960
keep pressuring. And it was just like this awesome,

00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:21.079
just chaos ball. Donovan in his first at bat

00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:27.360
for the Mariners. Hit a lead off home run to

00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:30.579
tie the game. There we go. That's the Mariners

00:38:30.579 --> 00:38:33.760
I know. Told you we were winning it. Never doubted.

00:38:34.940 --> 00:38:41.369
But I think to go off, I just feel like. CONCACAF

00:38:41.369 --> 00:38:45.190
and UEFA, there's two different play styles.

00:38:45.929 --> 00:38:48.409
Oh, I agree totally. I just really like away

00:38:48.409 --> 00:38:50.449
goals because it makes you have to go for it

00:38:50.449 --> 00:38:52.309
on the road instead of sit back and be boring.

00:38:52.769 --> 00:38:58.010
But I think that's just the way it works in CONCACAF

00:38:58.010 --> 00:39:02.190
or in UEFA. You see teams go for it. Sometimes.

00:39:02.829 --> 00:39:06.050
I mean, Chelsea won it basically parking the

00:39:06.050 --> 00:39:08.269
bus for several straight games when they won

00:39:08.269 --> 00:39:13.500
it back in 20... Was it 2012? No, no. They just

00:39:13.500 --> 00:39:14.980
recently won it. Are you talking about that run?

00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.380
No, the previous run. It took a goal from Torres

00:39:19.380 --> 00:39:24.059
to really do it. So, yeah, I mean, it was a –

00:39:24.059 --> 00:39:27.639
so teams still did it back then. So it's not

00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:29.460
like people don't park the bus. Like you said,

00:39:29.619 --> 00:39:31.519
maybe that's what Noonan did with Cincinnati,

00:39:31.579 --> 00:39:35.239
and it backfired. Well, he did because he took

00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.489
out Evander and put in another center back. He

00:39:38.489 --> 00:39:41.429
only left Danke out there by himself. And once

00:39:41.429 --> 00:39:43.070
they went down, there was no way they were going

00:39:43.070 --> 00:39:47.789
to get a goal. I mean, they did get a goal. It

00:39:47.789 --> 00:39:51.449
was off a set piece. I know. But I mean, once

00:39:51.449 --> 00:39:55.510
the Tigers scored that fifth, if Cincinnati scores

00:39:55.510 --> 00:39:58.090
another one, they move on. Yeah, they don't have

00:39:58.090 --> 00:40:00.829
time that late. They just didn't have no attackers.

00:40:00.869 --> 00:40:05.679
They were so demoralized. Yeah, and I said to

00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:07.599
myself, there was this chance that they had.

00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:10.860
It was a two -on -one on break where the guy,

00:40:10.940 --> 00:40:13.340
he just hits it when he didn't need to, and the

00:40:13.340 --> 00:40:15.800
ball just goes out for a goal kick. And in my

00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:17.179
head, I'm like, that's going to bite them in

00:40:17.179 --> 00:40:19.320
the ass. And what happens? They just go down

00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:24.760
and score. And it's like there's these little

00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:28.119
moments in the game that happen and, you know,

00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:32.139
like a big miss. And you don't think, oh, like,

00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:34.599
oh, you know, it's early. we'll get another chance,

00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:38.539
but sometimes that chance doesn't come. Yeah.

00:40:38.699 --> 00:40:40.659
Like in the, in the Vancouver game, when Ruth's

00:40:40.659 --> 00:40:45.380
like missed that open net in the first minute,

00:40:45.460 --> 00:40:47.659
I'm just like in my head, I'm like, Oh no. Yeah.

00:40:48.139 --> 00:40:51.340
Here it comes. Totally. Those are, and that's,

00:40:51.340 --> 00:40:53.320
we've seen things like that come back to bite

00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:55.539
the Sounders in the past. We saw quite a lot

00:40:55.539 --> 00:40:57.800
last year, especially I feel like, Hey, Zeus

00:40:57.800 --> 00:40:59.880
was a little snake bitten where he'd have these

00:40:59.880 --> 00:41:01.659
chances that should have been sure goals that

00:41:01.659 --> 00:41:04.400
don't go in. And then he'll come back to bite

00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:08.579
us. And so I'm glad it didn't. But it was worrisome.

00:41:08.579 --> 00:41:11.000
You're right. You're absolutely right. Yeah.

00:41:11.059 --> 00:41:14.059
And I mean, Rusnak, it feels like he's in a little

00:41:14.059 --> 00:41:16.780
bit of a slump right now. Yeah, I think I agree.

00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:20.320
He hasn't been playing at the same consistent

00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:23.760
level that he has been last year. And maybe it's

00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:28.019
because he's older. Yeah. Maybe time has caught

00:41:28.019 --> 00:41:31.469
up to him a little bit. I mean, it almost felt

00:41:31.469 --> 00:41:33.510
like, though, he's been a little in his head,

00:41:33.590 --> 00:41:36.250
like missing that goal. Some of the other stuff

00:41:36.250 --> 00:41:39.989
is not characteristic of him. Yeah. He's usually

00:41:39.989 --> 00:41:41.750
the one who doesn't miss those opportunities.

00:41:42.190 --> 00:41:44.889
I mean, he still misses some, but he makes them

00:41:44.889 --> 00:41:47.409
more often than misses from Sounders' perspective.

00:41:48.250 --> 00:41:50.969
But we see that even in the home opener when

00:41:50.969 --> 00:41:53.349
he missed that ball that Jesus gave him right

00:41:53.349 --> 00:41:55.530
in front of the goal where he just missed the

00:41:55.530 --> 00:41:59.590
frame. Yeah. Maybe there's just something in

00:41:59.590 --> 00:42:02.730
this. that he's been carrying since preseason.

00:42:02.849 --> 00:42:06.949
I think once he finds the nets, he's going to...

00:42:06.949 --> 00:42:13.090
The roost neck we know is going to... The DP.

00:42:14.710 --> 00:42:20.010
Our DP is going to flourish. Speaking of DPs,

00:42:20.389 --> 00:42:25.909
we just saw a trade today from the Sounders that

00:42:25.909 --> 00:42:29.329
a lot of crybabies are mad about. But I think

00:42:29.329 --> 00:42:33.289
is an absolutely brilliant move where we traded

00:42:33.289 --> 00:42:38.829
our seventh winger. Third. On the depth chart

00:42:38.829 --> 00:42:44.210
for two million gam, which means we can use it

00:42:44.210 --> 00:42:47.269
this summer to sign a player of DP caliber at

00:42:47.269 --> 00:42:50.510
a lower, if we spend money, of course, at a lower.

00:42:52.380 --> 00:43:03.900
hit on the salary cap. But more importantly,

00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:09.139
you pointed out to me, because we hadn't heard

00:43:09.139 --> 00:43:17.539
the news yet, that along with that came 15 %

00:43:17.539 --> 00:43:20.880
sell -on clause. A little less. A little less

00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:24.340
than 15. But also escalators above 2 million

00:43:24.340 --> 00:43:27.739
if Georgie plays well. Yeah, we're escalators

00:43:27.739 --> 00:43:33.059
FC, baby. I'm going to tell you what I love about

00:43:33.059 --> 00:43:36.079
this trade. People will be like, well, how do

00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:38.480
you say Georgie's 7th? Well, if you go through

00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:41.519
the players that would be ahead of him, you've

00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:44.719
got Morris, Pedro when he's healthy, Rothrock,

00:43:45.139 --> 00:43:51.469
Areola, Jesus. And then I would argue that he's

00:43:51.469 --> 00:43:54.190
now been surpassed by Kingston because Kingston

00:43:54.190 --> 00:43:55.969
is getting those minutes that Georgie isn't.

00:43:56.670 --> 00:44:00.289
And we've seen what Kingston has been able to

00:44:00.289 --> 00:44:04.889
do on the wing. Yeah. He dismantled Vancouver

00:44:04.889 --> 00:44:09.610
in, what, 10 minutes? Yeah. And he iced the game

00:44:09.610 --> 00:44:14.050
for us. Right. And I think because we had such

00:44:14.050 --> 00:44:19.900
depth at wing, that's the reason we haven't signed

00:44:19.900 --> 00:44:22.980
him yet. We don't have that depth at center back,

00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:24.980
which is why we had to bring in Tino. We had

00:44:24.980 --> 00:44:27.260
to sign him to the team. It's easier to loan

00:44:27.260 --> 00:44:29.780
a player up than loan a player down. I mean,

00:44:29.800 --> 00:44:32.260
we can do it, but when you have to have that

00:44:32.260 --> 00:44:33.860
roster, when you have to bring them up and down

00:44:33.860 --> 00:44:37.960
constantly, it's a pain. So I think what it does

00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:41.639
is great for everyone. Colorado gets a dynamic

00:44:41.639 --> 00:44:45.559
player who can make plays for them, power their

00:44:45.559 --> 00:44:50.570
offense. I think you and I both question whether

00:44:50.570 --> 00:44:53.389
or not he's been figured out, but we'll get into

00:44:53.389 --> 00:44:57.809
that. And that may be why he's dropped down the

00:44:57.809 --> 00:45:01.570
depth chart. But it gets Georgie minutes. It

00:45:01.570 --> 00:45:04.150
honors the fact that he came over and has been

00:45:04.150 --> 00:45:06.050
with us since Tacoma Defiance, since he was a

00:45:06.050 --> 00:45:09.289
young man, that he went through losing an eye

00:45:09.289 --> 00:45:11.449
while he was with us and completely reworking

00:45:11.449 --> 00:45:15.579
his game. gives him a chance to go, okay, you

00:45:15.579 --> 00:45:16.900
can go and you're going to get minutes. I mean,

00:45:16.940 --> 00:45:20.039
I believe he will be starting for Colorado. Not

00:45:20.039 --> 00:45:21.440
right away. He's got to work into the system.

00:45:21.539 --> 00:45:23.840
He's got to fight for his minutes for sure. I

00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:26.860
think he'll get them because he's that dynamic,

00:45:26.940 --> 00:45:30.280
and it's going to be fun to watch him there.

00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:33.199
I think it's great for him. He's going to get

00:45:33.199 --> 00:45:35.880
minutes. It's great for the Sounders. If he plays

00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:38.159
well there, not only did we get a record 2 million

00:45:38.159 --> 00:45:41.630
gam, we're going to get a ton more. If he's playing

00:45:41.630 --> 00:45:44.150
well, we can get a sell -on fee if he continues

00:45:44.150 --> 00:45:46.710
to play well. I mean, he's on the Burkina Faso

00:45:46.710 --> 00:45:49.550
national team, of course, so he's on a national

00:45:49.550 --> 00:45:55.670
team who played well in the African Confederation

00:45:55.670 --> 00:45:59.489
Cup, which we haven't talked about how they just

00:45:59.489 --> 00:46:04.289
changed who won the Cup. It's going to court.

00:46:04.369 --> 00:46:06.469
We'll talk about that next year when they figure

00:46:06.469 --> 00:46:12.090
it out. It's great for the Sounders because you

00:46:12.090 --> 00:46:14.889
get that money. And then it's great for Kingston

00:46:14.889 --> 00:46:17.570
because I assume now they're going to bring him

00:46:17.570 --> 00:46:19.590
up and sign him and bring him into the Georgie

00:46:19.590 --> 00:46:23.590
spot. And are they different players? Yes. But

00:46:23.590 --> 00:46:28.170
I think Kingston is more… Versatile. Yes. Thank

00:46:28.170 --> 00:46:30.590
you. Yeah. Because he can play in the midfield.

00:46:30.670 --> 00:46:34.190
He can play out wide. And if you really need

00:46:34.190 --> 00:46:36.650
him in a pinch, he can play right back. Mm -hmm.

00:46:38.829 --> 00:46:41.630
which we've seen Georgie play forward, but out

00:46:41.630 --> 00:46:43.710
of necessity, not out of him actually being good

00:46:43.710 --> 00:46:48.670
at it. Yeah, and I mean, he's had 53 appearances

00:46:48.670 --> 00:46:51.110
for the club. He's only had 10 goal contributions.

00:46:51.670 --> 00:46:56.610
Yeah. And I just don't think he fits our system.

00:46:57.409 --> 00:47:00.050
We tend to be a possession -based team. And where

00:47:00.050 --> 00:47:03.469
does he excel? In transition. Yeah. What was

00:47:03.469 --> 00:47:05.789
his biggest moment in the club? I would say it's

00:47:05.789 --> 00:47:08.019
when he won the penalty. in the league's cup

00:47:08.019 --> 00:47:11.280
final yeah but when was that moment came off

00:47:11.280 --> 00:47:14.539
a transition moment and and he continuously drew

00:47:14.539 --> 00:47:18.980
yellow cards in transition uh he had some great

00:47:18.980 --> 00:47:21.519
one -on -ones in transition i mean i think it's

00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:23.440
probably the same reason ryan kent didn't work

00:47:23.440 --> 00:47:28.619
out for us yeah weird towards the end yeah but

00:47:28.619 --> 00:47:32.519
weirdly uh most of our goals this year have come

00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:34.980
on the transition game rather than possession

00:47:34.980 --> 00:47:38.639
so uh maybe we should be playing more transition

00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:43.760
but i don't know i i feel like you know a lot

00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:47.719
of if you look at how soccer's played now it's

00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:50.159
either transition moments or set pieces yeah

00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:56.360
it's really difficult to see you know a build

00:47:56.360 --> 00:48:00.530
up you know, build up play lead to a goal. Even

00:48:00.530 --> 00:48:02.929
if you watch, you know, San Diego play, they

00:48:02.929 --> 00:48:05.289
have built up in, you know, the middle of the

00:48:05.289 --> 00:48:07.949
third and then at least to a ball over the top.

00:48:09.449 --> 00:48:12.309
Yeah. With, with the runners, which can be seen

00:48:12.309 --> 00:48:18.469
as transitional. Yeah. But it's just, it's just

00:48:18.469 --> 00:48:22.170
very, very, very difficult. It's, it's, you know,

00:48:22.170 --> 00:48:26.130
soccer is evolving. We're not, we're not seeing

00:48:26.130 --> 00:48:29.619
the tiki taka pep. Barcelona days of soccer no

00:48:29.619 --> 00:48:31.900
more. We're seeing a different, you know, more

00:48:31.900 --> 00:48:36.139
athletic. Players are more athletic. Especially

00:48:36.139 --> 00:48:41.659
in the MLS. I mean, I saw someone on Blue Sky

00:48:41.659 --> 00:48:44.679
complaining about how the MLS is worse now than

00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:47.579
it was like seven years ago, which I think is

00:48:47.579 --> 00:48:50.679
absurd. You've gotten rid of Peter Vermees style

00:48:50.679 --> 00:48:53.800
play where you just hack players down to actually

00:48:53.800 --> 00:48:57.539
skill -based play. where you are seeing athleticism,

00:48:57.579 --> 00:49:02.179
and it's way more fun to watch. I will watch

00:49:02.179 --> 00:49:04.460
way more MLS matches today. I can sit down and

00:49:04.460 --> 00:49:06.539
watch. I treat the MLS like I used to treat the

00:49:06.539 --> 00:49:09.219
NFL. Back in the day, I could watch any NFL game,

00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:11.719
just sit down and enjoy it. I only watch Seahawks

00:49:11.719 --> 00:49:14.139
games now. Occasionally, maybe a Sunday or Monday

00:49:14.139 --> 00:49:15.500
night football game if I don't have anything

00:49:15.500 --> 00:49:19.480
going on, but not normally. I will sit down and

00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:23.579
watch any MLS game. Yeah, and I've been watching

00:49:23.579 --> 00:49:27.760
more of other games. Because of kick base. Because

00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:30.519
I want to see which players are performing. Yeah.

00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:36.079
So it gives me an edge. To say, oh, this player

00:49:36.079 --> 00:49:40.659
is hot. He's in form. He's going to be. This

00:49:40.659 --> 00:49:43.460
guy takes penalties. This guy's taking corners.

00:49:44.460 --> 00:49:47.239
This center back is doing all these goal line

00:49:47.239 --> 00:49:52.900
clearances. So I'm like, it's giving me more.

00:49:54.279 --> 00:49:56.440
reason to watch other teams and not just the

00:49:56.440 --> 00:50:02.239
Sounders. Yeah, totally. But yeah, it's just

00:50:02.239 --> 00:50:04.679
fun to watch. I mean, the MLS playoffs I think

00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:06.340
have been fun for a while, but this has been

00:50:06.340 --> 00:50:11.360
a pretty good... I will sit down and watch any

00:50:11.360 --> 00:50:15.039
game if it's on. And I mean... Yeah, I'm enjoying

00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:17.760
this. I feel like it's one of the most accessible

00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:22.780
leagues in America. In American sports. Because

00:50:22.780 --> 00:50:25.400
if you want to watch a football game, you either

00:50:25.400 --> 00:50:28.619
got to have Prime, you got to have Netflix, or

00:50:28.619 --> 00:50:32.159
you got to have, you know, what's it? The NFL

00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:34.460
Network? Yeah. I mean, you can watch some games

00:50:34.460 --> 00:50:38.019
on CBS and Fox that are over the air. But yeah,

00:50:38.139 --> 00:50:40.880
you've got to. For Thursday night, you need.

00:50:41.159 --> 00:50:43.440
Prime. Prime. Friday night, you need one thing.

00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:46.340
Saturday, you need another thing. The Seahawks

00:50:46.340 --> 00:50:48.000
are playing a Wednesday night game this year.

00:50:48.099 --> 00:50:50.099
Who knows? Maybe it'll be on FUBU or something,

00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:55.820
DAZN. It might be VIX. Yeah. That's why I couldn't

00:50:55.820 --> 00:51:00.300
watch the Ireland game. I had to find an Irish

00:51:00.300 --> 00:51:02.900
broadcast of the game and watch. It was nice,

00:51:02.940 --> 00:51:04.960
though, because I got the Irish announcers. But

00:51:04.960 --> 00:51:07.980
that game was only on VIX. And I'm supposed to

00:51:07.980 --> 00:51:12.219
have VIX for free through T -Mobile, free pass

00:51:12.219 --> 00:51:14.619
never worked right and I never knew who to contact

00:51:14.619 --> 00:51:17.400
so I can't watch it. Also, no habla espanol.

00:51:18.400 --> 00:51:21.780
That's how you're going to learn. They talk really

00:51:21.780 --> 00:51:25.360
fast. Also, my friend Diego from Uruguay says

00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:29.659
that Mexican announcers don't know shit about

00:51:29.659 --> 00:51:35.039
soccer. They just know how to say one word. That

00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:42.039
seems like some Some South America, Latin America

00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:45.280
hate going on, but I don't know. Since I don't

00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:47.440
speak Spanish, I can't tell the difference. Just

00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:51.579
tell them, you know, as an Argentinian fan, let

00:51:51.579 --> 00:51:56.340
us know when they win another World Cup. I mean,

00:51:56.340 --> 00:52:02.059
I think Uruguayans have a kindredness with Argentina

00:52:02.059 --> 00:52:05.260
since it's right across the water there. Yeah,

00:52:05.260 --> 00:52:06.940
but, you know, South Americans, they all hate

00:52:06.940 --> 00:52:08.739
each other when it comes to sports. Especially

00:52:08.739 --> 00:52:11.460
soccer. You've seen actual wars start over soccer

00:52:11.460 --> 00:52:17.300
matches there, which is crazy. What's the tournament

00:52:17.300 --> 00:52:21.460
called? Copa Libertadores. Yeah, remember when

00:52:21.460 --> 00:52:24.360
the fans were having a brawl? Yeah. Taking the

00:52:24.360 --> 00:52:28.260
metal pipes off the stands. It's pretty crazy.

00:52:28.500 --> 00:52:31.420
Trying to play baseball with the people. Yeah,

00:52:31.420 --> 00:52:34.860
totally. But, yeah, I think this is a good trade

00:52:34.860 --> 00:52:37.280
for everyone involved. You know, am I sad to

00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:40.059
see Georgie go? Yes. I mean, I liked Georgie

00:52:40.059 --> 00:52:42.800
on the Sounders. I think he added a lot to the

00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:45.679
team. It was a really fun story. I like players

00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:48.559
that came up through our system, obviously. But

00:52:48.559 --> 00:52:50.360
you can't keep everyone that comes up through

00:52:50.360 --> 00:52:53.280
your system, number one. The fact that you're

00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:55.420
willing to move on from them and let them go

00:52:55.420 --> 00:52:57.820
somewhere where they can play is going to make

00:52:57.820 --> 00:53:00.780
the players under them who are coming up go,

00:53:00.860 --> 00:53:02.539
of course I want to be here because I'm going

00:53:02.539 --> 00:53:05.900
to get my chance to make the pro team. And if

00:53:05.900 --> 00:53:08.219
I don't, they'll let me go somewhere where I

00:53:08.219 --> 00:53:10.239
will have an opportunity. They're not just going

00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:11.699
to have me sitting at the bottom of the depth

00:53:11.699 --> 00:53:18.019
chart not playing. Why should we hinder a player's

00:53:18.019 --> 00:53:20.739
growth and development just so another team in

00:53:20.739 --> 00:53:23.289
the league can't have them? Yeah, I mean, don't

00:53:23.289 --> 00:53:26.510
trade them to Portland or LAFC. You know, there's

00:53:26.510 --> 00:53:28.769
certain teams not to send them to. But Colorado,

00:53:29.070 --> 00:53:31.489
I mean, we have a good trading partnership with

00:53:31.489 --> 00:53:34.210
them. We sent Danny Leyva there on loan. Now

00:53:34.210 --> 00:53:41.010
we've sent Josh Atencio and now Georgie. So it's

00:53:41.010 --> 00:53:43.429
fun to, I mean, and I don't, I mean, maybe it's

00:53:43.429 --> 00:53:45.010
because I have friends in Denver. It's funny

00:53:45.010 --> 00:53:48.699
that I hate the Broncos, but I don't. I like

00:53:48.699 --> 00:53:53.920
the Rockies. I like the Rapids. Yeah, we tend

00:53:53.920 --> 00:53:56.199
to beat them, so I like playing against them

00:53:56.199 --> 00:53:59.460
too. Yeah, although we probably would have won

00:53:59.460 --> 00:54:03.179
the MLS Cup much sooner if their goalie hadn't

00:54:03.179 --> 00:54:08.360
given up a late goal one game to make them have

00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:10.920
to drop down to the Eastern bracket, and then

00:54:10.920 --> 00:54:13.159
they had the easy path up to make it to the final

00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:15.659
and win the championship the year they won. Back

00:54:15.659 --> 00:54:18.019
in the day when you would take... I think it

00:54:18.019 --> 00:54:20.780
was the top four teams from each league, and

00:54:20.780 --> 00:54:22.760
then the next best four, which were always from

00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:25.480
the West. And so they were able to go through

00:54:25.480 --> 00:54:28.000
the Eastern bracket easily and make it to the

00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:32.320
final and win. Really? But I heard that the East

00:54:32.320 --> 00:54:37.099
is always the better side. Ain't that crazy,

00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:41.019
huh? Yeah, it's wild. But yeah, I'm for this

00:54:41.019 --> 00:54:44.860
trade. You think good trade? Oh, this is good

00:54:44.860 --> 00:54:46.739
trade all around. Good for the player, good for

00:54:46.739 --> 00:54:51.090
the club. you make $2 million off a player that

00:54:51.090 --> 00:54:53.570
is arguably at the bottom of the winger depth

00:54:53.570 --> 00:54:56.750
chart when everyone's healthy. Yeah. Or in some

00:54:56.750 --> 00:54:58.170
people's eyes, you know, they haven't ranked

00:54:58.170 --> 00:55:01.150
third. Yeah. Maybe they're only watching, you

00:55:01.150 --> 00:55:03.110
know, the per 90 stats and not the actual game.

00:55:03.369 --> 00:55:10.630
Yeah. True. I mean, I, I, is he a loss? Yes.

00:55:11.469 --> 00:55:14.150
It will hurt the team in the short term. Will

00:55:14.150 --> 00:55:16.380
it hurt the team in the longterm? No. Because

00:55:16.380 --> 00:55:19.099
either he flames out at Colorado or he continues

00:55:19.099 --> 00:55:23.599
to improve and we get more money and a higher

00:55:23.599 --> 00:55:26.340
sell -on fee when he's sold. I mean, more money

00:55:26.340 --> 00:55:29.500
from the sell -on fee. And yeah, I just think

00:55:29.500 --> 00:55:32.559
it's something that the Sounders have always

00:55:32.559 --> 00:55:35.780
been willing to do with the youth is move on

00:55:35.780 --> 00:55:39.409
when necessary. And that sometimes is this player

00:55:39.409 --> 00:55:41.389
isn't going to work out here. And it sometimes

00:55:41.389 --> 00:55:43.869
is this player deserves a chance. And so we're

00:55:43.869 --> 00:55:45.269
going to let them go somewhere else. We're going

00:55:45.269 --> 00:55:48.710
to send them to another team. So I'm excited

00:55:48.710 --> 00:55:51.989
for Georgie. I'm excited for the Sounders. I'm

00:55:51.989 --> 00:55:54.190
sad that we won't get the excitement from when

00:55:54.190 --> 00:55:56.489
he came on the field. But I think it is a win

00:55:56.489 --> 00:56:00.610
-win. I think, yeah, we're going to lose that

00:56:00.610 --> 00:56:04.610
excitement aspect to it. But I'm going to get

00:56:04.610 --> 00:56:07.480
excited when Arioli gets on the pitch. seeing

00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:10.000
him whip and crosses the way he would. Yeah.

00:56:11.199 --> 00:56:13.760
Finding that, you know, maybe Danny subs in,

00:56:13.820 --> 00:56:16.039
he'll get, you know, Danny tends to, you know,

00:56:16.079 --> 00:56:20.619
get at the end of those chances. You know, maybe,

00:56:20.659 --> 00:56:22.420
who knows, maybe D -Ro finally heads one in.

00:56:25.239 --> 00:56:29.400
Yeah, that would be nice. I mean, you know, he

00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:35.360
had, you know, I like Georgie, but I understand.

00:56:36.380 --> 00:56:39.300
why they moved on, and I like the deal. Yeah.

00:56:40.019 --> 00:56:43.019
Because arguably, I'm not playing him over Pedro.

00:56:43.179 --> 00:56:46.219
I'm not playing him over the Paws. I'm not playing

00:56:46.219 --> 00:56:48.900
him over Jesus. I'm not playing him over Jamo.

00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:53.199
Right. And I maybe wouldn't play him over Kingston.

00:56:54.780 --> 00:56:56.639
Especially right now, Kingston has the hot hand.

00:56:56.719 --> 00:56:58.639
But even if that's the case, you're still trading,

00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:04.780
you know, their sixth winger. Yeah, and I feel

00:57:04.780 --> 00:57:09.420
like he's been figured out a little bit. Teams

00:57:09.420 --> 00:57:13.639
tend to put two defenders on his side. They have

00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:15.539
the initial defender and then they have someone

00:57:15.539 --> 00:57:18.239
covering. And we saw that he couldn't win those

00:57:18.239 --> 00:57:22.219
one -on -ones against the Mexican teams when

00:57:22.219 --> 00:57:25.119
we were in Leagues Cup last year. Yeah, or in

00:57:25.119 --> 00:57:29.880
Minnesota. What did he do apart from that one

00:57:29.880 --> 00:57:34.880
cross he had into D -Row? Yeah. So, yeah, I mean,

00:57:34.900 --> 00:57:36.480
and it's not that he's a bad player. It could

00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:39.039
also be that he wasn't getting the minutes necessary

00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:43.400
to ball out also. Yeah, and maybe just systematically

00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:45.639
he just doesn't fit into the way that Brian wants

00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:48.639
to play. Totally. Which I can totally see that

00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:50.800
because Brian wants to be more possession -based,

00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:53.400
and I think Georgie's going to excel in transition.

00:57:54.019 --> 00:57:57.039
Yeah. Because he's just dynamic, you know, up

00:57:57.039 --> 00:57:59.840
and down the field. As far as side -to -side,

00:57:59.980 --> 00:58:05.460
he's probably not the best. Yeah, totally. Well,

00:58:05.460 --> 00:58:07.719
I think that might be a good place to stop for

00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:09.679
the day. We got the big news in. George, do you

00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:10.800
have anything else you want to hit on before

00:58:10.800 --> 00:58:15.980
we go? What's the score of the Arizona game?

00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:21.460
Oh, that's a good question. We do have a lot

00:58:21.460 --> 00:58:24.480
more sports still happening. And, oh, Jamaica

00:58:24.480 --> 00:58:27.880
hasn't kicked off yet. Let's see. Mariners are

00:58:27.880 --> 00:58:36.409
1 -1. in the second inning. And then Kraken came

00:58:36.409 --> 00:58:40.489
back, overtime win, 4 -3. That's pretty great.

00:58:42.369 --> 00:58:45.269
Let's look at general scores here for the NCAA.

00:58:45.570 --> 00:58:48.389
Here we go. I don't care about my bracket. Illinois

00:58:48.389 --> 00:58:52.309
is up 21 -14 on Houston, which is interesting.

00:58:52.570 --> 00:58:56.869
That would ruin my bracket. Arizona is beaten

00:58:56.869 --> 00:59:00.210
up on Arkansas, 44 -29. That's what I like to

00:59:00.210 --> 00:59:03.570
hear. I mean, I also have Houston, but I have

00:59:03.570 --> 00:59:07.349
Arizona winning it all. And I'm just trying to

00:59:07.349 --> 00:59:10.389
do what I can to stay in first place. Yeah, right?

00:59:10.469 --> 00:59:12.969
I mean, that Iowa win over Nebraska, I felt like

00:59:12.969 --> 00:59:18.190
if Houston goes through, that's going to be an

00:59:18.190 --> 00:59:20.510
incredible game because Iowa has been on fire

00:59:20.510 --> 00:59:26.829
and Houston's offense just isn't there. Yeah,

00:59:26.869 --> 00:59:28.880
but I think the Pac -12 is going to do it. win

00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:31.079
the national championship this year. I wish.

00:59:31.199 --> 00:59:37.039
The Pac -12 is Oregon State and Washington State,

00:59:37.119 --> 00:59:39.500
and neither are in the tournament. If you know,

00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:42.300
you know. Arizona was in the Pac -12. They are

00:59:42.300 --> 00:59:46.139
middling, not even middling, bottom of the WCC

00:59:46.139 --> 00:59:49.380
this year. And we did get three WCC teams for

00:59:49.380 --> 00:59:51.099
the first time in as long as I can remember with

00:59:51.099 --> 00:59:53.599
Gonzaga, Santa Clara, and St. Mary's making it.

00:59:54.239 --> 00:59:59.429
But they all lost opening weekend. Yeah. But,

00:59:59.469 --> 01:00:03.050
yeah, so some exciting games there. You know,

01:00:03.090 --> 01:00:05.409
baseball is going nuts. Dodgers, of course, are

01:00:05.409 --> 01:00:09.309
winning again. We've got the Japanese Grand Prix

01:00:09.309 --> 01:00:12.690
coming up. Is it this weekend? Yeah, I think

01:00:12.690 --> 01:00:14.570
so. No, that was last weekend. We have a weekend

01:00:14.570 --> 01:00:19.409
off, huh? I would say tune in to, you know, I

01:00:19.409 --> 01:00:22.809
think Mexico versus Portugal, Saturday at 6 p

01:00:22.809 --> 01:00:25.869
.m. Even though it's a friendly, I know that.

01:00:26.139 --> 01:00:27.699
You know, Mexico is going to try to come out

01:00:27.699 --> 01:00:29.139
to play because they have a lot of players on

01:00:29.139 --> 01:00:32.800
that roster that got called up that aren't, you

01:00:32.800 --> 01:00:36.199
know, locked in starters for the World Cup. Yeah.

01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:38.719
And who knows, maybe Obed is going to get some

01:00:38.719 --> 01:00:41.940
minutes because they're, you know, they might

01:00:41.940 --> 01:00:45.579
be a little bit hurt and he has a good chance

01:00:45.579 --> 01:00:47.820
of making the roster. I don't know if you heard

01:00:47.820 --> 01:00:52.349
what the coach said about Obed. That if he was

01:00:52.349 --> 01:00:53.869
still in Seattle, he wouldn't make the World

01:00:53.869 --> 01:00:57.590
Cup. Oh, yeah. Which is insane. He rides the

01:00:57.590 --> 01:01:00.070
bench. Yeah, he's riding the bench in Spain.

01:01:00.389 --> 01:01:05.650
And now he's like a locked in. Oh, home run Mariners.

01:01:05.869 --> 01:01:10.690
Dom Canzone. Bibbidi -bobbidi. Bibbidi -bobbidi.

01:01:10.769 --> 01:01:13.630
That's Italian, right? Yeah, we were just talking

01:01:13.630 --> 01:01:18.210
about him earlier. Look at that. Career high

01:01:18.210 --> 01:01:22.929
in RBIs and average last year, I believe. And

01:01:22.929 --> 01:01:27.349
first at bat of the season, home run. Love it.

01:01:28.829 --> 01:01:33.369
I mean, he tore it up for Italy when they made

01:01:33.369 --> 01:01:35.630
it to, what, the semifinals of the World Baseball

01:01:35.630 --> 01:01:38.769
Classic? Yeah. I was rooting for Dominican Republic.

01:01:39.469 --> 01:01:41.489
I was rooting for Japan, but yeah, Dominican

01:01:41.489 --> 01:01:44.159
Republic. But let me tell you, Venezuela. Oh,

01:01:44.159 --> 01:01:46.440
my God, their fans are fun. The celebrations,

01:01:46.659 --> 01:01:49.719
everything was so joyous. I loved it. Seeing

01:01:49.719 --> 01:01:55.239
them beat the USA was so much fun. I don't think

01:01:55.239 --> 01:01:58.480
I watched that game. I didn't watch it live,

01:01:58.599 --> 01:02:00.679
but I watched all the celebration afterwards.

01:02:02.460 --> 01:02:06.900
Apparently, I'm still speaking Italian. Italiano.

01:02:09.420 --> 01:02:14.389
I'm not black. I'm a Dominican poppy. Yeah, it

01:02:14.389 --> 01:02:16.230
would have been fun to see them go far. It just

01:02:16.230 --> 01:02:19.289
wasn't their year, and Japan's year either. They

01:02:19.289 --> 01:02:22.389
had been so good. I think that's the game the

01:02:22.389 --> 01:02:24.510
USA showed up to play, and then they just dropped

01:02:24.510 --> 01:02:29.369
the ball in the final. Yeah. All right, let's

01:02:29.369 --> 01:02:31.869
get out of here. I mean, one of the players from

01:02:31.869 --> 01:02:34.050
Dominican Republic let a rip against Paul Skeens.

01:02:34.530 --> 01:02:37.210
He got pulled in 37 pitches in the first inning.

01:02:37.849 --> 01:02:43.730
Yeah, well, maybe it's that. He's not really

01:02:43.730 --> 01:02:49.869
a sophomore, but the sophomore slump. I don't

01:02:49.869 --> 01:02:51.889
know. It's pirate space, but I don't know how

01:02:51.889 --> 01:02:54.670
much longer he's going to be a pirate. Oh, yeah.

01:02:54.789 --> 01:02:57.829
We can trade him for something good. He'll be

01:02:57.829 --> 01:03:00.730
a dodger. Probably. And they're winning today,

01:03:00.829 --> 01:03:04.750
of course. All right. They can find you on the

01:03:04.750 --> 01:03:08.050
Discord. And what is your Instagram? Alex underscore

01:03:08.050 --> 01:03:12.150
DS 509. Yep, and I'm LegalMindedPunk everywhere.

01:03:12.269 --> 01:03:16.190
Join the Patreon, and we'll see everybody next

01:03:16.190 --> 01:03:19.550
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01:03:19.550 --> 01:03:21.130
about that next time, because I have a lot to

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01:04:09.119 --> 01:04:14.010
Alexa, who's the best MLS team of all time? Seattle

01:04:14.010 --> 01:04:16.409
Sounders are both unequivocally and indiscriminately

01:04:16.409 --> 01:04:18.289
the best MLS team of all time.