WEBVTT 00:00:09.960 --> 00:00:15.259 It's time for Scuttlebutt Ultras. Quick takes 00:00:15.259 --> 00:00:17.899 from our Patreon Ultras, sharing their soundest 00:00:17.899 --> 00:00:21.480 thoughts straight from the heart. Your voice, 00:00:21.500 --> 00:00:38.250 your moment. What is up, everyone? Welcome to 00:00:38.250 --> 00:00:40.469 another episode of Sounders Scuttlebutt. I'm 00:00:40.469 --> 00:00:43.210 your host, Cameron Collins, and I am here with 00:00:43.210 --> 00:00:45.130 my other host for the day, the one and only Alex 00:00:45.130 --> 00:00:48.909 Diaz. What is up, Alex? What's going on? You 00:00:48.909 --> 00:00:51.829 ready to talk some Sounders and some other world 00:00:51.829 --> 00:00:54.729 football and all sorts of others? It feels like 00:00:54.729 --> 00:00:59.390 there's been not a lot to talk about. For a while. 00:00:59.549 --> 00:01:03.090 Yeah, this international break, it just felt 00:01:03.090 --> 00:01:05.849 like it was only a week long, but it felt like 00:01:05.849 --> 00:01:07.890 it was a month long. I thought it was the offseason 00:01:07.890 --> 00:01:11.109 again. Yeah, and I think it doesn't help that 00:01:11.109 --> 00:01:17.170 the Sounders haven't been at home since February? 00:01:17.510 --> 00:01:18.969 Was that the last time they were? Yeah, since 00:01:18.969 --> 00:01:21.730 February. But what's so crazy about that is that 00:01:21.730 --> 00:01:26.250 we went undefeated in the month of March. Yeah. 00:01:27.070 --> 00:01:29.989 Was it four wins and a draw? Yeah, four wins 00:01:29.989 --> 00:01:32.849 and a draw. And if you take a look at that, you're 00:01:32.849 --> 00:01:34.290 like, oh, they must have had a lot of home games. 00:01:34.409 --> 00:01:37.590 Nope, all away games. Even the home game that 00:01:37.590 --> 00:01:40.250 was in Spokane, now it's an away game. Yeah, 00:01:40.349 --> 00:01:45.549 totally. So that's a kind of crazy, crazy thing. 00:01:45.709 --> 00:01:48.689 Maybe, I don't know, it's interesting because 00:01:48.689 --> 00:01:52.209 you definitely see the play not as... hyped up 00:01:52.209 --> 00:01:54.769 on the road, but we're coming away with points 00:01:54.769 --> 00:01:56.290 this year, which is something we couldn't do 00:01:56.290 --> 00:02:00.750 last year. This season is that we have done better 00:02:00.750 --> 00:02:05.890 defensively in the final parts in the last half 00:02:05.890 --> 00:02:08.969 an hour, last 20 -15 minutes where we're able 00:02:08.969 --> 00:02:16.090 to absorb pressure and bend and not break. We're 00:02:16.090 --> 00:02:21.669 not giving up goals on set pieces anymore. was 00:02:21.669 --> 00:02:23.930 what felt like our kryptonite last season was 00:02:23.930 --> 00:02:29.590 set pieces. Yeah, totally. And it does feel like 00:02:29.590 --> 00:02:31.050 we're a little better, but we'll get into all 00:02:31.050 --> 00:02:34.870 that. I'm trying to think if there's any non 00:02:34.870 --> 00:02:38.030 -soccer scuttlebutt, anything in the world. Pukundukua 00:02:38.030 --> 00:02:43.990 is in rehab. I wish him well. He's kind of a 00:02:43.990 --> 00:02:49.259 fad. Oh. This is why you silence your phones. 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.280 The professional, the one that's been on radio 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:57.539 since 1999, didn't silence his phone. That was 00:02:57.539 --> 00:02:59.520 real smart of me. That's the new soundboard. 00:03:00.599 --> 00:03:07.419 Yeah, yeah. What's up next? Yeah, I mean, I'm 00:03:07.419 --> 00:03:11.719 trying to think of just any news out there that 00:03:11.719 --> 00:03:15.180 we've seen. That's non -soccer related. That's 00:03:15.180 --> 00:03:19.280 worth talking about. Baseball started. Yeah, 00:03:19.340 --> 00:03:21.580 baseball started. The Mariners, I think they're 00:03:21.580 --> 00:03:24.620 probably 500. Yeah, I think they lost last night. 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:27.800 Yeah, I think they lost two or three to the Yankees 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:31.080 and split the first series. So one under. They 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:34.900 don't look terrible. They look fine. Not any 00:03:34.900 --> 00:03:37.080 reason to freak out yet. And they just signed 00:03:37.080 --> 00:03:41.699 Colt Emerson to a, what, 10 -year, 100 and... 00:03:41.960 --> 00:03:44.120 $40 million deal or something like that. Yeah, 00:03:44.120 --> 00:03:48.280 I've seen that. It's gnarly. You only see that 00:03:48.280 --> 00:03:51.900 type of deal from Chelsea. Yeah, I mean, you 00:03:51.900 --> 00:03:56.560 lock up those. I mean, Dodgers do it, but what's 00:03:56.560 --> 00:03:58.259 the difference between Dodgers and Chelsea? Nothing, 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:04.740 really. One of them won championships. Chelsea's 00:04:04.740 --> 00:04:06.500 won quite a few. Come on. Yeah, but it's been 00:04:06.500 --> 00:04:09.599 a while. Yeah, it's been a few years. Not that 00:04:09.599 --> 00:04:12.770 bad. That's because they're owned by Americans 00:04:12.770 --> 00:04:16.629 now, and that's the problem. But, yeah, it's 00:04:16.629 --> 00:04:19.790 just they locked up their, I think, number seven 00:04:19.790 --> 00:04:22.470 overall prospect in baseball for the next decade. 00:04:23.829 --> 00:04:25.889 You know, the thing, I think the Mariners have 00:04:25.889 --> 00:04:28.810 done this in the past, and the guy never made 00:04:28.810 --> 00:04:31.990 it to the pros with, what, Evan White? Wasn't 00:04:31.990 --> 00:04:36.490 that big of a contract. So we'll see. I think 00:04:36.490 --> 00:04:39.750 he actually is getting called up. very soon that 00:04:39.750 --> 00:04:41.750 would be my guess if they made this contract 00:04:41.750 --> 00:04:46.889 but uh even with jp crawford being brought off 00:04:46.889 --> 00:04:50.029 the dl and brought or excuse me the il and uh 00:04:50.029 --> 00:04:52.470 brought back to the team ahead of the angel series 00:04:52.470 --> 00:04:55.089 coming up yeah i've seen a video of jp playing 00:04:55.089 --> 00:04:58.790 with i think it's the rainiers oh yeah nice yeah 00:04:58.790 --> 00:05:02.870 he that's cool it's kind of interesting how like 00:05:02.870 --> 00:05:05.569 we were talking about this last year of how in 00:05:05.569 --> 00:05:07.589 baseball they play with the minor league team 00:05:07.589 --> 00:05:09.920 and then they get bumped up when they're rehabbing 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:12.720 an injury like why can't we do that with soccer 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.300 it's a good question i need i still need to grab 00:05:16.300 --> 00:05:19.740 lunch with craig uh and so i'll i remind me to 00:05:19.740 --> 00:05:23.459 ask him when i do that because um that when i 00:05:23.459 --> 00:05:26.680 asked uh jackson felts the same question you 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:29.779 know who covers the sounders for kjr slash is 00:05:29.779 --> 00:05:32.120 the pre and post game show host he was like you 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:34.560 know that's a good question for craig Yeah, no, 00:05:34.620 --> 00:05:38.240 because it's an opportunity for them to get, 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.639 you know, it's game minutes. It's just like we 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:43.199 do with the younger players. Why can't we do 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:45.839 that to rehab an injury? Like, wouldn't it be 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:49.399 awesome to go see Pedro and Starfire drop four 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:54.839 goals against the Whitecaps 2 team? I saw Felix 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:59.819 Hernandez pitch in Everett. I didn't get to see 00:05:59.819 --> 00:06:03.560 much because my nephew was like, eight or nine 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:05.800 at the time and kept wanting to go get food and 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:08.839 threw a fit if I didn't take him. So I did, I 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:11.120 did not get to see that. I mean, that's one of 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:12.879 those ones where I would just sat there and watch, 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:16.360 but I did, I did get to see him. Of course, I 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:18.439 think he pitched there the first time around 00:06:18.439 --> 00:06:21.040 when he actually was coming up, but to see Felix 00:06:21.040 --> 00:06:25.680 do that later was pretty fun. Yeah. Baseball's 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:30.300 back. What did we, Seahawks are in the off season. 00:06:31.620 --> 00:06:33.939 The Torrent are coming down the stretch here. 00:06:34.019 --> 00:06:36.139 The Kraken fell apart down the stretch. Looks 00:06:36.139 --> 00:06:37.339 like they're not going to make the playoffs. 00:06:37.779 --> 00:06:43.660 How's the rain? The rain, you know, it feels 00:06:43.660 --> 00:06:46.639 like the rain are missing a few pieces still. 00:06:46.779 --> 00:06:49.279 Like they haven't recovered from last season 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:52.519 where they couldn't make any signings. It might 00:06:52.519 --> 00:06:58.199 be a Seattle soccer thing then. Well, they couldn't 00:06:58.199 --> 00:06:59.699 make any signings because they were for sale 00:06:59.699 --> 00:07:02.319 in... And so you just couldn't spend the money, 00:07:02.379 --> 00:07:05.600 right, until the outgoing owners didn't want 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:08.740 to spend any. And until that was approved, you 00:07:08.740 --> 00:07:11.379 know, it wasn't going to happen. So they lost 00:07:11.379 --> 00:07:13.600 some big players. I don't know if they've replaced 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.800 those, but I think they're still a fun team. 00:07:15.899 --> 00:07:19.019 I mean, we saw them beat Racing Louisville over 00:07:19.019 --> 00:07:22.800 the weekend and defeat the KC Current. So they 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.240 currently sit in third with nine points out of 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:29.180 a possible 12, I believe. No, it's not. But the 00:07:29.180 --> 00:07:31.680 losses to Portland, though, that's the... Yeah, 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.180 they're actually somehow ahead of Portland in 00:07:34.180 --> 00:07:35.879 the standings. I don't know how standings work 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:37.339 sometimes. I'm assuming it's goal differential. 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:40.620 Yeah. Well, I did see that the goalie for the 00:07:40.620 --> 00:07:45.800 rain guard called up for the U .S. WNT, the women's 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:49.000 national team. Awesome. So I'm like, that means 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:50.740 we're doing something good as far as the defense. 00:07:51.720 --> 00:07:55.360 Yeah, goal differential plus three. So it probably 00:07:55.360 --> 00:07:59.930 goes to goals four. Oh, we're plus four. Yeah. 00:07:59.990 --> 00:08:02.930 So we're actually tied for first, but Angel City 00:08:02.930 --> 00:08:08.149 has a game in hand. So I think it'll be a fun 00:08:08.149 --> 00:08:11.209 season, but they've also been on the road. Yeah. 00:08:11.269 --> 00:08:13.930 For the same reason that the Sounders have. And 00:08:13.930 --> 00:08:15.689 they're going to play a lot more in Spokane than 00:08:15.689 --> 00:08:24.620 we are. Yeah. Yeah. So it's interesting. We didn't 00:08:24.620 --> 00:08:26.439 talk about the big news. We alluded to the last 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:29.300 show that the Sonics may be coming back. The 00:08:29.300 --> 00:08:33.440 NBA has to obviously approve it. They're putting 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:36.840 out bids for ownership groups to step up to the 00:08:36.840 --> 00:08:39.840 plate. There already is an ownership group in 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:45.639 place. I was talking to Gary Payton last weekend, 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:52.750 and he thinks it's a done deal. everyone's like, 00:08:52.850 --> 00:08:57.269 hold on, listen to the words of Nate. No, not 00:08:57.269 --> 00:08:59.250 Nate Silver, David Silver, whatever the guy is, 00:08:59.289 --> 00:09:01.169 the commissioner of the NBA. Now that's how much 00:09:01.169 --> 00:09:03.509 I pay attention to the NBA because of it. But 00:09:03.509 --> 00:09:05.809 he's like, hold on. Like you're saying this is 00:09:05.809 --> 00:09:07.730 just a chance they have to go through. But to 00:09:07.730 --> 00:09:13.809 me, it feels more like these are the steps legally 00:09:13.809 --> 00:09:16.470 that you have to go through. And so while it's 00:09:16.470 --> 00:09:18.490 not a done deal and lots of stuff can come up, 00:09:18.509 --> 00:09:20.690 I'm confident that it's more likely than not 00:09:20.690 --> 00:09:23.759 that it's going to happen. Yeah. Are they planning 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:28.019 to use Climate Pledge as the NBA arena? Yeah, 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.059 because the same ownership as the Kraken. And 00:09:31.059 --> 00:09:36.120 we're already seeing ownership groups switch 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:39.700 around in the amount they own of certain stuff 00:09:39.700 --> 00:09:45.019 because the stadium in Vegas or the team in Vegas 00:09:45.019 --> 00:09:46.820 will be owned by the team that built the stadium 00:09:46.820 --> 00:09:51.059 here. So the meaning, the team of owners. So 00:09:51.059 --> 00:09:54.240 they were seeing some stuff already getting moved 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:56.940 around to make sure that it's it's falls under 00:09:56.940 --> 00:09:59.259 the NBA guidelines for owner. You know, you can't 00:09:59.259 --> 00:10:02.179 own two teams and and whatnot and have contradictions 00:10:02.179 --> 00:10:06.700 too much. But yeah, I mean, I think I think they'll 00:10:06.700 --> 00:10:11.080 play there. They'll be another team. And I'm 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:14.659 excited. You know, I don't I won't get tickets. 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:17.620 Because they're going to be too expensive because 00:10:17.620 --> 00:10:19.960 everything's too expensive. But I think Seattle 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:24.460 becomes the city with the most pro teams of any 00:10:24.460 --> 00:10:31.860 city in the country. Between the Reign, the Sounders, 00:10:31.919 --> 00:10:36.860 the Kraken, the Torrent, the Mariners, the Sonics, 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:45.600 the Storm, the rugby team, the Seawolves. Don't 00:10:45.600 --> 00:10:48.600 forget the Superhawks. Yeah, Superhawks. No, 00:10:48.700 --> 00:10:50.500 but they're minor league. But, yeah, I mean, 00:10:50.500 --> 00:10:52.139 they're pro basketball. You're right. And then 00:10:52.139 --> 00:10:54.620 you don't even get all the USL teams we have. 00:10:55.639 --> 00:11:01.159 Yep, yep. But, I mean, ultimately with the USL 00:11:01.159 --> 00:11:04.720 teams, this is way, like, going off sideways. 00:11:04.840 --> 00:11:07.179 But you know how London has, like, eight Premier 00:11:07.179 --> 00:11:10.139 League teams? Yeah. I don't know if they actually 00:11:10.139 --> 00:11:12.139 have that many, but they have eight major teams. 00:11:12.139 --> 00:11:13.740 Well, they might have a championship team here 00:11:13.740 --> 00:11:17.850 pretty soon. Yeah. Yeah, they already have one, 00:11:17.909 --> 00:11:21.950 but they'll have more. I would love it if we 00:11:21.950 --> 00:11:23.970 had that in the Seattle area, where there was 00:11:23.970 --> 00:11:27.990 eight minor league teams around. You know, USL 00:11:27.990 --> 00:11:31.990 2 is not going to be part of the pyramid, which 00:11:31.990 --> 00:11:36.870 is a bummer. So they can't get promoted up to 00:11:36.870 --> 00:11:40.350 USL 1. But they're also semi -pros, so I guess 00:11:40.350 --> 00:11:44.179 it makes sense. Over the years, we could see 00:11:44.179 --> 00:11:48.820 a USO1 team form. Yeah, I think so for sure. 00:11:49.039 --> 00:11:51.500 I mean, I think any team, like Ballard could 00:11:51.500 --> 00:11:53.799 move up now if they wanted to. It's just the 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:57.279 amount of investment I think you need in it is 00:11:57.279 --> 00:12:00.259 tough. And I think there is a realistic concern 00:12:00.259 --> 00:12:02.279 for some of the minor league teams with so many 00:12:02.279 --> 00:12:04.360 pros. I mean, if the Sonics come back, that's 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:08.860 more money that has to be spent on them by fans. 00:12:09.019 --> 00:12:12.320 And so that's less time and less money. for other 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:16.159 teams. Yeah. But I just, I think that with all 00:12:16.159 --> 00:12:18.860 this, all these sports, different sports teams 00:12:18.860 --> 00:12:23.159 in Seattle and let's, you want to see it. Let's 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:24.940 see. You want to watch the basketball, basketball 00:12:24.940 --> 00:12:27.980 game on Tuesday. And then they're like, Oh, Ballard 00:12:27.980 --> 00:12:32.620 plays on Friday. Go see Ballard. I think tickets 00:12:32.620 --> 00:12:36.419 are, you know, they're, they're pretty cheap. 00:12:36.620 --> 00:12:39.460 They're good. Maybe they're like 20 bucks. Maybe. 00:12:40.080 --> 00:12:42.200 you can take a cheaper than that sometimes you 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:45.519 can take a family uh member you can take a family 00:12:45.519 --> 00:12:47.639 there and it's what the mariners used to be right 00:12:47.639 --> 00:12:51.240 yeah so you could take your family uh at least 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:53.940 during the playoffs not the play yeah during 00:12:53.940 --> 00:12:57.000 the u .s open cup it i was a little bummed at 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:00.799 the the lack of amenities there but i think uh 00:13:00.799 --> 00:13:04.440 that was off season right that wasn't actually 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:06.659 played during the ballard fc season they just 00:13:06.659 --> 00:13:08.179 had to bring in the players they had locally 00:13:08.179 --> 00:13:12.899 and Like Lamar Nagel and some other former Sounders 00:13:12.899 --> 00:13:14.519 were on the team. Oh, yeah, because it was during 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:18.039 college. And, you know, a lot of other players 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:19.559 were over there winning a national championship. 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:26.399 Yeah. Yeah. No, but I think... Yeah, but I think 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:29.799 going back to the Sonics, I think the NBA has 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:32.399 seen, you know, the ratings and revenue drop 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.899 over the, you know, past couple seasons. If the 00:13:35.899 --> 00:13:38.139 Sonics come back, revenue is going to... It's 00:13:38.139 --> 00:13:39.940 going to skyrocket. You're going to see that 00:13:39.940 --> 00:13:42.940 upward trajectory. Yeah, and they've been creating 00:13:42.940 --> 00:13:46.240 revenue this entire time for the NBA since all 00:13:46.240 --> 00:13:48.279 that merch gets sold. There's no team that they 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:50.059 have to share that revenue with. It just goes 00:13:50.059 --> 00:13:51.460 straight to the NBA. I mean, they might need 00:13:51.460 --> 00:13:54.059 to do revenue sharing with all the teams, but 00:13:54.059 --> 00:13:58.679 it certainly does not come here. Word has it, 00:13:58.700 --> 00:14:00.960 I read a reporter saying that Oklahoma City will 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:04.340 give up the history to Seattle. And that's the 00:14:04.340 --> 00:14:06.360 kind of stuff that makes me think that there's 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:08.299 been enough done behind the scenes to make this 00:14:08.299 --> 00:14:12.200 happen. Obviously not getting my hopes up completely 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:16.960 until it's done. But I mean, I remember where 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:19.940 I was when they announced the deal that let them 00:14:19.940 --> 00:14:24.000 move. I mean, I was in my, I had the radio on 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:27.460 in the bathroom and my. which was right across 00:14:27.460 --> 00:14:29.240 the hall from my bedroom at the time I was living 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:32.440 in Leschi and just sat down and started crying. 00:14:32.620 --> 00:14:35.460 And my girlfriend was like, what's wrong? And 00:14:35.460 --> 00:14:38.019 I had to like explain to her like, Oh, the team's 00:14:38.019 --> 00:14:41.980 moving that I grew up with. And you know, this 00:14:41.980 --> 00:14:46.419 was a basketball city. It still is a basketball 00:14:46.419 --> 00:14:49.960 city. It is. It is. But I mean, the Mariners 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:53.820 were terrible. The Seahawks were terrible. There 00:14:53.820 --> 00:14:59.190 were no Sounders. This was a city that thrived 00:14:59.190 --> 00:15:03.870 on the supersonics. So losing them still to this 00:15:03.870 --> 00:15:06.029 day makes no sense. Shout out to James Ward, 00:15:06.090 --> 00:15:08.590 who watched Sonic Skate the other day, which 00:15:08.590 --> 00:15:11.070 you can watch in its entirety. Get the director's 00:15:11.070 --> 00:15:12.929 cut, the full -length version, not the TV version, 00:15:12.990 --> 00:15:16.649 on YouTube for free. A movie I was an associate 00:15:16.649 --> 00:15:19.669 producer on and did all the legal work for. Gonna 00:15:19.669 --> 00:15:23.340 have to check that out. It's so good, but I can't 00:15:23.340 --> 00:15:25.019 watch the second. I can only watch the beginning 00:15:25.019 --> 00:15:27.679 when it's the history. When we were touring with 00:15:27.679 --> 00:15:31.200 it in theaters, I had to walk out after the history 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.259 because it just upset me too much after I saw 00:15:33.259 --> 00:15:39.559 it for the first time. Yeah. And I think seeing 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:42.539 all the talent that there is at the high school 00:15:42.539 --> 00:15:48.159 level, you don't really see it with UW as much 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:51.490 because I think... A lot of the kids go to the 00:15:51.490 --> 00:15:54.049 other schools, especially like on the East Coast 00:15:54.049 --> 00:15:57.649 and, you know, the Big Ten. What's the other 00:15:57.649 --> 00:16:02.289 one? The ACC. UW is not keeping – I mean, I think 00:16:02.289 --> 00:16:04.090 college basketball doesn't keep local talent 00:16:04.090 --> 00:16:08.629 anymore. Yeah. Not with NIL deals, everything. 00:16:08.730 --> 00:16:12.919 The whole thing has changed now. Yeah. Yeah, 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:16.860 but looking at all these great high schools that 00:16:16.860 --> 00:16:19.700 have these great basketball teams, you have teams 00:16:19.700 --> 00:16:23.899 going back to back to back, and they're just 00:16:23.899 --> 00:16:28.960 dominating at the state level. Speaking of which, 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:33.220 did you go to Yakima's own Yakima Heat versus 00:16:33.220 --> 00:16:36.000 the Superhawks? Didn't they play there recently? 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:40.679 No, that's going to be next or in a few weeks. 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:46.519 I think it's in two weeks. Yeah. I forgot. Oh, 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:48.100 no, you're right. It was a Saturday game, so 00:16:48.100 --> 00:16:51.139 they wouldn't play again until this week. Well, 00:16:51.179 --> 00:16:54.440 they have a doubleheader coming up. Oh, nice. 00:16:54.539 --> 00:16:56.820 Against Vancouver Bears. They play them on, I 00:16:56.820 --> 00:17:00.980 think, Friday and Saturday. Yakima has a long 00:17:00.980 --> 00:17:04.440 history of minor league basketballs and sending 00:17:04.440 --> 00:17:06.740 players to the pros. Yeah, because I remember 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:10.660 a couple years ago we had the Sun Kings. Yep. 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:12.279 And the Sun Kings was the team that was there 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:15.980 throughout the 80s and 90s too. I mean, that's 00:17:15.980 --> 00:17:19.740 the historical team that you had players like 00:17:19.740 --> 00:17:25.400 the original Super Hawks coach, Eldon, who went 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:31.119 on to guard Michael Jordan. Like, how do you 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:34.140 go from Yakima to there? But dominated the league 00:17:34.140 --> 00:17:37.240 and got picked up by the Hawks. There might have 00:17:37.240 --> 00:17:39.259 been a little European stint in the middle there, 00:17:39.380 --> 00:17:43.880 but, you know, like you see players go pro. So 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:47.059 good on the Yakima Heat. Malik, the assistant 00:17:47.059 --> 00:17:50.460 coach, is a former Super Hawks player. So although 00:17:50.460 --> 00:17:54.180 we squanched all over you guys this past weekend. 00:17:54.480 --> 00:17:56.740 Yeah. If you guys don't win the championship 00:17:56.740 --> 00:18:01.799 this year, then someone has to get fired. Yeah. 00:18:01.859 --> 00:18:04.200 I mean, there are six coaches that we have now 00:18:04.200 --> 00:18:10.109 that are all like. Former NBA, WNBA, and, I mean, 00:18:10.130 --> 00:18:14.150 our other assistant coach, I mean, superstars, 00:18:14.150 --> 00:18:16.089 and then our other assistant coach led Franklin 00:18:16.089 --> 00:18:18.170 to a bunch of championships over 20 years. And 00:18:18.170 --> 00:18:21.670 then you have, like, a former NBA player that's 00:18:21.670 --> 00:18:26.849 in his prime. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, like, just 00:18:26.849 --> 00:18:30.569 kidding. It's all injuries, right? And people 00:18:30.569 --> 00:18:33.950 say healthy, but. You guys are the inner Miami 00:18:33.950 --> 00:18:37.950 of the league. Oh, my God. It's true. No, because 00:18:37.950 --> 00:18:39.750 we only have one. We're not bringing in other 00:18:39.750 --> 00:18:44.630 people yet. Not yet. Well, let's talk some soccer 00:18:44.630 --> 00:18:47.829 here. We had some interesting matchups this past 00:18:47.829 --> 00:18:51.809 weekend where we saw Italy once again decide 00:18:51.809 --> 00:18:55.910 to boycott the FIFA World Cup. You know, they 00:18:55.910 --> 00:18:59.700 decided, you know. For humanitarian purposes, 00:19:00.160 --> 00:19:02.400 we just don't want to go to Trump's America. 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:07.099 And lost in penalties to Bosnia with the Milwaukee 00:19:07.099 --> 00:19:10.940 Messi hitting the game -winning penalty. It's 00:19:10.940 --> 00:19:13.460 because they'd rather go to the Russia World 00:19:13.460 --> 00:19:19.680 Cup. Yeah. Oh, my God. It's insane that Italy 00:19:19.680 --> 00:19:23.700 has now missed the last three World Cups. I'm 00:19:23.700 --> 00:19:27.769 not surprised. Because these past three World 00:19:27.769 --> 00:19:31.230 Cup cycles, what I have noticed is that in the 00:19:31.230 --> 00:19:35.369 big moments, Italy is crumbling. Yeah. And this 00:19:35.369 --> 00:19:40.089 goes far deeper into, if you look at their league, 00:19:40.190 --> 00:19:43.950 the Serie A, what players are dominating the 00:19:43.950 --> 00:19:49.410 league? A lot of foreigners. Yeah. You had Scott 00:19:49.410 --> 00:19:51.990 McTominay win player of the season the first 00:19:51.990 --> 00:19:55.519 year he went in. Is he still there? I think he's 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:59.700 in Napoli still. Okay. And, you know, he was 00:19:59.700 --> 00:20:02.359 average for Man United. Then he goes to Napoli 00:20:02.359 --> 00:20:06.059 and he's all of a sudden this superstar. But 00:20:06.059 --> 00:20:09.220 Italy, what's Italy known for? They're known 00:20:09.220 --> 00:20:13.720 for producing world -class defenders and midfielders. 00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:18.019 But when is the last time they've produced a 00:20:18.019 --> 00:20:23.619 world -class attacker or a winger? Yeah, I guess 00:20:23.619 --> 00:20:27.119 for me there's a bunch, but those are not recent. 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:29.980 Yeah, it's like when people talk about Brazil's 00:20:29.980 --> 00:20:33.140 dominance back then. It's like when you hear 00:20:33.140 --> 00:20:36.539 a 49er fan talking about their five rings. You 00:20:36.539 --> 00:20:38.619 got to go get a VHS to go see that, just like 00:20:38.619 --> 00:20:41.500 we got to go see the black and white Brazil dominating 00:20:41.500 --> 00:20:47.819 the World Cup. I mean, no. The 94, 98 Brazil 00:20:47.819 --> 00:20:54.480 teams were incredible. They were, but now? The 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:56.460 thing is, it's relative, right? Sure, are they 00:20:56.460 --> 00:20:58.079 number one in the world? No, but they're top 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:01.160 five in the world. Brazil top five? I think so. 00:21:01.220 --> 00:21:04.140 I can name five teams that are over Brazil. You 00:21:04.140 --> 00:21:06.700 think so? Yeah. What are they actually ranked? 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:08.859 I wonder. That's a good question. Maybe top ten. 00:21:08.900 --> 00:21:10.920 I'm looking at the best Italian strikers ever 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:16.839 just to see when the newest one was. This is 00:21:16.839 --> 00:21:21.599 by 442, which is a major soccer magazine out 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:23.619 of England that's been around forever. But Robert 00:21:23.619 --> 00:21:27.819 Baggio was on the 94 team. This guy was from 00:21:27.819 --> 00:21:31.380 the 30s. This guy was in the 80s. This guy was 00:21:31.380 --> 00:21:36.140 in the 30s. There's no one. Del Piero, who was 00:21:36.140 --> 00:21:42.480 in the 90s and 2000s. Toti, same thing. I'll 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:45.579 give you Toti, but Toti was in... Toti's been 00:21:45.579 --> 00:21:48.109 what? since i think the last time we played was 00:21:48.109 --> 00:21:51.210 around 2010 2015 yeah i mean christian vieira 00:21:51.210 --> 00:21:57.130 late 90s i mean they've done luca tony mid 2000s 00:21:57.130 --> 00:22:00.470 that might be that might be the i mean like you're 00:22:00.470 --> 00:22:02.809 right you're absolutely you can make a case for 00:22:02.809 --> 00:22:08.119 balotelli Yeah. But he, I don't know if he did 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:10.779 anything for the international. He was good at 00:22:10.779 --> 00:22:12.440 the club level. I just don't know if he did anything 00:22:12.440 --> 00:22:14.259 for the Italian club. Yeah, he seemed to never, 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:18.940 never, yeah. He was always a frustrating player 00:22:18.940 --> 00:22:20.980 to watch because of the amount of talent he had. 00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:25.279 But since you mentioned Baggio, I've been seeing 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:30.440 that he wrote a 900 -page report on how to fix 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:35.240 Italian football. so they won't miss another 00:22:35.240 --> 00:22:37.119 World Cup. And the Federation just said, nah, 00:22:37.339 --> 00:22:41.640 let's just not worry about it. I mean, they got 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:45.900 to celebrate those heroes. Sadly, Gianluca Vialli 00:22:45.900 --> 00:22:49.039 passed away, who was coaching for them before. 00:22:49.140 --> 00:22:54.319 He's my favorite player of all time. Zola's getting 00:22:54.319 --> 00:22:59.720 older. They got to, yeah. I mean, I feel bad 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:04.180 for my Italian friends, I love it when Italy 00:23:04.180 --> 00:23:06.119 doesn't make it. I really wanted to make a video 00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:08.579 of me being like, I'm going to eat a spaghetti 00:23:08.579 --> 00:23:12.559 because I feel bad for my friends from Italy 00:23:12.559 --> 00:23:14.160 who didn't get it. And then I was going to break 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:16.099 the spaghetti in half and throw it in the bowl. 00:23:16.319 --> 00:23:18.359 And then get the ketchup and be like, here's 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:21.579 my sauce. And what's funny is that Adidas had 00:23:21.579 --> 00:23:25.880 dropped their World Cup jersey. Oh, no. And it 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:29.680 was the one they wore against Bosnia. Okay, yeah. 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:32.680 So now that that Jersey is cursed and it's going 00:23:32.680 --> 00:23:35.500 to bring a lot of Italian fans, you know, a lot 00:23:35.500 --> 00:23:40.000 of pain. Yeah. But I mean, the funny thing is 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:42.299 they, who was it? They had a defender who was 00:23:42.299 --> 00:23:44.400 born in New Jersey and I was always mad that 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:48.640 he never, like the Americans just never tried 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:50.559 to even get them into camp. And that seems like 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:53.079 something that we do a lot here where we miss 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:56.180 out on brilliant American players who have dual 00:23:56.180 --> 00:24:00.359 nationality because they. Because of politics, 00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:03.640 like soccer politics, not like... Well, I think 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:05.819 they're going to miss out on this. I can't remember 00:24:05.819 --> 00:24:08.279 his first name, but he's in the Bundesliga. He's 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:13.019 half German. Banks is his last name. And it's 00:24:13.019 --> 00:24:15.839 looking like he's more than likely going to play 00:24:15.839 --> 00:24:19.759 for Germany. Which, I mean, he'll have more success 00:24:19.759 --> 00:24:23.640 playing for Germany. I mean... Unless you want 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:27.890 to win a Gold Cup. But where will he get more 00:24:27.890 --> 00:24:29.769 minutes? I mean, I think that's one of the reasons 00:24:29.769 --> 00:24:33.089 why people choose other countries. Landon's been 00:24:33.089 --> 00:24:35.130 really hard on him. And Landy Cakes, man, you 00:24:35.130 --> 00:24:37.529 don't get to be hard on people. Yeah, he's like 00:24:37.529 --> 00:24:39.589 the kid's 18. He wants him to make a decision 00:24:39.589 --> 00:24:42.849 that's going to change his trajectory for the 00:24:42.849 --> 00:24:46.210 next 10, 15 years. Right. Like he's 18. Like 00:24:46.210 --> 00:24:50.150 when I was 18, I was I don't think the same way 00:24:50.150 --> 00:24:52.740 I did three years ago, four years ago. When I 00:24:52.740 --> 00:24:54.579 was 18, I was a senior in high school. Yeah. 00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:58.359 When I was 18, COVID was still a thing. Oh, my 00:24:58.359 --> 00:25:05.859 God. You're a baby. Yeah. But if you look at 00:25:05.859 --> 00:25:08.680 Italian football again, what do coaches tend 00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:11.119 to do? They tend to play the more experienced 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:14.640 players because if they don't get results, they 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:18.140 get fired. So they don't really get the chance 00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:19.500 to play the youth because they don't have the 00:25:19.500 --> 00:25:24.470 chance to, you know. to mess up because if if 00:25:24.470 --> 00:25:28.150 you drop if you drop points here there and then 00:25:28.150 --> 00:25:30.970 guess what you're gonna come in the next day 00:25:30.970 --> 00:25:35.089 you're fired and i think that the top teams hoard 00:25:35.089 --> 00:25:38.150 the youth versus like in germany you'll have 00:25:38.150 --> 00:25:41.269 youth players on other local teams that come 00:25:41.269 --> 00:25:43.849 up and then they will get bought later but uh 00:25:43.849 --> 00:25:48.049 you know germany has consistently been able to 00:25:48.049 --> 00:25:51.559 reboot their team with new players Yeah. But 00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:53.799 even like, look at Juventus, they have some youth, 00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:56.200 you know, they got some young players, but what 00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:58.079 are the young players they have are from Turkey. 00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:02.960 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, France, you know, it's similar. 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:09.019 I mean, that's, that's the one beautiful thing 00:26:09.019 --> 00:26:15.240 about some of these teams is that. When you live 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:17.220 in a country of immigrants, you get to bring 00:26:17.220 --> 00:26:19.599 in people from all over the world to be on your 00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:21.819 national team. And I like that about the U .S. 00:26:21.819 --> 00:26:23.539 too, but let me tell you, the xenophobes get 00:26:23.539 --> 00:26:26.940 real mad about it. Yeah, or if they're playing 00:26:26.940 --> 00:26:32.940 MLS. Yeah, exactly. So let's talk about some 00:26:32.940 --> 00:26:34.480 of these other games because we did say Italy 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:38.019 won one loss in penalties to Bosnia and Herzegovina. 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:42.539 Czechia beat Denmark 2 -2 in penalties to go 00:26:42.539 --> 00:26:46.089 through. Turkey A beat Kosovo 1 -0 to go through, 00:26:46.150 --> 00:26:50.089 and Sweden knocked out Poland 3 -2. Those are 00:26:50.089 --> 00:26:53.630 the European qualifiers. Congo beat Jamaica to 00:26:53.630 --> 00:26:56.309 make the World Cup. Jamaica had those Bob Marley 00:26:56.309 --> 00:27:00.029 retro kits. Kind of a bummer that we're not going 00:27:00.029 --> 00:27:03.230 to get to see those at the World Cup. But DR 00:27:03.230 --> 00:27:05.289 Congo looks like fun. I saw on a video their 00:27:05.289 --> 00:27:08.690 fans. They're going to be a party if they're 00:27:08.690 --> 00:27:12.049 able to get visas. Absolutely. It'll be great. 00:27:12.859 --> 00:27:18.740 I mean, I'm sure there's a large Congolese contingent 00:27:18.740 --> 00:27:20.980 in the U .S. already who hopefully can travel 00:27:20.980 --> 00:27:22.980 to – do you know where they're playing? I don't 00:27:22.980 --> 00:27:25.400 know. I don't know, but I don't know if they're 00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:29.039 even – just take your prices. It's a mess. Yeah, 00:27:29.059 --> 00:27:31.259 no kidding. That's what we should have done. 00:27:31.299 --> 00:27:33.980 Iraq, Libya, the other one. But, yeah, go ahead. 00:27:34.059 --> 00:27:37.359 But FIFA apparently has taken down pictures of 00:27:37.359 --> 00:27:39.940 the stadium maps because people are finding out 00:27:39.940 --> 00:27:43.640 where they're sitting. Yeah. And they're horrible 00:27:43.640 --> 00:27:49.720 seats. Yeah, mine are decent for the USA -Australia 00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:55.299 match. I'm in the corner. 214. I haven't been 00:27:55.299 --> 00:27:59.339 able to see my ticket. You had to go into ticket 00:27:59.339 --> 00:28:02.920 sales and then look inside while you were in 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:06.380 the ticket sales trying to buy a ticket. So I 00:28:06.380 --> 00:28:08.339 had those. And then I looked at my other ones. 00:28:10.059 --> 00:28:14.500 300 -level row BB, so way up at the top for the 00:28:14.500 --> 00:28:19.500 Qatar -Kosovo match. Yeah, it's Kosovo, right? 00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:27.880 Bosnia. Could have been Italy. Yeah, I mean, 00:28:27.900 --> 00:28:30.039 that's the thing. As much as I was rooting against 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:33.099 Italy, it did hurt me in case I wanted to resell 00:28:33.099 --> 00:28:35.799 those tickets. Tickets are on sale to the public 00:28:35.799 --> 00:28:41.750 now. I did not buy any because who knows what's 00:28:41.750 --> 00:28:44.369 left. Maybe I'll pull it up right now and see. 00:28:45.150 --> 00:28:48.869 But hopefully they start dropping prices. They 00:28:48.869 --> 00:28:52.670 don't seem like they want to, though. Yeah, I 00:28:52.670 --> 00:28:54.890 was talking to a friend of mine earlier in the 00:28:54.890 --> 00:28:57.609 week before the Italy game. I'm like, Italy is 00:28:57.609 --> 00:29:00.710 going to blow it. They always tend to. I'm like, 00:29:00.750 --> 00:29:06.650 I have Bosnia going through. And, you know, that's 00:29:06.650 --> 00:29:12.990 what happened. Yep. So pretty crazy, pretty crazy. 00:29:14.490 --> 00:29:17.049 Why don't we take a break here and we'll come 00:29:17.049 --> 00:29:18.809 back and we'll do some sounder scuttlebutt and 00:29:18.809 --> 00:29:20.450 then we'll talk about the upcoming Houston match. 00:29:22.069 --> 00:29:42.670 All right, here we go. Hey everybody, this is 00:29:42.670 --> 00:29:45.509 one of your hosts, Cameron Collins. 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It was 00:32:33.849 --> 00:32:38.750 Nico reporting, I presume. Yeah. But Brian Schmister 00:32:38.750 --> 00:32:40.890 talked about it at the press conference. You 00:32:40.890 --> 00:32:44.569 want to talk about that? Yeah. Nikolai Petrovic 00:32:44.569 --> 00:32:48.809 is out for the year towards ACL. He's been looking 00:32:48.809 --> 00:32:52.509 good, so it's a little frustrating, huh? Yeah, 00:32:52.650 --> 00:32:55.490 it was too good to be true that we got in this 00:32:55.490 --> 00:33:01.829 early in the year without an ECO. I mean, the 00:33:01.829 --> 00:33:03.890 hope was we wouldn't have to deal with one, but 00:33:03.890 --> 00:33:07.529 hopefully that's it. It was on practice on Saturday. 00:33:08.009 --> 00:33:11.609 Yeah. And the thing that was so upsetting, and 00:33:11.609 --> 00:33:13.329 Brian didn't know anything about it in the press 00:33:13.329 --> 00:33:14.910 conference, he was like, oh, I don't know, but 00:33:14.910 --> 00:33:17.869 they had interviewed him that week before. And 00:33:17.869 --> 00:33:19.730 he talked about how excited he was for his parents 00:33:19.730 --> 00:33:22.289 to come into town. And it just kind of breaks 00:33:22.289 --> 00:33:24.529 my heart that his parents flew across the world 00:33:24.529 --> 00:33:29.210 to, you know, be here while he was getting in 00:33:29.210 --> 00:33:30.829 with this team and for him to get that injury. 00:33:30.950 --> 00:33:33.950 But also, I'm glad they're actually going to 00:33:33.950 --> 00:33:36.690 be here to take care of him now, to help him 00:33:36.690 --> 00:33:39.089 mentally more than anything, because I'm sure 00:33:39.089 --> 00:33:42.869 either Seattle or Carolina, whoever chooses to. 00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:45.200 carolina chooses to do the surgery will take 00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.640 care of him yeah physically yeah because that's 00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:50.420 that's where um it makes me like wonder i'm like 00:33:50.420 --> 00:33:55.319 since he's on loan who are we is he gonna rehab 00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:57.980 in seattle is he gonna relet rehab in charlotte 00:33:57.980 --> 00:34:01.140 i mean ultimately i think it's up to charlotte 00:34:01.140 --> 00:34:05.240 um my guess is they will let him be here but 00:34:05.240 --> 00:34:10.900 you know uh i because he doesn't really have 00:34:10.900 --> 00:34:12.219 a spot there anymore it's one of the reasons 00:34:12.219 --> 00:34:14.920 why he was they moved from the club. Right. Yeah. 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:17.559 And I mean, I liked the way that he was playing. 00:34:18.420 --> 00:34:20.679 Yeah. He, well, Schmetzer said that he said, 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:22.099 you know, we can't, I can't say whether or not 00:34:22.099 --> 00:34:23.940 we're going to resign him or not. Cause that's 00:34:23.940 --> 00:34:26.559 all like, there's contract tractual stuff around 00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:28.900 all of this and the loan, you know, who knows, 00:34:28.960 --> 00:34:30.800 this is me saying this alone may automatically 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:34.159 end with the injury. You know, who, who knows 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:37.480 what's in that language, but I would love to 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:41.219 see him back. If. If there's a way to make that 00:34:41.219 --> 00:34:44.460 happen. I don't know if that changes the value, 00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:49.219 though, also, of what he offers. I think if we're 00:34:49.219 --> 00:34:51.840 able to sign him back, but at a lower value, 00:34:52.099 --> 00:34:57.920 then I think the fee was $2 million. Yeah. Around 00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:00.440 that range. If we're able to get him for cheaper, 00:35:00.579 --> 00:35:04.179 then I think it'll be a good deal. Yeah, like 00:35:04.179 --> 00:35:07.019 $2 million seems like a lot for him right now 00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:08.940 with that injury, right? He was going to have 00:35:08.940 --> 00:35:11.199 to show up and show out really well for that. 00:35:11.260 --> 00:35:13.960 Especially like we don't want to spend $2 million 00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:17.159 on a player that's going to be on the bench, 00:35:17.340 --> 00:35:22.139 a rotation player. I'd rather put that $2 million 00:35:22.139 --> 00:35:30.429 towards a DP striker. Yeah, no kidding. I hopefully, 00:35:30.570 --> 00:35:32.349 I mean, we talked about it in the Georgie episode. 00:35:32.710 --> 00:35:35.130 Hopefully that's something that can happen anyway. 00:35:35.289 --> 00:35:37.869 Yeah, it really looks like, you know, Craig is 00:35:37.869 --> 00:35:41.150 gearing up to do something in the summer. Yeah, 00:35:41.190 --> 00:35:43.869 that's what I feel like too. I know people are 00:35:43.869 --> 00:35:48.530 skeptical, but I mean, the amount of, I don't 00:35:48.530 --> 00:35:50.489 know the actual numbers, right? But the amount 00:35:50.489 --> 00:35:53.550 of gam we have available, I could also see us 00:35:53.550 --> 00:35:57.789 bringing in a U -22 striker. Yeah. a younger 00:35:57.789 --> 00:36:00.510 guy who's going to cost a couple million that 00:36:00.510 --> 00:36:04.710 can have an instant impact as well. But I don't 00:36:04.710 --> 00:36:11.710 know if – I would want a player of Pedro's stature, 00:36:11.849 --> 00:36:14.050 if I'm being honest. We need another X factor, 00:36:14.190 --> 00:36:16.170 a player that can take over a game on his own. 00:36:16.710 --> 00:36:19.190 Because if you look at the roster, the only player 00:36:19.190 --> 00:36:21.429 that can really change a game on its own is Pedro. 00:36:23.839 --> 00:36:25.420 Yeah, that's true. I mean, I feel like Jesus, 00:36:25.579 --> 00:36:27.260 we're starting to see a little more of that, 00:36:27.300 --> 00:36:30.199 but I wonder how much of that is because a, he's 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:32.099 more comfortable and B when you have areola out 00:36:32.099 --> 00:36:34.219 there, it just gives them a little more freedom 00:36:34.219 --> 00:36:36.360 because he knows where they know each other so 00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:39.320 well. I see Jesus more as like a conductor, you 00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:42.679 know, he's the, he's the one that's gonna, he 00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:47.280 is like, he's like a painter, like a Bob Ross. 00:36:47.699 --> 00:36:50.460 He's going to paint the picture and then to finish 00:36:50.460 --> 00:36:54.239 it off, someone else is going to sign it. Yeah. 00:36:54.239 --> 00:36:56.960 He has been getting those goals, though. I mean, 00:36:57.019 --> 00:37:02.019 he's probably been our most successful player 00:37:02.019 --> 00:37:04.380 this year. I mean, by the numbers, don't you 00:37:04.380 --> 00:37:06.219 think? Yeah, he's been. You know, I think he's 00:37:06.219 --> 00:37:12.800 our top assister. Yeah. And he's got goals. And, 00:37:12.800 --> 00:37:16.760 like, this is the Jesus that I knew, you know, 00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:20.940 that he was going to be. Like, he was going to 00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:23.760 be, like. When they first announced the signing, 00:37:23.860 --> 00:37:27.239 I thought it was a great signing. And I know 00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:28.960 a lot of people were like, oh, he's going to 00:37:28.960 --> 00:37:31.800 be our new number nine. And, you know, that didn't 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:35.960 necessarily work out because he's just not that 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:40.199 same player he was back at Dallas. Because even 00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:42.739 in, you know, his last few years at Dallas, once 00:37:42.739 --> 00:37:45.340 they brought in Musa, he was playing more as 00:37:45.340 --> 00:37:49.059 a number 10, as a second striker. It would play 00:37:49.059 --> 00:37:57.900 off Musa. Yeah, totally. I mean, this year we, 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:01.139 well, from the end of last year to this year, 00:38:01.260 --> 00:38:05.780 we sold Atencio for $1 .3 million, Leyva for 00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:10.059 $750 ,000, Obed for $2 .5 million, RBW for $1 00:38:10.059 --> 00:38:14.760 .1 million, and Minugu for $2 million. So we 00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:18.139 have, it feels like there should be some flexibility 00:38:18.139 --> 00:38:24.019 there. to pay down some players in order to sign 00:38:24.019 --> 00:38:30.139 an impact player. And then that also doesn't 00:38:30.139 --> 00:38:32.599 take into account how much money we still have 00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:35.880 from Club World Cup and Winning Leagues Cup. 00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:40.320 Yeah, I'd heard that we had spent the Club World 00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:44.880 Cup money already, but that season, that was 00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:48.550 part of bringing Jesus in. But I think it goes 00:38:48.550 --> 00:38:52.750 to the fact that we also were given GAM at the 00:38:52.750 --> 00:38:54.570 beginning of the season, and I have no idea how 00:38:54.570 --> 00:38:57.250 much GAM we have left. Yeah, well, that $2 million 00:38:57.250 --> 00:39:00.250 that we got from Georgie is all GAM. But I think 00:39:00.250 --> 00:39:01.909 it's like $1 million this year and $1 million 00:39:01.909 --> 00:39:06.250 next year. Yeah, but you can use it to pay down 00:39:06.250 --> 00:39:08.710 players and do all sorts of things. I think they're 00:39:08.710 --> 00:39:11.670 going to use some of it to offer Kingston a contract, 00:39:11.829 --> 00:39:13.829 even more so now with the injury to Pekovic. 00:39:14.650 --> 00:39:16.650 Oh, yeah, I think King Sin will be on this team 00:39:16.650 --> 00:39:19.949 for sure. I mean, I think that was already happening 00:39:19.949 --> 00:39:23.710 before the injury, just from getting rid of Georgie. 00:39:23.710 --> 00:39:25.190 Yeah, this would just push the envelope a little 00:39:25.190 --> 00:39:27.789 bit faster. And I think getting rid of wasn't 00:39:27.789 --> 00:39:30.269 the right phrasing there, I admit, from moving 00:39:30.269 --> 00:39:33.190 on from Georgie. Like we talked about in the 00:39:33.190 --> 00:39:36.769 last episode, I sadly did not get to put up the 00:39:36.769 --> 00:39:40.679 clickbait. clip I made from what we were talking 00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:43.019 about. But I think, like we said, it's a win 00:39:43.019 --> 00:39:46.380 -win, and I think it's good for the club. It's 00:39:46.380 --> 00:39:52.840 good for him. Man, Seattle, there's this thing, 00:39:52.860 --> 00:39:55.059 and maybe this is true of all fandoms. I don't 00:39:55.059 --> 00:39:59.860 know. But I think Seattle has a tendency to love 00:39:59.860 --> 00:40:04.760 its players and devalue other players and overvalue 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:10.559 our players. I mean, Georgie's a great player 00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:15.179 with potential, but our fans act like they know 00:40:15.179 --> 00:40:18.960 more than, you know, the people who have been 00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:22.280 coaching him for six years or whatever it's been, 00:40:22.340 --> 00:40:26.960 five years. Yeah, I could see that. And I think 00:40:26.960 --> 00:40:30.079 maybe because I see a lot more of the Seattle 00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:34.800 fan base than I do other fan bases. And I feel 00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:39.269 like also, you know, The Sounder fan base tends 00:40:39.269 --> 00:40:42.150 to love their players so much where they don't 00:40:42.150 --> 00:40:45.170 let him go when they should. Yeah, oh, definitely. 00:40:45.469 --> 00:40:48.110 I mean, Ozzy ended up playing well in Minnesota, 00:40:48.170 --> 00:40:50.329 but I think letting him go based on the amount 00:40:50.329 --> 00:40:52.949 of injuries he had had leading up to when they 00:40:52.949 --> 00:40:54.929 let him go was probably the right thing to do. 00:40:55.750 --> 00:40:57.949 You know, it's better to let go of a player too 00:40:57.949 --> 00:41:00.489 early than too late, like we did with Nico. And 00:41:00.489 --> 00:41:04.869 Ro. Yeah, I mean, I think Ro, but he wasn't. 00:41:05.449 --> 00:41:07.949 You know what I mean? His impact on the roster 00:41:07.949 --> 00:41:12.889 was not a high -level player. You can have some 00:41:12.889 --> 00:41:16.489 older players that aren't getting minutes on 00:41:16.489 --> 00:41:19.889 your bench. Yeah, but at the beginning of the 00:41:19.889 --> 00:41:22.769 year, he was starting, and then it just wasn't... 00:41:22.769 --> 00:41:25.750 He wasn't producing. That's when we had that 00:41:25.750 --> 00:41:29.610 slump that we couldn't score. Right, but he was 00:41:29.610 --> 00:41:33.210 never meant to be in that position. It just ended 00:41:33.210 --> 00:41:36.630 up that way. But, you know, I think we're seeing, 00:41:36.789 --> 00:41:39.150 you know, they move on from Georgie, but then 00:41:39.150 --> 00:41:46.610 they were getting a bunch of players back. Asani 00:41:46.610 --> 00:41:51.690 Dotson traveling to Houston. Stu Hawkins was 00:41:51.690 --> 00:41:53.449 out there for training, I believe, this week, 00:41:53.489 --> 00:41:56.269 right? I think he was either partial or full 00:41:56.269 --> 00:42:00.949 training. Yeah. You know, you still have... uh, 00:42:01.150 --> 00:42:05.710 anchor and, uh, the other players off to the 00:42:05.710 --> 00:42:09.210 side. Yes. Uh, sailor, Pedro, Yame or Alex all 00:42:09.210 --> 00:42:12.590 off to the side. Yeah. I think Alex is going 00:42:12.590 --> 00:42:16.329 to be, you know, okay to play. Cause it's, it's 00:42:16.329 --> 00:42:18.590 the hit pointer. So I think it's like, it's more 00:42:18.590 --> 00:42:24.530 bone than, or I'm not. Bone bruise. Yeah. I don't 00:42:24.530 --> 00:42:29.269 know. I'm not a doctor. I just play one on television. 00:42:30.630 --> 00:42:34.690 Yeah, I think injuries are biting us. And the 00:42:34.690 --> 00:42:36.489 fact that we've made it through this stretch 00:42:36.489 --> 00:42:40.150 with injuries and yet pretty successfully has 00:42:40.150 --> 00:42:43.329 been impressive. For me, I think these next two 00:42:43.329 --> 00:42:45.369 matches are very pivotal in our season, though, 00:42:45.429 --> 00:42:46.769 because I think Houston is going to be a team 00:42:46.769 --> 00:42:49.150 to reckon with. And so if we can go get at least 00:42:49.150 --> 00:42:52.010 a point on the road at Houston, that'll say a 00:42:52.010 --> 00:42:55.190 lot about this team. And then traveling to T 00:42:55.190 --> 00:42:57.250 -Grace, you know, you've got to keep it close 00:42:57.250 --> 00:42:59.909 so that you can come home and win it. Yeah, that 00:42:59.909 --> 00:43:04.070 Tigris game I'm circling. I think Houston will 00:43:04.070 --> 00:43:08.090 put a good performance against Houston. We saw 00:43:08.090 --> 00:43:11.150 that they're a feisty team. They got a bit of 00:43:11.150 --> 00:43:14.510 bite. Dallas really gave them a chance to get 00:43:14.510 --> 00:43:18.210 back into the game. And the Texas Derby, I was 00:43:18.210 --> 00:43:22.190 watching that game. It's a 5 .30 Seattle start, 00:43:22.349 --> 00:43:28.400 which means 7 .30 Texas time. So, I mean, it 00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:32.079 may be humid, but it's not going to be terribly 00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:33.920 hot, I would imagine. I'm going to look right 00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:38.059 now. Yeah, Houston striker Guillermo, he has 00:43:38.059 --> 00:43:43.480 been, you know, off to a hot start. So, it's 00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:45.179 interesting if we're going to see, you know, 00:43:45.219 --> 00:43:50.420 Regan Tino or Regan Alex or Tino and Alex in 00:43:50.420 --> 00:43:55.539 the back line. So, at game time, it will be... 00:43:58.210 --> 00:44:06.130 71 degrees with rain. And a lot of humidity. 00:44:06.949 --> 00:44:10.349 90 % humidity. It's about to be a muggy game. 00:44:11.469 --> 00:44:12.989 It's going to be a slog. And that's something 00:44:12.989 --> 00:44:15.550 that I think makes it hard. The Sounders have 00:44:15.550 --> 00:44:17.909 always had a slog there because of the humidity. 00:44:18.050 --> 00:44:20.929 But the fact that the game is at the time it 00:44:20.929 --> 00:44:24.480 is, maybe that's good. You know, we've seen that 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:27.039 the Sounders have had success, you know, absorbing 00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:31.980 pressure and playing off the counter. Yeah. Which 00:44:31.980 --> 00:44:35.280 is interesting considering possession team, yet 00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:38.360 our goals keep coming off of the counter. Transition 00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:41.679 moments, yeah. But when you got guys like Rothrock 00:44:41.679 --> 00:44:44.760 making runs in behind, and I think Jordan's going 00:44:44.760 --> 00:44:46.639 to make another appearance this game, you know, 00:44:46.659 --> 00:44:49.119 get some more minutes. Maybe he starts, I'm not 00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:52.909 sure. Yeah, I mean, I don't think there's any 00:44:52.909 --> 00:44:56.110 reason to rotate. Schmetzer said, you know, there's 00:44:56.110 --> 00:44:59.510 four days between matches, and then they took 00:44:59.510 --> 00:45:01.989 off that next match. The Salt Lake game has been 00:45:01.989 --> 00:45:04.429 moved. So you have a full week before the one 00:45:04.429 --> 00:45:07.030 after that. So you're not as worried about two 00:45:07.030 --> 00:45:08.889 games in a week in that situation. Yeah, and 00:45:08.889 --> 00:45:10.449 I think Schmetzer said they're going to stay 00:45:10.449 --> 00:45:12.449 down in Texas, then go to travel to Montreal. 00:45:12.469 --> 00:45:14.409 So they're not even going to travel back to Seattle. 00:45:15.670 --> 00:45:19.659 That's huge. They're not going to have, you know, 00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:24.880 all that jet lag. So it's shorter travel distance 00:45:24.880 --> 00:45:29.719 from Houston to Monterey. Yeah. Because the one 00:45:29.719 --> 00:45:31.460 thing about playing in that stadium, especially 00:45:31.460 --> 00:45:35.380 in the altitude, is that those fans, you know, 00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:39.000 they show up and they show out. And it's going 00:45:39.000 --> 00:45:40.780 to be a hostile environment. But we've seen it 00:45:40.780 --> 00:45:42.840 before that, you know, Seattle's been able to 00:45:42.840 --> 00:45:48.409 come out of Mexico, you know. If we come out 00:45:48.409 --> 00:45:51.389 with a 0 -0, that's a win in my book. Oh, yeah. 00:45:51.670 --> 00:45:54.349 I mean, even a 1 -0 loss. I mean, I'd rather 00:45:54.349 --> 00:45:57.289 lose 2 -1, to be honest. But even a one -goal 00:45:57.289 --> 00:46:00.929 loss, I think, could be very good. It's only 00:46:00.929 --> 00:46:05.429 an hour and a half flight. Yeah. I would like 00:46:05.429 --> 00:46:08.730 to see us use some dark arts, win a penalty, 00:46:08.889 --> 00:46:14.050 get us that away goal. Yeah. That'd be great. 00:46:14.309 --> 00:46:18.380 And, I mean, we talked about it last. But tell 00:46:18.380 --> 00:46:21.280 me again what you've seen out of that team and 00:46:21.280 --> 00:46:25.940 why maybe we shouldn't be as scared as some of 00:46:25.940 --> 00:46:29.699 us are feeling. About Tigres? Yeah. I think that 00:46:29.699 --> 00:46:32.920 it's like what we see with a lot of League MX 00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:34.820 teams is that they struggle to play in the U 00:46:34.820 --> 00:46:39.840 .S. Because, you know, they're used to playing 00:46:39.840 --> 00:46:42.599 in the altitude. They're used to playing, you 00:46:42.599 --> 00:46:45.889 know, with the fans cheering them on. But when 00:46:45.889 --> 00:46:48.650 they got to come play, you know, in the U .S., 00:46:48.650 --> 00:46:52.429 they don't have that same success. Which is why 00:46:52.429 --> 00:46:56.929 you see a lot of, you know, Liga MX teams, like, 00:46:57.010 --> 00:46:59.829 advance in Champions League is because they have 00:46:59.829 --> 00:47:03.809 the second leg at home. Which is why I think 00:47:03.809 --> 00:47:06.809 it's very critical and crucial that we have the 00:47:06.809 --> 00:47:09.230 second leg be in Seattle because that gives us 00:47:09.230 --> 00:47:13.780 the advantage. But what makes you as a Sounders 00:47:13.780 --> 00:47:15.320 fan feel like we're not going to go down and 00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:18.199 be Cincinnati? Oh, because we're more consistent 00:47:18.199 --> 00:47:22.500 than Cincinnati. I watched that game, and I would 00:47:22.500 --> 00:47:27.760 see there was no urgency for them to get another 00:47:27.760 --> 00:47:32.659 goal. You know, Tigres did. They had their way 00:47:32.659 --> 00:47:35.420 against Cincinnati the full 90 minutes. And then 00:47:35.420 --> 00:47:37.360 you have Pat Newton subbing off their attacking 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:40.059 players to add another defender. And guess what? 00:47:40.139 --> 00:47:42.659 They get scored on. And now when they need a 00:47:42.659 --> 00:47:44.960 goal, they have no person to go out there and 00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:50.699 get a goal. Yeah. And I think that, you know, 00:47:50.739 --> 00:47:53.099 Brian is going to set up the team to be, you 00:47:53.099 --> 00:47:56.019 know, very defensively locked in and strong, 00:47:56.219 --> 00:47:58.519 but we're going to be able to get a goal off 00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:00.440 the counter, which we've seen that we can do. 00:48:02.460 --> 00:48:07.059 That's awesome. I hope so. I hope so. Maybe we'll 00:48:07.059 --> 00:48:08.719 record before then. We'll see. It's midweek. 00:48:09.460 --> 00:48:14.000 Maybe after. After that first leg. Give me predictions 00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:16.980 for the Houston match followed by the Tigres 00:48:16.980 --> 00:48:24.099 match. Oh, dang. I think against Houston, I think 00:48:24.099 --> 00:48:26.940 we can get a result. I think we get a win. I 00:48:26.940 --> 00:48:30.440 can see us getting a 2 -1 win or a 1 -0. I like 00:48:30.440 --> 00:48:33.780 it. I trust Thomas' shot. shot stopping ability 00:48:33.780 --> 00:48:36.219 and Houston tends to like, you know, they like 00:48:36.219 --> 00:48:39.000 to shoot a lot, but that doesn't mean they're 00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:40.820 necessarily, necessarily going to take, you know, 00:48:40.820 --> 00:48:45.659 high XG shots. Yeah. And we seen Thomas, Thomas 00:48:45.659 --> 00:48:47.780 athleticism has made, you know, he's made some 00:48:47.780 --> 00:48:49.260 saves that were, you know, like, we're like, 00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:55.559 Oh snap. And when a few times where. Maybe he 00:48:55.559 --> 00:48:58.519 made himself big but made a mistake. We saw Tino 00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:02.219 pick up the slack. Yeah. Well, I think we can 00:49:02.219 --> 00:49:04.900 talk about the mistake in Minnesota when he came 00:49:04.900 --> 00:49:09.739 out and he misread the trajectory of the ball. 00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:11.199 Yeah, it bounced differently than I was expecting. 00:49:11.199 --> 00:49:13.519 I do like that he fully committed to coming out 00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:16.619 and he didn't get stuck in no man's land. Yeah, 00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:18.280 because we see that a lot where you get stuck 00:49:18.280 --> 00:49:21.829 in no man's land. then that's an easy goal as 00:49:21.829 --> 00:49:23.969 opposed to putting the pressure on that allowed 00:49:23.969 --> 00:49:25.869 Tino to be able to get back. Yeah, because the 00:49:25.869 --> 00:49:28.610 thing is that he rushed out and he didn't get 00:49:28.610 --> 00:49:30.789 the ball, but guess what? That forward felt his 00:49:30.789 --> 00:49:32.989 pressure. You look up and you see, you know, 00:49:33.090 --> 00:49:36.969 six foot, what, four, six foot three, Thomas 00:49:36.969 --> 00:49:38.690 running at you with his mustache and his hair 00:49:38.690 --> 00:49:40.789 flowing. You're just like, yeah, I'm going to 00:49:40.789 --> 00:49:45.860 kick the ball before he takes me out. Yeah. And 00:49:45.860 --> 00:49:49.019 it's like I seen I went to see, you know, a local 00:49:49.019 --> 00:49:52.300 high school game the other last week where a 00:49:52.300 --> 00:49:54.639 center back gave a back pass to the goalie, but 00:49:54.639 --> 00:49:57.099 he didn't put enough pace on it. And the forward 00:49:57.099 --> 00:49:58.960 just came and chipped it right over because the 00:49:58.960 --> 00:50:02.300 goalie got stuck in no man's land. Yeah, exactly. 00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:08.559 I mean, exactly. So what about Tigres? Give me 00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:12.159 zero zero. Oh, all right. I like it. I love it. 00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:16.550 I think. I think that's a good place to stop 00:50:16.550 --> 00:50:21.750 for now. Let's go play some video games. Oh, 00:50:21.750 --> 00:50:27.789 yeah. Definitely join the Patreon. It's fun there. 00:50:28.989 --> 00:50:32.929 Where can they find you on the Discord and on 00:50:32.929 --> 00:50:35.269 Instagram? I'm on the Discord and then on Instagram 00:50:35.269 --> 00:50:41.030 at alex__ds509. And then also for... For all 00:50:41.030 --> 00:50:42.750 the people that want to get into Legos, they 00:50:42.750 --> 00:50:47.829 just announced some new Lego sets. They announced 00:50:47.829 --> 00:50:54.449 a USA Lego set, two Messys, an Mbappe, a Vinnie 00:50:54.449 --> 00:50:59.130 Jr., and a Cristiano Ronaldo. Nice. It's fun 00:50:59.130 --> 00:51:04.289 times. I was at Costco today, and they had some 00:51:04.289 --> 00:51:08.630 really crappy official World Cup gear, like very 00:51:08.630 --> 00:51:11.719 poorly made. But it's Costco, so it's probably 00:51:11.719 --> 00:51:14.860 like $10. Yeah, I mean, it was cheap, but the 00:51:14.860 --> 00:51:20.199 hats were very, very bad. I am looking to get 00:51:20.199 --> 00:51:22.480 a jersey for the World Cup match. I am attending. 00:51:23.980 --> 00:51:26.820 I think I might just do a Mexico jersey because 00:51:26.820 --> 00:51:31.159 I like that green. Round of 32? Round of 16. 00:51:32.019 --> 00:51:35.380 Round of 16? Oh, yeah, you might have some big 00:51:35.380 --> 00:51:40.320 clubs there. Probably Belgium. Yeah, I don't 00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:42.940 know. We'll see. We will see. Let's not talk 00:51:42.940 --> 00:51:45.719 about the USA this past weekend. Jesus Christ, 00:51:45.780 --> 00:51:50.559 he got smacked down. All right. 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