One of our favorite announcer teams on the MLS Season Pass lineup is Max Bretos and Brian Dunseth. We’ve had Dunseth on the show a couple of times, but with the Sounders gearing up for LAFC we thought it would be good to have Bretos on for the first time ever. 

Bretos is one of the longest tenured announcers in MLS, first starting out on Fox Soccer Channel before moving to ESPN and then eventually to MLS Season Pass. In addition to calling games, he also does work with LAFC. We figured he’d be a great person to provide some insight into the Sounders’ next opponent.

If you’d like to hear more from Max, check out his podcast “The Soccer OG [https://www.youtube.com/user/cubanhammer].” 

Note: This episode is being made available early to paid subscribers. 

Nos Audietis: Previewing LAFC with Max Bretos

With a pretty big lull in the schedule, Jeremiah and Aaron are doing their monthly mailbag. Among the questions they tackle: Who should have played more? Who should the Sounders move on from? What positions should Sounders prioritize for upgrade? How will the Sounders finally beat LAFC?

Nos Audietis Mailbag: What’s this offseason look like?

With Noah out of commission for the week, Ari wins yet another battle for technology and lays down the Solo Dub Pod coming off the Seattle Sounders’ Round One Best-of-3 Series victory over the Houston Dynamo. As always, he hits our Agenda Check and takes your questions, before reacting to a wild slate of results from the start of the playoffs, including a highly comedic defeat for our friends the Columbus Crew.

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Lobbing Scorchers: Houston DyNoMore

No, it wasn’t pretty, but in times like this it’s important to celebrate good things. By beating the Houston Dynamo, the Sounders have qualified for the the Western Conference semifinals for the 14th time in 16 seasons. It’s the seventh most in MLS history, and the only teams who have done it more had 13-season head starts. Jeremiah and Aaron give them their due.

Nos Audietis: Something worth celebrating

The Reign finished out the 2024 season with a 3-2 loss away at Orlando. Jordyn Huitema finally broke the curse and scored her first NWSL goal since June 9th. Maddie Mercado played super sub and tallied her first ever NWSL regular season goal, but it wasn’t enough to beat the Shield winners. We reflect on the game as well as the season at large for the Reign, and look ahead to a hopefully brighter future for the team next season.

Later in the episode we cover other results from around the league over the weekend and make our picks for the first round playoff matches.

The Cooler Guild: It's fine, it's cool, it's over - Ep. 22

That was not exactly the performance we were hoping to get from the Sounders, but to act as though winning the game is anything short of a positive is rather silly. Jeremiah and Aaron break it all down and look ahead to what Game 2 might look like.

Nos Audietis: Comfy or not, Sounders are in driver’s seat

It’s a Playoff Dub Pod as the Seattle Sounders won a riveting, high-octane Round One Best-of-3 series opener against the Houston Dynamo at Lumen Field on Monday night. That gives the Sounders a 1-0 lead ahead of Game 2 in Houston on Sunday. We break it down in our game review, take your questions, hit our agenda check and react to the other results that have taken place around the league so far in the playoffs

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Lobbing Scorchers: Is Pedro De La Vega a Bust?

It’s not every day your arch-rival has one of the most catastrophic meltdowns in MLS history, but the Portland Timbies did exactly that in the Wild Card round of the MLS Cup Playoffs. We break down the fine points of their 5-0 defeat to the Vancouver Whitecaps, Evander’s postgame tweets and Phil Neville and Ned Grabavoy’s blazing hot press conference.

After that we go through our playoff brackets and make our picks on who we think will make it to MLS Cup.

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Lobbing Scorchers is a production of Just Once Media. [https://www.justoncemedia.com/]

Lobbing Scorchers is a Seattle Sounders and MLS focused show brought to you by Sounder at Heart. Hosted by Major League Soccer's Ari Liljenwall and Producer Noah Riffe. Join us as we lob our scorching takes on the American soccer landscape, Seattle Sounders, Major League Soccer, USMNT and more.

Portland Timbers stink!

Lobbing Scorchers: God Hates The Portland Timbers

Andrew Pearson (aka @interpearsonal on Twitter) joins Jeremiah to give a tactical preview of the upcoming series against the Houston Dynamo. In the Dynamo, Pearson sees a very similar team to the Sounders, or at least very similar to how they Sounders played last season.

Nos Audietis: Houston Dynamo are like looking at Sounders through a time machine

We're back with another dub pod. The Reign finished out their home season with a 2-1 win over last-place Houston Dash. Olivia Athens broke the Reign's 5 match goalless streak with an absolute banger and Coco got the game winner in her first start for the club. We get into the positives and negatives from the match, look at some other results from the weekend, and discuss a couple of other things happening in the women's sports world.

The Cooler Guild: A little joy in a tough season - Ep. 21

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