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Mailbag episode for Week 2
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Tim Foss joins Jeremiah to answer reader questions this week. Among the pressing issues are the Sounders' seeming propensity for injury, how much we should expect to pay for World Cup tickets and the concept of "trap games."
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Introduction & Hosts
00:00:00
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Hey, this is Christian Roldan. And Jordan Morris from the Seattle Sounders Football Club. And you're listening to NOS Arietes. This episode of NOS Arietes is sponsored by Full Pull Wines, a Seattle-based wine retailer and proud sponsor of NOS Arietes since 2011.
Sponsor Introduction
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Full Pull was founded in 2009, is based in Seattle, and is owned and operated by longtime Sounders supporters. They offer the best boutique wines of the world to members of their mailing list, with special focus on their home, the Pacific Northwest.
00:00:28
Speaker
A.O. Shen! Let's go! What a save by Fry! The Seattle Sounders have done it! MLS Cup win! Here come three years through the middle to crown it the vehicle! And now they truly can't stop the celebrations. It's the Sounders' MLS Cup! Niko Liddo leaves out!
00:01:12
Speaker
Is that what you young people call twerking?
Mailbag Episode Invitation
00:01:27
Speaker
Welcome back to the mailbag episode for the week of, I guess week two, we're going to call this for the sounders. This is no study at this. I am Jeremiah Shan. Joining me today is Tim Foss. Once again, thank you for joining us, Tim. Yeah, of course. It's always a pleasure.
00:01:44
Speaker
So just as a reminder, all these questions these days come from our Discord. And to become a member of our Discord, you have to be sort of at our second tier of membership, which is now $80 a year or, I don't know, seven bucks a month or something like that. I don't honestly remember off the top of my head. But if you want to get your questions answered, just join our Discord. There's an area for that where we answer them. I think we're making this one available to everyone.
00:02:13
Speaker
I don't know, I can't remember what our policy is in general, but this is a fun little thing that we do. We're gonna try to do it. I don't know if we'll do it every week, but we'll do it.
00:02:23
Speaker
on occasion. We took a bunch of questions this week.
Portland Timbers Sponsor Scandal
00:02:26
Speaker
Before we get started, though, I just wanted to talk really briefly about this crazy situation that's going on with the Portland Timbers and their sponsor. Tim, this is best I can tell base what what has happened in the last day. I think all in the last day, this is that or in the last few days. The first thing that happened was the Oregonian wrote a story about this really wild story that is related
00:02:52
Speaker
to the sponsor, to the owner of the sponsor of, wait, the, the timbers shirt sponsors owner or CEO. And basically it's this, I won't get into all the details. It is totally from a soap opera, but at the end of the day, this guy, one guy is accused of a crime and he says that he has all this info on the CEO that includes sexual harassment and these other kinds of things. And then as a result of this,
00:03:21
Speaker
The story comes out and then almost immediately the timbers are like, Oh yeah, the sponsorship is over. We're going to, we're going to take the Delbella name off of all our shirts. We're not going to sell them anymore. And we're going to, I guess, refund. I presume they're going to refund the money. I don't really understand. This is just a crazy, crazy story.
00:03:41
Speaker
Yeah, I admittedly haven't done the full deep dive. I've just seen some of the highlights that people have tweeted or have been sent in group chats, and it really is like- Hard to believe. Truly. Soap opera is almost generous in description. It is the kind of thing that like
00:04:04
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I don't know, if you've ever watched any like network TV show that has any sort of like supernatural or sci-fi elements, they get through a couple of seasons and it's like, all right, we used our good ideas. Now we have to start like really riffing on random parts from this story and suddenly someone goes to hell and comes back and yeah, nothing really makes sense. That is what this story feels like where
00:04:31
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a person involved shot two cops and now is in prison for it and that's just like a side part. It's going to be really interesting to see how this works out. It's probably not worth getting into the details on the show because we won't be able to do it justice.
00:04:53
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I'll just say I found that very, very, I guess, I guess, I guess it's funny. I mean, it's, it's,
Sounders' Immigration Advantage?
00:04:59
Speaker
it's sort of one of these situations where merit Paulson seems to surround himself with undesirable folks. And as a result, undesirable things keep happening. Yeah, there's a real, um, the,
00:05:17
Speaker
What is it that leopards eating people's faces party is surprised that leopards are eating people's faces sort of thing where like the develop sponsorship came about because Paulson is apparently friends with the CEO or whatever. So he probably knew about this stuff going in.
00:05:39
Speaker
and then it starts to come to light and maybe the case is that merit knows how much worse it gets once other details start coming out beyond this and that's the point where like they say well we've got to distance ourselves before this gets worse but yeah yeah i don't know it's it's it'll be interesting to see how this all plays out but i i have to imagine this is not the end of it but
00:06:05
Speaker
I don't know, we'll see. Anyway, so onto the questions, the whole point of this, this, this podcast, uh, this is from Darlene. She says, has this been cut or, uh, are the sounder to the sounders have some sort of, do they have the best immigration lawyers in the league? And she's just remarking that here we have Nathan who the sounders just picked up and he's going to be, he's apparently going to Brazil to get his green card. Um,
00:06:33
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And is that she's wondering if this could actually be a selling point for the club and in part because the Sounders are so aggressive on this thing. I don't know. Do you have any any sense of how this all works? I.
00:06:47
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don't really, I, you know, have a couple like family members who many years ago got green cards or, you know, eventually citizenship, but I don't have any particular insight to the process. I don't know that Nathan is really a great example because he's been playing for an American team for
00:07:10
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couple of years at this point. So the ball was probably rolling and the Sounders were able to pick it up. Um, the Sounders do seem to be pretty good at about navigating this process. But I think, um, I want to say, you know, probably unsurprisingly with Garth Longaway involved, Atlanta seems pretty good about getting players green cards. Um, it's probably just one of those things that
00:07:41
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you know, smart teams invest resources in this part of like the backroom dealings that I'll bet a lot of teams are much better at this than you expect because we just don't really pay attention except for maybe Nashville who seem to buy international, or no, I guess Nashville sells international sales. So maybe they're really good at it. And like Charlotte is really bad.
00:08:08
Speaker
Well, just going through the roster real quick, I count eight sounders that have green cards, which I don't really know how that compares to other teams, but it seems like that's a, that seems like a lot to me. Like it can just have eight extra international spots essentially on your roster. Now, a lot of these guys are, I think it also probably speaks to the sounders tend to keep guys a long time.
00:08:36
Speaker
And the longer a guy is around, the more likely he is to be able to get a green card. So I would imagine that's, that's probably part of it too. But I don't know. I don't really understand how this stuff works to be honest with you.
Sounders' Injury Issues
00:08:52
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Yeah, it is the weird workings of playing a global sport in the United States. Right. Exactly.
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Our next question comes from Blue Blue Red. What's the read on the Sounders injury rash to start the year? Normal bad luck or the risks of a team whose best players are all late 20s or older besides Pepo? And is this an indictment of the Sounders offseason conditioning program?
00:09:22
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You know, I, I can't speak to how authoritatively this is like a genuine concern. I think it's probably a little bit of a freakish thing. You know, the, the sounders were raving, raving all preseason about what good shape all their players came in. Like everyone followed their off season fitness plans and.
00:09:43
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And there were, you know, they were all very positive about how they were able to sort of hit the ground running. And and then all of a sudden, sort of at the end of training, there was all these little injuries that that players picked up. Now, I think with the case in the case of like Joe Paulo.
00:09:59
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I think the hip thing has been sort of an ongoing issue. Stephen Fry, you know, maybe this is a little bit more of an issue of an older player. Yeymar, this was, again, we'll get into this a little bit later, but I think this was an ongoing issue. And so you can kind of go down the list. The Rusnak seems to, one seems to be a little bit more of a freak injury where it wasn't muscle related. You know, Bradiglia Rodriguez, we don't have a great sense of actually what's going on there.
00:10:28
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So, you know, I think it's a little bit of this, a little bit of that. I'm, I'm disinclined to think that it's a conditioning thing and more inclined to believe that it's sort of a confluence of bad luck because it doesn't seem like it's a lot of the same injuries and that some of them are, you know, long-term things that they've had to, you know, even with Raul Rodriguez, the, the injury that he picked up was a rib injury, not something to do with his hamstrings, which is what he's been struggling with before.
00:10:56
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So I don't know, I'm inclined to sort of see how it plays out before I get to up on my high horse about the sounders fitness regimen. I think my read is very similar. I'd also note that late 20s is
00:11:11
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your athletic prime. That's not a frame in which you start to worry about a player getting injured more often. And if anything, players are most likely to be most durable during that period of time because they also have experienced the ramp up from playing less to being a full professional. They probably are taking how they treat their body more seriously. It does seem like if you look at the injuries individually, it is much more
00:11:41
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random chance and, you know, going all in in games and training and stuff, then it might seem if you just see a list of, you know, a full 11 out to injury basically.
00:11:57
Speaker
Right. And, uh, and I would say just to kind of back that up, Stefan fries is 37, but everyone else, you know, we're. Yeah. March 31. That's not, I don't think that's a age that you start to get super concerned about injuries and gel Paulo is 32. Maybe that's, you know, but other than then, these are mostly all younger players that are, that are getting hurt. Um, but yeah, I don't, I don't know. I don't, I, I, I.
00:12:25
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Not to get too much into it more into it, but yeah, I tend to think it's a little bit of a freakish thing.
Midfield Dynamics & Joao Paulo
00:12:29
Speaker
All right. This is from Dorcas and he asks, do we need a true six with all of the eights, but no true six. Even Jalpaolo is kind of a six eight hybrid for those times when our midfield is having trouble with the enemy's attack or locking down a game that the centers need or want a pure six.
00:12:48
Speaker
I don't know that the way the Sounders play really necessitates a true six. I also think for the last several years, we have, I mean, I don't know that I speak for you, but I, for one, have touted that Draw Paulo is the sixth that for many years, Sounders fans were saying that we didn't have and we needed pretty much since he got here.
00:13:17
Speaker
that seems to be the opinions of national pundits. His performance as a 6 is what made him a very serious MVP candidate. He covers quite a bit of ground, but I don't think that really makes him a 6-8 hybrid. It's more that the system the Sounders play doesn't necessitate either a deep-lying playmaker or a destroyer, partially because
00:13:46
Speaker
the two center backs that they typically play with both can step up and distribute or step up and interrupt play. So you don't need to have a person whose specific role is to do either of those things. Those tasks are sort of spread across the players on the field with your alpalo out. Yeah, I think you lose a little bit. Neither.
00:14:16
Speaker
Josh Atencio or Obed Vargas are really, you know, neither of them is Joao Paolo. They have their strengths and I think, you know, the way the game against LAFC played out and the emptiness of the midfield was somewhat about the absence of Joao Paolo, but also that Sanders just played in a way that
00:14:45
Speaker
had a little bit less midfield presence than they normally would with two, six slash eights in a 10. Yeah, I'm I'm really curious to see how it plays out this week. It looks like Pedro de la Vega is going to start at the 10, which at least gives the Sounders a traditional three man central midfield. And that's really to me, the bigger issue last week was that it wasn't so much the absence of Sao Paulo is that the absence of Sao Paulo was
00:15:14
Speaker
was amplified by the absence of a, you know, a third central midfielder, and that they were asking Raul Rui Diaz to essentially drop back and fill that role. And, you know, I think he did about as well in that as you could ask, but he is not.
00:15:27
Speaker
a midfielder in any real way. I think he completed all 21 of his passes, which is a lot for Raul Rodriguez, but that's not the role that the Sounders want him filling. I don't think it's the role the Sounders should expect him to fill. I think we'll get a much better idea of how badly they need
00:15:50
Speaker
you know, how ably Atencio and Burgas can fill the Jau Paulo hole together. And then I'll take a step further is that,
00:15:59
Speaker
But as the, as the, the question implied, Jau Paulo is not a classic six. And what the sounders could really use is a player that mimics Jau Paulo's, uh, skillset more ably. I don't know that, that when Jau Paulo is in there, I don't know that they have, they don't, to me, it doesn't really feel like they're missing, uh, a classic six. Now I know Brian Schmetzer would like to have a classic six because I think it, I think he loves the idea of an Osvaldo Alonzo or a Gustav Svensson just sort of sitting and being that security blanket.
00:16:29
Speaker
I don't know that that's really the way the, that's the best way that they're going to function. It does seem like it really ties your roster up a little bit in ways that aren't ideal. So I don't know. I'm not necessarily of the mind that they need a true, a true six, but you know, I'm willing to be told otherwise.
Yemar's Knee Recovery
00:16:50
Speaker
I think I could understand having
00:16:55
Speaker
And you start to get into difficult roster construction and how and when do you guys get playing time and whatever. But for the times when you are missing, I think especially if you are missing drop hello and Rusnak, you don't have your, you know,
00:17:16
Speaker
JP and you don't have the 10, then you can play with a six and it's more 4-3-3 with a sitting midfielder and then the two eights are more able to roam and they can press and have that midfielder sit and protect. But that's a lot of, you can only do so much with your roster in MLS and that's a lot of
00:17:48
Speaker
potentialities to have to plan for. Yeah. Yeah. So the next question touches back on something that you mentioned earlier. This one's from Carl. What's the deal with Yamar?
00:18:10
Speaker
Yeah, so he has... I don't know how detailed I'm allowed to get into this, but I will say that he has sort of an ongoing issue with, I believe, his knee that was treated while he was in Argentina getting his green card, which I'm told he has acquired his green card. The Sounders haven't announced that yet for whatever reason. I guess maybe there's just no rush for them to do it.
00:18:36
Speaker
But he, so he missed a bunch of training camp while he was getting his visa. And then he's also recovering from a procedure he had done while he was down there that was meant to treat this knee issue that he has. That is, I guess, similar to the treatment that Nico Ledero had done a couple years ago. So that's what's going on with him. I guess it's not so it's it's a little
00:19:01
Speaker
unfair to say it's fitness. It's maybe a little unfair to even say it's an injury, but he is working himself back into shape. He's been in full training the last couple days. And so I don't think he's going to come back this week, but I would not be at all surprised to see him come back next week. All right. This is the kind of stuff they brought Nathan in for. Right. Exactly. Who then obviously left for, uh,
00:19:26
Speaker
for Brazil to get his green card, but this is, you know, right now it's feeling very smart that they still have Javier Ariaga around. This is from too old and too tired. Why don't they play Perry Como Seattle after wins? It used to always make me smile hearing that one leaving. That's a great question. I genuinely could not tell you. It could be a licensing thing, but admittedly,
00:19:54
Speaker
having been in the press box for pretty much every game for the last several years, personally. I don't remember the last time I heard it after a win. So I didn't realize that they weren't playing it anymore, because I just hadn't noticed. Yeah, I was going to say that maybe it's because they haven't won at home in a while, but they did win two playoff home games. So it's not as easy as that.
00:20:24
Speaker
And then, yeah, this wasn't, so I don't know. I don't, I don't know the answer because I didn't even, it never even, I never even clocked it. But of course you and I tend to be a little bit busy at the whistle. So maybe that we just aren't really paying attention. All that's, if the Sounders win on Saturday, you can rest assured that I will be looking out for this. And I will also ask around to see if I can find out anything. Yeah. We will keep our ears open.
00:20:53
Speaker
This one comes from Ken W. Is there really such a thing as a trap game or is it a cynical projection we push out to provide cover in the event our team loses? If there's really such a thing as a trap game, what are the key elements and are they typically consistent in each pre-match assessment?
Trap Game Concept Explained
00:21:09
Speaker
Does this weekend's match fit any of that criteria? All right, so I do think that there is such a thing as a trap game.
00:21:19
Speaker
I also think that this term is thrown around rather willy-nilly by certain people, basically meaning anytime, and I think some people think of a trap game as literally anytime you're playing a team that you feel like you should be. And that does not feel to me at all like what a trap game is, or, you know, every game by that metric is sort of like a potential trap game. And I think to me of a trap game is,
00:21:48
Speaker
You have a cup final on the weekend or in midweek and you sort of.
00:21:55
Speaker
disregard a game that's coming up before that because you are looking ahead to a future match. Game two of the season against a potentially bad opponent, I don't think should be any sort of realistic criteria for a trap game. The Sounders should be looking at this game as something that gets 100% of their focus. It's at home. It's against the team they should be. It's an in-conference opponent.
00:22:22
Speaker
There's absolutely no reason that they should overlook this game. And if they lose it, it's not because it was a trap game. It's because they did something poorly. So yeah, I tend to think that it's just mainly an overused term, but there are definitely instances where I think it's fair to call it a trap game. I agree. It's definitely overused. I think.
00:22:42
Speaker
It gets used a lot by, you know, commentators who need to be able to give a reason for, you know, an upset pick or something like that. A trap that is very obvious, like the second game of a season against a possibly bad team is a really bad trap. If you are just thinking about the words involved in trap game. Um, I, I think that other.
00:23:09
Speaker
scenario for a trap game aside from yours is if a team is like on a not great run of form, they, you know, not even necessarily a bad run of form. They're just not string wins together. And you get like over height to turn things around and that, you know, and bear itself in, you know,
00:23:35
Speaker
Rache play players getting yellow cards. Honestly, I think. Sounders versus timbers often turns into a trap game in that way, where like the players get over. Amped and, you know, play out who gets a second yellow card.
00:23:53
Speaker
after having gotten one for taking his shirt off and then he makes maybe a bad foul and he's, the sounders have to play down a man. Like that kind of stuff is crap game stuff also in just a different.
00:24:08
Speaker
Different scenario. Yeah, I would say the two two of my biggest pet peeves in from commentators are using trap game almost every week and them asking the semi rhetorical question. Am I the only one who and that's just me getting on my soapbox.
00:24:29
Speaker
All right. This is from another one from, from Ken. Uh, so speaking of this potential trap game, this, uh, what's the realistic, realistic expectation for this weekend? Who plays that was unavailable last week? How long do you, they get, how long do they get? And do they get a start or come in second half or two de la Vega Christian and Jordan, all adrift, all drift compatible and able to move relatively freely and to some degree interchangeably in those top two lines of attack. I.
00:25:01
Speaker
I don't know that I have great insight into who will be available that wasn't last week. I don't, I think we got, yeah, I don't think there really is anyone who's in line to be back for this one. Partially, like you wrote about yesterday, Andrew Thomas is going to start again. Maybe Stephen Fry could have come back, but Andrew Thomas played well enough that the team can give Fry another week to fully recuperate.
00:25:29
Speaker
I think a realistic expectation is a win.
Match Expectations & Analysis
00:25:33
Speaker
Yes. It's a home game against a bad team that is not good. Right. They were not good last year. They have not gotten better in the off season. They got who didn't they get smoked at home by Minnesota. Yeah, Minnesota who's missing Emmanuel, Renoso and Bongi.
00:25:52
Speaker
which I, you know, no disrespect to Minnesota, but they're a mess right now and not a particularly good team at the moment. The Sounders should absolutely be expected to beat Austin at home, even with the players unavailable. Our two Pedro, Christian and Jordan all drift compatible. Drift compatible.
00:26:20
Speaker
I don't know that there's been any group of players that that really applied to since Oba and Clint, where, you know, that was two of the best players in the league who seems to absolutely love playing with each other from the jump. I don't really think that's going to be the case straight away with those four players, but I do think that they, you know,
00:26:46
Speaker
especially with De La Vega in there. He adds a different dimension to that group of players that hopefully is able to get the most out of the rest of them. One of Mark Kastner's critiques of Chu is that for him to play well, the game really has to flow through him. And that's not and shouldn't be the case, especially with Pedro De La Vega in there. But maybe De La Vega's skill set allows
00:27:14
Speaker
for Chu to get isolated against a player on the run a little bit more often than he has been, even out of possession rather than just in transition. So hopefully his, you know, forward movement when he gets the ball helps to get the best out of the other three guys around him.
00:27:37
Speaker
You know, one of the things that, uh, are the guy who does the standard hurt match ratings really, uh, he used to talk a lot about when, especially when Dempsey was here. And to a certain degree, when Ledera was really at his best was he talked about this gravitational pull that they have where defenses are just sort of attracted to them and sort of have to follow them around and how that would open up space for. Opponent for teammates and.
00:28:05
Speaker
I can see that potential forming in a Pedro de la Vega. He seems like someone who is constantly looking to attack defenses, who's not very shy about going at opponents with the dribble. He's constantly with his head up looking to make that killer pass. And I can see how maybe that opens up the game a little bit more for a Leo Chu, or even a Christian Roldan Jordan Morris. And so in that way, I think that this
00:28:36
Speaker
Like I said earlier, I think that this entire personnel grouping is much more
00:28:42
Speaker
I think we're gonna have a much better idea of what this team looks like. And I think it encourages me that even missing potentially five starters, that they're gonna have a starting lineup that honestly, I would be perfectly comfortable with going into a playoff game with. As we sit here right now, I am not that worried about the Josh Adensio, Obed Vargas, Central midfield pairing. I'm not that worried about a Jackson Reagan, Javier Arriaga, center back duo.
00:29:09
Speaker
you know, you can go and I'm definitely not that worried about the attack that features Leo Chiu, Pedro de la Vega, Christian Roldan and Jordan Morris, at least based on what I've seen in training and everything else. So given that there, and I'm not really, I honestly think that ING Thomas will do a fine job. So, you know, given all that, you know, this could all blow up, but where we sit right now, I think I like where the sounders are. And yeah, my expectation is absolutely that they should win this game.
00:29:38
Speaker
All right. Our last question from, and I might get this wrong, but lemon kind in, I think, uh, great nailed it. Uh, this is a world cup 2026 question.
World Cup 2026 Ticket Prices
00:29:51
Speaker
Yeah. How much should I start saving to go for the 2010 world cup? I spent about $60 per match with a 16 and eight round game closer to 80 and one 20 for the 2014 world cup. I spent.
00:30:05
Speaker
I spent about $80 per match with a 16 and 8 round game close to $100 and $140. Right now I am expecting $100 to $120 per match through FIFA and knockouts in the $150 to $200 for a round of $32 and round of $16.
00:30:27
Speaker
yet, frankly, this commenter seems to have a much better idea of what pricing looks like because they have actually done this before. I would definitely expect this to be the most expensive World Cup in history. It's going to be the most probably the most attended World Cup in history. It's going to be I would I'm expecting it to be pretty tough to get tickets. I know there was a lot of hope that this that
00:30:51
Speaker
The individual organizing committees would have like a way to reward the local season ticket holders to get tickets. I am not necessarily holding on a lot of hope for that. The discussion of that has been pretty hard to find ever since the initial sort of like expected or hopes that were expressed early on.
00:31:13
Speaker
which I believe is sort of beside the question that is being asked here, which is more about just how much is this going to cost? And I would think like my baseline for sure would be at least a hundred to $120 to get in. And that's, you know,
00:31:30
Speaker
And I would think 150 to 200 again seems like a reasonable expectation. I mean, I would imagine that they're probably gonna do a lot of selling these things and they're gonna want to sell these in packages. And so Seattle has what eight games? Is that that's right, right? Seattle ended up with eight games, I think, in the last year or so.
00:32:08
Speaker
I don't have a great sense for this. I will also warn folks is that based on past precedent, reselling tickets is kind of a pain in the butt. FIFA really does not make that easy. I'm sure there are some official marketplaces that they will allow you to sell tickets through. But in the past, I know your tickets were tied to a passport number.
00:32:09
Speaker
something like that.
00:32:33
Speaker
And so buying tickets on like the classic third-party market where you just sort of list them and sell them to whoever is the highest bidder, I don't think that really works in this case. So I bring that up because I wouldn't encourage anyone to buy tickets and then think they're going to be able to turn around and sell them and sort of like pay for the investment. So I don't know. It'll be interesting. I know this is one of the big questions people have. And certainly I don't, I
00:33:02
Speaker
I don't, I don't have a lot to offer other than to say it's going to be. Going to be pretty expensive. Yeah, it's, it's definitely a bummer that, you know, very exciting that that city is going to be a host city for the world cup. And then you start thinking about like, well, if I want, if I want to go to a game, probably I'm going to have to.
00:33:28
Speaker
If you can't get a package just based on, I think it's the screenshots of single seats in the nosebleeds that Mercedes spends for an Argentina game in Atlanta, where it's like $300 for the get-in price for a single game.
00:33:50
Speaker
just as kind of heartbreaking. Right. That is, you know, you dance with the devil. You do dance with the devil. I know. I know. It's my hope is at least that actual. Local soccer fans are going to be able to get into these games, which, you know, with eight games. And.
00:34:13
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and 70,000 seats, you would like to think there's a lot of opportunity there, but we'll see. Anyway, well, Tim, thank you so much for hanging out with me and doing this. We are getting ready to go out to Lumen Field for a training session on the brand new field turf that has been installed ahead of the game this weekend. And there's also an Ozzie Alonso farewell press conference, which
00:34:42
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I don't know what to expect from that, but it'll be interesting as always. But, uh, with all that said, I am Jeremiah Shan. Uh, thank you to Tim. Thank you to Likit for, uh, producing this. And this is Noah Sarietes and we will catch you next time.
00:35:54
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We love you. Let's win another one!